Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (June 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74769 74769-18970457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

Topic: Community Conversation: "Community Check In and Listening Session"
Time: Jun 3, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/96537231078?pwd=b1BRdkFxQzlGYTM2U1c3VER6WW42QT09

Meeting ID: 965 3723 1078
Password: OHEI
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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:43:04 -0400 2020-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74864 74864-19034030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:57:44 -0400 2020-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74865 74865-19034031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:56:08 -0400 2020-06-11T11:30:00-04:00 2020-06-11T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
LEAD: “I Can’t Breathe”—A Call to Action for Leaders in Higher Education (June 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74786 74786-18996294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity and Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead DEI initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address how faculty, staff, and student leaders in higher education can address the trauma that marginalized populations in our community are facing due to racism and societal injustice. This session will focus on traumas facing the Black community with Angie Stewart (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Lead, Organizational Learning), Dr. Stephen Ward (Director, Semester in Detroit; Associate Professor Residential College, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies) and Justin Woods (M.B.A./M.S.W. Candidate; Founder at EQuity Social Venture) as featured guests.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/YywnE.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:15:18 -0400 2020-06-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Race, Justice, and Equity in the Workplace and Beyond: A Call to Action (June 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74900 74900-19065442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

In the horrifying wake of continued violence against Black and African American people, who are also disproportionately suffering and dying from COVID-19, there is much work to be done across all sectors of work and society if we are to ever see a more equitable and racially just world.

Join us for a hard, powerful, and action-oriented conversation with thought leaders on issues of race, justice, and equity. Learn about racial justice and equity issues in the workplace and beyond, how we got here, what strategies have worked and have not worked, and what you can do as individuals and leaders. Leave with concrete, actionable, “how to” strategies for moving forward issues of racial justice and equity productively and toward a more equitable future for all.

Free registration required: http://myumi.ch/4prxX

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:27:04 -0400 2020-06-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Race, Justice, and Equity in the Workplace and Beyond: A Call to Action
Diversity 101 (June 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74850 74850-19010232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting. If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the facility or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad) as soon as possible.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:
Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:20:08 -0400 2020-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the Law Quad
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74867 74867-19041890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:34:51 -0400 2020-06-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
EnginTalks, RSVP | The Unsilenced Voices of 2020 (June 16, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74854 74854-19016177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

There’s a lot weighing on our minds and emotions surrounding our country and world right now. Big issues that often feel beyond our control. One way to regain some control is to share your ideas, feelings, and opinions – and to listen to others.

The College’s DEI Student Advisory Board is providing a safe virtual space for you to speak your mind in order to evoke change and actualize empathy during the current times. In an environment suspended from judgement and filled with compassion, the SAB is providing a space to reflect, feel, and react to all current events that are impacting you as a person. Join to unsilence your voice and speak up about what you have been going through.

Please RSVP to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Tuesday, June 16 | 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

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Well-being Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:17:58 -0400 2020-06-16T17:30:00-04:00 2020-06-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Well-being graphic displaying date and time for EnginTalks
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (June 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 18, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74868 74868-19041891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:38:23 -0400 2020-06-18T11:30:00-04:00 2020-06-18T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Juneteenth Celebration (June 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74968 74968-19112548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

EECS invites you to our first Juneteenth celebration this Friday from 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT!

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It celebrates African American freedom and achievement. Its goal is to promote and cultivate knowledge and appreciation of African American history and culture while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.

Our Juneteenth celebration will include:
Performance of the Black National Anthem
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
Students will share their stories and experiences
Presentation of a student proposal on how to improve the culture for Black students in EECS to the department Chairs

All are welcome to attend!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:29:17 -0400 2020-06-19T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Electrical and Computer Engineering Livestream / Virtual Juneteenth graphic
Michigan Medicine Community Conversations (June 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73484 73484-18243531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: North Campus Recreation Building
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

When there is effective communication, workplace relationships can thrive. At times, innovative solutions aren’t being implemented because we aren’t hearing each other out, literally. Studies show most people do not listen with the intent to understand but with the intent to reply. Building active listening skills can lead to more meaningful conversations and efficient results to workplace dilemmas. Join us to explore the importance of connecting with others and the common barriers that we face when trying to work together.

This conversation explores the use of power in the workplace and opens discussion related to your experiences with power dynamics.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:34:24 -0400 2020-06-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-22T11:00:00-04:00 North Campus Recreation Building Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Community Conversation Image
Implicit Bias (June 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74851 74851-19010234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In this session, participants will learn to:

Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:24:31 -0400 2020-06-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Law library at U. Michigan.
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74869 74869-19041892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:42:52 -0400 2020-06-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-23T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 25, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74870 74870-19041893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 25, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:46:12 -0400 2020-06-25T11:30:00-04:00 2020-06-25T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (June 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74871 74871-19041894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:52:15 -0400 2020-06-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-01T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: Engaging Challenges with Compassion (July 2, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75095 75095-19222420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 2, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

What can we do to maintain hope, care for others, and care for ourselves during these difficult times? The practice of compassion creates sacred space where we can stand in history together. We invite you to share in conversation and learn about compassion as a powerful tool in the space of challenge and everyday being.

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:47:20 -0400 2020-07-02T11:30:00-04:00 2020-07-02T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
The Microaggression Session (July 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74852 74852-19010235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
Validate experiences with microaggressions
Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:27:12 -0400 2020-07-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the Law Quad
Conversations on Being Black in America (July 8, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75130 75130-19277400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Session Takeaways
• Better understanding of the “State of the Union” from each of your perspectives. What landscape are we approaching equity in?
• How to begin creating a health policy agenda?
o More specifically, the Do’s and Don’ts of building a health policy agenda as a professional.
• The opportunities and challenges of leading as a black professional.
o What advice prepared you for where you are now?
o What lessons did you need to let go of in order to thrive?
o What pearls of wisdom do you have?

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92940129144?pwd=UUI4YkdJaG1zdHY1bnRIR1dQU0k0QT09

Meeting ID: 929 4012 9144
Password: OHEI
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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:55:05 -0400 2020-07-08T18:30:00-04:00 2020-07-08T20:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Speaker Series Image
Diversity 101 (July 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74850 74850-19010233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting. If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the facility or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad) as soon as possible.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:
Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:20:08 -0400 2020-07-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the Law Quad
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Theorizing the Web Presents: Surveillance of Black Lives (July 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75117 75117-19269550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Dr. Allissa Richardson and Mutale Nkonde will discuss the layered and multifaceted impact of surveillance on Black people in the context of the Movement for Black Lives and the Covid-19 pandemic. Moderated by TtW Committee member and professor of Digital Studies, Dr. Apryl Williams, this talk will demonstrate how facial recognition systems used in policing; tracing software associated with the pandemic; and Black death imagery have created a treacherous techno-mediascape that extends both state matrices of power and systems of racialized, anti-Black oppression in the United States. This discussion will be streamed live on the TtW YouTube page and on Zoom. A recording will be available on our website. You can sign up here to receive the Zoom link and reminders about future episodes of TtW Presents:

https://theorizingtheweb.org/p/p2020/schedule/

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:04:08 -0400 2020-07-16T19:00:00-04:00 2020-07-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Presentation ttw
Research Developments in the Study of Racialized Resentment (July 22, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75224 75224-19340154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:48:58 -0400 2020-07-22T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
LEAD: Bridging the Divide—Uniting Against Racism (July 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75088 75088-19216538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead DEI initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address the need to have people of all social identities (across race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.) involved in the fight against systemic racism. It’s human nature to be drawn to people who are similar to us and our desire to bond with our community intensifies under threat. How can we avoid an “us vs. them” mentality and mobilize as a unified force against racism? Speakers will discuss pathways to bonding and bridging across difference. Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias. He is the author of ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, and The Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. His latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart won the 2019 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice. Ross founded Cook Ross Inc., one of the nation’s leading diversity and inclusion consultancies. He sold the company in July 2018 and founded Udarta Consulting, LLC. Ross is also a former rock ‘n roll musician and has taught meditation and mindfulness for more than 20 years, including his role as co-founder and lead facilitator for the Inner Journey Seminars.
Sonya Jacobs is the chief organizational learning officer and senior director of faculty and leadership development for Michigan Medicine. As U-M’s first chief organizational learning officer, she creates curricula and strategies to build the capabilities of staff, faculty, and leaders across the university. This includes the development of education, training, interventions, and programs to further the university’s initiatives around creating an inclusive and equitable environment. As the senior director of faculty and leadership development, she is responsible for supporting faculty in achieving their professional goals, as well as recruitment, on-boarding, and retention of a diverse faculty, and leadership development for both faculty and staff. She co-created programs focused on the advancement of women and founded an Executive Coaching Certification program. She holds a bachelor’s from Michigan State University and a master’s from Eastern Michigan University.
Deborah Willis is the senior program lead for the DEI Certificate and program manager for professional and academic development at the Rackham Graduate School. Dr. Willis develops and implements innovative programs to engage a highly diverse academic community and consistently strives to foster collaborations that support the professional development of scholars and encourage an inclusive environment. Throughout her professional career, she has provided leadership, vision, and advocacy for graduate students, staff, and faculty particularly around equity, inclusion, and social justice issues. She established and moderates the LEAD Webinar Series to elevate the voices of those who lead DEI initiatives and to provide diverse perspectives for webinar attendees. Dr. Willis holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/kxqYQ.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:15:19 -0400 2020-07-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (July 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (July 30, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75340 75340-19442245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 30, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:48:07 -0400 2020-07-30T11:30:00-04:00 2020-07-30T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (August 6, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75405 75405-19467780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 6, 2020 11:30am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 1
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:10:14 -0400 2020-08-06T11:30:00-04:00 2020-08-06T12:30:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 1 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (August 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-12T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Identity Development among Young Black Men (August 12, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75234 75234-19340164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:25:17 -0400 2020-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (August 20, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75726 75726-19576543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 20, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

The DEI Resource Group is a voluntary, member-led group that catalyzes efforts to drive innovation and make the Michigan Medicine workplace culture more inclusive, engaged, productive, and aligned to support our strategic goals.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:22:00 -0400 2020-08-20T11:30:00-04:00 2020-08-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
LEAD: Let’s Talk About Racial Code Switching (August 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75547 75547-19521121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and Social Justice initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address how college campuses can work to create a more inclusive environment where those from marginalized communities can be their authentic selves. Many faculty, staff, and students of color describe the need to “code switch” (or “act white”) in order to thrive, or even survive, at primarily white institutions. But this code switching comes at a cost. Speakers will discuss their experiences, research on the topic, and offer recommendations for best practices.
Speakers
Courtney L. McCluney
Courtney L. McCluney, is an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her research investigates marginalization or practices, norms, and processes that separate the ‘center’ of social institutions—where power and resources are concentrated—from the ‘margins’ where certain groups are relegated. Marginalization historically and systemically challenges marginalized groups’ access to resources, legitimacy, and power in organizations and society. Dr. McCluney completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in psychology (personality and social contexts) at the University of Michigan and B.A. in psychology and interpersonal/organizational communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. McCluney previously worked as a research associate at Catalyst, Inc. and served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with New Sector Alliance. As a first-generation college graduate, Dr. McCluney’s work seeks to advance public scholarship with underserved communities.
Myles Durkee
Dr. Myles Durkee is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in educational psychology: applied developmental science from the University of Virginia. He also completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Dr. Durkee is a psychologist who examines the dynamics of cultural invalidations, identity threats, and racial code switching to determine how these experiences influence important psychosocial outcomes (e.g., mental health and well-being, identity development, and academic achievement). Overall his research examines how people of color navigate racial contexts, modify their racial behavior to fit in certain contexts, and internalize messages about their cultural authenticity from individuals inside and outside of their racial group.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgvO0.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:15:14 -0400 2020-08-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Join MESA this summer for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (August 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74663 74663-18890932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every other Wednesday between 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for Summer Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu.

