Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Intercultural Responsiveness: 2ools and Tips (July 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41243 41243-9046666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

What is the benefit of attending?

Understand how to identify ways that implicit bias impacts us and gain options for dealing with them
Expand on the six patterns of the unconscious and discuss applicable work scenarios
Explore ways in which you can create a more inclusive environment
Learn methods to differentiate stereotypes from generalizations

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:20:00 -0400 2017-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Give it. Get it. Expect Respect (August 8, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41466 41466-9269830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

High quality relationships are born and sustained in an environment of respect. Respect provides the safety needed to grow trust in relationships. Where there is trust, individuals are free to step into their higher capacities, create together what has not existed before and are more inclined to willingly and graciously tent to the needs of others; be it their students, families or co-workers.


This presentation will renew the concept of respect for individuals and provide tools as to how to practice this everyday. The LARA method of effective listening and communication in conversations will be introduced.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:02:29 -0400 2017-08-08T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar
Change It Up! (August 9, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41430 41430-9223319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 9:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.

You will learn to:
- Identify self-awareness and social responsibility as qualities of strong personal
leadership
- Discuss your own and others’ identities and experiences
- Determine the various options for effectively intervening during a negative situation
- Develop your ability to assess which intervention option is based on the situation
- Discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their
campus communities
You will benefit by:
- Receiving high impact learning through educational theater
- Increasing your motivation to intervene in harmful situations
- Gaining ability to assess the effectiveness of multiple options for intervention
- Expanding your skills and confidence to successfully intervene in harmful
situations

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Jun 2017 07:44:03 -0400 2017-08-09T09:30:00-04:00 2017-08-09T11:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Lorch Hall
ON EQUAL TERMS: gender & solidarity (August 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42104 42104-9550248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

This is a FREE lunch time brown bag session, so please feel free to bring your lunch! Light refreshments will also be provided.

Susan Eisenberg, 2016 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist, returns to Ann Arbor to share her virtual exhibit titled On Equal Terms: Gender and Solidarity.

Her multimedia work chronicles the experiences of women working in trade and union positions and how they navigate sexism and discrimination in male-dominated workplaces. Featured in her virtual exhibit will include a 6 minute video of Stella, a life-sized composite figure of women working on a ladder. Her (Stella) work uniform is decorated by actual statements from women's harassment while on the job site. Susan's virtual exhibit will fully launch April 8, 2018 during the 40th anniversary of the federal affirmative action guidelines that opened construction jobs to women.

In addition to her work On Equal Terms, Susan has published poetry including Stanley's Girl and the 20th anniversary edition of We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (published through Cornell University Press).

For additional information about this exhibit, please visit Susan Eisenberg's website: http://susaneisenberg.com/Site/Bio.html

Register online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-equal-terms-gender-solidarity-registration-36902399069

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Other Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:56:26 -0400 2017-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T13:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Other Susan Eisenberg On Equal Terms Exhibit Flyer
MESA-Palooza (September 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41832 41832-9481088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join the Office of Multi-Ethnic Students Affairs as we host our inaugural Welcome Week event: MESA-Palooza! Discover on-campus resources about social justice, race & ethnicity, and leadership development while enjoying free snacks and music. Everyone is welcome!

MESA-Palooza is a great way to get involved with student orgs and departments on campus, and is a chance to meet new people and resources who can guide you on your college journey! First year students will enjoy a snacks by the fountain while having a chance to mingle.

MESA-Palooza takes place during Welcome Week, on Saturday, September 2 from 10am-2pm at North Ingalls Mall.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:50:29 -0400 2017-09-02T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Fair / Festival
Prison Birth Project Mass Meeting (September 11, 2017 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44186 44186-9892000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Birth Project

The Prison Birth Project will be hosting mass meetings for those who are interested in becoming involved. We are a group of students that support pregnant moms who are in prison. If you are interested in our project, we would love to talk to you. There will be many leadership opportunities opening soon, including director positions for the following teams:

Fundraising, Grant Writing, Community Outreach & Activism, Doula Support, Event Planning, and Social Networking & Multimedia

If you or somebody you know might be interested, please stop by! If you are unable to make our mass meeting times, you can email us at prisonbirthproject@umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:07:51 -0400 2017-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Birth Project Meeting Cookie Flyer
10 Blocks on the Camino Real (September 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42049 42049-9529955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace."

The University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play, song, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico, and inspired by German theater, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production, directed by David Kaplan, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings, who finds his sidekick, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums, rather than a blue guitar.

Established in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music, dance, mime, movement, and dialogue with a strong social, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.
CWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:


Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market
315 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI
Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm

The Diag
University of Michigan
Friday, September 15 at 12pm

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town
100 Rice Street, Ypsilanti MI
Saturday, September 16 at 11am

CMAP Detroit
2221 Carpenter, Detroit MI
Sunday, September 17 at 2pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

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Performance Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:40:17 -0400 2017-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Performance National Theatre of Ghana
All About the ADA and Accommodations! (September 13, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41290 41290-9085039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 1:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you are providing a service, it is important to know the best ways to communicate with and about individuals who may have disabilities. This session will help you to understand how to best serve individuals with disabilities, and will also give you some etiquette pointers that you can use in your everyday life. In addition, you will find useful information in this session if you are someone who needs an accommodation.

You will learn to:
- Recognize the impact of language as it pertains to the topic of disability
- Apply specific tips for communicating with individuals with disabilities, including
individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and individuals who are blind or have
low vision
- Determine when your own unintentional biases and assumptions concerning
individuals with disabilities are interfering with your ability to provide quality service
- Use appropriate questions in order to determine whether an individual with a
disability requires assistance or an accommodation
- Identify ways to better help individuals with disabilities, including those who are
accompanied by service animals
- Learn about providing and receiving accommodations
- And more!
You will benefit by:
- Recognizing how to appropriately and effectively engage with co-workers,
members of the public, and others who may have a disability
- Understanding how to best serve individuals with disabilities
- Learning some etiquette pointers to use in your everyday life
- Learn how to engage in the interactive process and request an accommodation

Presenter: Christina Kline, Disability Coordinator

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:20:37 -0400 2017-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Lost in Translation: Perception and Expression across Borders and Languages (September 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43657 43657-9829803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia. How does an American academic culture of expression interact with the increasingly international body of authors on campus? And, can non-normative writing paradigms find footing in American academia? Please join us for a scholarly conversation on multilingualism and the pleasures and difficulties of translation.

Participating Panelists:
Samer Ali (Near Eastern Studies)
Miranda Brown (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Ana Morcillo Pallares (Architecture)
Acrisio Pires (Linguistics)

Hors d'oeuvres to be served

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:51:14 -0400 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Prison Birth Project Mass Meeting (September 14, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44186 44186-9891998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Prison Birth Project

The Prison Birth Project will be hosting mass meetings for those who are interested in becoming involved. We are a group of students that support pregnant moms who are in prison. If you are interested in our project, we would love to talk to you. There will be many leadership opportunities opening soon, including director positions for the following teams:

Fundraising, Grant Writing, Community Outreach & Activism, Doula Support, Event Planning, and Social Networking & Multimedia

If you or somebody you know might be interested, please stop by! If you are unable to make our mass meeting times, you can email us at prisonbirthproject@umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:07:51 -0400 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Prison Birth Project Meeting Cookie Flyer
10 Blocks on the Camino Real (September 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42049 42049-9529956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace."

The University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play, song, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico, and inspired by German theater, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production, directed by David Kaplan, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings, who finds his sidekick, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums, rather than a blue guitar.

Established in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music, dance, mime, movement, and dialogue with a strong social, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.
CWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:


Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market
315 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI
Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm

The Diag
University of Michigan
Friday, September 15 at 12pm

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town
100 Rice Street, Ypsilanti MI
Saturday, September 16 at 11am

CMAP Detroit
2221 Carpenter, Detroit MI
Sunday, September 17 at 2pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

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Performance Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:40:17 -0400 2017-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Center for World Performance Studies Performance National Theatre of Ghana
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumni of the Michigan Daily (September 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43966 43966-9855276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UM Office of Student Publications

Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, will explore media issues in the digital age at a special program of panel discussions on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. The event, which begins at 1pm in Rackham Auditorium, is sponsored by the UM Office of Student Publications in conjunction with Wallace House (home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program & The Livingston Awards.)

Highlighted in this event will be: Eugene Robinson, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer for Commentary and the new Chair of the Pulitzer Board; Ann Marie Lipinski, winner of a Pulitzer in 1988 for Investigative Reporting; Lisa Pollak, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer for Feature Writing; Stephen Henderson, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer for Commentary; Neil Chase who directed coverage that won the 2017 Pulitzer for Breaking News; Amy Harmon, winner of two Pulitzers, in 2008 for Explanatory Reporting and in 2001 as part of a team; Dan Biddle, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting; and Rebecca Blumenstein, who led a team to a 2007 Pulitzer for International Reporting.

The award-winning journalists will be joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff members in discussions of newsroom diversity, sports in the social media era, and alternative career paths for young journalists. The sessions will also include a discussion of how the University’s student publications have evolved through the decades.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:11:54 -0400 2017-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UM Office of Student Publications Lecture / Discussion Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumni
Prison Birth Project Mass Meeting (September 15, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44186 44186-9891999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Prison Birth Project

The Prison Birth Project will be hosting mass meetings for those who are interested in becoming involved. We are a group of students that support pregnant moms who are in prison. If you are interested in our project, we would love to talk to you. There will be many leadership opportunities opening soon, including director positions for the following teams:

Fundraising, Grant Writing, Community Outreach & Activism, Doula Support, Event Planning, and Social Networking & Multimedia

If you or somebody you know might be interested, please stop by! If you are unable to make our mass meeting times, you can email us at prisonbirthproject@umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:07:51 -0400 2017-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Prison Birth Project Meeting Cookie Flyer
10 Blocks on the Camino Real (September 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42049 42049-9529957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace."

The University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play, song, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico, and inspired by German theater, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production, directed by David Kaplan, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings, who finds his sidekick, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums, rather than a blue guitar.

Established in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music, dance, mime, movement, and dialogue with a strong social, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.
CWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:


Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market
315 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI
Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm

The Diag
University of Michigan
Friday, September 15 at 12pm

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town
100 Rice Street, Ypsilanti MI
Saturday, September 16 at 11am

CMAP Detroit
2221 Carpenter, Detroit MI
Sunday, September 17 at 2pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

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Performance Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:40:17 -0400 2017-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Performance National Theatre of Ghana
10 Blocks on the Camino Real (September 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42049 42049-9529958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace."

The University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play, song, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico, and inspired by German theater, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production, directed by David Kaplan, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings, who finds his sidekick, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums, rather than a blue guitar.

Established in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music, dance, mime, movement, and dialogue with a strong social, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.
CWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:


Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market
315 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI
Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm

The Diag
University of Michigan
Friday, September 15 at 12pm

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town
100 Rice Street, Ypsilanti MI
Saturday, September 16 at 11am

CMAP Detroit
2221 Carpenter, Detroit MI
Sunday, September 17 at 2pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

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Performance Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:40:17 -0400 2017-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Performance National Theatre of Ghana
Keeping the Dream Alive Part I: DACA and the Law (September 18, 2017 11:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44682 44682-9966081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 11:50am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Professors Margo Schlanger and David Thronson will discuss the legal aspects and implications of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Co-sponsored by the Latino Law Students Association, the Michigan Immigration and Labor Law Assocation, and the Law School Educational Environment Committee.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:36:02 -0400 2017-09-18T11:50:00-04:00 2017-09-18T12:50:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Patient Centered Care Approach of Traditional Chinese Medicine (September 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43928 43928-9855167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by the College of Pharmacy's International Chinese Student Cohort.

What does patient centered care look like in other cultures? In Chinese culture this approach is focused on preventing illness using herbal medicines and various mind and body practices. Please join us as we learn from the PharmD international students from China, who will share about their culture’s approaches to caring for patients, and explore what it means for working with diverse populations in the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:30:27 -0400 2017-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (September 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9969043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
2017 ScholarPOWER Academic Awards Banquet (September 18, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42760 42760-9653816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The ScholarPOWER Academic Awards Banquet is an annual tribute to those students who have participated in various ScholarPOWER Initiatives and earned exemplary academic standing or shown substantially improved performance.

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Other Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:29:10 -0400 2017-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other ScholarPOWER Banquet Flyer
Disability Awareness & Etiquette Workshop (September 19, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41919 41919-9489370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

If you are providing a service, it is important to know the best ways to communicate with and about individuals who may have disabilities.

This session will help you to understand:
• How to best serve individuals with disabilities
• Give you some etiquette pointers that you can use in your everyday life.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:25:40 -0400 2017-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Disability Awareness
Women in Healthcare Leadership Panel (September 19, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43937 43937-9855177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 5:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by Industry Pharmacy Organization (IPhO).

The purpose of this panel is to create an open and honest forum to share best practices, ask questions, empower, and support the network of professional women. We welcome all students, faculty, and staff to join us for an evening of enlightening conversations! Please RSVP and consider answering the optional questions as we will heavily utilize your feedback to guide the event!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:02:38 -0400 2017-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
So Cool So Just Student Org Fair (September 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43324 43324-9751055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

Join us for the So Cool So Just Student Organization Fair!

Interested in getting involved in social change on or off campus? Come and visit the diag September 20th 11:00AM - 2PM to join a community of social change agents!

The So Cool So Just Student Organization Fair is sponsored by the School of Social Work, Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor, the Ginsburg Center, and CEAL as a space for students to learn, connect, and network with social justice organizations. Each year, more than thirty student organizations and departments gather to inform students about ways to get involved, share resources, and build community. Whether you’re interested in community-based action, educational justice through dialogue, service-learning, or policy, the So Cool So Just fair invites your participation.