When: Starting 06-03-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660,

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 May 2020 16:43:27 -0400 2020-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T13:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (August 27, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76117 76117-19663539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:11:38 -0400 2020-08-27T11:30:00-04:00 2020-08-27T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (September 3, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76414 76414-19711223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:56:38 -0400 2020-09-03T11:30:00-04:00 2020-09-03T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
"Virtual MESA Palooza!" (September 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76349 76349-19707184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA on September 3rd from 1pm - 3pm for a free event and a great opportunity for community building, meet UofM staff, departments and student orgs as they promote their work, recruit new members and enjoy networking. Sign up now http://ow.ly/w4kN50BccyL🎊🎈🎉

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:30:13 -0400 2020-09-03T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual "Virtual MESA Palooza!"
Rackham North: DEI Certificate Program Information Session (September 3, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75981 75981-19633711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Did you know Rackham offers a DEI Professional Development Certificate designed to prepare graduate students to work in a diverse environment while fostering a climate of inclusivity? Attend this introduction session to learn about the requirements of the program and discover how this certificate can prepare you to enter a diverse and global job market. Find out more about the program on our DEI Certificate page.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKMr7.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:23 -0400 2020-09-03T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Queering Class: Student & Faculty Panel (September 3, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75633 75633-19552844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Still getting used to class? Want to make sure your name and pronouns are known but don't know where to start? Wondering what classes about LGBTQ+ people and topics are available? This is the event for you! We've brought together LGBTQ+ faculty and students to talk about their experience in the classroom from both points of view and to answer any questions you might have. We're excited to see you there!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, 11 Aug 2020 15:06:25 -0400 2020-09-03T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ+ Welcome Events includes Virtual Drag Bingo on August 8th, Queering Class Panel on September 3rd, Queering Campus Panel on September 8th, and Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Org Panel on September 16th. All event registration can be found at bit.ly/LGBTQWelcome
[POSTPONED] Virtual LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Mixer (September 8, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75636 75636-19552847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Our annual LGBTQ+ graduate student mixer, now virtual! Come hang out with other graduate and professional students in the community and start making connections! Plus, get a chance to learn more and ask questions about opportunities available to you via the Spectrum Center or Rackham, such as mentorship programs, upcoming events, and funding!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, 08 Sep 2020 15:19:28 -0400 2020-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual The Spectrum Center and Rackham Graduate School present these LGBTQ+ graduate student events for September 2020: Welcome Back Virtual Mixer which has been postponed, Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Orgs on the 16th, and Mentoring the Mentor: Being a Good Influence. All event registration can be found at https://bit.ly/SCGradWelcome.
Queering Campus: Student & Staff Panel (September 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75634 75634-19552845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Whether you're completely virtual, always on-campus, or somewhere in between, there's a wealth of resources available to you from Student Life. We've formed a panel of staff and students to share the roles of different offices, ways of getting involved, and how to stay connected while we're a partially virtual campus. Plus, enjoy a Q&A session with the panelists to get advice you're looking for.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, 11 Aug 2020 15:06:37 -0400 2020-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual he Spectrum Center's LGBTQ+ Welcome Events includes Virtual Drag Bingo on August 8th, Queering Class Panel on September 3rd, Queering Campus Panel on September 8th, and Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Org Panel on September 16th. All event registration can be found at bit.ly/LGBTQWelcome
Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76870 76870-19772604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

With our power, resources, and knowledge - what can we do about water injustice as a school? All discussions and ideas are welcome - whether it be proposing new field placements that focus on water and environmental justice, integrating more course content on how water injustice is tied to systemic and historic discrimination, or current advocacy efforts demanding access to safe, clean, water is a human right.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:23:06 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
Hired-In (September 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75312 75312-19432418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Hiring Involvement in Recruiting For Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the Zoom Meeting or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In this session, participants will:

- Increase awareness of how implicit bias can show up during the hiring process
- Gain an awareness of the importance of consistent guidelines, evaluation and candidate experience
- Discuss equitable hiring conventions
- Increase knowledge regarding affirmative action goals
- Learn about resources that exist in LSA and on campus

Audience:

This course is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:59:54 -0400 2020-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual University of Michigan Law Library.
Summer Programs Series (September 16, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75792 75792-19608005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

Join us on September 16 to reflect on the summer and combine our expertise to create a best practices guide for engaging K-12 students virtually and surface challenges and opportunities for near-future K-12 virtual programs.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:39:27 -0400 2020-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 2020-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Summer Programs Series
Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Racism and Race Relations in the United States: What Value for an International Human Rights Perspective? (September 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76542 76542-19725088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Debates and protests in the United States about systemic racism are dominated by discussions of American institutions, law, and practices and the need to change them. But international human rights law, developed over decades to address and respond to human rights violations around the world, offers important frameworks and rules to address racism and race discrimination. Human rights law has already been utilized by some advocates for change in the U.S., but not as much as in other countries. This distinguished panel will offer perspectives on whether and how an international human rights lens provides an added value for discussions of, and solutions to, problems of racism in the United States. It will consider how human rights law might change ongoing conversations, as well as its limits. It will also offer a comparison between the use of human rights on issues of race discrimination in the United States and South Africa.

Please note: This event will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/WwzWk

Panelists:
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School; Former White House National Security Council, Director for Human Rights
Yasmin Sooka, Former Member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Hardy Vieux, Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First

Moderator:
Steven Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan

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Catherine Powell
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
Former White House National Security Council, Director for Human Rights

Catherine Powell is a Professor at Fordham Law School, where she teaches constitutional law, human rights, and digital rights. She is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), jointly affiliated with the Digital & Cyberspace Policy and Women & Foreign Policy programs.

Powell’s current work focuses on the role of race and gender (https://www.justsecurity.org/71742/viral-justice-interconnected-pandemics-as-portal-to-racial-justice/) in our emerging touchless society—and the ways it amplifies structural inequalities in the platform economy. In recent writing, she has coined the terms Color of Covid (in a CNN op-ed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/opinions/covid-19-people-of-color-labor-market-disparities-powell/index.html) and Gender of Covid (in CFR’s Think Global Health blog: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/color-and-gender-covid-essential-workers-not-disposable-people), building on other recent law review articles on intersectionality in the Georgetown Law Journal (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3605810 ) and UCLA J. Int’l L. Foreign Aff (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339362 ).

Her prior experience includes stints on President Barack Obama’s White House National Security Council (Director for Human Rights) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff. Previously Professor Powell has been on the Columbia Law School faculty as founding director of the Human Rights Institute and the Human Rights Clinic. Since then, she has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown Law Schools. Before going into academia, she was a litigator with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, following a clerkship with SDNY Judge Leonard Sand.

Powell is the first Black woman academic to serve on the prestigious American Journal of International Law board of editors and sits on the American Society of International Law Executive Council. She co-chairs Blacks in the American Society of International Law (BASIL) and was previously on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) board of directors and chair of HRW’s U.S. Program Advisor Committee.

Professor Powell is a graduate of Yale College, Yale Law School, and Princeton’s graduate program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was a post-graduate fellow at Harvard Law School.

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Yasmin Sooka
Former Member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Yasmin Sooka is a leading human rights lawyer. Sooka is the former executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa. Sooka served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1996 to 2001 and chaired the committee responsible for the final report from 2001 to 2003. She was appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2004. Since 2000, Sooka has also been a member of the advisory body on the Review of Resolution 1325 on women and peace and security. In July 2010, she was appointed to the three member panel of experts advising the secretary general on accountability for war crimes committed during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka. Sooka currently chairs the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.

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Hardy Vieux
Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First

As the senior vice president, legal, Hardy leads and directs Human Rights First’s legal initiatives—including its pro bono legal representation, which pairs lawyers at the nation’s top law firms with indigent refugees in need of counsel in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Hardy also oversees the organization’s impact litigation, which seeks to make systemic change on behalf of those seeking asylum in the United States by challenging harmful governmental policies and laws in federal court.

Since January 2017, Hardy has also served as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In that role, Hardy taught a seminar focusing on the role of nongovernmental organizations in policy formulation. He has led weeklong student spring break trips to Guatemala, during which students volunteered with a Guatemalan NGO that applies multidisciplinary forensic scientific methodologies to identify missing and disappeared persons to provide truth to victims and their families, assist in the search for justice and redress, and strengthen the rule of law. In fall 2020, Hardy is once again teaching a Ford School seminar entitled The Role of Courts in International Human Rights.

In 2014, Hardy served as a policy fellow in the Middle East, where he worked at Save the Children International in Amman, Jordan. There, he handled child protection policy issues impacting Syrian refugee children living in Jordan.

Prior to living in the Middle East, Hardy was in private legal practice in Washington, D.C., for over ten years. While in private practice, Hardy also handled numerous pro bono matters, ranging from litigation stemming from the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to juvenile detention impact litigation and asylum representation. In 2010, the D.C. Bar recognized him as its Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

Before moving to private practice, Hardy was a criminal appellate defense counsel in the United States Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he served as lead counsel in a capital punishment case. He is a frequent media commentator on military justice issues.

Hardy started his legal career as a law clerk in federal district court in Denver, Colorado.

Hardy serves on the board of directors of the National Military of Justice and the WISER Girls Secondary School, a Kenyan residential school focused on empowering young women. He also served on the board of trustees of DC Scholars Public Charter School.

Hardy is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School—serving as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law—and Ford School of Public Policy, where he earned his law and Master of Public Policy degrees. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1993.

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Steven Ratner
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan

Steven Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Director of the University of Michigan’s Donia Human Rights Center. His research addresses a range of public international law issues, including the normative orders concerning armed conflict, regulation of foreign investment, individual and corporate accountability for human rights violations, and the intersection of international law and global justice. He has served on two expert panels of the UN Secretary-General addressing post-conflict justice in Cambodia and in Sri Lanka and is a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law. A former member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, he is also a member of the international Working Group on Business and Human Rights Arbitration, which is promoting arbitration as a way to provide a remedy for human rights violations by business entities. His most recent book is The Thin Justice of International Law: A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations, issued by Oxford University Press in 2015. The fifth edition of his casebook, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (Kluwer Law, with Jeffrey Dunoff and Monica Hakimi), was published next year.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:15:45 -0400 2020-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Donia Human Rights Center Livestream / Virtual Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Racism and Race Relations in the United States: What Value for an International Human Rights Perspective?
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76360 76360-19709163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Join us for an information session on the Michigan in Washington Program. We will be joined by MIW alumni from various disciplines. If possible, please email your questions in advance to miwdc@umich.edu.
The Winter 2021 semester will be virtual. Applications will be accepted September 28th for Winter 2021, early admission Fall 2021 and Winter 2022.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:16:40 -0400 2020-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Livestream / Virtual
Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Orgs Panel (September 16, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75635 75635-19552846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

*Note: This event is also listed in the graduate student welcome calendar. Both listings are the same event and the inclusion in the graduate student calendar was to explicitly encourage non-undergrad students to come as we will be featuring some orgs solely for grad / professional students.*

Did you know there's nearly 20 different LGBTQ+ organizations active at the University of Michigan? Now, we can't have a panel with all of them, but we can introduce you to a few of them! Join representatives from five of these orgs to talk about their purpose, vision, and goals, and also to learn about what it's like to lead as an LGBTQ+ person at this university. We'll share how to connect with all the other orgs as well, so you can easily find your people. Come meet your community with us!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, 11 Aug 2020 15:06:56 -0400 2020-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ+ Welcome Events includes Virtual Drag Bingo on August 8th, Queering Class Panel on September 3rd, Queering Campus Panel on September 8th, and Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Org Panel on September 16th. All event registration can be found at bit.ly/LGBTQWelcome
Diversity 101 (September 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75311 75311-19432416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the Zoom Meeting or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:

- Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
- Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
- Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:50:04 -0400 2020-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the Law Quad
DEI Professional Development Certificate Orientation (September 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76912 76912-19776576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session is for students who have been accepted into the DEI Certificate Program only.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jxNAd.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:15:40 -0400 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Mentoring the Mentor: Being a Good Influence (September 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75638 75638-19552848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

There's many reasons why someone would want to be a mentor - you remember an older student or professor giving you guidance through undergrad, you've learned a lot and want to pass it on, you had a hard time and want to make sure younger students don't have to deal with what you did - but what makes a good mentor? What skills do you need, how do you make the relationship beneficial to both you and the mentee? What if you mess something up? Mentorship can be an exciting and terrifying prospect, but we're here to give you some tips.

We've brought together a panel of experienced LGBTQ+ staff and faculty who participate as mentors in our MaPPS (Mentoring and Personal/Professional Support) program to talk about what they've learned about being a good influence and building trust with a mentee. Afterwards, ask the panelists questions and consider signing up for our GPS (Guidance - Perspective - Support) program, our peer-to-peer mentorship opportunity, and start using those skills today!


Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:56:49 -0400 2020-09-21T18:30:00-04:00 2020-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual The Spectrum Center and Rackham Graduate School present these LGBTQ+ graduate student events for September 2020: Welcome Back Virtual Mixer on September 8th, Meet the Leaders: LGBTQ+ Student Orgs on the 16th, and Mentoring the Mentor: Being a Good Influence. All event registration can be found at https://bit.ly/SCGradWelcome.]
Virtual Bi-runch (September 23, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77175 77175-19806424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Celebrate Bi Visibility Day with Bi-runch, hosted by student organization Bilateral! Join in with your favorite brunchy foods to meet folks within the bi+ community and learn about people and organizations that identify like us!

For the purposes of this event, "the bi+ community" is defined as anyone who holds attraction to two or more genders and desires to be considered part of "the bi+ community." Common identities within the bi+ community include but are not limited to: bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, romantic versions of these identities, and queer.
You can also submit info to have yourself featured in a social media takeover in the days leading up to the event! Fill out the form by September 15th to be included: https://bit.ly/bvd-submit

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Social / Informal Gathering Sat, 12 Sep 2020 14:00:28 -0400 2020-09-23T11:30:00-04:00 2020-09-23T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Join us for this virtual bi+ social to celebrate Bi Visibility Day! Hosted by the Spectrum Center and Bilateral.
Implicit Bias (September 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75310 75310-19432414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.


In this session, participants will learn to:

- Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
- Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
- Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
- Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
- Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

- Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:44:55 -0400 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual University of Michigan Law Quad
Making Michigan: "The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the U-M's Jewish Students, 1897-1945" (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76665 76665-19735028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Learn about the evolution of Jewish life on the U-M campus from the late 1890s to the end of World War II. Join us for this *Making Michigan* event, as Terry McDonald and Gary Krenz from the Bentley Historical Library talk with authors Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner about their new book, *The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan's Jewish Students from 1897-1945.* The conversation will cover how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made U-M a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss, as the University's commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

This conversation is the first in the 2020-21 Making Michigan series.

Registration is required. To register, please visit https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZLn_cYMlT5W8K9rJE0-j3g

To learn more about *Making Michigan,* go to https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:32:16 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and pictures of authors Markovits and Garner.
Rackham North: Racial Microaggressions (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75984 75984-19633714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often times find ourselves skirting around this subset of microaggressions due to the discomfort of openly discussing race, racism, and white supremacy. In this workshop we hope to foster an intellectually humble environment within which to unpack racial microaggressions, address common barriers to intervening when a racial microaggression is inflicted, and provide tools for successfully intervening in the future.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/pdMkj.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:25 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Colloquium: "Rethinking Race and Place and its Role in Achieving Social Justice in Linguistics" (virtual) (September 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76110 76110-19663534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department colloquium series begins Friday, September 25, with a virtual talk by Sharese King, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Dr. King will present "Rethinking Race and Place and its Role in Achieving Social Justice in Linguistics."

Dr. King is a sociolinguist interested in the relationship between race, place, and language variation. She explores how African Americans use language to construct multidimensional identities and how these constructions are perceived and evaluated across different listener populations. Drawing on both ethnographic and experimental techniques, her work explores both the linguistic construction of race and the ways in which language is racialized.

ABSTRACT

Recent explorations of regional variation across African American speech communities have brought to the forefront the linguistic heterogeneity across African American Language (AAL). Having problematized the presentation of AAL as a uniform variety (Wolfram 2007; 2015), intra-group analyses highlight the diverse social and linguistic constructions among African American speakers. In this talk, I zoom in on three personae local to the African American community in Rochester, New York, contextualizing each style against the backdrop of a post-industrial city in the Rustbelt region. I investigate how the three personae, The Mobile Professional, The Hood Kid, and The Biker recruit or reject vocalic patterns of the Northern Cities Shift, as well as to construct identities relevant to their social landscape. The findings challenge how we define the dialect, while also complicating our understanding of the relationship between race, identity, and language. Further, this work imagines more ways to enact social justice in the study of variationism by expanding our representation of African Americans' multidimensional identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:31:16 -0400 2020-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Sharese King
Rackham North: Combating Anti-Asian Racism (September 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76133 76133-19665677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Professor Melissa Borja is a faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and lead researcher with the Stop Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Hate Reporting Center, a national effort to document and analyze coronavirus-related hate against Asian Americans. She will share her research as well as ways that graduate students and postdoctoral fellows can work to address anti-Asian racism as teachers, scholars, and community members.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/VP3Ww.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:25 -0400 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Allies At Work (September 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76957 76957-19780556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.


*In this session, participants will learn:*

- The role of allies in creating inclusive environments and creating change
- The best practices for being an ally
- How to apply these best practices in a work environment
- To identify unique obstacles towards being an ally in a remote working environment
- To challenge their own practices to be more intentional and effective allies


*You will benefit by:*

- Raising self-awareness and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others


*Audience:*

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:18:04 -0400 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
Engaging With Latinx K-12 School Partners in Southwest Detroit (September 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75794 75794-19608008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

In honor of the Latinx Heritage Month, join our educational partners for a panel discussion on K-12 students in Southwest Detroit and celebrate with us on their key highlights from the last year.

CEO Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement - Engaging with Latinx K-12 School Partners in Southwest Detroit on September 29th from 2:00 - 3:15 PM. This panel will focus on the intersection of Latinx youth and college readiness, as we celebrate the strong growth of the college-going culture in Southwest Detroit. Our insightful guest speakers will share their perspectives and wisdom when adopting effective engagement practices and strategies as it relates to sustainable college and career advising.

We will have a panel moderated by Michael Turner, Program Director for Michigan College Advising Corps. Join us to learn from the strong leaders of Cesar Chavez Academy High School - Dr. Juan Martinez, Principal; Sandra Sanchez, College & Career Advisor; and Christopher Camacho, MCAC College Adviser. Daniel Vargas-Leon, Western International High School MCAC College Adviser, will also serve on the panel to share his advising expertise on Western International High School. We are also excited to have Anita Martinez, Executive Director of the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative, join us to share about her team’s wide-ranging work with middle and high school students within Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:28:54 -0400 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T15:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Flyer
PD Soros Fellowship for New Americans (September 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75316 75316-19434382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans provides up to two years of graduate study in any field and in any graduate degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support, as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for two years. The total value of the fellowship is $90,000.

Register: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/the-paul---daisy-soros-fellowships.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:19:56 -0400 2020-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual PD Soros Fellows 2020
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: Dealing with Scarcity in the Hospital (October 1, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77881 77881-19939574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:48:05 -0400 2020-10-01T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Bouchet Honor Society Information Session (October 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77705 77705-19903727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session will outline the benefits of joining the Bouchet Honor Society. It will also offer advice and best practices for completing the application for Bouchet.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/88PVe.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Healing Identity Based Trauma (October 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77068 77068-19792539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Many discussions under the umbrella of diversity, equity, and inclusion focus on what we can do moving forward, without holding sufficient space to deal with the wounds and potential trauma that inequality, oppression, and marginalization can cause. In the belief that healing is a form of social justice, this session focuses on strategies individuals and communities can use to heal from identity-based trauma.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/4pNXo.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:16:00 -0400 2020-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Microaggression Session (October 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75305 75305-19432412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.


Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

- Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
- Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
- Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
- Validate experiences with microaggressions
- Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 17 Aug 2020 09:43:33 -0400 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Law library at U. Michigan.
Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75663 75663-19558810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In Undermining Racial Justice, Matthew Johnson (Texas Tech University) contends that over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.

Focusing on the University of Michigan, Johnson argues that U-M leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.

Join the author for a discussion of Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality. Angela Dillard (University of Michigan) will serve as interlocutor.

Matthew Johnson is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow working on a book about the impact of urban campus police forces on Black communities and students.

Angela Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College. She specializes in American and African American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics—on both the Left and the Right sides of the political spectrum—and maintains an active interest in urban studies.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a90DMOeVRZy18VWjsPyc_A

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:17:02 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Undermining Racial Justice cover
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
QTBIPOC Mixer (October 7, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78003 78003-19951599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
All National Coming Out Week events: https://bit.ly/SC-NCOW

This QTBIPOC Mixer is a social for Queer & Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color during National Coming Out Week. Anyone who identifies as a Person of Color and within the LGBTQ+ community (or questioning) is invited to this community-building event! We'll be holding a main room for everyone to meet and get to know us and our student organization co-hosts, then split off into affinity breakout rooms to create community and discuss LGBTQ+ topics in smaller groups.

We want to thank our student organization co-hosts for making this event possible: The Coalition for Queer and Trans People of Color, the Black Student Union (BSU), La Casa, the Native American Student Association (NASA), Mixed@Michigan, and the United Asian American Organizations (UAAO).

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:19:14 -0400 2020-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-07T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Information about the event and logos of co-sponsors surrounding a rainbow flag partially divided by a triangle on its left side showing black, brown, and transgender flag stripes.
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: Middle Eastern Resource Group (October 8, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78264 78264-19998929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

The DEI Resource Group is a voluntary, member-led group that catalyzes efforts to drive innovation and make the Michigan Medicine workplace culture more inclusive, engaged, productive, and aligned to support our strategic goals.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:17:24 -0400 2020-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78000 78000-19951595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
All National Coming Out Week events: https://bit.ly/SC-NCOW

Young people who identify as LGBTQ+ face significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues than their peers who are not sexual or gender minorities. Gary Harper, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, and his team are working to ensure that primary care clinics in the US are equipped to screen at-risk LGBTQ+ youth and provide them with welcoming, competent, and high-quality care. Listen to Dr. Harper as he talks about his research and advocacy to improve policy for LGBTQ+ youth.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:49:59 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer of the time, date, location, and a picture of Gary Harper. Dr. Harper is wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater over a white collared shirt, posing and smiling at the camera. Text below his photo states that he is a professor for The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; and Global Public Health
Rackham North: Change It Up! (October 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76134 76134-19665678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful, and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/nbkpn.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:25 -0400 2020-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LACS and Latina/o Studies Virtual Panel Discussion. Monumental Injustice in the Americas (October 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77720 77720-19907803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration required: http://myumi.ch/2DVXB

As a joint effort between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) and the Latina/o Studies Program, this panel brings together scholars whose work helps us think about past and present efforts to topple physical monuments to historical figures across the Americas. As the United States recognizes "Hispanic Heritage Month," we push for thinking that cuts across borders. We highlight the hemisphere's interconnected histories of racism, colonialism, conquest and slavery that are at the center of both efforts to memorialize certain figures and stories, and efforts to upend these commemorative structures and the narratives they support. Public discussions around contested symbols of injustice are themselves opportunities to remake historical narratives, and we anticipate this panel will add a rich and important discussion.

Speaker Biographies:

ERIN L. THOMPSON is America’s only full-time professor of art crime (John Jay College, CUNY). She studies a variety of relations between art and crime, including the looting of antiquities, museum theft, art made by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage. She has discussed these topics for the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Freakonomics podcast, among many others. She is currently writing Smashing Statues: On the Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments (Norton 2021). She has written and spoken about the science of public art, the history of protests, the legal barriers to removal of controversial art, and examples of innovative approaches to the problem in venues including Art in America, Hyperallergic, the LARB Blog, and the New York Times.

ANA LUCIA ARAUJO is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Shadows of the Slave Past: Heritage, Memory, and Slavery (Routledge, 2014), and Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Cambria Press, 2010). She also edited or coedited five books and published dozens of refereed articles in journals and chapters in edited books on topics related to the history and memory of slavery. In 2017, Araujo joined the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. She also serves on the board of editors of the American Historical Review (the journal of the American Historical Association) and the editorial board of the British journal Slavery and Abolition. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), the editorial review board of the African Studies Review, and the board of the blog Black Perspectives maintained by the African American Intellectual History Society. Currently, Araujo is working on two book projects: Human in Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora series). She just finished Museums and Atlantic Slavery, a short-format book to be published in 2021 by Routledge in the series Routledge Museums in Focus.

ANDREA QUEELEY is a native of Berkeley, California and holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has a joint appointment in Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program. Her research interests include black and diasporic subjectivity, race and representation, intra-Caribbean migration, and the African Diaspora in Latin America. She has published several journal articles on these themes in addition to her book ”Rescuing Our Roots: The Anglo-Caribbean African Diaspora in
Contemporary Cuba” (University Press of Florida 2015).

OLIVIA CHILCOTE (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside. Dr. Chilcote's research and teaching focus on the areas of interdisciplinary Native American Studies, federal Indian law and policy, Native American identity, and Native California. Dr. Chilcote grew up in the center of her tribe’s traditional territory in the North County of San Diego, and she is active in tribal politics and other community efforts.

VANESSA FONSECA-CHÁVEZ is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. She received her MA in Hispanic Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico and her PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She is the co-editor of Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (University of New Mexico Press, 2020). Her monograph, Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Looking through the Kaleidoscope is out with the University of Arizona Press.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:55:22 -0400 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Monumental_Injustice-image
Introduction to Intergroup Dialogue (October 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76125 76125-19663589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the Zoom Meeting or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.
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This workshop will introduce participants to intergroup dialogue pedagogy as it is practiced in The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR). The awareness, knowledge, and skills learned through this pedagogy are valuable for all in everyday life. This workshop will include experiential exercises that require self examination, sharing your experiences with culture, social identity, and the impacts of privilege and oppression in society.