**If you are a part of a student organization that would like to partake in the So Cool So Just Student Org Fair, please submit your application via the SCSJ Student Org Fair Application no later than September 11th.

For questions about the fair email scsjplanningteam@umich.edu.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:36:15 -0400 2017-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Fair / Festival So Cool So Just Fair Flyer
Installation of Dr. Christopher Friese as the Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing (September 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43773 43773-9841064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: School of Nursing

Please join us as UMSN Professor Christopher Friese is installed as the inaugural Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing. Reception to follow. Please RSVP to RSVP-UMSN@umich.edu.

Christopher Friese’s program of research is focused on understanding and improving healthcare delivery in high-risk settings, with an expertise in cancer care including measuring and improving the care received by patients. In addition, he recently completed a one-year health policy Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship in Washington, D.C.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:36:48 -0400 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 School of Nursing School of Nursing Presentation Christopher Friese
Health Professionals Talk Stigma and Psychological Health (September 20, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43932 43932-9855170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by American Pharmacist Association-Academy of Student Pharmacist APhA-ASP.

This panel is to inform students about how health professionals educate their patients and community about stigmas associated with psychological health, and the role that students can play in changing the stigma in the future. For more information about the event, contact sahagian@umich.edu or co-chair Pooja Kumar (kumarpoo@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:48:56 -0400 2017-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (September 21, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2017-09-21T11:45:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk
Diversity of Thought in Drug Product Development (September 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43930 43930-9855169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by Industry Pharmacy Organization (IPhO).

Dr. Sharon Watling, a former PharmD student at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, now a Principle Consultant with Boston Biomedical Associates, where she serves as a clinical development consultant for small molecules, gene, and cell therapies. Dr. Watling will speak about the various steps involved in drug product development, starting from the pre-clinical phase all the way through the post marketing phase. She will also explain the diversity of thought present throughout the drug development process as well as the diversity of instrumental roles that pharmacists can play in the process. For questions, please contact ipho.info@umich.edu. Please RSVP.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:44:54 -0400 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Diverse Journeys Panel (September 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43929 43929-9911808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by Multicultural Pharmacy Student Organization (MPSO).

Have you ever wondered about how identities affect the path we travel in our professions? Have you ever wanted to ask someone about how their experiences shaped where they are today? Then come hear our panel of pharmacists and other professionals as they share their stories! For questions, contact Bianca Campbell bscampb@med.umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:39:56 -0400 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T18:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Engineering Student Organization Diversity Mixer (September 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44525 44525-9923119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

FAMNM, NSBE, oSTEM, SHPE, and SWE are hosting our 2nd
annual mixer to have fun and get to know those within our
diverse engineering community. Food will be provided!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:13:04 -0400 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Social / Informal Gathering Diversity Mixer Flyer
Paint No Pour (September 21, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 43819-9843881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

Trotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months, student interests, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens, expand their worldview, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration, education, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge, and Trotter provides all paint supplies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:44:54 -0400 2017-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Paint No Pour Flyer
Language Interpretation in Social Work Practice (September 22, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42100 42100-9550243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work

This professional development workshop will help students and professional social workers learn and appreciate the role of language in social work practice. All social workers, monolingual and multilingual alike, perform the role of language interpreter (and/or translator) in practice. Ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in practice calls for methods, philosophies, and tools that can allow us to build relationships across class, gender, immigration status, sexuality, language and race. Interpretation- facilitating communication across lines that might otherwise divide communities is essential to working towards our commitment to DE&I. Participants will learn methods and strategies for interpretation with special attention to the potential for power imbalances that influence the way in which communication is mediated through an interpreter.
Program
8:30 AM: Continental Breakfast
9 - 10:30 AM: Workshop I: Translation and Interpretation in Micro and Macro Social Work Practice
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Workshop II: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through Language Interpretation in Social Work Practice
12 - 2: PM: Working Lunch - Small group Discussions and Large Group Conclusions and Recommendations

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:58:20 -0400 2017-09-22T08:30:00-04:00 2017-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work Conference / Symposium School of Social Work Building
Autumn Pride (September 22, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43806 43806-9843862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

A social gathering of LGBTQ+ faculty, staff, and students across the University of Michigan.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:37:04 -0400 2017-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Social / Informal Gathering AutumnPride
Food for the Soul Sundays (September 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43823 43823-9843892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:52:14 -0400 2017-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Food for the Soul Sunday Flyer
The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening (September 25, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43249 43249-9748036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Advances in prenatal screening and genetic manipulation have the potential to all but eliminate birth defects and genetic disorders. For example, prenatal genetic testing in Iceland has almost completely erased incidents of down’s syndrome in newborns. This has led to growing concerns over creating designer babies, hyperbole about the potential for a new era of eugenics, and broader questions about whether science is outstripping societal or ethical norms in regards to human genetic diversity.

Join Joselin Linder, author of “The Family Gene”, and Jodyn Platt, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School in a panel discussion about the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and newborn screening. The conversation will be moderated by Kayte Spector-Bagdady, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School and chief of the research ethics service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:18:18 -0400 2017-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T19:15:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
Faculty Lecture Series (September 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43551 43551-9818654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Space Limited, Registration Required

REGISTER HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/NzkPVDYe02OEq1902

How can the body be a laboratory for examining dialogue, choice-making, roles and habits? In this interactive workshop, choreographer and King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor Eryn Rosenthal will share some of her research on the connections between a dance form called Contact Improvisation and the political writings of Steve Biko, Ada Colau, Paolo Freire, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Judith Butler, and others. What can the body bring to larger discussions of dialogue-building, diversity, inclusion, and empowerment?

Choreographer Eryn Rosenthal examines the democratic underpinnings of Contact Improvisation, and the role of the body in transgressing previously legislated boundaries. She has worked with choreographers Sello Pesa, Jay Pather and Sol Picó, poet Elizabeth Alexander, and documentary theatre pioneer Anna Deavere Smith, among others. Eryn’s ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions–political, social, intimate–through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. Her related dance theater performance and MFA thesis, Freedom Suite: Transaction Being Processed, based on ongoing oral history research with anti-Apartheid activists from New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, will be touring to several festivals in 2018-19. Eryn is an alumna of the MFA program in Dance at U-M, where she also studied in the Ford School for Public Policy. She has performed and taught throughout the US, South Africa and Europe, and is delighted to be back at U-M as a King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence for Dialogue-Building, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. Learn more at www.erynrosenthal.com

This workshop is made possible through funding from the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI); the King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professorship; ArtsEngine; the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund; the School of Music, Theatre and Dance’s DEI Fund; the African Studies Center; the LSA Democracy in Action Fund; the W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center; and the Center for World Performance Studies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:11:56 -0400 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Eryn Rosenthal Headshot
Lecture: Sharon Egretta Sutton, "When Ivory Towers Were Black: Lessons in Re-imagining Universities and Communities" (September 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44696 44696-9966109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA discusses her most recent book, When Ivory Towers were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities. She shares how she and an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students got a free Ivy League education during the late 1960s and early1970s, when the Black Power Movement was at its zenith.
Sutton felt compelled to write the book by the persistent whiteness of schools in today’s universities in fields like architecture and landscape architecture. She had grown weary of the panacea for increasing cultural diversity that practically everyone touts, which is creating a “pipeline” into the university that exposes children to career possibilities at an early age.
Because she and many of her colleagues had been doing precisely that for almost half a century without changing the status quo, Sutton had come to view the pipeline theory as a ruse that diverted attention from the here and now to an ever elusive future. Increasingly intrigued by the memory of her experience as a student at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, she set out to unravel what was likely the nation’s boldest effort to recruit and retain ethnic minority architecture students.
Over a ten-year period, Sutton discovered that Columbia’s success was due to revolutionary students re-imagining a curriculum that just happened to align with the ethnic minority recruits’ commitment to improve living conditions in disenfranchised communities. Instead of creating a pipeline that would produce diversity in a far-off future, revolutionaries in the School of Architecture re-imagined a pipe that attracted and supported a diverse student body in the here and now.
In her lecture, Sutton describes the institutional context of this student-led transformation and tells how quickly it unraveled as white lash against black progress grew, just as is occurring today. After revealing both the immediate and long-term outcomes of what she refers to as Columbia’s  “arc of insurgency,” Sutton ends by issuing a call to Michigan students to re-imagine a pipe for their own institution.
Dr. Sutton is an activist educator and scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates the use of participatory planning and design strategies in low-income and minority communities. Her scholarship explores America's continuing struggle for spatial and educational equity, and documents young people’s leadership role in advancing that struggle.
Dr. Sutton holds five academic degrees—in music, architecture, philosophy, and psychology—and has studied in independent graphic art studios internationally. A registered architect, she was the first African American woman to become a full professor of architecture  in an accredited degree program and the second African American woman elevated to fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
In addition to receiving the AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award and the Medal of Honor from both the AIA New York and AIA Seattle chapters, Dr. Sutton is distinguished professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and an inductee into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Formerly,  she was a Kellogg National Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, and president of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. She is currently is professor emerita of architecture, urban design, and social work at the University of Washington and professor at large in New York City.
Generously co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:12:30 -0400 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Rename or to Remain: C.C. Little (September 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43646 43646-9835489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: LSA Student Government

A panel and forum for students to learn about, and then discuss, the legacy of President Emeritus C.C. Little, the efficacy of having a prominent University building named after him, and the proposal to rename the building.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:54:45 -0400 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League LSA Student Government Lecture / Discussion Flyer
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
Writing a Diversity Statement (September 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44399 44399-9911827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=436.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:48:52 -0400 2017-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
Intercultural Awareness (October 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44380 44380-9911801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

There are many hidden ways in which culture influences behavior. Starting with an understanding of American culture, this session focuses on cultural differences between countries and how "common sense" assumptions we make about others may be flawed.

You will learn to:
- Determine some American cultural values and norms that might differ from other cultures.
- Discuss some of the challenges persons from other cultures might face at a US educational institution, as a student or employee.
- Identify examples of verbal and nonverbal communication, symbolic meaning, cultural norms and cultural values.

You will benefit by:
- Obtaining a general framework for understanding culture.
- Increasing self-awareness and improving competency in both inter -and intra-cultural communications.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:57:05 -0400 2017-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
University Outreach Council Meeting (October 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43248 43248-9748048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

An initiative to foster collaboration and coordination between units on campus that engage in educational outreach, the University Outreach Council convenes monthly to inform one another of best practices, engage in meaningful discussion around strengthening the university’s outreach, and inspire creative and innovative strategies and approaches to strengthen educational outreach. Participants include U-M faculty and staff engaged or interested youth outreach and engagement. Lunch is served. RSVP is required; see link below.

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:57:05 -0400 2017-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 Galleria Center for Educational Outreach Meeting CEO Logo
Alumni Career Conversations: Dr. Juliette Okotie-Eboh (October 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44539 44539-9923130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join Rackham alumna, Dr. Juliette Okotie-Eboh, as she discusses her time as a Ph.D. student studying Urban and Regional Planning, and where her career has taken her since her graduation in 1979. A native Detroiter, Dr. Okotie-Eboh is a published author, a successful businesswoman, and a senior vice president for one of the largest gaming corporations in the United States. Currently, she is responsible for her organization’s community outreach, diversity initiatives, and communications/media relations. Dr. Okotie-Eboh will offer valuable advice to graduate students in a variety of areas, including those looking to enter fields outside of academia.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=437.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:02:40 -0400 2017-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Logo
Keeping the Dream Alive Part II: DACA and our Community (October 6, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45126 45126-10092996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:45am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Who are DACA recipients and what effect does lack of immigration status have on individuals, families, communities? What role can law students and attorneys play? Professor William Lopez from the UM National Center for Institutional Diversity and Michigan Law alumnus George Barchini, '15, will discuss the social context for DACA and what law students and lawyers can do.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:04:21 -0400 2017-10-06T11:45:00-04:00 2017-10-06T12:50:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
Achieving Gender Parity in Science: Responsibilities and Contributions of Neuroscience (October 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45331 45331-10161391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Neuroscience Graduate Program Seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:16:07 -0400 2017-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Pamela Raymond
Webinar: Out in Grad School (October 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44541 44541-9923132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Celebrate National Coming Out Day with our panel of graduate students who will discuss what the complexities of being out and/or not being out mean to them, and how they navigated their personal and professional identities during this time frame.

Please note: An individual webinar link will be sent to all registrants.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=471.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:14:32 -0400 2017-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Logo
Immigrants and Newcomers: Historic Limits to Diversity at U-M (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42647 42647-9622474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Matthew Countryman (University of Michigan)
Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)
Brian Williams (University of Michigan)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Matthew Countryman is associate professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan and author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Karla Goldman is Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and professor of Judaic Studies. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard Univeristy Press).

Brian Williams is lead bicentennial archivist at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:39:22 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (October 12, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2017-10-12T11:45:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (October 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9622478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Migrancy and Border Control (October 13, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42662 42662-9622485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Kelly Lytle Hernandez (University of California, Los Angeles)
Eithne Luibhéid (University of Arizona)
Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor in the University of California, Los Angeles Departments of History and African American Studies as well as the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States. Her award-winning book, MIGRA! A History of the US Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), explored the making and meaning of the US Border Patrol in the US-Mexico borderlands, arguing that the century-long surge of US immigration law enforcement in the US-Mexico borderlands is a story of race in America. Her most recently published book, City of Inmates: Conquest and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), is an unsettling tale that spans two centuries to unearth the long rise of incarceration as a social institution bent toward disappearing targeted populations from land, life, and society in the United States. She is also the project lead for Million Dollar Hoods, a digital mapping project that documents how much is spent on incarceration in Los Angeles.

Eithne Luibhéid is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She served as the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies from 2007-2011. Her research focuses on the connections among queer lives, state immigration controls, and justice struggles. Luibhéid is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Luibhéid’s current book manuscript, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Immigration, Deportability, and Queer Intimacies,” explores how deportability is being extended and resisted through intimate ties between LGBT undocumented migrants and US citizens.

Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes on Latin American and Caribbean history, theories and methods of transnational history, and issues of migration, kinship, and gender. Publications include The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (UNC Press, 2002), Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC Press, 2013), and more than two dozen chapters and articles. Recent honors include the Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of Association of Caribbean Historians, for “Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean,” Journal of British Studies (2014) and the 32nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica (2016). Putnam is President of the Conference on Latin American History and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:44:25 -0400 2017-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Mae Ngai, A Long History of Unauthorized Immigration Keynote: Who Makes America a Nation of Immigrants? (October 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42666 42666-9622501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Mae M. Ngai is a professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Mae is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004), which won six awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians; and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Professor Ngai has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-10); the Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04); the Huntington Library (2006); NYU Law School (1999-2000). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and the Boston Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:44:20 -0400 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Mae Ngai
Cuts Pt 2: Responding to Student Climate Concerns (October 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44859 44859-9992103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Though the University of Michigan aspires to cultivate a climate that is welcoming to the members of its diverse student, faculty, and staff bodies, we know that the lived experiences of many in our communities don't always align with these aspirations. Join the CRLT Players for Cuts:Responding to Student Climate Concerns, a two-session series, that invites participants to think together about the many forces that can shape campus climate both positively and negatively. Built around a series of vignettes that explore students' experiences of marginalization, each session offers a space where participants can practice engaging in difficult conversations about and across differences in identity while also reflecting on their personal responsibilities to cultivating inclusive and equitable spaces within and outside of the classroom.

In the second session, participants will:

- Consider the impacts of an 'isolated' bias incident on a targeted student

- Reflect on the ways they listen to others' stories about negative experiences of climate at U-M

- Develop strategies for responding to concerns shared with them in ways that might mitigate rather than exacerbate existing climate concerns

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=440.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:55:49 -0400 2017-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Charles M. Blow Presentation (October 16, 2017 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41129 41129-10313333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Humility Colloquium

NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow will present a keynote presentation on the topic of Donald Trump, arrogance, pride, and American democracy. Blow’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is organized by the Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion Colloquium at the University of Michigan. Admission is open and without tickets.

Charles M. Blow's Op-Ed column in The New York Times appears on Thursdays and Mondays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justices, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator, a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, and author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014.

Charles M. Blow's presentation is sponsored by Michigan Radio and The Ann Arbor District Library, and by these University of Michigan units: The Center for Engaged Academic Learning, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Communication Studies, The Department of American Culture, The Department of History, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ginsberg Center, The Institute for the Humanities, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, The Office of DEI, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The Residential College, and Spectrum Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:59:05 -0400 2017-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Humility Colloquium Lecture / Discussion Charles M. Blow
A Reading from COLLISION (Havarie) (October 18, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44781 44781-9980554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A raft with eleven Algerian refugees, running low on fuel. A cruise ship with a small town’s worth of international passengers and crew members. An Irish freighter. A Spanish rescue vessel. One single point of convergence in a vast wash of blue water. When a disabled raft nears The Spirit of Europe, the third largest cruise liner in the world, the ship’s captain is forced to do something headquarters in Miami wants to avoid: cut the engines.

COLLISION (German title Havarie) is a maritime thriller by one of Germany’s most celebrated crime writers, building suspense through the eyes of a diverse array of memorable characters. A screening of the film Collision, based on the research and the novel, follows the next day (Thurs Oct 19, 7:15 pm, Michigan Theater.)

Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute, U-M Center for European Studies, U-M Screen Arts and Cultures, U-M Office of Research, and the U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:03:01 -0400 2017-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Havarie
Gifts of Art presents Musical Theater & Cabaret (October 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44609 44609-9934432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Katharine Meagher (formerly Katharine Ball) is a professional singer and graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She has performed locally and around the U.S, including Alaska. Katharine was a semifinalist in the Elizabeth Connell Prize for Dramatic Sopranos’ international competition and in the Lois Alba Aria Competition. Her accompanist Andrew Meagher, a Michigan graduate in Organ Performance, plays for various churches in the area. This performance is part of U-M Investing in Abilities month-long series of events: http://ability.umich.edu/iaw/. Look for live stream video and event subscriptions on Gifts of Art Facebook.

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Performance Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:42:45 -0400 2017-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Photograph of Katharine Meagher by Edda Pacifico. High resolution version available upon request.
Navigating Your Disability in the Job Search (October 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45640 45640-10242988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Having a disability can make navigating the job environment tricky. This workshop will provide you with insight on the legal, social, and personal elements regarding disability in the workplace.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=497.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:47:59 -0400 2017-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Paint No Pour (October 19, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 43819-9843882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

Trotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months, student interests, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens, expand their worldview, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration, education, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge, and Trotter provides all paint supplies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:44:54 -0400 2017-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Paint No Pour Flyer
Screening of COLLISION (Havarie) (October 19, 2017 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44785 44785-9980560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As the film unfolds, one single, mesmerizing shot of a refugee boat adrift in the vast blue sea, a web of stories unfolds and worlds intersect and collide. Against the flood of news images about the refugee crisis, Collision radically redirects our imagination of Europe to a set of coordinates in the Mediterranean Sea.

Based on the same research and Merle Kröger’s book by the same title (reading Oct 18 at 7pm at Literati bookstore.)

HAVARIE premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and won the German Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film 2016, the arte-documentary award at the Duisburger Filmwoche, Best international feature film at L'Alternativa Barcelona, Best editing in an international feature at RIDM - Montreal international documentary festival, and special mention for the Prix Georges de Beauregard at the Festival International de Cinéma in Marseille.

Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute, U-M Center for European Studies, U-M Screen Arts and Cultures, U-M Office of Research, and the U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:52:18 -0400 2017-10-19T19:15:00-04:00 2017-10-19T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Collision (Havarie)
Change It Up! (October 20, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44416 44416-9911839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

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.

You will learn to:
- Identify self-awareness and social responsibility as qualities of strong personal leadership
- Discuss your own and others’ identities and experiences
- Determine the various options for effectively intervening during a negative situation
- Develop your ability to assess which intervention option is based on the situation
- Discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their campus communities

You will benefit by:
- Receiving high impact learning through educational theater
- Increasing your motivation to intervene in harmful situations
- Gaining ability to assess the effectiveness of multiple options for intervention
- Expanding your skills and confidence to successfully intervene in harmful situations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:37:01 -0400 2017-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Charles M. Blow Presentation (October 20, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41129 41129-8981754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Humility Colloquium

NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow will present a keynote presentation on the topic of Donald Trump, arrogance, pride, and American democracy. Blow’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is organized by the Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion Colloquium at the University of Michigan. Admission is open and without tickets.

Charles M. Blow's Op-Ed column in The New York Times appears on Thursdays and Mondays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justices, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator, a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, and author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014.

Charles M. Blow's presentation is sponsored by Michigan Radio and The Ann Arbor District Library, and by these University of Michigan units: The Center for Engaged Academic Learning, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Communication Studies, The Department of American Culture, The Department of History, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ginsberg Center, The Institute for the Humanities, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, The Office of DEI, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The Residential College, and Spectrum Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:59:05 -0400 2017-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Humility Colloquium Lecture / Discussion Charles M. Blow
Purple Run (October 21, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41615 41615-9383196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMPD

JOIN US FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL PURPLE RUN - 5k fun run/walk - to raise awareness about domestic violence

RUNNING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OUT OF TOWN

Hosted by the University of Michigan Police Department & Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office.
Proceeds from this event benefit SafeHouse Center, an organization that provides support for those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault in Washtenaw County.

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Purple Run (October 21, 2017 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41615 41615-9383195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 7:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: UMPD

JOIN US FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL PURPLE RUN - 5k fun run/walk - to raise awareness about domestic violence

RUNNING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OUT OF TOWN

Hosted by the University of Michigan Police Department & Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office.
Proceeds from this event benefit SafeHouse Center, an organization that provides support for those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault in Washtenaw County.

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Food for the Soul Sundays (October 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43823 43823-9843893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:52:14 -0400 2017-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Food for the Soul Sunday Flyer
Asian Studies at the University of Michigan: A Brief History (October 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41519 41519-9318404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

As the University of Michigan celebrates its bicentennial, it is important to consider the important place of Asian Studies in its history. In his lecture, Donald Lopez will consider Asian Studies not only as a field of scholarly pursuit, but also in the sense of people from Asia and of Asian heritage studying and teaching at the University.

If you are interested in attending, please register here: myumi.ch/6xPz9

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:59:09 -0400 2017-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T12:15:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Barbour Scholars Logo
100 Years of Opportunity: Asian Women’s Global Engagement (October 24, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41552 41552-9358897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This panel will bring together Barbour Scholars for a panel to reflect on Levi Barbour’s original motivation for creating his scholarship, and to seek to examine how the mission has been transformed over time and into the modern day. When Barbour first traveled throughout Asia, he met several women who had studied at the University of Michigan and then returned home to aid their countries’ development. Barbour wanted to provide the same opportunity for more women, who frequently faced obstacles to advancement in their home countries, to receive a western education. The Barbour Scholarship has survived through a highly dynamic century that has seen dramatic changes in the relationships between the United States and the home countries of many Barbour Scholars, the rise of globalism, and incredible innovations across many fields of study. Join us for a conversation amongst Barbour Scholars whose experiences span decades and fields of study. Please email rackham.alums@umich.edu with questions or for more information.

Barbour alumnae and current Scholars will participate in a panel to share their experiences traveling across the globe to earn a University of Michigan education. Participants will include Dr. Meera Sampath (Electrical Engineering), Dr. Heasook Rhee (Music Performance), and Dr. Wing Li (Mathematics). Current student participants will include Amrita Dhar (English Language and Literature) and Niloufar Emami (Architecture), both of whom are doctoral candidates These women will provide a small snapshot of the realization of Levi Barbour's vision of opportunity and a truly global experience.

The panel precedes a networking event for current Barbour Scholars and alumnae.

If you are interested in attending, please register here: myumi.ch/6xPz9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:07:49 -0400 2017-10-24T15:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Barbour Logo
All the Difference Film Screening (October 24, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45739 45739-10273906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Filmed over five and a half years, All the Difference weaves together the stories of two promising young black men as they navigate their lives in broken homes and low-income, high-risk communities in Chicago. Statistics predict they will drop out of high school and succumb to life on the streets; but both graduate and go on to college in spite of the odds. After they graduate, the film follows them for another 6 months as they both find meaningful work.

Film screening followed by discussion around race and access to education.

RSVP required: myumi.ch/J91AO
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uisop2lG4tQ

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Film Screening Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:32:48 -0400 2017-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Film Screening event flyer
Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement: Faculty Outreach in Detroit (October 25, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45444 45444-10183930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

On Wednesday, October 25, CEO launches its Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement. The theme for the series is Educational Outreach to Inform, Engage & Inspire: Fulfilling U-M's social contract with the public. Our panelists who will start the conversation about this important topic are Dean Elizabeth Moje from the School of Education; Barry Checkoway from the School of Social Work, and Harley Etienne from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. These faculty members have made career commitments to educational outreach and will be sharing their work and perspective about U-M's engagement in Detroit.

Faculty are asked to RSVP (Link Below)

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Presentation Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:45:49 -0500 2017-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Educational Outreach Presentation Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement
"The Campus of the Future": Design Showcase (October 26, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35544 35544-5269414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

A yearlong competition, "The Campus of the Future," asks students to collaborate on projects that reimagine methods and spaces for teaching and learning at a residential research university. The design competition is the final of three colloquia sponsored by the Office of the President during the bicentennial year.

Projects will be on display at the Duderstadt Center from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Final judging and the award ceremony will take place at the Power Center from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:13:47 -0400 2017-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Bicentennial Office Exhibition Future Campus
President’s Bicentennial Colloquium III: “The Campus of the Future” (October 26, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41566 41566-9364972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

A yearlong competition, "The Campus of the Future," asks students to collaborate on projects that reimagine methods and spaces for teaching and learning at a residential research university. The design competition is the final of three colloquia sponsored by the Office of the President during the bicentennial year.

Projects will be on display at the Duderstadt Center from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Final judging and the award ceremony will take place at the Power Center from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:22:17 -0400 2017-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Bicentennial Office Conference / Symposium Campus of the Future
"Talking Black in America" film screening and panel discussion (October 26, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44722 44722-9969002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Talking Black in America follows the unique circumstances of the descendants of American slaves and their incredible impact on American life and language. Speech varieties from the African American community reflect the imprint of African language systems, the influences of regional British and Southern American dialects, and the creativity and resilience of people living through oppression, segregation and the fight for equality. Filmed across the United States, Talking Black in America is a startling revelation of language as legacy, identity and triumph over adversity. With Reverend Jeremiah Wright, DJ Nabs, Professor Griff, Quest M.C.O.D.Y., Dahlia the Poet, Nicky Sunshine and many others.

"Talking Black in America" film screening and discussion panel with executive producer Walt Wolfram, Quest MCODY, who appears in the film, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in LSA Angela Dillard, responding to the film and comments from the audience.

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Film Screening Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:52:03 -0400 2017-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Film Screening talking black
MVisible Voices (October 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45901 45901-10321782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

MVisible Voices is a podcast series highlighting the lived experiences of historically marginalized individuals whose perspectives are critical components of the University of Michigan's history and tradition.

On October 27th, there will be a LIVE podcast recording, titled “Michigan Differences”. It will feature the stories and experiences of four U-M alumnae, the Honorable Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Anita I. Martinez, Congresswoman Grace Meng, and Fayrouz Saad. Through collective storytelling, they will share how their experiences at U-M shaped their approach to public service.

Partners include: The National Center for Institutional Diversity, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Office of Academic Innovation, the U-M Alumni Association, and the U-M Bicentennial Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:31:16 -0400 2017-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion MVisible Voices
Third Century Expo (October 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35627 35627-5280609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

The Third Century Expo will be the bicentennial finale, blanketing the heart of Central Campus during the UMich200 Fall Festival. It will be a public fair of cutting-edge projects and initiatives that demonstrate how the university is making a positive impact on society, both locally and globally. Pavilions and tents filled with interactive exhibits will be representative of schools, colleges and organizations from the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Fair / Festival Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:38:04 -0400 2017-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Bicentennial Office Fair / Festival #UMich200
University Outreach Council Meeting (November 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43248 43248-9748040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

An initiative to foster collaboration and coordination between units on campus that engage in educational outreach, the University Outreach Council convenes monthly to inform one another of best practices, engage in meaningful discussion around strengthening the university’s outreach, and inspire creative and innovative strategies and approaches to strengthen educational outreach. Participants include U-M faculty and staff engaged or interested youth outreach and engagement. Lunch is served. RSVP is required; see link below.

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:57:05 -0400 2017-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Galleria Center for Educational Outreach Meeting CEO Logo
Horizons of the Movement: Discussing the Future of Racial Justice Organizing at Michigan with Black Activists from BAM I to the Present (November 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42719 42719-9651119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Horizons of the Movement will bring together multiple generations of Black activists who attended the University of Michigan and fought for racial justice from 1970 to present, including BAM I, BAM II, BAM III, #BBUM, Students 4 Justice, and Black Student Union. Drawing upon their organizing histories, panelists will consider what has been achieved for racial justice at U-M and how far the university still needs to go. Panelists will also collectively strategize and brainstorm with the audience about what a future racial justice agenda could look like.

Panelists include:

Melba Boyd (BAM at Western Michigan University)
Tyrell Collier (#BBUM)
Robert Greenfield (#BBUM)
Errol Henderson (BAM III)
Capri'Nara Kendall (#BBUM)
Jesse Love (Black Student Union)
LaKyrra Magee (Students 4 Justice)
Stephanie Rowley (BAM III)
Cynthia Stephens (BAM I)
Lawrielle West (Students 4 Justice)
Maryam Aziz (moderator), Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History an the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:13:24 -0400 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA (November 2, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45966 45966-10341698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The display of African art in the United States invokes the complicated colonial history that continues to impact how objects, people, and cultures are represented. On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa and the forthcoming reinstallation of UMMA’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African Art, UMMA presents three leading curators and thinkers in African art who will share their perspectives, experiences, and innovations in the display of African art. // This lecture series is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan African Studies Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of History of Art, Institute for the Humanities, and Museum Studies Program. // The series is presented in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (on view from August 19-December 31, 2017). Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. // Series includes: October 19: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Consulting Curator for African Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) // November 2: Pamela McClusky, Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Seattle Art Museum // November 30: Christa Clarke, Senior Curator Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:52:35 -0400 2017-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
10th Annual Michigan Pre-College and Youth Outreach Conference (November 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45443 45443-10183923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

World economies are increasingly driven by knowledge and information; the effects of globalization require greater civic engagement and cultural literacy. Postsecondary education remains the best way for civic actors to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in our evolving global landscape. Launched in 2009, the Big Goal sought to spur a college attainment rate of 60% in America by 2025. Although modest progress has been made, the US continues to lag behind other industrialized countries and the majority of college graduates are from privileged backgrounds. While 70% of jobs in Michigan now require training beyond high school, the state lags behind the nation’s average for college attainment and fewer than a quarter of the state’s high school graduates are college-ready. We must do better.

At the Michigan Pre-College and Youth Outreach Conference, we will examine challenges to postsecondary attainment and explore opportunities to address them. Increasing access to postsecondary opportunities for low-income, first-generation and underrepresented college students will benefit the state and our nation. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners will demonstrate the impact of promising approaches to inform, engage and inspire Michigan’s youth to pursue postsecondary education. Together, we can address The Urgency of College Access.

Additional supporters include:
Michigan State University Office of University Outreach and Engagement
Michigan College Advising Corps
Grand Valley State University
Western Michigan State University
Saginaw Valley State University
University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:22:34 -0400 2017-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Educational Outreach Conference / Symposium 10th Michigan Pre-College and Youth Outreach Conference
SEAS Celebrating our Diversity through Inclusion Mixer (November 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45983 45983-10344521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Mixer to celebrate our SEAS faculty, staff and student community members of various social identities: first generation college students, parents, from an underrepresented racial and/ or ethnic background, born outiside the US, LGBTQ, not able- bodied, all income levels and anyone who embraces diversity in all its forms.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:03:13 -0400 2017-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Dana Natural Resources Building
Through the Fire: The History Behind the 1967 Rebellion (November 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45995 45995-10344533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Join Jamon Jordan of the Black Scroll Network who will give a talk that focuses on the decades-long turbulent racial history that led to the 1967 Rebellion. He will detail what happened during the 1967 Rebellion, and the legacy of those five days and what has happened in Detroit as a result. http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E2912

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:37:46 -0400 2017-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion School of Social Work Building
Whistling Vivaldi: Claude Steele's Research on Stereotype Threat (November 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45984 45984-10344522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

In this session we will discuss some of the research on stereotype threat in Steele's book, Whistling Vivaldi. After a brief introduction, we will discuss strategies for overcoming stereotype threat. We will conclude with a conversation with faculty on how to create identity safe environments and guidance on mentoring across difference.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=501.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:26:21 -0400 2017-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Veterans Week - Korean War Veteran/Prisoner of War discussion and questions (November 6, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45815 45815-10307569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Called the “Forgotten War” the Korean War was in between WWII and Vietnam. The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1954. It claimed over 1.2 million civilian and military casualties.
Come here Robert Fletcher talk about his experiences as an African-American before, during and after the Korean war. He will also talk about his 3 years as a prisoner of war in a Chinese prison camp.
Come here "Fletch" talk about his experiences and how the Korean War has shaped his life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:39:27 -0400 2017-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Korean War Memorial at Night
Taking Turns: Health Care, Activism, and Community (November 6, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45965 45965-10341695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

MK Czerwiec is a nurse who uses comics in her work with Northwestern and George Washington Universities. MK makes comics at ComicNurse.com and co-founded GraphicMedicine.org, a website/conference devoted to the intersection of comics and health. MK's new book, “Taking Turns, Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371,” is a graphic memoir/oral history project, exploring AIDS history through her experience as an AIDS ward nurse at the epidemic's peak, including co-worker's voices and experiences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:52:06 -0400 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
Student Climate Survey Information Session (November 6, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45917 45917-10332999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Presentation of data from student climate survey.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:02:58 -0400 2017-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Presentation Michigan Union
DEI Scavenger Hunt (November 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45967 45967-10341699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Stop in the UMMA Store and pick up an UMMA DEI Scavenger Hunt anytime the Museum is open the week of November 7-12 (Museum closed Mondays). This activity is intended for individuals, groups, and families. It is a self-guided hunt through the UMMA galleries to locate works related to DEI themes throughout the collection. It is intended to help visitors think about DEI in ways they have not before in a fun and casual setting

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Recreational / Games Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:50:31 -0400 2017-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Recreational / Games Museum of Art
Liberating Structures with Amanda Healy (November 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45102 45102-10084367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn flexible facilitation techniques that maximize inclusion and participation in meetings, classrooms, and community discussions. These structures can help you center participant voices by expanding your repertoire beyond familiar discussion formats (open discussion, small group, think-pair-share).

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=446.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:56:29 -0400 2017-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Veterans Week - Bringing the Boys Home - Missing in Action Research and Recovery (November 7, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45829 45829-10310502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Paul Schwimmer is part of an archaeological team, History Flight, that is dedicated to finding the remains of missing WWII soldiers and bringing them home. He will lead an in-depth discussion about the ongoing efforts of private organizations (NGOs) that search for, and recover, many of the 83,000 missing soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Army Air Corps service men and women who gave their lives defending this country in World War II. He recently went to the South Pacific to search for the remains of Marines killed there during the battle of Tarawa. There they found the remains of many missing Marines including a Medal of Honor winner.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:54:56 -0400 2017-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Paul Schwimmer with folded flag
Diversity Summit Keynote Address (November 7, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46164 46164-10407020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This year’s Diversity Summit opens on November 7 with a 4:30 p.m. keynote address by Dr. Claude Steele of Stanford University, a psychologist best known for his work on stereotype threat and social identity threat (Michigan League Ballroom). Reception at 4pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:16:06 -0400 2017-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
CenterSpace Drop-in Groups (November 7, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45987 45987-10344524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

"CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for LGBT communities. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources.

Tuesdays: bi, pan, fluid and similarly identified or questioning
Wednesdays: queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) and similarly identified
Thursdays: trans, agender, genderqueer, non-binary and similarly identified or questioning
Friday: ace/aromantic and similarly identified or questioning"

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:14:18 -0400 2017-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Michigan Union
Tips and Tools for Hosting a U-M MLK Symposium Event (November 7, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46404 46404-10478330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

We are writing to invite you to participate in furthering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through your engagement in the 2018 U-M MLK Symposium.

The MLK Symposium coordinators and student interns are hosting a workshop to help you with your MLK Symposium event. The evening will consist of:

+Concrete tips and tools to help you succeed (locations for hosting events, what orgs you can collaborate with)
+Strategic marketing techniques and how to manage logistics
+List of grants across campus to apply for funding to support your program
+Examples of past events (both small and large)
+Connecting and networking with others dedicated to social justice across campus

If this interests you, RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/TXdAtiei57May23t2

Feel free to forward this invitation on to others.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:58:37 -0400 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Workshop / Seminar MLK Tips flyer
Value The Voice: A Storyteller's Lounge (November 7, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45939 45939-10333027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

A collaborative venture between the Comprehensive Studies Program (CSP), the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) to bring an ongoing series featuring faculty, staff, students and alumni together to tell their stories; "to tell it like it is and see it how it was." Warde Manuel, U-M Athletic Director will be featured at this event with a storytelling piece.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:06:04 -0400 2017-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Central Student Government Diag Assembly (November 7, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45919 45919-10333002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Meet on the Diag to voice concerns to your representatives and discuss campus climate-specific resolutions. There will be food, coffee and campus administrators present as guest speakers.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:39:58 -0400 2017-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 2017-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Diag - Central Campus Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Rally / Mass Meeting
Staff Climate Survey Information Session (November 8, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45918 45918-10333001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Presentation of data from staff climate survey. RSVP at http://hr.umich.edu/staff-climate-survey-session.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:05:42 -0400 2017-11-08T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Presentation
Trotter House Groundbreaking Ceremony (November 8, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45920 45920-10333007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Please join us in celebrating the groundbreaking of the new site for the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center on State street. Brief remarks by President Schlissel.

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Ceremony / Service Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:19:14 -0400 2017-11-08T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Ceremony / Service
Poster Session (November 8, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46165 46165-10407021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Diversity Summit poster session.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:12:25 -0400 2017-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Fair / Festival Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Community Assembly and Interactive Panel Discussion (November 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46166 46166-10407022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Community assembly and interactive panel discussion including remarks by President Mark Schlissel and an update on the Year One Progress Report from Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Robert Sellers.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:14:28 -0400 2017-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
CultureXchange: North Campus Cultural Festival (November 8, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45925 45925-10333011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Celebrate the vibrant cultures that make up our Michigan community. Support diversity, equity and inclusion on North Campus through cultural exchange. Everyone is welcome!

5:00 - 6:30PM: Taste delicious cuisine from around the world, Epcot-style. Location: Gallery in the Dude Connector

6:30 - 8:00PM: Experience music, art and performance from lyrical to martial arts to bellydance. Location: Stamps Auditorium

Proudly hosted by Michigan Engineering, Stamps School of Art & Design, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance as part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:11:01 -0400 2017-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Fair / Festival poster image representing the many cultures on North Campus
Student DEI Summit (November 8, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46167 46167-10407024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Student-organized Summit focused on developing actionable plans to improve campus climate. Dinner provided.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:16:31 -0400 2017-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-08T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Reception / Open House
LSA Hack-A-Thon (November 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46097 46097-10390025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

For more information or to sign up, visit: myumi.ch/lsadeiplan. Walk-ins are welcome. Pre-registration is optional but helps with organizers' planning.

In honor of the University-wide DEI Student Summit, LSA will work with students to design strategic models to inform the College for year two of our plan. Interested students are invited to join us for a “hack” session to respond to, critique and improve six concrete initiatives to achieve diversity-related goals.

Sign up for one – or more – hacks and then join us on November 8th for hands-on sessions. You'll work with peers to revise, comment on, or totally revamp these initiatives.

Dean Martin and other LSA representatives will be available to answer questions and chat starting at 6:30 p.m. Ready to challenge yourself and hack the LSA Strategic Plan?
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Hack #1
Train the Trainer: Building Inclusive Classrooms
Challenge/Opportunity: LSA has over 1,200 faculty members and over 3,000 classes per term. Our plan is tailored to this reality. Create an online DEI training module for the faculty; incentivize them to use it.

Hack #2
Train your Peers: The 30 for 80 Model
Challenge/Opportunity: The 30 largest courses on campus reach close to 80% of the undergrad population. Create a flexible module for implicit bias training for use in these classes.

Hack #3
Challenge/Opportunity: We assessed the degree requirement and are continuing to implement changes, but we want more students to be involved. Help us to rethink the "Student Advisory Board" model; and create a user driven (aka student-centered, peer-to-peer) map of R&E courses to guide new LSA students in understanding the requirement and selecting courses.

Hack #4
Dialogue and Ideological Diversity: The Democracy in Action Model
Challenge/Opportunity: We increasingly live inside of ideological echo chambers and struggle to talk across differences. Hack the design of The Democracy in Action Fund.