IGR is a partnership program between LSA and Student Life.

*What you will learn/goals of the session:*
- An understanding of Intergroup Dialogue (the Michigan Model)
- Ways to examine how cultural and social identity impact our life experience
- Tools for increasing your and others knowledge about social inequality

*Audience:*
This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:20:10 -0400 2020-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
Race and Business Education: Deans Panel (October 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78092 78092-19963479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

RACE AND BUSINESS EDUCATION: DEANS PANEL

Does business education make the grade on issues of race? A power panel of deans from leading business schools discuss the challenges and opportunities they face in their efforts to prepare their graduates to be inclusive leaders of a racially diverse workforce.

MODERATOR // DAVID WOOTEN // MICHIGAN ROSS
UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR

WILLIAM BOULDING // DUKE FUQUA

KERWIN CHARLES // YALE SOM

FRANCESCA CORNELLI // NORTHWESTERN KELLOGG

SCOTT DERUE // MICHIGAN ROSS

NICOLE THORNE JENKINS // VIRGINIA MCINTIRE

JONATHAN LEVIN // STANFORD GSB

RAGHU SUNDARAM // NYU STERN

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:21:50 -0400 2020-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T16:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business and Society
Assessing Organizational Culture Through a DEI Lens (October 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76548 76548-19727059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Come learn about how to assess various aspects of an organization’s culture during the job and internship search process through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. During this session you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of navigating this process and practice actionable strategies to evaluate an organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgPBN.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:15:48 -0400 2020-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Critical Conversations (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78424 78424-20042429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please join the English Department next Wednesday on Zoom for the second Critical Conversations event of the semester. We have a great lineup of panelists and a very timely issue on the table, and we hope to see many of you there!

Sigrid Anderson | Hui-hui Hu | Silvia Lindtner | M. Remi Yergeau (chair)

Please RSVP by the end of the day on Tuesday to receive the Zoom Link

Sigrid Anderson is the Librarian for English Language and Literature and a lecturer in American Culture. Her research focuses on race and gender in print culture and new media. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010), and her current book project focuses on women writers’ use of regional magazines as a space to intervene in racialized land settlement questions in turn of the twentieth-century Los Angeles.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (2013), and a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015). He is a contributor to the upcoming BBC Radio 4 program "Under the Cloud" on October 13. A fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the NEA, he is an associate professor of English at UM.

Silvia Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). Lindtner's research interests include cultures and politics of tech production, labor, industry, and governance. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China's shifting place in the political economy of tech innovation. Her book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) demonstrates that the promise of entrepreneurial life influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.

Questions? Please contact Torre Puckett (puckettt@umich.edu), Sarah Jane Kerwin (sjkerwin@umich.edu), or Susan Scott Parrish (sparrish@umich.edu)

For more information and RSVP, visit the website: https://umcriticalconversations.wordpress.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:14:16 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M (October 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78057 78057-19957547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this "Making Michigan" webinar with U-M Professor Stephen Ward, who will discuss the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. You'll learn about the Black Action Movement (BAM I), an important moment in U-M's history of student activism. He'll also discuss the motivations and rationale for Black Studies as an academic discipline, and the origins of U-M's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:51:06 -0400 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and picture of Stephen Ward
Writing a Diversity Statement for the Faculty Job Search (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77540 77540-19879857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgPv0.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:54 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Me, the "Other" Panel Discussion (October 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78303 78303-20004862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

As part of the U-M DEI Summit celebrating Arts and Social Change, Voices of the Staff is hosting a virtual panel discussion. Me, The Other a gripping documentary film about otherness and oneness featuring twelve diverse students living in Washtenaw County, is available on MiVideo to stream at your convenience prior to the event.
The panel discussion will feature authentic conversation and Q&A with the film's Director and Co-Producer, Shidan Majidi. Shidan will be joined by several cast members, including: Celia, Hussain, Kit, Taylor, Veronica and soundtrack composer, Levi Taylor.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Steve Vinson, Sanam Arab and Jane Berliss-Vincent. Pedro Coracides will emcee the virtual event.
For more information and to sign up for the panel discussion: myumi.ch/GklPP

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:47:46 -0400 2020-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Lecture / Discussion Me, The "Other" flyer
Election Integrity: A WeListen Staff Discussion (October 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78175 78175-19987076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: WeListen Staff

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link will be shared once you've RSVP'd!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLOctober20

We will discuss Election Integrity as the 2020 Presidential Election approaches amidst conversation around mail-in voting, the counting of absentee ballots and access to the polls across the country.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:03:47 -0400 2020-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location WeListen Staff Lecture / Discussion WeListen October 2020
King Talks Application Information Session (October 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78554 78554-20062172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

During this session you will learn about the King Talks, best practices for applying to participate, and the benefits of being part of this signature Rackham program.
Registration is required at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/31233.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:15:50 -0400 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Democracy & Debate Theme Semester: John Lewis: The Legacy of a Life Lived in Good Trouble (October 22, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78654 78654-20093645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Troy, Alabama. Selma. Nashville. Washington, DC. John Lewis’ journey bore witness to the trials and tribulations of the civil rights movement. Please join us for an important conversation on the biographic documentary about the life of this legendary civil rights pioneer, activist, and congressman, John Lewis: Good Trouble. Moderated by Robert M. Sellers, Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, the panel includes Jim Burnstein, Director of of the Screenwriting Program; Sydney Carr, graduate student in Public Policy and Political Science and president of Students of Color of Rackham; Edie Goldenberg, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and founder of the voting advocacy group Turn Up Turnout; and Riana Anderson, Assistant Professor of Public Health and founder of EMBRace (Engaging, Managing, and Bonding through Race).

Sponsored by: The Democracy & Debate Theme Semester and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, The University of Michigan.


If you are having trouble registering for this event please contact rivett@umich.edu
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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:00:54 -0400 2020-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Livestream / Virtual
Living on LOP: What We Learned in Prison (October 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77991 77991-19949624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

A panel discussion with the creators of Loss of Privileges (LOP), moderated by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dr. Heather Ann Thompson.

[About LOP]
Join us for a discussion about the web series Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison. This series features the stories of formerly incarcerated people who share the lessons that they learned in prison that can now help us all adjust to life during the pandemic today.

[LOP Production Team]
• Patrick Bates — Producer and Series Host
• Ashley Lucas — Producer
• Cozine Welch — Producer
• Ali Friedman — Associate Producer
• Sriram Papolu — Director, Cinematographer, and Editor
• Adam Kouraimi — Production Assistant

[Heather Ann Thompson]
*Heather Ann Thompson founded the Carceral State Project in 2016 and is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She writes regularly about prisons and policing for popular and scholarly audiences. She is a member of the standing Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies and won the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize for her book Blood in the Water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon, 2016).*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:16:46 -0400 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Living on Loss of Privileges flyer
LEAD: Empowering and Elevating Marginalized Voices (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76520 76520-19721142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and Social Justice initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address the need to create a more inclusive environment for diverse communities on college campuses. Many faculty, staff and students of color have reported feeling isolated, unheard, and unseen. How can we elevate marginalized voices in the pursuit of racial equity and inclusion on our campuses? Speakers affiliated with the National Center for Institutional Diversity will discuss research and successful initiatives and offer strategies for change.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/wlKoq.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
NEW DATE! CEW+ Advocacy Symposium Kick-off Event: Creating Change through Introspection, Dialogue, and Action (October 23, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75672 75672-19560794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall Symposium themed Creating Change through Introspection, Dialogue, and Action. The 2020 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars and community practitioners who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year’s Symposium will be a virtual event that includes a series of presentations and workshops that will take place over the course of the academic year.

At the kickoff event on October 23, Dr. Martha Jones will discuss the role of Black women in the civil rights and voting rights movements and the ongoing struggle for voting rights for different populations. The kickoff will also highlight 2020 CEW+ Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change awardees who will present lightning talks about their work as a precursor to a full-length workshop that will happen later in the academic year as a component of the Symposium. The learning opportunities throughout the year-long Symposium will supplement Democracy and Debate Theme Semester coursework and activities.

This Symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with IRWG and Clements Library with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

RSVP here for the Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/2020-cew-advocacy-symposium

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:42:10 -0400 2020-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium 2020 Symposium Logo
We’re Biased. So Now What?: Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77541 77541-19879858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Many of us are committed to DEI, and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. The goals of this workshop are for participants to: 1) gain knowledge of societal biases and self-awareness of their unconscious biases and 2) develop strategies to advocate for inclusion in light of unconscious bias.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yK4g7.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:55 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Allies At Work (October 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76957 76957-19780557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.


*In this session, participants will learn:*

- The role of allies in creating inclusive environments and creating change
- The best practices for being an ally
- How to apply these best practices in a work environment
- To identify unique obstacles towards being an ally in a remote working environment
- To challenge their own practices to be more intentional and effective allies


*You will benefit by:*

- Raising self-awareness and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others


*Audience:*

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:18:04 -0400 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
King Talks Application Information Session (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78555 78555-20062173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

During this session you will learn about the King Talks, best practices for applying to participate, and the benefits of being part of this signature Rackham program.
Registration is required at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/31234.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:15:51 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Civic Engagement & Voting (October 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78749 78749-20117229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues from 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 we will specifically discuss civic engagement and voting. Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:57:51 -0400 2020-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
LSA Book Talks: True Justice on HBO (Watch Party) (October 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78704 78704-20107397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for a virtual screening of "*True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality*" and discussion. This award-winning HBO documentary follows Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative's struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.

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Film Screening Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:39:26 -0400 2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Film Screening Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities: An Introduction for Graduate Students (October 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77542 77542-19879859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will introduce graduate students to principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways. Particularly useful for students interested in community engagement, social justice, democratic engagement, advocacy, activism, and philanthropy.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/r8l0r.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:55 -0400 2020-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Faculty Forum: Innovative STEM Educational Experiences (October 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78294 78294-20050334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

The CEO Team would like to personally invite you to our exciting Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement: Innovative STEM Educational Experiences - from Research to Practice!

We will learn from five of our Faculty Fellows about their amazing outreach initiatives in the STEM field and the interconnectedness between research, practice, and student engagement.

The event will open with a Welcome from LSA's Associate Dean Tim McKay. We will follow with Lightning Talks by Rebecca Hasson (Kinesiology), Anouck Girard (Aerospace Engineering), Sarah Koch, Stephen DeBacker, and Yunus Zeytuncu (Math). Our speakers will highlight different approaches and examples of their work, scholarship, and how they are inspiring youth! We will have an opportunity for small group discussions and networking.

This event will take place on October 29 from 2:00 - 3:15 PM via Zoom.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:24:19 -0400 2020-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Faculty Forum STEM flyer
King Talks Application Information Session (October 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78556 78556-20062174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

During this session you will learn about the King Talks, best practices for applying to participate, and the benefits of being part of this signature Rackham program.
Registration is required at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/31235.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:15:52 -0400 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Diversity and Leadership in a COVID-19 Environment: Planning for Higher Education on the Brink (October 30, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78617 78617-20075966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

This webinar will offer an opportunity to hear from established national university leaders with a record of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion who will share a re-imagining of higher education in a post-COVID world.

Our distinguished guests include President Lynn Wooten, Simmons University, Senior Vice President of Equity Anna Branch, Rutgers University, and Executive Vice President of Business and Operations Tokumbo Shobowale, The New School, and is moderated by the Director of the Center for Social Solutions Earl Lewis, University of Michigan.

*Presented by the Academic Leadership Institute, with The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan, The New School, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan.*

Register now: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Rdx50kBTdyfkNPLPb9YAA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:31:00 -0400 2020-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Livestream / Virtual Diversity and Leadership in a COVID-19 Environment
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
Rackham North: Demonstrating a Commitment to Diversity (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76137 76137-19665681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) aptitude is now highly valued by many employers, both within and beyond academe. This interactive workshop will 1) show how employers are evaluating DEI in job interviews, 2) provide opportunities for reflection on how you demonstrate your commitment to DEI, and 3) provide time for students to practice answering common interview questions related to DEI. This workshop is designed primarily for graduate students seeking jobs beyond the professoriate.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKMwj.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Black College Student Mental Health: What institutions need to know and do to support healing and thriving in a time of racial crisis (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78024 78024-19955553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Along with academic impacts, college contexts can serve to support or challenge students’ personal development and well-being in important ways. Increasingly, researchers and higher education institutions are paying attention to college student mental health, but less of this focus has considered the specific contextual experiences, challenges, and supports relevant to Black students’ mental health as they enter and navigate predominantly White institutions (PWI). College student research shows that, along with the social and academic challenges of college experienced by most/all students, Black students routinely report negative race-related experiences in their PWI settings - microaggressions and discrimination; biased stereotype-based treatment, low expectations; and both isolation/exclusion and hypervisibility (over-monitoring as suspicious or dangerous) due to race. Black students’ racially marginalizing experiences are sometimes tied to students’ multiple identities (e.g., their race along with their ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, or sexual orientations, among other identities). Such devaluing experiences have been linked to poorer academic achievement and persistence outcomes, but these experiences likely function to undermine mental health as well.