Hack #5
Shift Campus Climate: Forming a Critical Mass
Challenge/Opportunity: It’s a big campus! LSA has over 17,500 undergraduates; not all of them are equally engaged. You probably can’t reach everyone. The key, we think, is creating critical mass. Hack the design of the LSA Inclusive Campus Corp.

Hack #6
optiMize Transfer Students: Building Bridges to U-M
Challenge/Opportunity: LSA has committed to increasing the number of transfer students to 1,200-1,300 per year. We want a major percentage from community colleges. We want to build “transfer bridges.” Hack the plan to use co-curricular orgs like optiMize to create them.

Questions? LSAhackathon@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:03:56 -0500 2017-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Workshop / Seminar Event poster
LSA Hack-A-Thon (November 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46143 46143-10398521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Strategic Design for Year Two
#withDeanMartin & LSA SG

Get updated and participate in hands-on, solution-oriented design to achieve six of LSA’s diversity-related goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:49:02 -0400 2017-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Inclusive Communication (November 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45933 45933-10333020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Michigan Medicine lead thank you event featuring keynote by Dr, Neha on Inclusive Communication.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:01:48 -0400 2017-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
Inclusive Communication (November 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45933 45933-10333021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Michigan Medicine lead thank you event featuring keynote by Dr, Neha on Inclusive Communication.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:01:48 -0400 2017-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
Impact on Inequality (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
Unconscious Bias (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44417 44417-9911840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

The unconscious mind is a powerful and intrinsic force in helping to shape our overall behavior in our everyday lives. This interactive session is designed to examine how unconscious bias can affect one's perceptions, decisions, and interactions.

You will learn to:
- Examine your own background and identities to interact more authentically with co-workers, customers and the community
- 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
- Practice strategies to create transformational and systemic 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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:18:46 -0500 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Wolverine Pathways: Building a Path to Educational Equity and Inclusion (November 9, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46146 46146-10398535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:30am
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Wolverine Pathways will host a session that relates the impetus, inception, and progress of the program to date. We will share the curricula, structure, and feedback from scholars, educators, and parents on our path to provide a free, year-round program that partners with the families, schools, and communities of Detroit, Southfield, and Ypsilanti to bring learning experiences that will help students succeed in school, college and future careers.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:22:48 -0400 2017-11-09T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 School of Education Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion School of Education
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (November 9, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2017-11-09T11:45:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk
DEI Town Hall meeting (November 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46451 46451-10489787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are excited to introduce Taubman College’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist, Joana Dos Santos. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about what the college has been working on and what you can do to make Taubman College a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

RSVP: Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/deitownhall

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:58:38 -0400 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Rally / Mass Meeting Art and Architecture Building
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Organizations (November 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45968 45968-10341700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Yodit Mesfin-Johnson is Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Strategy for NEW | Solutions for Nonprofits. Yodit will discuss her work in championing causes that promote equity, access and opportunity for all within organizations. As the chief program officer she provides leadership to NEW’s strategic planning process and implements new programmatic strategic initiatives. She is a nationally recognized leader in business development, nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship. RSVP HERE: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E2826

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:52:23 -0400 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion School of Social Work Building
UMSI iDEI Talks: short talks at the intersections of information, diversity, equity, & inclusion (November 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45929 45929-10333015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Join us for lightening or "TED style" talks by UM School of Information (UMSI) faculty, staff, and students about research, projects, programs or initiatives that advance knowledge and practice related to Information and diversity, equity & inclusion, followed by time to mingle for further idea exchange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:47:07 -0400 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Practical Outreach Training with K-12 Youth (November 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46142 46142-10398520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This training sessions will be focused on giving student groups effective strategies when doing outreach with diverse k-12 populations. The session will consist of activities that help with practical scenarios when working with this population, leadership presence, and activity management through a strength based approach. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/TLTTzzcz25OvcYyl1

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:47:10 -0400 2017-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workshop / Seminar
Veteran of Color Symposium- Film Screening & Reception (November 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45949 45949-10333251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This year's symposium will focus on the Latino experience. We will screen the documentary "Latino Americans: War and Peace Episode 3” (https://youtu.be/Mc9dxlydcfk). This episode focuses on the contributions and challenges that Latino Americans faced while serving their country. Following the screening, there can be a panel of Latino faculty, staff, students and community members who can share their experiences/thoughts (veterans if possible) on the documentary and or on their experiences as veterans of color.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:51:23 -0400 2017-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference / Symposium Hatcher Graduate Library
IDIalogues: a gathering of IDI pilot participants (November 9, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45950 45950-10333253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Student Life Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) pilot is in the midst of its second year. To date dozens of student groups and hundreds of students have taken this intercultural learning inventory and learned about themselves and others. This gathering will create space for pilot participants to connect and share the impact this experience has had on their organizations. Dialogues on how participating students and organizations can use this experience to positively impact the campus community will be a point of connection for past participants. Information on opportunities for future student participation will also be highlighted.

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Meeting Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:29:12 -0400 2017-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Meeting
A2D Tour (November 10, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46144 46144-10398522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Michigan Detroit Center will provide insight and exposure to U-M community members who are interested in engagement with the city of Detroit as part of it's A2D Tour. The tour will take place on Friday, November 10, and begin with boarding at the Fleming Administrative building, at the corner of East Jefferson and Thompson streets in Ann Arbor and depart at 8:30 a.m. The day will include a half-day tour of the city, lunch, a World Cafe conversation with city community leaders, and a panel discussion. Activities will conclude at 3 p.m. and participants should arrive back in Ann Arbor by 4 p.m. RSVP link is below.

https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eem5xeefcaf56284&oseq=&c=&ch=

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Other Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:52:25 -0400 2017-11-10T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Other
Impact on Inequality (November 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
Keynote: Classroom experiences of marginalized students - Dr. Chavella Pittman (November 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45986 45986-10344523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This inclusive talk will summarize the research on the classroom experience of marginalized students. While primarily informative, this talk will encourage faculty and administrators to consider how their own behaviors might discourage or support an inclusive classroom environment. Inclusive classrooms are important to the retention and success of diverse students as well as to further the learning of all students

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:53:47 -0400 2017-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T12:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
At the Bench & Beyond (November 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45940 45940-10333028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Dr. Raychelle Burks will give a talk about her scientific research and her journey as a black woman in STEM. You may also know her as Dr. Rubidium on Twitter.

Abstract:
What do color tests, pop culture, and computational thinking have in common? Each have an important place in my work and outreach, plus inspired me to become a scientist. In this talk, I will discuss why my research team actually does stare at brightly colored solutions like those stock photos, how Alien informs my teaching and outreach, and how a computational thinking research program is impacting my lab and classroom.

About Dr. Burks:
Raychelle Burks, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. An analytical chemist with crime lab experience, Dr. Burks is focused on creating low-cost colorimetric sensors for detecting chemicals of forensic interest including explosives and illicit drugs. Dr. Burks' group utilizes smart phones, along with image analysis, to maximize the field readiness of developed sensor systems for potential use by crime scene analysts, law enforcement and military personnel.

Dr. Burks earned her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Northern Iowa, her M.S. in forensic science from Nebraska Wesleyan University, and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. After working in a crime lab for two years, Dr. Burks returned to academia first as an adjunct, then as a postdoctoral research associate at Doane College and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln's Center for Nanohybrid Functional Materials.

Outside of academia, Dr. Burks is a passionate educator in both formal and informal settings. An active science communicator, she serves on the advisory board of Chemical & Engineering News and UnDark Magazine. She is a member of the American Academy of University Women, the Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Latino and Native Americans in Science, National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the National Association of Science Writers.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:19:18 -0400 2017-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Raychelle Burk, Ph.D.
Freedom, Hope, Courage- A Celebration of Our Veterans (November 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45982 45982-10344520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The School of Dentistry Multicultural Affairs Committee's Annual Veteran's Day Celebration in collaboration with the U-M Division of Public Safety and Security. We will honor our veteran's who have served our country and those who keep us safe in our campus community everyday, showcasing veteran staff.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:07:43 -0400 2017-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Ceremony / Service Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute
VETx (November 10, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45990 45990-10344528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Armed Forces Association at Ross and the Sanger Leadership Center is proud to bring you the 3rd Annual VETx or "Veteran Experience" event! VETx is a series of TED talk style speeches performed by our very own Ross military veterans, highlighting stories from their time in the service and connecting those stories to leadership in business. Following the TED talks, we will have a panel of Ross military veterans that you will be able to engage and ask questions to.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:21:59 -0400 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 12, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
DEI Town Hall meeting (November 13, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46451 46451-10489788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are excited to introduce Taubman College’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist, Joana Dos Santos. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about what the college has been working on and what you can do to make Taubman College a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

RSVP: Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/deitownhall

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:58:38 -0400 2017-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Rally / Mass Meeting Art and Architecture Building
Trans Awareness Week Keynote Speech - Dr. Z Nicolazzo (November 13, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45988 45988-10344525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Z is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University. Hir research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:54:14 -0400 2017-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 2017-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion School of Social Work Building
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
DEI Keynote Presentation by Elizabeth Yeampierre of UPROSE: "Climate Justice: From Brooklyn to Puerto Rico" (November 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45936 45936-10333024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Elizabeth Uprose, Executive Director of UPROSE, will be presenting as part of the SEAS DEI Speaker Series. Uprose focuses on sustainability and resiliency efforts through community organizing, education, leadership development and cultural/ multi-generational emphases. Based in Brooklyn, the impacts of gentrification and environmental/ social injustices against communities of color that is displacing communities adds another element to Uprose's community centered work. Elizabeth's presentation will take place in the Forum Hall in Palmer Commons.

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Presentation Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:39:53 -0400 2017-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Presentation
MyBrothers Dialogue Series (November 14, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45944 45944-10333246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Join us for discussions that address the unique
needs and experiences of men of color at the
University of Michigan in a safe, open space.
All sessions include free lunch and are open to
students, faculty, and staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:33:02 -0400 2017-11-14T16:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Michigan Union
Social Justice and Tobacco Control: Impact on Underserved Populations (November 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46156 46156-10407013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: MHealthy

A panel of experts in the field of tobacco treatment, policy, and control will discuss tobacco industry practices that target underserved populations, such as minority groups, the LGBTQ community, low income communities, and others. The discussion will also focus on tobacco-related health disparities and what can be done to help reduce these inequities.

Attend this panel discussion if you are a professional or student interested in healthcare, addiction, and social justice, or if you are simply interested in learning more about how the tobacco industry targets marginalized populations.

Panelists include:
• Lincoln Mondy, Progressive Communication Strategist, and Creator, Black Lives/Black Lungs
• Cliff Douglas, Vice President for Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society (ACS); Director, ACS Tobacco Control Center; Director, U-M Tobacco Research Network; and Adjunct Professor, U-M School of Public Health
• Kate Donaldson, Health Educator/Public Information Officer, District Heath Department #10
• Lilianna Reyes, Program Services Director, Affirmations

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:53:42 -0500 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Public Health II MHealthy Lecture / Discussion Social Justice and Tobacco Control: Impact on Underserved Populations Panel Discussion
2017 CEW Spectrum of Advocacy & Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice (November 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42755 42755-9653779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

CEW is leading a one-day Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice focused on advocacy and activism training. This event will demonstrate how a person’s activism can change over time, how advocacy is tied to a person’s context and situational power, and how partnering with diverse perspectives can strengthen advocacy and activism efforts. Health outcomes has been selected as the theme for this year’s symposium because of increasing uncertainty surrounding health care in America, including coverage for women’s health care (mental health, mammograms, birth control, maternity care, etc.).

The goals for this one-day symposium are:
-to engage students, practitioners, and researchers who are interested in advocacy and activism
-to equip symposium participants with advocacy training that can be applied to their area(s) of interest
-to develop a network among attendees for potential partnerships beyond the symposium
-to highlight the value of diverse perspectives in advocacy work.

The symposium includes presentations by local and national advocacy experts who have taken varied approaches to advocacy in ways that best leverage their current context (power, privilege, and identity). Training sessions will feature capacity-building workshops on a range of topics from community organizing to bystander intervention to running for political office. Afternoon panel discussions will offer practical strategies that attendees can apply to their own work as advocates and activists. At the end of the day, participants will be presented with a common challenge that they will address in small groups comprised of individuals from campus and community.

The day will close out with a surprise special keynote speaker to be announced soon!

This free event will take place on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at the Michigan League. Space for the symposium is limited to 350 people, however, the free keynote lecture will be open to the public.

Registration available on our website now!
www.cew.umich.edu/SpectrumofAdvocacyandActivism

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:51:38 -0400 2017-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium Symposium Logo
CEW Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice (November 15, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45928 45928-10333014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

On November 15, 2017, CEW is leading a one-day Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice focused on advocacy and activism training. This event will demonstrate how a person’s activism can change over time, how advocacy is tied to a person’s context and situational power, and how partnering with diverse perspectives can strengthen advocacy and activism efforts. Health outcomes has been selected as the theme for this year’s symposium because of increasing uncertainty surrounding healthcare in America, including coverage for women’s health care (mental health, mammograms, birth control, maternity care, etc.).

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:28:48 -0400 2017-11-15T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference / Symposium
Nourish Lunch Series (November 15, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45945 45945-10333247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Nourish seeks to empower women of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, health, and wellness in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all self-identified women of color at the University of Michigan including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. November's topic will be Radical and Realistic Self-Care.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:32:29 -0400 2017-11-15T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Reception for Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 15, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45964 45964-10341696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences. The Duderstadt Gallery is open daily for this exhibit from 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm.


The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Reception / Open House Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:17:47 -0500 2017-11-15T16:30:00-05:00 2017-11-15T18:30:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Reception / Open House Hidden Figures Exhibit Poster
CEW at U-M Presents: LAVERNE COX (November 15, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45808 45808-10307561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: CEW+

This event is free and open to the public, however, tickets are required. A limited amount of tickets are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office online, in person, or via phone. The lecture cannot be recorded; however, it will be live-streamed at the Rackham Amphitheatre and the Michigan League Ballroom.