Now more than ever, a focus on Black college student mental health is critical. In 2020, Black students are entering their college campuses (in-person or remotely) after a summer of widespread protests against anti-Black police violence and systemic racism, sparked by public witnessing of videos depicting murders and brutalizing of Black Americans by police. Many Black students are also coming from communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the knowledge that these differential impacts are directly and indirectly due to systemic racism. Thus, while Black students bring many personal and cultural strengths to their campuses that can be leveraged to support their positive college adjustment, they also experience unique challenges and vulnerabilities due to racism - both on their campuses and in the broader society - that can undermine their well-being and thriving on campus. Higher education must be accountable in understanding Black student experiences and, importantly, acting on this knowledge to meet the goals of supporting and serving all students equitably.


This webinar will feature the research of three scholars actively engaged in research on the positive mental health of Black college students. All are grant recipients of the 2020 National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Pop-Up Grant program cycle, themed around Mental Health among Marginalized Communities, and co-sponsored in partnership with The Steve Fund. Each scholar will share research findings yielded from their grant projects and outline specific implications and recommendations for research and action.

Moderator/Facilitator:

· Tabbye Chavous, *NCID Director and Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Michigan*


Panelists:

· Seanna Leath, *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia*

· Martinique Jones, *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, University of North Texas*

· Carmen McCallum, *Department of Leadership and Counseling, Eastern Michigan University*

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:28:58 -0400 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
Inclusive Leadership (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77776 77776-19921756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

There is a lot of talk about “Inclusive Leadership” but many are left asking: What is it? Why is it important? How can I do it? This workshop will address these questions by presenting research on the specific traits, elements, and styles of inclusive leaders. Participants will be able to reflect on and share their own experiences and times that they have witnessed others modeling inclusive leadership. We will discuss the benefits of inclusive leadership at the individual and organizational level. The presenter will also share resources and best practices on inclusive leadership frameworks. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Deborah S. Willis.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/O4PPK.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. A limited number of spaces will also be made available for Rackham alumni. For the alumni registration link, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:16:11 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
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
Envisioning an Anti-Racist World Creative Challenge: Information Session (November 9, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79096 79096-20207878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

How do you imagine a vision for an Anti-Racist World (campus, community, neighborhood, city, state, country), that truly embodies the ideals of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for the future? In line with the work many members of the University’s community have been doing, and that has come into sharp focus in recent months with calls for action throughout the country and world, the Envisioning an Anti-Racist World Creative Challenge invites students to imagine a future world–and a future campus– that is anti-racist. We invite undergraduate and graduate students to research and share ideas while contributing to probing conversations and sharing experiences about racial inequality and the complex history of white supremacy as a process of imagining the world we want to build at UM.

Students can join as individuals then form interdisciplinary teams through the challenge process to take on the semester-long challenge taking place Winter 2021. Taking forward the core DEI values of the University and its community, teams will design the future, asking:

How would you envision the world you want to build?
What issue do you want to resolve?
What societal impact do you want to make?

Learn more at the info session on November 9, 12:30-1:30 EST. Sign up for the info session: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816026009312/WN__HqVddZcS263OMxKYwTfmg

Register to join the Creative Challenge, starting Winter 2021 here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cVuFoSCu3Ftp6MyAZdPtsLENuaoZj0hghu_oawHyfro/

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Presentation Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:28:06 -0500 2020-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Presentation Creative Challenge banner
Veterans Week: War Dogs (November 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78626 78626-20075981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The “War Dogs” panel will discuss the historic use of dogs in the military, the selection and training of current and future K-9’s for military and law enforcement work, and the invaluable service that K-9’s provide to veterans and people with visible and invisible disabilities. We will discuss the benefits of therapy dogs to raise awareness of unconditional love and comfort that these animals provide, for however short a time, to individuals in hospitals, nursing homes, and schools. Finally, we will discuss the history of the Michigan War Dog Memorial and the services it provides to honor these wonderful dogs in a special location in South Lyon.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:05 -0400 2020-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion War Dog Memorial - Michigan
Hired-In (November 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75312 75312-19432419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Hiring Involvement in Recruiting For Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the Zoom Meeting or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In this session, participants will:

- Increase awareness of how implicit bias can show up during the hiring process
- Gain an awareness of the importance of consistent guidelines, evaluation and candidate experience
- Discuss equitable hiring conventions
- Increase knowledge regarding affirmative action goals
- Learn about resources that exist in LSA and on campus

Audience:

This course is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:59:54 -0400 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual University of Michigan Law Library.
LGBTQ+ Election Processing (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79048 79048-20178465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center Programming Board invites you to join them for their Election Processing event on Tuesday, November 10th at 7 PM EST. They hope that this will serve as a safe place for LGBTQ+ folx to come together to share how they’re feeling post-Election Day and discuss where we go from here. This event is open to all LGBTQ+ folx, including students, faculty, alumni, and community members! Registration is required, so please register at https://bit.ly/SCPB-Election2020 if you are interested in attending. Upon registering, an email containing the Zoom link for the event will be sent out. Thank you, we hope to see you there!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Well-being Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:27:00 -0400 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being The Spectrum Center Programming Board presents this LGBTQ+ community space to share election reactions & take care of ourselves. This event will be hosted Tuesday, November 10th starting at 7 PM. The design of the flyer is based on the American flag, but in a purple color scheme. There is a purple rainbow at the top of the text which is centered on the page.
Hub Workshop: Diversity in the Workplace (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77662 77662-19899723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Have you ever had to wrestle with changing your name to assimilate at work? Or debated how to wear your hair to an interview? Maybe you’ve considered adjusting the way you speak, or which parts of your experience to share in your application materials? Join us for this coach-led workshop to reflect and articulate a response to challenges like these. Together, we will explore what it means to be authentically ourselves in the workplace and what happens if we face conflict or pushback in these situations.

You should attend this workshop if you are:

- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Looking to equip yourself with the tools that will help you respond to identity-related challenges in the workplace
- Interested in DEI initiatives and value diversity in the workplace
- Serving as an advocate for your peers and colleagues

What you’ll gain by attending:

- Consider the tension between social and professional identities and how that can shape your experience in professional settings
- Learn strategies for navigating potentially harmful scenarios and gain access to resources that can provide always-on support
- Gain awareness of existing oppression and privilege in professional spaces and how to respond to challenges like these

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:09:17 -0400 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Group of LSA staff and students
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Post Election Conversations (November 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78750 78750-20117230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 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.

Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:06:08 -0400 2020-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Military-Connected Family Student Panel (November 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78643 78643-20077964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

While there is general support for those serving in the military and military veterans the 2.8 million family members who support them are often overlooked.

We have over 600 students studying at U-M Ann Arbor whose parents or spouses are serving or have served in the US military. Learn how they overcame obstacles, supported their family members, and their experiences of frequent moves, living on a military bases and traveling across the US and the globe.

They are a resilient and determined addition to our military-connected student family and they bring a lot to our campus! Come and hear their stories!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:34:52 -0400 2020-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Army Family
"Weight of Honor" Film Discussion and Panel (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78642 78642-20077958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

“The Weight of Honor” is the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the lives of families caring for their
catastrophically wounded returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of five years, the film follows the arc of what
happens when some of America's best and strongest volunteer to protect our nation, but return home physically and emotionally
broken and disillusioned. What happens when they return is not only a personal journey but also that of their family caregivers who
have no training other than the love for their wounded. Our military does not prepare families for the return of a wounded warrior.
“The Weight of Honor” tells their stories of strength, exhaustion, conflict, and even humor as they chart a course through the
unknown

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:27:11 -0500 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Weight of Honor Movie Poster
Diversity 101 (November 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75311 75311-19432417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the Zoom Meeting or the content of the presentation, please contact Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:

- Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
- Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
- Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:50:04 -0400 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the Law Quad
Teaching for Equity and Inclusion as an International GSI (November 12, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79261 79261-20243269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In this session for international graduate student instructors (GSIs), consultants from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at U-M (CRLT) will facilitate a structured conversation about teaching for inclusion and equity as an international GSI. We will share strategies to establish trust and authority with our students, reflect on expectations we have of how our classrooms will run, and discuss instructional practices we can adopt to support the learning of all students in diverse learning environments (online and onsite) at U-M.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/mnkzG.
A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:37 -0500 2020-11-12T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Veterans Week: DEI in the military (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78620 78620-20075974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Sponsored by the University of Michigan, Dearborn - Student Veterans of America chapter!
The diversity, equality, and inclusion lecture/discussion will focus on racial equality in the military and the induction of the first all African American Marine unit, the Montford Point Marines. The Montford Point Marines were established in 1942, their valor and performance at Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Chosen Reservoir, Vietnam, and more paved the way for our present integrated armed forces. The keynote speaker of the lecture will be retired Sergeant Major Eugene Owens form the Montford Point Marines Detachment of the Marine Corps League. We will discuss racial issues in the military of the past and present.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:15:27 -0400 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Workshop / Seminar Montford Point Marine recruits at parade rest - 1943
Veterans Week - the Diversity of the Military (November 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68377 68377-20075967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

What does it mean to serve along people of every race, gender, creed, religion, place of origin? How does military service take people from different backgrounds and create an effective unit? Unknown to many, the United States Military is the most diverse employer in the US. It has constantly lead the way in expanding its meaning of servicemember and pushed racial, gender and sexual orientation boundaries decades before the civilian workplace. Come and hear from our panel about life in the military, what it can teach us about a diverse civilian culture and how veterans/military increase our own DIE initiatives.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:52:29 -0400 2020-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Diversity of the Miltiary
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71756 71756-20178449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Join us as Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. explores the themes of his research captured in his latest book, From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work. His extensive interviews with the low-income African American community in Ypsilanti bring new insights about perceptions of and preparation for the future of work outside of the major cities and middle to upper-class society.

This event will include a brief interview with Dr. Young conducted by Dr. Earl Lewis (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion with Dr. H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan) and Derrick Jackson (Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County), moderated by Dr. Carla O'Connor (University of Michigan).

Dr. Young is the Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy [by courtesy] at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy & Director of the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan.

Dr. Shaefer is the the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan.

Derrick Jackson, MSW, is the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Director of Community Engagement.

Dr. O'Connor is the Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Education, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Director, Wolverine Pathways.

We encourage you to purchase a copy of the book if interested through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Solutions, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Ann Arbor YMCA.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:07:53 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans, and the World of Work. Featuring Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr.
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79145 79145-20217711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dr. Alford Young, Jr. (Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy [by courtesy], University of Michigan) will explore his research captured in his latest book From the Edge of the Ghetto on the low-income African American community of Ypsilanti. This event will include a brief interview with Dr. Young followed by a panel discussion.

The event will cover topics such as: what the future of work and the African American experience looks like outside of large cities; how minorities and those in poverty perceive their employment opportunities; how Michigan communities are preparing for a shifting economy; the gender divide in the working class: who’s better prepared to cope in the short term; and how to think beyond the work ethic as solely personal responsibility and dedication.

Panelists:

Dr. H. Luke Shaefer, *Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Work & Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan*

Derrick Jackson, *Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office*

Moderator:

Dr. Carla O'Connor, *Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Education, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Director, Wolverine Pathways*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:49:38 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual City on the Edge event flyer
Transgender Day of Remembrance with Lilianna Reyes & Jeynce Poindexter (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79128 79128-20209866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We invite you to this tri-campus collaboration between UM-Flint, UM-Dearborn, and UM-Ann Arbor at our annual observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) to observe the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. We will have brief student performances to uplift and honor our trans kin lost too soon. Joining us virtually from Detroit, MI are guests Lilianna Reyes (she/her) and Jeynce Poindexter (she/her) who will conclude the event with calls to action.

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Sneak Peek: The Future of German Studies: Teaching, Scholarship, Activism (November 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79005 79005-20170601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Our aim is to interest current undergraduates across the country in graduate-level study of German language, culture and politics by offering them a taste of grad school. The event will be held via zoom Friday and Saturday, November 13-14, 2020. To facilitate students’ application process, we’ll also provide ‘nuts and bolts’ training for assembling grad school applications to any humanities program. Students will meet current graduate students, learn the basics of the application process, and attend two faculty-led seminars - one on DEI initiatives and the other on the American presidential election from a German perspective. The events will be as follow:

Friday, November 13, 11am-12:20pm
“Why graduate studies in German?”

Friday, November 13, 1:30-2:50pm
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Toward a More Just German Studies for the 21st Century” (Professor Kristin Dickinson)

Friday, November 13, 3-4:20pm
“Reading the American Election through the German Lens” (Professor Peter McIsaac)

Saturday, November 14, 11am-12:20pm
“Nuts and Bolts: How do I apply to graduate school?”

Please register via the following link: https://forms.gle/Wm1GY6Doia2kpAHB6.

Please note that the event is not solely intended for German majors, but rather all students with an interest in German literature, history, film, philosophy, contemporary culture, museum studies, and politics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:07:34 -0500 2020-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T16:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar
LEAD: No Justice, No Peace: Anti-Racist Activism in Higher Education (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79148 79148-20217702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and social justice initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address how higher education administrators, faculty, and staff can work in collective action with student activists toward racial equity. In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic and highly-publicized uprisings against racism, there has been a significant upsurge in student activism advocating for a more inclusive and equitable environment. How can higher education professionals support this just cause and leverage the passion and experiences of student activists.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Speakers
J’Taime Lyons
J’Taime Lyons is a dual degree M.B.A./M.P.P. student at the University of Michigan from Rocky Mount, NC. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Truman Scholarship, and has devoted her life to closing the opportunity gap and connecting schools with their communities. She is currently an intern at Durham’s Children Initiative (DCI),working to ensure that racial equity is centered within its Early Childhood Action Plan for all children birth to eight years old. At the University of Michigan, she currently serves as the Student Affairs Committee chair for the Ford School of Public Policy, Vice President of Ally Engagement for the Black Business Student Association, and is a Business + Impact (B + I) Ambassador at Ross School of Business.
Charles H.F. Davis III
Charles H.F. Davis III is a third-generation educator committed to the lives, love, and liberation of everyday Black people. As an assistant professor of higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, Dr. Davis’ research and teaching broadly examine issues of power, systemic oppression, and organized resistance in college and its social contexts. His current ethnographic project interrogates how law enforcement approaches to campus safety and security, as enforced by campus police, are interconnected with logics of state surveillance, control, and carceral punishment. Dr. Davis is especially interested in the role borderless organizing and resource mobilization efforts undertaken by students and local communities are working toward abolition and reimagining public safety. He is the founder and director of the Scholars for Black Lives collective and considers Black Lives Matter Los Angeles his primary political home.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/BoRe8.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:15:36 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham 101: Navigating Your Identity in Graduate School (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78086 78086-19961509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will help us delve into the intersections of our multiple identities and the implications they have for us in the academic, professional, and personal world.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/3q3Z7.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:15:59 -0400 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
First Year, First Vote, Now What? (November 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79046 79046-20178463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you a first year wolverine? Was this election your first time voting? Spend time connecting with fellow first year students to debrief about the election and your voting experience, while identifying pathways for future community and civic engagement.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:57:10 -0400 2020-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar people holding vote signs on the bottom with event details on top
PSA Charity Dance Class for the Child Foundation (November 13, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79264 79264-20256950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Persian Student Association

On November 13, the undergraduate Persian Student Association will be having a fundraiser Persian dance class for our charity of the year, Bonyad Koodak (The Child Foundation), in order to support them in their mission to provide virtual education to children living in rural regions throughout Iran.

Our choreography chair, Nikki Farahanchi, will be teaching a fun, virtual, gender-inclusive, dance class showcasing choreography from different ethnicities in Iran! Please share this flyer and sign up form with as many people as possible, so we can fundraise as much as we can for this wonderful organization!

When: November 13, from 8-9 pm
Where: Zoom!
Donations: minimum $5, please venmo @Michigan_PSA
Sign up here! https://cutt.ly/psafundraiser
Learn more about Bonyad Kodak at their website: https://www.childfoundation.org/

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:35:52 -0500 2020-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Persian Student Association Class / Instruction Charity Dance Class Flyer
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20319909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
Worthy Bodies: Trans* Body Positivity Workshop (November 16, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79122 79122-20209859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register at bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

In this workshop, we'll be talking about things like makeup, clothes, and accessories and how those can affirm one's identity, while acknowledging the barriers that prevent some in the community from presenting their most authentic self.
If you can, wear an article of clothing, accessory, or outfit that validates your identity and get a chance to tell its story! This will be an affirming and celebratory space for however you present, no matter your identity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:31:22 -0500 2020-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar [ID: There are leaves along the top of the picture in blue, white, and pink, representing the trans flag colors. In the middle, there is the title of the workshop "Worthy Bodies: Trans Body Positivity Workshop" on Nov. 16th, 5:30-7:00 pm (all in yellow font), followed by the registration link in pink font. This event is open to the public and times are in EST. At the bottom, there's the Spectrum Center logo and Transgender Awareness Week 2020. All on a dark blue background.]
Implicit Bias (November 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75310 75310-19432415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.


In this session, participants will learn to:

- Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
- Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
- Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
- Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
- Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

- Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:44:55 -0400 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual University of Michigan Law Quad
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20184349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda: Moving Beyond Personal Failure and Actively Cultivating a More Equitable Academy (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78717 78717-20109380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Systems of higher education in the United States create differential advantage and disadvantage for the people who work and learn in them. When individuals move through these systems—as administrators, instructors, or learners—they make choices to participate in the perpetuation or the disruption of these inequities. While some perpetuation of inequity can be attributed to ignorance, it is often true that individuals who do understand the harmful impacts of unjust behavior, processes, and structures often fail to address them. This session centers around an embodied case study depicting one man’s meditation on a personal failure and the choices he made afterward that defined his path as an educator. Through session activities, participants will reflect on what failures of this kind indicate about the educational environments in which they occur and how such reflection might prime them to reshape the spaces in which they have responsibilities.
In this session, participants will:

Reflect on their personal failures to act for justice.
Consider how their lived relationship to social inequities within and outside of their educational environment shape their willingness and ability to act.
Explore the tension between risk and responsibility when disrupting the status quo.
Practice identifying opportunities for proactive justice work in their spheres of influence in the academy.

This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/NxVlB.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:48 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
STEM in Color Inclusive Leadership Virtual Symposium (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79379 79379-20288504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

During this virtual fireside chat, Morgan DeBaun will share her entrepreneurial journey to becoming the founder of Blavity, the roadblocks she’s faced along the way, and some insights she’s gained on how to work smarter for your business while empowering yourself, your colleagues, and your employees to speak up, stand out and implement meaningful change. The audience will also have the opportunity to join in on the conversation and ask questions before and throughout the event. Registration is required.

About the Speaker:
Since launching Blavity Inc. in 2014, Morgan has led the company to successfully acquire Travel Noire, a travel platform for Black millennials and Shadow And Act, a Black entertainment news site. Under her leadership, Blavity has launched several leading consumer summits including Summit 21 for Black women creators and Bay Area’s AfroTech, the largest tech conference for Black innovators and founders. While scaling the company, Morgan has raised $11 million from top Silicon Valley venture firms such as GV and Comcast. Morgan is a passionate small business advocate and advises early stage entrepreneurs on how to scale their business in her Signature WorkSmart Advising program.

Register at: https://www.lsi.umich.edu/events/2020-11/stem-color-inclusive-leadership-virtual-symposium

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:03:54 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion STEM In Color Inclusive Leadership Symposium
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
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Transgender Awareness Week Keynote Speaker: Kama La Mackerel (November 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79119 79119-20209856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
This year, we are inviting Kama La Mackerel​, a multiracial trans artist based in Montreal, QB. Their work is grounded in the exploration of justice, love, healing, decoloniality and self- and collective-empowerment. Kama’s artistic practice spans across textile, visual, poetic, digital, and performative work; their work is at once narratological and theoretical, at once personal and political. They will be highlighting their most recent work, ZOM-FAM.
Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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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Performance Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:19:05 -0500 2020-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Performance [ID: There are blue, white, and pink leaves representing the trans flag colors on the top left corner. The image has a photo of Kama smiling while wearing a yellow top and yellow dangling earrings. There is Kama's bio on the graphic that can also be found at lamackerel.net or at @KamaLaMackerel on Instagram. The event is on Nov. 19th at 6:00 pm EST and registrations are at bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events. The bottom of the image has the Spectrum Center logo and Transgender Awareness Week 2020.]
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Trans*/Non-Binary CenterSpace Drop-In (November 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79121 79121-20209857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register at bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

The Trans/NonBinary/Agender/Genderqueer CenterSpace provides a monthly drop-in space for different communities within queer life at the University of Michigan. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. There will be a CenterSpace host each evening who identifies within the community being centered. The host will greet participants, guide the conversation, answer any questions, and gather/share resources.

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Meeting Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:24:55 -0500 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Meeting [ID: There are blue, white, and pink leaves across the top, left, and right to the image. In the middle, one can read Trans*/Non-Binary CenterSpace Drop-In: Peer-to-peer support group." taking place on Nov. 20th at 6:00 pm EST. At the bottom of the image are the Spectrum Center logo and Transgender Awareness Week 2020 written out.]
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
A Data Orientation to Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000 (December 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79404 79404-20296438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This past September, we had the opportunity to learn how these recently-released data arrived to ICPSR. Now it is time for an introduction to the data collection itself! Principal Investigator Sherrie Kossoudji will describe these data (Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000), which include every single person admitted as an immigrant 1972-2000, and give insights into the types of analyses that might be undertaken. Could you be the first to publish using these data?

Dr. Sherrie A. Kossoudji is presently an associate professor in the School of Social Work and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Economics. Her principal research area is immigration. She has written numerous articles on the legal status of immigrant workers in the United States and the incentives to cross the border illegally. Much of her work attempts to discern the link between legal status in the United States and economic outcomes. She has written on wealth disparities for immigrants--in particular, on homeownership as assets for immigrants. Her latest immigration work focuses on new immigrant children to the United States, particularly adopted orphans from abroad, and on the economic incentives and consequences of citizenship for immigrants to the United States. Recently, she has examined markets for body parts around the world. In particular, markets for sperm and ova are useful to identify social constructions of desirability and the price associated with them. She has also written on numerous labor and wealth issues and gendered outcomes. Much of her work focuses on gendered differences in economic outcomes for those at the margins of society. Dr. Kossoudji speaks publicly around the world about immigration, citizenship, and life sciences and reproduction.

Did you miss the story of the curation of these data? Listen to it here on ICPSR's YouTube Channel: http://myumi.ch/9o4qW

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Presentation Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:35:01 -0500 2020-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of Immigration data webinar ICPSR December 2020
LEAD: Decentering Whiteness in the Academy (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79481 79481-20337589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This LEAD conversation will address how administrators, faculty, and staff can decenter whiteness at an institutional level and create a sense of belonging for all. The racial inequities exposed by COVID-19 paired with a national uprising against systemic racism has led colleges and universities nationwide to prioritize anti-racist teaching. While these efforts are appreciated and long overdue, higher education institutions need to continue to examine how their policies and pedagogies have perpetuated racism and inequities and prohibited an inclusive learning environment for marginalized students. How can we demonstrate that actions to dismantle differential advantages—such as diversifying the curriculum, implementing holistic admissions practices, and recruiting and promoting people of color—are best for higher education institutions overall?
Speakers
Stephanie Rowley is Provost, Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Teachers College. Prior to joining Teachers College, she served in several key leadership positions at the University of Michigan, including Associate Chair and Interim Chair of the Psychology Department, Chair of the Combined Program of Education and Psychology, and Associate Vice President for Research for Social Science, Arts, and Humanities. In these roles, she was successful in advancing research and teaching support for faculty, advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening graduate student life and development. She earned her B.A. (1992) from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. (1997) in developmental psychology from the University of Virginia. She began her career as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina in 1997, and in 2000 she joined the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology. In her research, she focuses on the influence of race- and gender-related attitudes and beliefs on the development of children’s academic self-concept with a strong emphasis on parents’ roles in the development of these attitudes.
Elizabeth Cole is Professor of Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Personality Psychology and taught at Northeastern University before joining U-M in 2000. Her research has been published in journals in psychology and women’s studies, including American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. She is coauthor (with Andrea Press) of Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women (University of Chicago Press, 1999). She is a past president and a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association Division 9), and a consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly. She served as the associate dean for social sciences and the interim dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and is currently the Associate Chair for Diversity Initiatives in the Department of Psychology. Her scholarship applies feminist theory on intersectionality to social science research on race, gender, and social justice. Her current project aims to complicate current debates on free speech on college campuses by considering the issue through the lens of feminist psychology.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/AxROe.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:57:30 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
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
COVID-19: A WeListen Staff Discussion (December 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79500 79500-20343472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLDecember20

We will discuss COVID-19 as the global pandemic impacts the lives and livelihood of people across the world. Our discussion will focus on policy, both implemented and proposed, at the federal and state level and small-group time will be dedicated to a deep dive into the day-to-day implications of COVID-19.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:34:22 -0500 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen December 2020
Mass Incarceration: A WeListen Staff Discussion (January 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79520 79520-20349388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members, and is part of the 'Just Community: A Reading and Action Program' series within LSA DEI.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLJanuary21

We will discuss Mass Incarceration in the United States-it's history and present day impact. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:11:04 -0500 2021-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen January 2021
Wendell Pierce Stars in Some Old Black Man (January 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80493 80493-20730267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with bold probity rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

In the play, Calvin Jones (Wendell Pierce), a hip, coolly intellectual African-American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing, but doggedly independent, father, Donald Jones (Charlie Robinson), from Greenwald, MS into his Harlem penthouse. The play begins with an argument over what to eat for breakfast, then turns into a generational clash over race, opportunity, and a decision that Calvin made years ago. Donald’s grumpiness is peppered with disturbing outbursts, revealing bits of his past, informed by growing up Black and poor in the South.