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U-M CEW brings celebrated and award-winning transgender actress, producer & equal rights advocate Laverne Cox to Rackham Auditorium on Wednesday, November 15th at 6:00 p.m. In Ms. Cox’s lecture, titled Ain't I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood, she will be sharing her experiences as a trans woman of color, and her work as an international advocate for human rights and gender equality. This lecture serves as the capstone event to the 2017 CEW Spectrum of Advocacy & Activism Symposium being held earlier in the day.

Laverne Cox is an Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer and the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television show. As the 2017 Mullin Welch guest lecturer, Laverne will be sharing her experiences as a trans woman of color, and her work as an international advocate for human rights and gender equality.

As "Sophia Burset," an incarcerated African American transgender woman on “Orange is the New Black,” Laverne is the first trans woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television show. Along with several acting awards, Laverne was notably the first trans woman to appear on the cover of TIME magazine. An accomplished producer and celebrated equal rights advocate, she continues to drive positive change on a global scale as she shares her views on race, class, and gender with audiences through a range of platforms.

Laverne projects a combination of strength and vulnerability in her presentations while delivering an animated reflection on the transgender experience. Her recollections of growing up in Mobile, Ala., moving to New York City, and finding the courage to step into womanhood illustrate the unique challenges faced by the transgender community. With a powerful and empowering message about self-acceptance and love, Laverne moves audiences to respect and appreciate all individuals and advocate for positive change.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the CEW Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW Mullin Welch Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Office of the Provost’s King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professorship Program.

CEW would also like to thank the following University of Michigan event partners: Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion and Academic Affairs, University Human Resources (UHR), Women of Color Task Force (WCTF), Athletics, School of Public Health (SPH), Student Life, Spectrum Center, and the Ginsberg Center.

The CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund promotes diversity and cultural awareness by bringing women leaders to campus.

The CEW Mullin Welch Lecture Series was established in 1989 by Frances Daseler and Marjorie Jackson in memory of their sister Elizabeth Charlotte Mullin Welch. This fund brings to the U-M campus outstanding women who exemplify Elizabeth's characteristics: creativity, strength of character, and expansive vision.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:07:55 -0400 2017-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Laverne Cox
Voices of the Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team presents "Crowd-Sourcing Solutions; A Hackathon Inspired Event" (November 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45938 45938-10333026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Join us in brainstorming solutions with staff and faculty from across the university community. No technology knowledge required! Attendees will have the opportunity to work with topic presenters to dissect and address the presented challenge of their choice. Some of the challenges to be “hacked” are:
· How do we keep DEI relevant and prominent in our work?
· How do we increase Staff attendance at DEI events and workshops?
· How can we improve our inclusiveness of and support for nontraditional students?
· How do we increase applicants from underrepresented populations for certain job positions?

Registration will be required as seats are limited. Please register using the link below.

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/xG5ixvI9jUZ4WLLE3

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:26:40 -0500 2017-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workshop / Seminar
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Paint No Pour (November 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 43819-9843883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

Trotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months, student interests, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens, expand their worldview, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration, education, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge, and Trotter provides all paint supplies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:44:54 -0400 2017-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Paint No Pour Flyer
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Native American Heritage Month Keynote Speaker (November 17, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46450 46450-10489786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us in welcoming our keynote speaker, Matika Wilbur, for Native American Heritage Month! Matika Wilbur, an acclaimed photographer from the Tulalip and Swinomish tribes (Washington), is the creator and director of Project 562 and the only Native American photographer and social documentarian to be welcomed into each of the 562+ Native American sovereign territories in the United States. For the past four years, Wilbur has collaborated with scores of tribes to share the images and truths of Native American Peoples.

Join us for an evening of discussion as Wilbur presents "19 Lessons from Indian Roads"; providing remarkable insights into contemporary Native American life, driving the conversation forward to encourage U.S. citizens to evolve beyond the appropriation and neglect of indigenous images and traditions through a new model of awareness, with honest photographic representation and direct narratives of America's first people.

Wilbur says, "I believe the viewers will experience great understanding and connection with these remarkable people, just as they have enlightened and inspired me. By exposing the astonishing variety of the Indian presence and reality, we will build cultural bridges, abandon stereotypes, and renew and inspire our national legacy.”

This event is a part of Native American Heritage Month which is celebrated throughout the month of November. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:45:52 -0500 2017-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion image of matika with a camera and event details
Ragas in Autumn (November 17, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46692 46692-10581048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan

An evening of Hindustani Classical music where Mr. Abhik Mukherjee will be playing the sitar (an ancient Indian Classical stringed instrument) and Mr. Amit K. Chatterjee will be accompanying him on the tabla (Indian percussion).

Hindustani (Indian) classical music is developed through two interwoven elements: raga and tala. Raga is the melodic element and is crafted by improvisation on fixed patterns of ascent and descent. Conversely, tala is the rhythmic structure on which the melody is laid.

Hindu philosophy provides a spiritual parallel through which the listener can experience the melding of raga-tala. Shiva, god of time, represents the stable rhythm of the tala, while Shakti, the goddess of creation, is the melodic dance over the rhythm. Through the play of Shiva and Shakti the universe is born and reborn across cosmic time. The blend of raga-tala represents this play.

Hindustani classical music also draws inspiration from the hours of the day. Every day is divided into eight sections (ashta prahar), with each three-hour section having certain ragas best suited to its mood.

In this concert evening ragas will be performed that, through the versatile structure of raga-tala, will encourage the audience to experience the range of emotions associated with this time of the day.

Abhik Mukherjee is a Kolkata-born sitar player of the Etawah-Imdadkhani gharana. Some of his memorable concerts include performances for the inauguration of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial (Washington D.C.); at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City); at the Indian Habitat Center (Delhi); on Doordarshan (Kolkata); and a summer tour of Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Abhik currently lives in New York City and is a founding member of Brooklyn Raga Massive, an Indian classical music artists’ collective.

This is a free event where the audience gets to interact with the artists one on one after the performance!

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Performance Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:05:41 -0500 2017-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan Performance Ragas in Autumn
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Food for the Soul Sundays (November 19, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43823 43823-9843894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 19, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:52:14 -0400 2017-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Food for the Soul Sunday Flyer
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers (November 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45961 45961-10589440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

Hidden Figures: When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers" from November 11 – November 22, 2017 in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. This exhibit features: "Hidden Figures of Michigan: Women in Engineering and the Sciences.

The Exhibit Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday, November 15 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus. Remarks at 5:00 by Cinda-Sue Davis, Executive Director of STEM Program Development and Director of Women in Science & Engineering.

Sponsors:
University of Michigan Bicentennial Celebration
Women in Science and Engineering Program
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

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Exhibition Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:13:02 -0500 2017-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Exhibition HIdden Figures Exhibit Poster
Marching Forward: A Research and Scholarship Symposium (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45149 45149-10095910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

As part of the U-M Fall 2017 Marching Forward series, we invite you to engage across disciplines, generations, and communities to advance research and scholarship that explores political, social, and economic injustices, and/or advances strategies for effective social justice mobilization.

Through this symposium, we aim to engage the U-M community and the public in further understanding critical historical topics and fostering an intellectual community to explore the civil rights issues of today.

See the agenda, including a list of presenters, here: http://myumi.ch/L4OYg

See details about small presentations and winners & honorable mentions from the comic contest here: http://myumi.ch/aA2N1

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/Jl2nm

This symposium takes place two days after the anticipated visit of Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell to the University of Michigan (Nov 27th, Hill Auditorium). Their acclaimed graphic novel trilogy, March, recounts Lewis's experiences throughout the Civil Rights Movement. In protest marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, John Lewis and 600 other marchers drew attention to the importance of voting rights for all African Americans. The marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis and the marchers did not abandon their cause, but instead propelled the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

This event is co-presented by the International Institute’s Conflict and Peace Initiative, Department of Psychology, National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship. For questions regarding the symposium, please email: MarchingForward@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:18:01 -0500 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Conference / Symposium Marching Forward Call for Proposals, Due Date: Oct. 23
Change It Up! Bystander Intervention Skills (November 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45109 45109-10084372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=457.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:26:26 -0500 2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
University Outreach Council Meeting (December 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43248 43248-9748041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

An initiative to foster collaboration and coordination between units on campus that engage in educational outreach, the University Outreach Council convenes monthly to inform one another of best practices, engage in meaningful discussion around strengthening the university’s outreach, and inspire creative and innovative strategies and approaches to strengthen educational outreach. Participants include U-M faculty and staff engaged or interested youth outreach and engagement. Lunch is served. RSVP is required; see link below.

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:57:05 -0400 2017-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Galleria Center for Educational Outreach Meeting CEO Logo
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (December 7, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2017-12-07T11:45:00-05:00 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk
Faculty Forum on Outreach & Engagement (December 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46952 46952-10703024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

On Thursday, December 7, CEO will host its second Faculty Forum event. The theme for the series is "Educational Outreach to Inform, Engage & Inspire: Fulfilling U-M's social contract with the public." Barbara Israel from the U-M School of Public Health and Angela Reyes, founder and executive director of the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, will present. A reception will follow the discussion. Please RSVP via the link below.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:46:31 -0500 2017-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Educational Outreach Lecture / Discussion Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement
Paint No Pour (December 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 43819-9843884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

Trotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months, student interests, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens, expand their worldview, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration, education, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge, and Trotter provides all paint supplies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:44:54 -0400 2017-12-14T18:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Paint No Pour Flyer
Food for the Soul Sundays (December 17, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43823 43823-9843895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:52:14 -0400 2017-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 2017-12-17T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Food for the Soul Sunday Flyer
The Competence/Confidence Conundrum Workshop (January 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47143 47143-10801979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Michigan League Ballroom

11:00am - 2:00pm



Registration is required: https://goo.gl/forms/kffDN5LIZr6IW6th2

More information: www.wise.umich.edu

Cost: Free, includes brunch, coffee/tea and snacks

Presenter: Nancy Wayne, Professor of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.



Objectives: Women may have equivalent or higher skills than men, but often lack confidence compared to their male colleagues. This makes women less successful in the workplace, where overconfidence often trumps competence.



Workshop objectives include:



• Understanding the ramifications of gender differences in confidence levels and its impact on career advancement

• Recognizing the skills at which you excel

• Identifying ways to promote your skills in order to get recognition

• Learning proven strategies to negotiate for what you want so that the negotiation doesn't backfire



UM Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program is excited to present this workshop to our science and engineering campus community and to the broader geographic community.

While aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, post doctoral fellows and interested faculty and staff are welcome and will find the workshop relevant and energizing.

Sponsors: UM Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program and Praxaire.

Co-sponsors:
UM Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
UM Center for the Education of Women (CEW)
UM Girls in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (gEECS)
UM Graduate Student Society for Women in Engineering (gradSWE)
UM Michigan Business Women (MBW)
UM Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Sciences (MUSES)
UM Society for Women in Physics (SWiP)
UM Women in Math (WIM)

Questions: umwise@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:25:28 -0500 2018-01-06T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Conference / Symposium The Competence/Confidence Conundrum Workshop
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (January 11, 2018 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2018-01-11T11:45:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk
URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SYMPOSIUM, "THE OTHER DETROIT” (January 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48484 48484-11241174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In his speech The Other America, Martin Luther King Jr. laments that “every city in our country has this kind of dualism, this schizophrenia, split at so many parts, and so every city ends up being two cities rather than one.” In some ways, the trajectory of contemporary development in Detroit is indeed creating this tale of two cities to which King alluded. Detroit’s transformative downtown revitalization has brought an influx of economic activity which has generated much excitement about the city’s future. Yet, Detroit’s “comeback” has largely been confined to 7.2 miles square miles surrounding the downtown Woodward corridor.

This raises the question of whether “The Other Detroit,” the remaining 131 square miles comprising the city’s largely black neighborhoods, will begin to share in the benefits of Detroit’s growth. In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, this panel will discuss the implications of disparate development patterns in Detroit, exploring structural and community-based strategies for redirecting investment in favor of the city’s most disadvantaged, longstanding residents.

Panelists:
Sonya Mays, President and CEO of Develop Detroit
Kim Sherobbi, Community Practitioner, James & Grace Lee Boggs Center
Sarida Scott Montgomery: Executive Director of Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD)
Monique Becker, Development Associate, The Platform

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:47:58 -0500 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day University Symposia (January 15, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41046 41046-8910521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day University Symposia.

No regular classes are held.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:33:41 -0500 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Conference / Symposium
The 32nd Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Keynote Lecture (January 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48043 48043-11170221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Ross School of Business

Award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist Hill Harper will deliver the keynote address for the 2018 MLK Symposium Lecture. There will be a special guest performance by Aisha Fukushima, singer, public speaker, educator and founder of RAPtivism, a hip-hop centric project that focuses on global efforts for freedom and justice. The event is sponsored by The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with support from the William K. McInally Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, a unit under the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. For more information about the 2018 MLK Symposium, visit http://oami.umich.edu/um-mlk-symposium/.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:15:44 -0500 2018-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Ross School of Business Conference / Symposium Hill Harper to Speak at the University of Michigan
UMDC MLK Day Eye on Detroit: Is There Such Thing as a Proper Protest? (January 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48003 48003-11233233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

In collaboration with the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, The Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Detroit Center invites you to spend MLK Day with us.

We will be streaming the U-M Keynote Lecture with guest speaker Hill Harper, then hosting our Eye on Detroit Panel Discussion, "Is There Such Thing as a Proper Protest?" which will feature political consultant Sam Riddle, Michigan State Representative Jewell Jones, We the People of Detroit's Cecily McClellan, New Era Detroit's James "Screal" Eberheart Jr, and scholar and political writer Steven Salaita.

To RSVP for this event, please click the link below.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:54:26 -0500 2018-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Conference / Symposium UMDC MLK
1968 + 50: Unfinished Legacies of Dr. King’s Last Year (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47471 47471-10929750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.” Exactly one year later, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been supporting striking sanitation workers. The last year of King's life marked a distinctive period in his career as he allied himself with a broad array of initiatives linking civil rights with antiwar, labor, and antipoverty campaigns. This panel will consider the legacy of that year, stretching from the social justice movements of the late 1960s to causes today such as Black Lives Matter, immigrant rights, and attempts to reverse the growing gap of socioeconomic inequality.

Featuring:
Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark
Monica Muñoz Martinez, Brown University
Brenda Tindal, Detroit Historical Society

Ruth Feldstein is professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of several books and articles, most recently the award-winning book, How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement; she is also associate producer of How It Feels to Be Free, a forthcoming documentary based on this book. Feldstein's scholarship explores relationships between race and gender relations, and between performance and politics; she works to tell the stories of women whose voices have not been heard, and who are seldom taken seriously as thinkers and activists.

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Carnegie Fellow 2017-2019, received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. At Brown University she offers courses in Latinx studies, immigration, histories of violence, histories of policing, and public memory in US History. Her research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the Brown University Office of Vice President of Research, and the Texas State Historical Association. Her first manuscript, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Texas Borderlands, is under contract with Harvard University Press. She is a faculty fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Martinez is the primary investigator for Mapping Violence, a digital project that documents histories of racial violence in Texas.

Public historian, archivist, curator, and educator Brenda Tindal joined the Detroit Historical Society as director of education in December 2017. She is the former staff historian and senior vice president of research and collections at Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. In 2005, she was part of the curatorial team that developed Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed America, an exhibit on the region’s role in the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which won the National Award for Museum Service—the nation’s highest honor awarded to museums and libraries. Tindal recently co-curated the museum’s K(NO)W Justice K(NO)W Peace—a rapid-response exhibit that explores the historical roots of the distrust between police and community, tells the human stories beyond the headlines, and engages viewers in creating constructive solutions. Before joining the Levine Museum of the New South in 2015 as staff historian, Tindal was a visiting lecturer in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she taught a broad range of courses in comparative U.S. and South African history, southern history, African American history, and visual and material culture. A sought after social commentator, convener, and speaker, Tindal has been featured on C-SPAN, the Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar, Happenings Magazine, NPR, Pride Magazine, NBC-Today, The Charlotte Observer, and many other local and national news and media outlets.


Free and open to the public.

This event made possible by the Kalt Fund for African American and African History, along with the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:25:11 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Composite Image
The Fierce Urgency of Now – What is Y(our) Story? (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46925 46925-10700261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This year's MLK Symposium theme, “The Fierce Urgency of Now”, asks each of us to “...claim ownership of the challenges we face...” We are reminded that, “...much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.”

W​e invite members of the University community to share their brief (2-4 minute) stories through written or spoken word, performance pieces, poems, art, music, or song.

We encourage you to connect your story to the theme of “The Fierce Urgency of Now” and tell us of a time, situation or event that made you conscious of the need or desire to act.

* What is or has been your inspiration?
* What did you do, wish you had done or are you doing?
* How have you been discouraged from acting as a result of your experience?

This is an opportunity to tell your story, among supportive listeners, because your stories matter!

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Other Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:50:54 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall LSA Honors Program Other
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (January 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47119 47119-10799202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join Michigan Law as we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a lecture by Professor James Forman of Yale Law School. Professor Forman will discuss his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, which explores how decisions made by black leaders, often with the best of intentions, contributed to disproportionately incarcerating black and brown people.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

James Forman Jr. is one of the nation’s leading authorities on race, education, and the criminal justice system, and a tireless advocate for young people who others have written off. Professor Forman attended Yale Law School, and after he graduated, worked as a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. After clerking, he took a job at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented juveniles and adults in felony and misdemeanor cases.

Professor Forman loved being a public defender, but he quickly became frustrated with the lack of education and job training opportunities for his clients. So in 1997, along with David Domenici, he started the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, an alternative school for dropouts and youth who had previously been arrested. The Maya Angelou school has been open for almost twenty years, and in that time has helped hundreds of vulnerable young people find a second chance, begin to believe in themselves, graduate, get jobs, and attend college.

At Yale Law School, where has taught since 2011, Professor Forman teaches Constitutional Law and a course called Race, Class, and Punishment. Last year he took his teaching behind prison walls, offering a seminar called Inside-Out Prison Exchange: Issues in Criminal Justice, which brought together, in the same classroom, 10 Yale Law students and 10 men incarcerated in a CT prison.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:10:54 -0500 2018-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
North Campus Deans' MLK Spirit Awards Ceremony (January 15, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47538 47538-10942729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

This annual U-M Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposia program recognizes the individuals in the North Campus community whose leadership and service exemplify the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

4:30 - 5:00 pm: Registration and Light Refreshments
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Spirit Awards Program

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:28:45 -0500 2018-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 2018-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Michigan Engineering Ceremony / Service Chrysler Center
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 (January 15, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48617 48617-11262218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As part of the university's honoring of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 - 1992
MONDAY JANUARY 15, 2018
6:00 pm Hatcher Library Gallery

Audre Lorde’s incisive, often-angry, always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the US-American feminist, lesbian, African-American, and Women-of-Color movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Audre Lorde - the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 documents an untold chapter of Lorde’s life: her influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change. The film explores the importance of Lorde’s legacy, as she encouraged Afro-Germans—who, at that time, had no name or space for themselves—to make themselves visible within a culture that until then had kept them isolated and silent.

The film chronicles Lorde’s empowerment of Afro-German women to write and to publish, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways. Previously unreleased archive material as well as present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas on Germany and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s personal archival video- and audio-recordings reveal a significant part of the private Audre Lorde as well as her agenda—to rouse Afro-Germans to recognize each other.


If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event,
please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:26:59 -0500 2018-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Audre Lorde
Everyday Activism: Reception and Exhibit Opening (January 15, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47539 47539-10942730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Part of the 2018 U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Symposia, the Everyday Activism Exhibit will feature photographs, posters and memorabilia highlighting the engagement of everyday citizens and their responses to current issues, controversies and concerns.

Exhibit Opening: January 15 at 6:00 pm in the Duderstadt Gallery.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:27:43 -0500 2018-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Michigan Engineering Reception / Open House Duderstadt Center
'Class Divide' Movie Screening, a U-M MLK Symposium Event (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47390 47390-10888275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research and U-M LSA Screen Arts & Cultures invites the community for a viewing and discussion of Class Divide and a conversation with Hyisheem Calier and Yasmine Smallens, who play central roles in the film. The discussion will be facilitated by author and journalist Peter Moskowitz, who wrote How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood. Class Divide chronicles Hyisheem and and Yasmine’s experiences with gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

The documentary will be screened from 12-1:15 p.m. Moskowitz will sign books at 2 p.m.

Event Contact Info:
Johanna Bleckman
(734) 615-9517
bleckman@umich.edu

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:43:15 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Lost (and Found) in Translation: Perception and Expression across Borders and Languages (January 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48048 48048-11170226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia. How does an American academic culture of expression interact with the increasingly international body of authors on campus? And, what does it mean to think and write from a non-normative background? Please join us for a scholarly conversation on multilingualism and the pleasures and difficulties of translation.

Speakers:
Pär Cassel (History & International Relations)
Gottfried Hagen (Near Eastern Studies)
Se-Mi Oh (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Benjamin Paloff (Comparative & Slavic Literature)
Will Thomson (Anthropology & Architecture)

Hors d'oeuvres to be served

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:16:05 -0500 2018-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event poster
Paint No Pour (January 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 43819-9843885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

Trotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months, student interests, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens, expand their worldview, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration, education, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge, and Trotter provides all paint supplies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:44:54 -0400 2018-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Paint No Pour Flyer
Advocacy In Action (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46474 46474-10501262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

This graduate student-driven initiative invites a panel of unique voices to partake in a discussion about how advocacy shows up across disciplines. For some, advocating for marginalized groups means taking part in protests or raising awareness for a cause. For others, advocacy is their work. For all, advocacy requires patience and perseverance.

Invited Panelists:

Steph White: Steph White is the Executive Director for Equality Michigan and Equality Michigan Action Network. Her career spans over two decades of leading collective action from US Army Commander to Political Director for the Michigan Democratic Party and the Schauer for Governor Campaign. She then spent six years in Washington DC working on federal policy issues, including serving as the Managing Director for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).

Nicole Ver Kuilen: Formerly the Assistant Director of Annual Giving & Alumni Relations at the School for Environment and Sustainability here at the University of Michigan, Nicole is the founder of the Forrest Stump organization. Nicole works to raise awareness about the barriers that limit access to prosthetic technology and advocates for legislative changes affecting health care coverage of activity-specific prosthetic devices.

William Hung: Some might remember William from season three of American Idol, but few know about the controversy surrounding his fame, as both he and his fans were accused of promoting and endorsing racial stereotypes against Asians. William Hung is now a motivational speaker, working to encourage and inspire others to pursue their dreams despite criticism.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:51:09 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Munger Graduate Residences Lecture / Discussion Advocacy in Action
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LECTURE: MABEL O. WILSON, "NOTES ON A VIRGINIA STATEHOUSE: ARCHITECTURE AND RACE IN JEFFERSON'S AMERICA" (January 19, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48499 48499-11243789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Mabel O. Wilson is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL) and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She’s currently writing Building Race and Nation a book about how slavery influenced early American civic architecture. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She is a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. She was recently one of twelve curators contributing to MoMA’s current exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Architecture.” She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide and whose work was most recently shown in a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:40:29 -0500 2018-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Food for the Soul Sundays (January 21, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43823 43823-9843896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:52:14 -0400 2018-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Food for the Soul Sunday Flyer
NOMAS DESIGN REALITIES LECTURE AND PANEL: MICHAEL FORD, "HIP HOP ARCHITECTURE" (January 22, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48713 48713-11294870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students bring Michael Ford for their Design Realities lecture and panel. The event is co-hosted by the National Association of Minority Architects Detroit chapter.

Michael Ford is a designer, born and raised in the city of Detroit. Ford received his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), where he completed his graduate thesis titled “Hip Hop Inspired Architecture and Design.” He has worked as a designer at Hamilton Anderson Associates located in Detroit and as an adjunct professor at his alma matter. Ford has also worked as a designer at Flad Architects located in Madison, Wisc.

Ford has spent the past decade working to blur the lines between professional practice and academia. He is dedicated to stimulating cross disciplinary discourse between practitioners and residents on the sociological and cultural implications of architecture and urban planning on its inhabitants. More specifically, Ford has unveiled the subconscious roles of historical architectural figures such as LeCorbusier in envisioning the built environments which necessitated the birth of hip hop culture.

Following Michael Fords lecture, there will be a panel discussion, Designed Realities: The Real World Impact of Design Intentions. Panelists include Taubman College faculty members Kimberly Dowdell, Emmanuel Pratt, June Manning Thomas, and moderator Marc Norman.

Ford’s Hip Hop Architecture research has been published in a variety of places including FastCo Design, Blavity, The Fader, CityLab and Vibe Magazine. In addition to this, Ford is the co-founder of the Urban Arts Collective, which houses the Hip Hop Architecture Camp, which has taken place in various cities across the United States. He has spoken as a keynote speaker for the 2017 AIA National Convention, for SXSW 2016 and 2017, TEDx Madison TED Talk, and has lectured at several universities including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Detroit-Mercy, UPenn, and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:19:10 -0500 2018-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
King Talks (January 23, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48544 48544-11246442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In our inaugural King Talks, five Rackham students present Ted-style overviews of their research, echoing the theme of this year’s U-M MLK Symposium, “The Fierce Urgency of Now.” More information: myumi.ch/6wv5N

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Presentation Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:07:30 -0500 2018-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation King Talks Image with Information
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds: School of Social Work MLK Symposium Lecture (January 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48840 48840-11308955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

The School of Social Work invites the community to a lecture by adrienne maree brown, inspired by her most recent publication, “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds”.

Emergent Strategy presents a visionary tapestry of grassroots organizing practices, principles, and tools that advance transformational growth through interdependent human interactions. Inspired by the collaborative possibilities evident in diverse and complex environmental ecosystems, her lecture will explore ways in which social justice advocates, organizers, activists and facilitators can embrace iterative pathways toward liberation, that are harnessed by intentional adaptations, and relational models of change.

adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She attended the Clarion Sci Fi Writers Workshop and the Hedgebrook Writers Residency in 2015, and Voices of Our Nation in 2014 as part of the inaugural Speculative Fiction Workshop. She was a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and a 2013 and 2015 Knights Arts Challenge winner, writing and generating science fiction in and about Detroit. She was the Ursula Le Guin Feminist Sci Fi Fellow, and a Sundance/Time Warner 2016 Artist Grant Recipient.

**Please RSVP Below**

Book signing will be hosted 1:30 - 2:00PM.
Book purchase will be available from 12:00 - 2:00PM

Co-sponored by: The School of Social Work Community Action Research Learning Community, The Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Allied Media Projects, and Literati Bookstore

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:27:45 -0500 2018-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion adrienne marie brown
White Fragility-The New Racism, and More Effective Steps to Undoing Racism (January 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48868 48868-11317272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work

Andy Horning, MSW ‘97 will speak about how a focus on our own process can lead to better more effective steps to undoing racism. Horning is a therapist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. He is on the faculty of the Hoffman Institute, a personal growth retreat site in California and is also the
founder and host of Elephant Talk, a podcast on courageous conversation in relationships.
RSVP - http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3046

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:57:26 -0500 2018-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Andy Horning,
SMTD@UMMA (January 26, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47135 47135-10801971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Mixing spoken word and live music, SMTD faculty, students, and special guests Willis Patterson, Patricia Terry-Ross, and Elizabeth James celebrate the musical life of African-Americans at the turn of the 20th-century through seldom-heard works by black American composers William Grant Still, Florence Price, Harry Freeman, Harry T. Burleigh, and Margaret Bonds, among others.

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Performance Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:31:55 -0500 2018-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance SMTD@UMMA
Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game (January 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47296 47296-10857870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Crisler Arena
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Celebrating 13 years of spirited competition, the University of Michigan Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game returns to Crisler Center on Jan. 27.

The game is open to the public at no charge and tickets are not required. The Crisler Center doors open at 4 p.m. with tip-off at 5 p.m.

In addition to the Paralympians, ROTC cadets, student veterans and local law enforcement volunteers competing on the court, fans will be pumped up by musical entertainment from DJ ELL and the 338th Army Band. The U-M Cheer and Dance teams also will perform.

Rick Vanden Heuvel, a retired U.S. Navy captain and director of research development for the College of Engineering, will serve as the game’s 2018 grand marshal.

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Sporting Event Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:15:53 -0500 2018-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Crisler Arena Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Sporting Event U-M Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game Flyer
I Am Not Your Negro Movie Showing (January 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49167 49167-11386604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The School of Social Work's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be hosting a movie showing to celebrate the upcoming Black History Month. We will be showing the documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, which explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders and his personal observations of American history.

RSVP Here: https://ssw.umich.edu/events/list/2018/01/29/54201-dei-movie-event-i-am-not-your-negro

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Film Screening Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:24:31 -0500 2018-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Film Screening School of Social Work Building
Comics In Color: The Past, Present, and Future (February 1, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49377 49377-11450951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

A look into the history of Blacks and other people of color in comic books, along with an examination of the present and future of both the marvel and DC cinematic universes for people of color.

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Community Service Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:08:04 -0500 2018-02-01T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Community Service logo
Gifts of Art presents Gospel & Blues Music & History (February 1, 2018 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48233 48233-11191414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 12:10pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Reverend Robert Jones Sr. is a nationally recognized musician and educator from Detroit with more than 25 years of experience as a performer and storyteller. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Jones has opened for Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal and Leon Russell, to name a few. For this program, he and his wife Bernice Jones will showcase the gospel, blues, inspirational folk and roots music that form the basis of American popular music. Rev. Jones plays and describes American music in its historical context and speaks of how traditional African American music helped give rise to musical forms that are beloved around the world.

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Performance Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:56:59 -0500 2018-02-01T12:10:00-05:00 2018-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Photograph of Rev. Robert Jones Sr. by Peggy Brisbane. High resolution version available upon request.
IDENTITY WORKSHOP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES (February 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49558 49558-11476266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions of themselves and others. Participants will leave with a better understanding of who they are and how their identities interact with the world.

Scheduled Workshops:
February 2: Social identities
February 16: Privilege Links
March 16: Conflict Management Styles
April 13: Core Values

RSVP here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMzBQXBuyc77UHtP20oybB05FrQz9o8szPR6kAq8OLwm8ovQ/viewform
Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. RSVP

Identity Workshops are a partnership of the Taubman College Office of DEI and CAPS.

For more information contact:
Joana Dos Santos, TC DEI Specialist, joanads@umich.edu or 734-647-9129
Nidaa Kazi, CAPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, nfkazi@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:41:26 -0500 2018-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
Programmed Dispossession: Gender Transition, Technologies of Risk Detection, and the Threat of Fraudulent Bodies (February 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49606 49606-11484663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Lars Mackenzie is a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. He earned a Master’s degree in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College. His research examines the associations between fraud and gender non-conformity, analyzing how trans subjects’ incompatibility with information systems, laws, and social epistemologies about sex and gender produce their marginalization. Mackenzie has been awarded the Informatics Institute “Critical Data Studies: Where is the Human in the Data?” Fellowship, Susan Geiger Fellowship, Gender Policy Report Fellowship, and a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for this research. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly. Mackenzie’s broader research and teaching interests include critical data studies, surveillance, social movements, media and culture, law, health, science studies, and digital humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:33:44 -0500 2018-02-05T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Lars Mackenzie
"Ask Me Anything" (February 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49095 49095-11375477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

OutMD will be present to answer any questions that students may have. Here are some examples:

1) How is the journey to medical school for a LGBTQ student?
2) What are some of the challenges of being a LGBTQ student in the healthcare workforce?
3) What are some tips in serving LGBTQ patients?

Light refreshments will be provided for attendees.

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Well-being Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:15:05 -0500 2018-02-05T15:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library Spectrum Center Well-being Block M
Town Hall Meeting, hosted by ASC,DAAS, and LACS (February 5, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49591 49591-11476298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

As a collective effort, this town hall meeting aims to engage the University of Michigan community in reflecting on the recent discourse surrounding Africa, Haiti, Latin America and the African diaspora. What are some challenges that must be addressed if we are to move toward Dr. Martin Luther King's "beloved community"? How do we build a stronger sense of inclusivity? How do we engage with those who hold and proclaim vastly differing viewpoints?

The meeting is an opportunity to not only respond to prejudicial perspectives, but to take steps towards finding solutions to the problem of misinformation. Come join us for a respectful dialogue in the spirit of "Umoja" (unity)."

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Meeting Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:28:24 -0500 2018-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Meeting Weiser Hall
LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week Keynote Speech: Pidgeon Pagonis (February 5, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49098 49098-11375481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join us in welcoming Pidgeon Pagonis (pronouns: they/them) to campus. Pidgeon will be opening the 3rd Annual LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week on Monday, February 5th in the Educational Conference Center in the School of Social Work Building.

Pidgeon (Chicago, IL) is an intersex activist, educator, and filmmaker. They are a leader in the intersex movement’s fight for bodily autonomy and justice. Their goal is to deconstruct the dangerous myths that lead to violations of intersex people’s human rights, including common, irreversible medical procedures performed without consent to make bodies conform to binary sex stereotypes.

Pidgeon has a decade’s worth of experience giving talks and facilitating intersex workshops around the globe. In 2015, they received the LGBT Champion of Change Award from the White House. They can be seen on the cover of National Geographic’s January 2017 issue titled, "Gender Revolution". This past fall, they co-led the #LurieEndSurgery protest outside of Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago on Intersex Awareness Day.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:19:06 -0500 2018-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Pidgeon Pagonis
Youth Voice: Our Queer Stories (February 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49100 49100-11375483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In this panel session, we will hear from LGBTQIA+ teens in our community. They will bravely share their stories and talk about what they need from us.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:22:11 -0500 2018-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Challenge-Program-2015-Full-103.jpg
LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week Resource Fair (February 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49105 49105-11375488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Week Resource Fair is free and open to the public and will feature several organizations at the University of Michigan and in the Ann Arbor/Southeast Michigan area working to improve and support LGBTQ+ folx with regards to health and/or wellness.

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Fair / Festival Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:34:58 -0500 2018-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Fair / Festival 20140829-Canon40D-00375.jpg
University Outreach Council Meeting (February 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43248 43248-9748044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

An initiative to foster collaboration and coordination between units on campus that engage in educational outreach, the University Outreach Council convenes monthly to inform one another of best practices, engage in meaningful discussion around strengthening the university’s outreach, and inspire creative and innovative strategies and approaches to strengthen educational outreach. Participants include U-M faculty and staff engaged or interested youth outreach and engagement. Lunch is served. RSVP is required; see link below.

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:57:05 -0400 2018-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Galleria Center for Educational Outreach Meeting CEO Logo
Career Closet With The Spectrum Center Programming Board (February 7, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49101 49101-11375484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

As part of the 3rd Annual LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week, the Spectrum Center, in partnership with the University Career Center, is presenting Queer Clothing Closet. This event centers trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming folx and will allow students a chance to explore the Career Center's professional clothing closet. Students can select up to 3 free items of business professional and business casual clothing per semester.

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Other Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:37:04 -0500 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Spectrum Center Other IMG_2266.jpg
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 7, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture (February 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47335 47335-10869002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center is honored to be centering the voices of transgender and non-binary individuals at our 4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture, with a particular focus on the intersecting identities of gender and race. We are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, speakers Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness, Surpassing Certainty, and King Amiyah Scott of Fox Network’s STAR. Current and former students and staff from the University of Michigan will also contribute to this phenomenal event! We aim to hold a space in which the personal narratives and lives of trans folks can be shared, celebrated, and honored.

Previous lectures include The Black Male Athlete; Who is He and What is He to You in 2016, which was held in the Ross Auditorium, celebrating Student Leaders in 2015; as well as, the 2014 Inaugural W.M. Trotter Lecture that featured activist, poet, and educator Cheryl Clarke.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:19:54 -0500 2018-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Trotter Lecture Flyer
Loving My LGBTQ+ Body (February 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49104 49104-11375487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The event works to promote self love and body positivity for LGBTQ+ folk. The diversity of gender and sexuality expressions means that every person has a unique relationship with their body, and thus unique ways of experiencing self-love. This intersection is extremely important and not often talked about. The body and appearance is an expression of self for others too. Everyone deserves to be respected for how they show up in the world. We will discuss practices to empower the LGBTQ+ community in a positive body image, as well as how to be an ally by not perpetuating stigma in order to increase self esteem, empowerment, self love, empathy, and create a less judgmental campus and expand the view of body image. Refreshments will be provided. This event is presented as apart of LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week and is organized by Body Peace Corps.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:42:09 -0500 2018-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T13:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar P9240098.jpg
EVENT CANCELLED - Identities Abroad: Queer Student Panel (February 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49106 49106-11375489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Due to inclement weather, we will be rescheduling this event.

Please join us to learn more about what it means to study abroad as someone who identifies within the LGBTQ community. We will also host a few student panelists to talk about their experience abroad.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:03:08 -0500 2018-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T16:30:00-05:00 North Quad Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar P9240096.jpg
Our Love is Beyond Your Imagination (February 9, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49107 49107-11375490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join SAPAC's Consent, Outreach, and Relationship Education Program (CORE) in welcoming Alex Jenny and Effee Nelly to campus for a talk about healthy relationships and QTPOC love. Following the event, there will be a QTPOC safe space and refreshments will be served. We hope you will join us! Interested in learning more about our speakers? See alexandeffee.com

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:43:09 -0500 2018-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 2018-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion DSCF1389.jpg
ORGANIZING FOR ACTION (February 10, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49845 49845-11552204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Initiative for Inclusive Design would like to invite you to a workshop in collaboration with Taubman's DEI Specialist Joana Dos Santos, "Organizing for Action" Saturday, February 10th from 8:30am-5:00pm.

The event will take place in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League, with breakfast and lunch provided. Please RSVP to taubmaniid@gmail.com

Looking forward to a productive day!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:45:36 -0500 2018-02-10T08:30:00-05:00 2018-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Event Poster
Elect Her (February 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49409 49409-11453751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you a woman-identified student thinking of running for office? Elect Her is the place to start!

Join us for an afternoon workshop to learn the essentials of running for office, and to meet with local elected women.

Sign up: bit.ly/ElectHerUM (link is case sensitive)

Lunch will be served!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:55:45 -0500 2018-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Elect Her Overview
Ebonics (February 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49610 49610-11484666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Explore the verbal and nonverbal communication rules and patterns followed by native speakers of Ebonics. A Black History Month event hosted by the Hub and CSP. Bring your own lunch.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:12:53 -0500 2018-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar visible attribute to Jopwell.com or Jopwell
7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (February 12, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47740 47740-11004726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: CEW+

The Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) will present its 7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award on February 12th, 2018 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Stamps Auditorium on U-M's North Campus. The award will be given to Dr. Naomi André, an Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s Studies, as well as the Residential College where she serves as Associate Director for Faculty. A reception honoring Dr. André will immediately follow in the lobby.

Dr. André was selected as the recipient of this award in recognition of her scholarship and musicological inquiry into the representation of race, voice, and gender, her deep commitment to diversity as an educational mission, and her contributions to teaching and mentoring women of color scholars in the arts.

Dr. André’s publications include topics on Italian opera, Arnold Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in prisons. Her forthcoming book, Black Opera, History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, Spring 2018) focuses on how opera has become a unique arena for expressing blackness and presenting new narratives about the intersections of race, gender, and nation, in the West (United States and Europe) as well as in South Africa. Her earlier books, Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012, co-edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender, race, and identity.

The event is free and open to the public; however, registration is requested: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/7th-annual-shirley-verrett-award-ceremony/20171113

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:12:10 -0500 2018-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center CEW+ Ceremony / Service Naomi Andre, 2018 Honoree
Understanding Generations at Work (February 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44492 44492-9920286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

- Explore the different generations from the Veterans to the Xer’s and how these generations evolve in the workplace.
- Discussion will focus on understanding differences, resolving conflict and managing effectively in an age diverse workplace.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:17:43 -0500 2018-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EnginTalks: Building Solidarity (February 13, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49684 49684-11495915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Join your peers for an informal conversation about campus climate with faculty and staff. Food will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:57:14 -0500 2018-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Female student speaking passionately
U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting (February 15, 2018 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 44869-9992127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:45am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

YOU’RE INVITED!

The University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme, the artwork for the event booklet, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students, faculty, staff and administrators across campus.

We welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice, civil and human rights, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events, sharing department or org events, and always reflecting on current affairs, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community.

STUDENTS! (undergrad, grad, professional, etc) We need your voice at the table!

More information about putting your event in the booklet or online, the history of speakers, and other ways to get involved, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).

Please email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting, so that we may have an accurate food count.

The theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:19:33 -0400 2018-02-15T11:45:00-05:00 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Meeting mlk