Themes of social justice themes and intergenerational conflict make Some Old Black Man a fitting title for our times, when the reality of more togetherness unveils some of the tensions underlying even the closest of relationships.

The play was filmed in Detroit after the creative team quarantined together during rehearsals in Ann Arbor under strict safety protocols.

After the digital premiere, join the creative team for a live talkback. Production will be available on demand through Monday, January 18.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:33:22 -0500 2021-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-15T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Livestream / Virtual Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
Wendell Pierce Stars in Some Old Black Man (January 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80493 80493-20730268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with bold probity rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

In the play, Calvin Jones (Wendell Pierce), a hip, coolly intellectual African-American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing, but doggedly independent, father, Donald Jones (Charlie Robinson), from Greenwald, MS into his Harlem penthouse. The play begins with an argument over what to eat for breakfast, then turns into a generational clash over race, opportunity, and a decision that Calvin made years ago. Donald’s grumpiness is peppered with disturbing outbursts, revealing bits of his past, informed by growing up Black and poor in the South.

Themes of social justice themes and intergenerational conflict make Some Old Black Man a fitting title for our times, when the reality of more togetherness unveils some of the tensions underlying even the closest of relationships.

The play was filmed in Detroit after the creative team quarantined together during rehearsals in Ann Arbor under strict safety protocols.

After the digital premiere, join the creative team for a live talkback. Production will be available on demand through Monday, January 18.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:33:22 -0500 2021-01-16T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-16T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Livestream / Virtual Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
Wendell Pierce Stars in Some Old Black Man (January 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80493 80493-20730269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with bold probity rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

In the play, Calvin Jones (Wendell Pierce), a hip, coolly intellectual African-American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing, but doggedly independent, father, Donald Jones (Charlie Robinson), from Greenwald, MS into his Harlem penthouse. The play begins with an argument over what to eat for breakfast, then turns into a generational clash over race, opportunity, and a decision that Calvin made years ago. Donald’s grumpiness is peppered with disturbing outbursts, revealing bits of his past, informed by growing up Black and poor in the South.

Themes of social justice themes and intergenerational conflict make Some Old Black Man a fitting title for our times, when the reality of more togetherness unveils some of the tensions underlying even the closest of relationships.

The play was filmed in Detroit after the creative team quarantined together during rehearsals in Ann Arbor under strict safety protocols.

After the digital premiere, join the creative team for a live talkback. Production will be available on demand through Monday, January 18.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:33:22 -0500 2021-01-17T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-17T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Livestream / Virtual Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Wendell Pierce Stars in Some Old Black Man (January 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80493 80493-20730271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with bold probity rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

In the play, Calvin Jones (Wendell Pierce), a hip, coolly intellectual African-American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing, but doggedly independent, father, Donald Jones (Charlie Robinson), from Greenwald, MS into his Harlem penthouse. The play begins with an argument over what to eat for breakfast, then turns into a generational clash over race, opportunity, and a decision that Calvin made years ago. Donald’s grumpiness is peppered with disturbing outbursts, revealing bits of his past, informed by growing up Black and poor in the South.

Themes of social justice themes and intergenerational conflict make Some Old Black Man a fitting title for our times, when the reality of more togetherness unveils some of the tensions underlying even the closest of relationships.

The play was filmed in Detroit after the creative team quarantined together during rehearsals in Ann Arbor under strict safety protocols.

After the digital premiere, join the creative team for a live talkback. Production will be available on demand through Monday, January 18.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:33:22 -0500 2021-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Livestream / Virtual Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote (January 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79757 79757-20484063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Bodies represent the sites of socially constructed differences and power relations. As such, the personal is political, and bodies are subject to political interpretations. Body politics based on racial (and/or ethnic) ascriptions (along with other intersecting elements such as sex, gender, sexuality, age, social class, ability, etc.) have adversely affected the overall health and wellness of bodies of Color in general, and Black bodies in particular - impacting their abilities, opportunities, access (inclusion/exclusion), care/treatment, and the overall nature of their lived experiences. Consequently, racialed body politics have contributed to an array of health disparities being more pronounced in communities of Color. However, movement offers a variety of health benefits and is therefore, a source of empowerment for racially politicized bodies.

This event will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Monique Butler, U-M Kinesiology alumna and Chief Medical Officer for HCA Healthcare North Florida Division. She will address the theme "Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment."

This event is sponsored by the U-M Health Sciences units and hosted by the School of Kinesiology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:27:06 -0500 2021-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote - Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment - with Dr. Monique Butler, MD
Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation (January 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80466 80466-20724373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Public monuments, public spaces, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans; Earl Lewis, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions; and Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Culture, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.

From the speakers' bios:

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies of the Vietnam War. She is at work on her next book, Blunt Instruments: A short field guide to a long history of everyday racist infrastructure in the United States. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of the BP Oil Spill.  Under Landrieu's leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.

In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his New York Times best-selling book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism, and tackles the broader history of slavery, race relations, and institutional inequalities that still plague America.

He recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race, equity, economic opportunity and violence. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Noted social historian, award-winning author, and educational leader, Earl Lewis, is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. Also the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and public policy, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18), one of the premier philanthropies supporting the arts, humanities, and higher education. At Michigan, Lewis and colleagues in the center are addressing four core areas of social concern: diversity and race, slavery and its aftermath, water and security, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. Prior to returning to Michigan and before leading the Mellon Foundation, he served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Lewis was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor), he served Michigan as Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004).

As a scholar and leader in higher education and philanthropy, he has examined and addressed critical questions for our society including the role of race in American history, diversity, equity and inclusion, graduate education, humanities scholarship, and universities and their larger communities. A frequent lecturer, he has authored or edited nine books, scores of essays, articles and comments, and along with Robin D.G. Kelley served as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans. He currently partners with Nancy Cantor in editing the Our Compelling Interests book series. That effort, published in partnership with Princeton University Press, investigates how diversity pairs with democracy to enhance the likelihood of shared prosperity. A member of numerous boards of directors or trustees, he was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents at Concordia College-Moorhead, vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Christina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and co-director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs, including most recently Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.  

This event is a collaboration of UMMA, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester.

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Other Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:44 -0500 2021-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T14:20:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond (January 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79927 79927-20515559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Presents:

Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond
January 18, 2021
2-3pm EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93313003054

Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, is a youth activist from Flint, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about Flint's ongoing water crisis and fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country. Mari is currently 13 years old. At the age of 8 she wrote a letter to President Barack Obama challenging him to visit Flint to see the crisis firsthand. The letter was published in the Los Angeles Times and confronted the entire country with the reality faced by victims of state negligence.

https://www.maricopeny.com/

Event Contact Info
Anna Massey
7347639989
abeattie@umich.edu
http://isr.umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:12:02 -0500 2021-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual event flyer
MLK Day Circle of Unity (January 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80484 80484-20728302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

The Michigan Community Scholars Program will celebrate MLK and his legacy with the community at our 15th Annual Circle of Unity. Join hundreds of University and community participants via Zoom for this virtual event celebrating the life of Dr. King and his legacy of racial justice, nonviolence, and unity. All are welcome: students, staff, faculty, families, and children, as the audience is encouraged to participate as we honor Martin Luther King Jr. through song, dance, and spoken word. We will be joined by local musician favorites, Joe Reilly and Julie Beutel, in addition to performances by student musicians and spoken word artists. The event will also be streamed live to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/umichmcsp/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:10:47 -0500 2021-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Livestream / Virtual Flier for event, with a photograph of a multiracial group of students clustered around a large image of Martin Luther King.
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
LEAD: Anti-Racism Education in Higher Ed (January 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80431 80431-20721726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead or support DEI and social justice initiatives. Since the racial justice movements last summer, many universities are grappling with how to educate faculty, staff, and students on anti-racism. This LEAD conversation will explore some of the options and opportunities to facilitate learning that leads to a more inclusive environment. We will discuss anti-racist curricula, the possibility of mandatory professional development training, and how to engage high level administrators and tenured faculty. Featured guests will discuss lessons learned from past attempts, best practices, and strategies for moving forward.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
SPEAKERS
Angela D. Dillard
Angela D. Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies in the Residential College, and Professor of History. She is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in history and political theory with a Ph.D. in American studies, from the U-M’s Department of American Culture. She specializes in American and African-American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion and politics—on both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum. As the former associate dean for undergraduate education for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts she chaired the 2015-2016 review of LSA’s Race and Ethnicity requirement, and remains active in various campus initiatives to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. She is also the co-author, with Whitney Peoples, of “5 Lessons from a Race-and-Ethnicity Requirement,” which appeared in the September 2, 2020 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Whitney Peoples
Whitney Peoples serves as a Director of Educational Development & Assessment Services and Coordinator of DEI Initiatives & Critical Race Pedagogies at U-M’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). At CRLT, Dr. Peoples’ work focuses on anti-racist and critical race pedagogies as well inclusive teaching and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom. Beyond CRLT, she has over fifteen years experience in feminist and critical race research, activism, and teaching, and holds a Ph.D. in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University. Her research and writing outside of faculty development primarily concerns the intersections of race, gender, health, and popular culture. Most recently her work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and in the a co-edited volume Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations|Theory|Practice|Critique.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/XeZv0.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:15:27 -0500 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-23T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-24T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
A Discussion on Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized (January 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81183 81183-20872041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

The Sikh Students Association at the University of Michigan is hosting an open conversation and discussion led by Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, author of Fauja Singh Keeps Going and American educator, writer, and activist for Religion News Service. He is also an accomplished professor with graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he speaks regularly on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

We will be discussing the topic of Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized. Although we will be focusing on representation as it pertains to Sikhi, we definitely want to invite anyone that is interested in the topics of Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, etc.! This event is free and open to attendees of all religions, faiths, and backgrounds.

Any questions/comments can be directed to our co-chairs! We hope to see you there!

Jasnoor Singh: 248-912-5259 (jasnoors@umich.edu)
Ramneet Chauhan: 989-627-1288 (ramneetc@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:07:49 -0500 2021-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Sikh Student Association Lecture / Discussion Flyer for discussion with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Black Girl M[issing]: The Erasure and Reimagination of Black Girls’ Activism (January 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80482 80482-20728301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here to receive the Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/black-girl-missing-the-erasure-and-reimagination-of-black-girls-activism

Utilizing individual and collective experiences, the presenters will trace the legacy of Black women and girls’ activism to promote racial justice in schools, communities, and in higher education. Mirroring the principle of Sankofa, we will draw from the untold stories of our ancestors and elders to narrate our social justice journeys. We will provide best practices for how to support Black girls’ engagement in future revolutionary efforts.

Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at U of M’s School of Public Health. Dr. Anderson is the developer and director of the EMBRace (Engaging, Managing, and Bonding through Race) intervention and loves to translate her work for a variety of audiences, particularly those whom she serves in the community, via blogs, video, and literary articles. Finally, Dr. Anderson was born in, raised for, and returned to Detroit and is becoming increasingly addicted to cake pops.

Dr. Natasha Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and with Transforming Research into Action to Improve Lives of Students (TRAILS) in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on Black adolescents’ understanding of and responses to racism (individual, interpersonal, and structural).

Dr. Nkemka Anyiwo is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with Racial Empowerment Collaborative. She is also affiliated with the EMBRace Lab at the University of Michigan. Her work examines the sociocultural factors that promote the healing and sociopolitical development of Black youth.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:43:14 -0500 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Community Engaged Research: Reflections on MLK’s Legacy (January 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79928 79928-20515560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Presents:

Community Engaged Research: Reflections on MLK’s Legacy
January 27, 2021
2-3pm EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91449183213

Breanca Merritt is a Diversity Scholar at the University of Michigan and founding director of the Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy (CRISP) and clinical assistant professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. In this role, she and her team produce and disseminate research to lay audiences about complex social issues and inequitable outcomes through policy briefs and multidisciplinary research experiences for students with community organizations. Dr. Merritt’s work aims to inform both local stakeholders and academic audiences. Her applied, community-engaged research analyzes local trends and evaluates programs related to social service provision, equitable access and experiences, and systemic sources of poverty. Her academic work assesses how legislation and organizational practices contribute to disparate outcomes, especially for racial/ethnic minorities. Topics addressed by these projects include housing and homelessness, family financial stability, and criminal justice, among others. https://www.in.gov/fssa/thehub/4602.htm

Event Contact Info
Anna Massey
7347639989
abeattie@umich.edu
http://isr.umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:56:17 -0500 2021-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual event flyer
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Anti-Racist Community Engagement Workshop (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79694 79694-20456290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This interactive virtual workshop will interrogate the role white supremacy often plays in university community engagement experiences and will explore anti-racist approaches to our work in and with communities. The workshop is designed for students with prior knowledge or experience with community engagement who are interested in learning more about how to practice anti-racism in their engaged course, service, project, or research.
Workshop content will build on basic concepts of race, racism, social identity, power, and privilege. If you’re newer to those concepts and how they connect to community engagement, we encourage you to complete modules one and two of the Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change MOOC and/or attend our Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities workshop before signing up for this offering. You may also want to read Tania Mitchell’s (2008)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:15:37 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
The Digital Underground: Theory+Practice (January 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80728 80728-20777544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98985906314.

You are invited to the new DSI’s research group, “The Digital Underground: Theory+Practice” (DIG-undr). "DIG-undr" is a project of the Tangent Lab, an open-ended research collective founded by Imani Cooper Mkandawire (DSI+Comparative Literature) and Irina Aristarkhova (DSI+Stamps School) to imagine and engender inclusive machines. Our group seeks to mine affinities and tensions between digital theory and various forms of practice (industry, art, design, activism), as well as the academy and its “outside” (the publics, the users, digital infrastructure).

The group will meet once a month in January, February, March and April 2021. This is an open research group and our first meeting will be on January 28, 2021, 2-4 pm on Zoom. At this first meeting we will discuss pressing research challenges related to theory+practice configurations, unique intellectual community around theory+practice collaborations at the DSI, and brainstorm a collective project. In Winter 2021, we are particularly interested in digital theory around AI, data science, machine learning, social robots, VR/AR and art, architecture, design and activism (democracy, racial justice, feminism, social change). Please see the poster attached herewith.

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Other Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:36:56 -0500 2021-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Other digitalug
King Talks (January 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80360 80360-20707779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham students will communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. This year’s MLK Symposium theme is: “Where do we go from here?”
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/BoW8l.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:15:33 -0500 2021-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Conversations on Europe. A Q&A with Sheri Hagen, director of At Second Glance (January 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80121 80121-20564750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w. Those who register will receive the link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)*.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:22:15 -0500 2021-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheri Hagen
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Race-Consciousness Understandings and Interventions to Demolish Racism for Black, Indigenous, Graduate Level Students of Color (February 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80128 80128-20566712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What do we need to improve the experiences of graduate Black, Indigenous, Students of Color (BISOC)? How do we retain these marginalized and minoritized students and faculty? This session will focus on making race-conscious mentoring and programming a critical component of graduate education, cultivating cultural competence in faculty, requiring departments to recognize the time-intensive nature of mentoring and compensating it properly, establishing unique programs specifically for graduate-level BISOC, and supporting proposal writing for fellowships and external resources from funding agencies and foundations.
Despite long-standing research on the role underrepresented graduate students play in advancing innovative scholarship, diversity, and equity, many universities struggle with recruitment and retention, particularly the challenges associated with retaining underrepresented faculty members, who are critical for the retention of graduate students of color. The historical forces that have shaped differential access to educational, social, political, employment, and other resources and opportunities to advance, are racialized, multifactorial, and complex, but their impact is clear. The result of an individualistic, ultracompetitive, lily-White, mostly heterosexual, militaristically grounded, middle- to upper-class, nationalist, able-bodied, biased institutional culture, leaves BISOC with all types of bruising and even some permanent bruises.
This talk brings together more than ten years of research on high-achieving BISOC and faculty within and beyond STEM fields. The presenter will provide race-conscious answers to the following questions: How do some graduate BISOC manage to survive brutal academic climates, and what does it cost? Why do schools continue to recruit BISOC (and faculty) into disciplines whose climate regularly drives them away?
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/O4jrq.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:15:35 -0500 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force community forum (February 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81617 81617-20933525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force — one of several anti-racism initiatives the university announced last fall — will host its first community forum from 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 9.

The event, which will take place virtually, will allow Ann Arbor campus faculty, staff, students, parents and Ann Arbor community members to share their experiences with campus policing and public safety, or join and listen.

Input from the forum will help identify what is going well and areas for improvement as it relates to fostering public safety and securing a campus environment that encourages academic excellence.

Those interested in speaking to their experience with overall public safety on campus, or with DPSS specifically, can do so by registering online. Community members can also share their input through a survey, which will be available until Feb. 15.

The survey results and the session input will be used to inform the task force’s preliminary findings, and a final report will be publicly presented at the end of April.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:35:02 -0500 2021-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Racial Justice & DEI Community Fireside Chat (February 4, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81240 81240-20877912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Please join us for an engaging dialogue with the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist II, Michigan State Representative Ranjeev Puri, U-M Professor Angela Ocampo, and Rackham Graduate School Assistant Dean & DEI Implementation Lead, Ethriam Brammer. Hear from this panel of experts and experienced professionals on how we can continue to advance toward racial justice and ways in which we can ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus here at the University of Michigan.

Link to Register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P9ts40nhTL-F3P1O32w8RA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:22:03 -0500 2021-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium Panelists
A Primer for Student Activists (February 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80502 80502-20730281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

What are the secrets for effective student activism? How do student activists leverage their experiences with activism on campus in their personal and professional lives, after graduation?

Join eight members of the Students of Color Coalition twenty years after their takeover of the Michigan Union tower on Feb. 6, 2000, a sit-in to protest the appropriation of Native American culture by elite campus club and “secret society” Michigamua. Their protest lasted for 37 days and impacted their lives during and after their careers at Michigan, while bringing greater awareness of systemic racism to campus and in the greater community. Come learn about their experiences during the strike and how campus activists shape meaningful lives and careers when their days of campus activism are behind them.

Panelists:
Farah Aquino (LSA 1999)
Brian Babb (LSA 2002, SSW 2008)
JuJuan Buford (LSA 2002)
Sabrina Dycus (LSA 2001)
Richard Nunn (LSA 2008)
Rupal Patel (LSA 2001, SPP 2004)
Malika N. Pryor (LSA 2000)
Joe Reilly (SNRE 2000, SSW 2013)

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Presentation Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:23:15 -0500 2021-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Presentation Image of a page from the New York Times, showing a protestor waving an American flag, overlaid with an image of a Native American man
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
The Case, the Space, and the Pace for Leading Inclusively (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80401 80401-20715671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

How many of us try to enter spaces we thought would be open to us that aren’t? How many of us block others from accessing spaces, from being included and from experiencing belonging? There are some who know and feel justified in our actions. Some of us don’t even know that we do this. Others of us know it, but do not know how to not do it. And there are more and more of us who do not yet know how, but are taking steps to learn.
The Leading Inclusively Lab combines diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts with complexity and adult development ideas and practices. However, rather than focus on particular frameworks, we are attempting to facilitate a lived experience of what it means to lead and be led inclusively. The program is a lab where we dare to connect and stumble across our differences.
In this experiential session, we will explore and experience some inclusive leadership competencies together. Three lessons from the Leading Inclusively Lab will be shared: (1) being grounded in and explicit about the case for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; (2) fostering a space that invites, recognizes, and respects all kinds of social identity and cultural differences; and (3) slowing down to love people publicly across their differences.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/DE9AZ.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:15:28 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 6, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Rackham North: Assessing Organizational Culture Through a DEI Lens (February 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80130 80130-20566714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as an applicant? Come learn about how to assess various aspects of an organization’s culture during the job and internship search process through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. During this session you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of navigating this process and practice actionable strategies to evaluate an organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKN7P.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:21 -0500 2021-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Follow the Leader: DEI Through C-Suite Activism (February 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81519 81519-20903745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ross School of Business

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:15 p.m. ET

FOLLOW THE LEADER: DEI THROUGH C-SUITE ACTIVISM

Sparking positive change can happen at every level of an organization, but leaders are uniquely positioned to initiate and accelerate change. Explore how these C-suite executives are taking the lead in shifting attitudes, behaviors, and policies surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizations. Learn what it means to be a social intrapreneur, gain knowledge on implementing inclusive company standards, and understand how leaders track and measure progress and accountability in their organizations.

MODERATOR // JERRY DAVIS // MICHIGAN ROSS
Professor of Business Administration

BRETT J. HART // UNITED AIRLINES
President

NICHOLE JORDAN // REMIX
Chief Operating Officer

MARK KENNEDY // UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
President

BRENDA PAK // BACKPAC SOCIAL ACTIVISM
Co-Founder

Business and Society web page: https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:56:01 -0500 2021-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ross School of Business Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
How to Flourish - Occupational Wellness (February 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80952 80952-20824883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Want to know how to choose a career that fulfills you?

During this session we will hear from Joelle Fundaro Randall, U-M Career Center(UCC) Assistant Director, as she guides us through UCC services you need to know AND tools to help you prep for the upcoming Career Fair.

To register, visit: https://myumi.ch/mnrwP

About 'How to Flourish':
Join Trotter Multicultural Center and the LEAD Scholars Program during the month of February to explore different dimensions of well-being. During the sessions, we will hear from campus partners as they share tools, resources, and knowledge that may support our well-being. We will also explore how to support wellbeing during the pandemic.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:35:51 -0500 2021-02-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar How to Flourish - Occupational Wellness
Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force community forum (February 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81617 81617-20935503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:00pm
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Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force — one of several anti-racism initiatives the university announced last fall — will host its first community forum from 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 9.

The event, which will take place virtually, will allow Ann Arbor campus faculty, staff, students, parents and Ann Arbor community members to share their experiences with campus policing and public safety, or join and listen.

Input from the forum will help identify what is going well and areas for improvement as it relates to fostering public safety and securing a campus environment that encourages academic excellence.

Those interested in speaking to their experience with overall public safety on campus, or with DPSS specifically, can do so by registering online. Community members can also share their input through a survey, which will be available until Feb. 15.

The survey results and the session input will be used to inform the task force’s preliminary findings, and a final report will be publicly presented at the end of April.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:35:02 -0500 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Livestream / Virtual
Alumni Against Antiblackness (A3) U-M (February 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80361 80361-20707780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

We introduce to you Alumni Against Antiblackness (A3) U-M, a multi-generational collective that leverages the experiences and voices of the Black alumni community to eliminate anti-Blackness and systemic racism at the University of Michigan. This Black alumni-driven initiative is committed to meaningful institutional equity and accountability and evolved from the spirit of the 2020 uprisings and America’s racial reckoning. During this event, we discuss A3 and nurture our investments in intergenerational community-building among Black students and alumni devoted to advancing anti-racist work within and beyond U-M.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/r8ozr.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:15:34 -0500 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Change It Up! © (February 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80362 80362-20707781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Change It Up!© brings bystander intervention skills to students for the purpose of building supportive and respectful communities. Change It Up! is based on a nationally recognized five-step bystander intervention model that develops students’ skills and confidence when intervening in situations that negatively impact campus climate. This workshop explores how students’ identities and experiences impact their interactions inside and outside of the classroom. Through interactive theater, students apply the five steps to real-life scenarios and have an opportunity to practice and discuss how they can leverage these skills within their campus communities.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jxoMd.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:15:28 -0500 2021-02-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting