Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57596 57596-14220060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join the Spectrum Center on November 20th from 5:30pm - 7pm in the Michigan Room, Michigan League, to honor and remember those lost to anti-trans violence and transphobia. There will be remarks, a performance from the OutLoud Chorus, refreshments and more.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is a yearly memorial to commemorate the lives of those killed at the hands of transphobia and cissexism. Join the community in this event to honor those we have lost this year and to recognize and reflect on the experiences and power of trans and nonbinary folx everywhere. Allies and friends are welcome, but please be respectful throughout the event and remember that it is intentionally centered on trans lives and experiences.

This event is free and open to the public. The second floor of the Michigan League is accessible. If anyone has any other accessibility needs please email the Spectrum Center (spectrumcenter@umich.edu) and any necessary accommodations can be made.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:49:54 -0500 2018-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Ceremony / Service A flyer showing four people holding signs and loudspeakers, protesting transphobia. The flyer also has details on the event itself.
The Current Status of HIV/AIDS: World AIDS Day Panel (November 29, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57809 57809-14314708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us for Programming Board’s World AIDS Day Panel: The Current Status of HIV/AIDS on Thursday, November 29th from 6-8pm in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. This panel will center around personal narratives and professional perspectives on HIV today and gives a platform to individuals living with HIV, medical professionals, researchers, and caretakers of those with HIV. Speakers include Dr. Gary Harper, Dr. Emily Shuman, Leon Golson, Marco Wade, Erin Rogers, Katie Sanders, and Jeanne White-Ginder. Pizza and drinks will be available.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:26:12 -0500 2018-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A flyer with information about the event and a background image of the red AIDS Awareness ribbon
Togetherness: QTPOC Dinner (December 4, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55330 55330-13716066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Spectrum Center and the Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs Office (MESA) are proud to continue an initiative centering Queer and Transgender People of Color (QTPOC): Community Dinners for/by QTPOC. FREE DINNER will be provided to the first 15 students who sign up for the respective dinners. If there are more than 15 students signing up for a dinner session, they will be put on a waiting list. The host for this dinner is Jesus Espinoza. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2Enpz6N

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:58:58 -0400 2018-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A flyer with images of small bowls of food, with information about the event and a photo of the host
FREE Pancake Supper Tuesday Night! (December 11, 2018 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58321 58321-14461173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Pres College

Annual FREE Pancake Supper for all Students
Tuesday, December 11th
10 PM - Midnight
First Pres Church (1432 Washtenaw Ave)
Bring friends, housemates, hallmates, etc. We are prepared to serve 200+ students. All are welcome!!
There will be pancakes (gluten-friendly on request), sausage links, homemade biscuits, fruit, egg dish, juices and more!

Contact Evans at campus@firstpresbyterian.org with any questions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:47:26 -0500 2018-12-11T22:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location First Pres College Social / Informal Gathering Pancake Supper Tuesday 10PM - 12AM
End of the Term Lunch, Recharge & Study Space (December 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56380 56380-13894481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

It’s the end of the semester and CEW+ is providing space (and food!) to help you finish the year off strong. On Wednesday, December 12th from 10am-3pm, students are invited to drop in and take advantage of our study spaces, self-care activities, and healthy snacks. There will also be a social hour with lunch from 12:30-1:30 PM. Feel free to drop in and socialize with other students or stay all day to get some work done. Either way, CEW+ is here to support you!

Bring friends to study together in our quiet spaces, or just hang out and meet other students from different departments in relaxing and welcoming spaces throughout the Center. Children are welcome with a designated child-friendly study space.

If you would like to attend the lunch, please RSVP. No registration is otherwise needed to drop in.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:12:52 -0400 2018-12-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T15:00:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Reception / Open House CEW+ Logo
Home For Break (December 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58146 58146-14433277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join Spectrum’s Programming Board for our annual Home for Break, an event focused on creating a safe and welcoming space for folks before leaving campus for winter break. There will be free food, discussion, games, resources for going home for the holidays, and good company. The event will be held 1160 USB December 12th from 11am to 2pm. The first portion of the event will center on an open discussion around self care and the second portion will have games and activities! Students are welcome to drop in whenever they choose.

Students will also have the opportunity to connect with GPS mentors, if they would like to have someone to talk to over break; the link can be found below to sign up and learn more information.

https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/gps-peer-mentorship

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:29:55 -0500 2018-12-12T11:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T14:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A flyer with rainbow lines and a heart on it, detailing the event with the Spectrum Center Programming Board logo also displayed
Out in Graduate School Webinar (January 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59919 59919-14797389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join our panel of graduate students who will discuss the complexities of being out and/or not being out, and what that means to them. Webinar link: https://bluejeans.com/251097890

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:11:38 -0500 2019-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar woman writing on notebook
Love Beyond Bounds (February 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59487 59487-14745556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC, in co-sponsorship with Spectrum Center and CEW+, are bringing Corey Kempster and Jari Jones to talk about their relationship and love. The event is specifically near Valentine's Day, a holiday that is often very heteronormative and hurtful for people who hold marginalized identities. We hope that by creating an affirming and inclusive space that is a great representation of love and healthy relationship norms we can promote inclusivity and respect in all relationships on our campus!

Jari Jones is an actress/model/singer/activist who channels her talents into powerful trans-centric storytelling. She has been featured on FX’s Pose, starred in an Off-Broadway show called “The Sex Myth,” and just finished filming a movie with Leyna Bloom, directed by Martin Scorsese. Corey Kempster is a counselor for LGBT youth who are experiencing homelessness in addition to doing some modeling and acting. Together they have become an icon for healthy, positive queer relationships and have done numerous speaking and activism events around the country.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:53:10 -0500 2019-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Presentation Blue poster with stars and planets on it with bold pink text spelling love beyond bounds and reiterating the time and location details.
Love Beyond Bounds (February 5, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60052 60052-14814816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

SAPAC, in co-sponsorship with Spectrum Center and CEW+, are bringing Corey Kempster and Jari Jones to talk about their relationship and love. The event is specifically near Valentine's Day, a holiday that is often very heteronormative and hurtful for people who hold marginalized identities. We hope that by creating an affirming and inclusive space that is a great representation of love and healthy relationship norms we can promote inclusivity and respect in all relationships on our campus!
Jari Jones is an actress/model/singer/activist who channels her talents into powerful trans-centric storytelling. She has been featured on FX’s Pose, starred in an Off-Broadway show called “The Sex Myth,” and just finished filming a movie with Leyna Bloom, directed by Martin Scorsese. Corey Kempster is a counselor for LGBT youth who are experiencing homelessness in addition to doing some modeling and acting. Together they have become an icon for healthy, positive queer relationships and have done numerous speaking and activism events around the country.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:54:51 -0500 2019-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion image of stars and pink and orange planet surrounding text about the event
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
LGBTQ Affirming Doctors and Navigating the Process (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59959 59959-14806082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join the Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School and OutMD for a conversation with LGBTQ affirming physicians and health care providers who will discuss how they approach their services to LGBTQ patients and offer reflections on navigating the health care system. Their insights may be useful for individuals are potentially seeking health care, as well as current/future providers who want to become more LGBTQ+ affirming.

This event is apart of LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week, and will take place in Rackham Assembly Hall. Food will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:17:29 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion the healthcare symbol in front of the rainbow flag
Free HIV Rapid Testing (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59965 59965-14806084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In partnership with Unified HIV Health and Beyond, Spectrum Center offers free rapid HIV testing every Monday during the fall and winter semesters between 6:00-8:00pm. Testing is offered on walk-in basis with no appointments needed.

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Well-being Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:46:46 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Well-being hands holding a red ribbon
LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week 2019 Featured Speaker Ignacio Rivera (February 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60545 60545-14908148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In collaboration with several units and student organizations, Spectrum Center is excited to invite Ignacio Rivera (they/them pronouns) as a Featured Speaker to campus for the 4th annual LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Ignacio G. Hutiá Xeiti Rivera is a trans and queer activist of color with over 20 years of experience in anti-oppression and sexual liberation work -- including topics of consent, sexual survivorship, and sex after sexual violence. Ignacio’s work continues to center those at the margins, in particular, people of color, and those with queer and trans identities.

This event will take place in the School of Social Work Educational Conference Center. It is free and open to the public. Please contact spectrumcenter@umich.edu with any accessibility needs.

Thanks to our co-sponsors: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), Trotter Multicultural Center, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), School of Social Work DEI, Coalition for Queer and Trans People of Color

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:53:28 -0500 2019-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion a brown background with an illustration of the speaker and various logos
LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week Resource Fair (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60211 60211-14849102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
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 who are working to improve and support LGBTQ+ individuals with regards to health and/or wellness. Check back for more information about the fair's organizations!

This event will take place in the Vandenberg Room, Michigan League. It is free and open to the public.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:45:39 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Fair / Festival woman writing on table
Queer Clothes Closet (February 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60293 60293-14857790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

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 in a safe, inclusive environment. Students can select up to 3 free items of business professional and business casual clothing per semester.

RSVP: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/256662/share_preview

This event is co-sponsored with the University Career Center as apart of LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Week. It will take place in the University Career Center office (3200 Student Activities Building)

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:09:57 -0500 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Spectrum Center Careers / Jobs a pale white flyer with red circles and triangles and four red stars in the center
Dreaming a disabled, queer of color future: A poetic keynote by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60569 60569-14910389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Spectrum Center

LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice , Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award), Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next two books, Tonguebreaker and Exploring Transformative Justice: A Reader (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) are forthcoming in 2019. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org's Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is part of a series of keynote speakers Spectrum Center is hosting on campus covering radical queer advocacy and activism work in collaboration with several departments and student organizations at University of Michigan.
This program is presented by the U-M Spectrum Center, and co-sponsored by Trotter Multicultural Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), University Housing Diversity and Inclusion, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Residential College, School of Social Work DEI, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:33:49 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion an image of the speaker smiling in front of flowers. they are wearing lipstick and their hair is tinted green.
Queer Paint No Pour (February 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61117 61117-15036267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please help us celebrate Black History Month with Queer Paint No Pour on Thursday, February 21 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM at Trotter Multicultural Center, featuring the work of artist Mickalene Thomas. This event is brought to you by the Trotter Multicultural Center and Spectrum Center Programming Board.

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Other Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:01:09 -0500 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T20:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Other Poster
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 14, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-14T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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LINK: Redefine Wellness. (March 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61580 61580-15143697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The idea behind LINK is to promote the exploration of other cultures through what connects us - our distinct perception and representation of strength, love, humanity, compassion, resilience, and creativity. We will be showcasing how mental health issues across campus represent these qualities through any and all creative talents and art, including but not limited to: photography, singing, dancing, acapella, visual art, film, writing, etc. Our goal is to be able raise awareness about mental health issues and the stigmatization that surrounds them.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:06:21 -0500 2019-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Exhibition Event Banner
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 15, 2019 8:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 8:15am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-15T08:15:00-04:00 2019-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Jewish Feminisms/American Visions (March 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61614 61614-15152488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

The Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, working in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, present Jewish Feminisms/American Visions: Perspectives from Fifty Years of Activism. This historic event brings together 36 pioneering and contemporary feminist activists, leaders, and thinkers to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. Building on the interpretations offered by historian Joyce Antler in her recent book, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement", activists from the 1960s through today will reexamine the contexts, experiences, and identities that went into creating American feminism and its impact on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.

For more information, go here: https://ssw.umich.edu/programs/jewish-communal-leadership-program/events/jewish-feminisms-american-visions

To register, go here: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E3521

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:45 -0500 2019-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Jewish Communal Leadership Program Conference / Symposium Jewish Feminisms American Visions
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (March 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Queer Yoga (March 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62080 62080-15284752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Spectrum Center's Programming Board for free yoga that aims to celebrate all queer bodies and ability levels! The yoga style will be beginner level and restorative. Please bring your own mat or towel!

There are 2 opportunities to attend a yoga session. The first one will be on Monday, March 18th from 7-8pm in the Trotter Basement. The second session will be on Thursday, March 21st from 7-8pm in 1160 USB (the UROP offices).

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:32:57 -0400 2019-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Exercise / Fitness a red and orange flyer with text and an illustration in the background
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (March 20, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-03-20T12:15:00-04:00 2019-03-20T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57791 57791-14306150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Now that the door to criminalizing sickness is open, what other ailments will follow? With moves in state legislatures to extend HIV-specific criminal laws to include diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis, the question is more than academic.

Trevor Hoppe research analyzes the social control of sex by institutions of medicine, law, and public health. His recently published book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press) analyzes the rise of punitive and coercive responses to HIV; Punishing Disease was awarded the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. He is also the co-editor of the recently published collection, The War on Sex (co-edited with David Halperin with Duke University Press), which analyzes the punitive social control of sex (and was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies). In addition to these book projects, Hoppe is also researching and publishing on the growth and impact of American sex offender registries, particularly the use of “sexually violent predator” statutes that allow for the civil confinement of sex offenders beyond their court-ordered sentence.

He earned his PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2014

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:09:09 -0500 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Trevor Hoppe event flyer
Queer Yoga (March 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62080 62080-15284753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Spectrum Center's Programming Board for free yoga that aims to celebrate all queer bodies and ability levels! The yoga style will be beginner level and restorative. Please bring your own mat or towel!

There are 2 opportunities to attend a yoga session. The first one will be on Monday, March 18th from 7-8pm in the Trotter Basement. The second session will be on Thursday, March 21st from 7-8pm in 1160 USB (the UROP offices).

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:32:57 -0400 2019-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Spectrum Center Exercise / Fitness a red and orange flyer with text and an illustration in the background
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (March 27, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-03-27T12:15:00-04:00 2019-03-27T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Queer Takeover: Computer Video Game Archive (March 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62185 62185-15311052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join the Spectrum Center Programming Board for a Queer Takeover of the Computer Video Game Archive at the Duderstadt Center on March 28 from 6-8pm! RSVP required by Sunday, March 24 as space is limited. RSVP: http://bit.ly/QueerCVGA

Please vote on games you would like to play, or add your own ideas! The catalog is available at https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:29:41 -0400 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A purple flyer with pixelated text and video game characters
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62577 62577-15405816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Queer Spiritual Drifting: Site-Specific Performance and Writing

Tuesday, April 2, 2019
6:00pm
Walgreen Drama Center, Room B207

How can drifting find space on the page? Let’s think together about connections between performance practice and writing, about embodiment and the page, and about widening audiencing procedures for performance. In 2017, Petra Kuppers travelled to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability performance exploration of queer spiritual asylum spaces. In this talk, Petra will discuss these performance actions and the resulting publication, a travelogue essay in Performance Research, ‘Queer Spiritual Drifting: Not at home in The Beguinage.’

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

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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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:51:56 -0400 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Dance Photo
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (April 3, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-04-03T12:15:00-04:00 2019-04-03T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Trans Day of Visibility Clothing Swap (April 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62141 62141-15302205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, the Spectrum Center and oSTEM will be hosting a clothing swap, as a way for the LGBTQ+ community to provide support to trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming individuals who may be in need of access to free clothing. The Clothing Swap will be held on Wednesday, April 3rd from 4-6pm in the Trotter Basement Rec Room. Attendees can bring whatever clothes they want, as long as they fit with the rules listed below.

If you are planning on bringing items, please fill out this Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/1GKmUsFJnTmGOSGt1

1. If you are bringing clothes, they must be clean and in good quality: no tears, rips, or stains please!
2. Please do not bring any underwear or used swimsuits.
3. Binders and bras are okay to bring, as long as they have been gently used or are new items.
4. For the first 15 minutes of the event, students will be able to browse and “window shop” but not take any clothes. We want everyone to have time to lay out their clothes before people begin choosing items!
5. There will be two dressing rooms available to try on clothing.
6. If there are leftover items available at the end of the event, we will have a donation bag/box for anything you would like to donate. Spectrum will donate these items for you to a local center!

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Reception / Open House Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:26:27 -0400 2019-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Reception / Open House A white, pink and blue flyer with pink and blue stripes on top
Navi(gay)ting Grad School Dinner (April 3, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62547 62547-15399290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Come meet with current University of Michigan graduate students across a variety of fields including: Public Health, Medical School, Physics, Social Work, Law School, and more! Enjoy dinner and have personal conversations about various experiences of being LGBTQ+ in graduate school. Please register via the ticket link, as spots are limited.

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Other Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:37:31 -0400 2019-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Spectrum Center Other a flyer with red blue and yellow illustrated arrows on the top and bottom
Togetherness: QTPOC End of Year Celebration 2019! (April 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62546 62546-15399289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join the Spectrum Center and the Office of Multi-Ethic Student Affairs (MESA) to celebrate another year of Togetherness: QTPOC Community Dinners! This initiative centers Queer and Transgender People of Color (QTPOC), and the hosts will consist of QTPOC staff, faculty, and community members around U-M. We are inviting all members of the QTPOC community to meet, mix and mingle, continue building community, and learn more about our QTPOC Community Dinners. You do NOT have to have attended or hosted a QTPOC Community Dinner in the past to attend! Light refreshments and games will be provided! RSVP: http://bit.ly/2Enpz6N

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:31:52 -0400 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering a flyer with an image of a cd surrounded by images of queer and trans people of color
Epsilon Eta Spring Interest Meeting (April 4, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62528 62528-15397105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Epsilon Eta

Epsilon Eta is Umich's only Pre-Profesional Environmental Co-Ed Fraternity. We seek to develop a more robust network of students, researchers, employers, and agencies to more effectively deal with the realities of our world’s changing climate and loss of biodiversity. By fostering a conscious awareness of the intrinsic relationship between people and their environment through academics, the community, and service, we seek to bridge the gap from the undergraduate atmosphere to professional environmental fields for students at Michigan.
Although we are inclusive of all majors, we require an interest in the environmental field. By pledging Epsilon Eta, you will become a member of an eclectic group of driven, intelligent, and innovative peers, as well as gain access to professional, social, and volunteering resources.
This meeting will give you a chance to get a better sense of our organization and a chance to ask questions. We will also explain what our Fall Rush process consists of.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:01:16 -0400 2019-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 Dana Building Epsilon Eta Rally / Mass Meeting logo
Forecasting Fall (April 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62832 62832-15477384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

Forecasting Fall ice cream social is an event for U-M students to learn about opportunities around social justice education including employment opportunities and community building. Free ice cream and group activities will be served.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:22:41 -0400 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Galleria The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Careers / Jobs Forecasting Fall flyer
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (April 10, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-04-10T12:15:00-04:00 2019-04-10T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Trans Visibility Passport Day (April 11, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62081 62081-15284754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center and the University of Michigan School of Social Work Office of Global Activities are collaborating to host Trans Visibility Passport Day on April 11th from 9:30am - 2:00pm.

During Trans Visibility Passport Day, the Washtenaw County Clerk's office will assist students and community members to apply for, renew, or change their passport. Trans Visibility Passport Day is also open to students and community members who need to apply for a first time passport, without needing to update a gender marker or make a name change. Please RSVP below if interested.

Please be aware that all fees required to obtain a passport must be made on the day of the event. Payments for the passport book or card must be payable to U.S. Department of State. Payments for the processing fee must be payable to Washtenaw County Clerk. All payments MUST be a check or a money order. Counter checks are not allowed.

More information about the event and passport fees can be found on the RSVP form. RSVP: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/?eventID=E3553

Financial support may be available for students applying for a passport who are requesting name or gender maker change. Please send a message to ssw.oga@umich.edu to request more information.

Please RSVP by April 5th!

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Other Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:44:51 -0400 2019-04-11T09:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Other A flyer with the background of a map and two small images of a passport and an ID
LGBTQA+ Allyhood Development Training (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62890 62890-15486012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

In recognition of the Day of Silence, MEGC in collaboration with the ME Department will be offering Allyhood Development Training in the Blue Lounge on Friday, April 12th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Approximately 10-13% of students across the university identifies with the LGBTQA+ community and we are committed to creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment for LGBTQA+ students and allies within our department (and across COE).

Food and Refreshments will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:48:37 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Workshop / Seminar LGBT Flag
LGBTQ and Ally Trivia Night (April 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63006 63006-15534806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

Come join us for some fun LGBTQ and ally trivia. The purpose of the trivia is to provide a fun way to educate the public on the challenges that LGBTQ students face, as well as how to be better allies to them. Bring your friends! There will be food and prizes!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:53:40 -0400 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Social / Informal Gathering Trivia
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (April 17, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15335300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-04-17T12:15:00-04:00 2019-04-17T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Graduate + Undergraduate Hopwood Awards + Lecture (April 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57608 57608-14220076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Please join us as we celebrate the winners of the 2018-19 Hopwood Awards.

Following the announcement of the awards, there will be a lecture from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als and a light reception. Free to attend and open to all!

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Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America.

Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. Als edited the catalogue for the 1994-95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014 and winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction, discusses various narratives of race and gender. He is author of the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Early Stories of Truman Capote. He is also guest editor for the 2018 Best American Essays (Mariner Books, October 2, 2018). He also wrote Andy Warhol: The Series, a book containing two previously unpublished television scripts for a series on the life of Andy Warhol.

In 1997, the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for creative writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. In 2016, he received Lambda Literary’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, in 2017 Als won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and in 2018 the Langston Hughes Medal.

In 2009, Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on “Cold Water,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery. In 2010, he co-curated “Self-Consciousness,” at the VeneKlasen/Werner gallery, in Berlin, and published “Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis.” In 2015, he collaborated with the artist Celia Paul to create “Desdemona for Celia by Hilton,” an exhibition for the Metropolitan Opera’s Gallery Met. In 2016, his debut art show “One Man Show: Holly, Candy, Bobbie and the Rest” opened at the Artist’s Institute. In 2017 he curated "Alice Neel, Uptown" at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City.

Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:41:04 -0500 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Photo of Hilton Als (credit Brigitte Lacombe)
CANCELED :: Roundtable and Q&A with Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan (April 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60967 60967-14997739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

****This event has been canceled due to changing travel plans. We hope to see you at the 4/18 Hopwood Awards Ceremony instead (Thursday, April 18, 6:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium).****

Please join us in the Hopwood Room for a discussion between essayists Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This lunchtime event will be catered; food will be available at 11:30, and the discussion will start at noon.

Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film and pop culture. She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was just chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published in 2017. She is currently a Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:07:21 -0400 2019-04-19T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
End of the Term Lunch, Recharge & Study Space (April 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62248 62248-15335303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Be sure you’re here by 12:15 to be entered into a drawing to win a CEW+ swag bag!

It’s the end of the semester and CEW+ is providing space (and food!) to help you finish the year off strong. Students are invited to drop in and take advantage of our study spaces, self-care activities, and healthy snacks. There will also be a social hour with lunch from 12:30-1:30 PM (RSVP requested for planning purposes).

We will also be offering two guided opportunities to practice mindfulness meditation at 10:15 and 1:30. Based on research from multiple sources, mindfulness is considered a key skill that can be utilized to reduce stress and induce a state of relaxation. Some of the many benefits of practicing mindfulness during finals are, higher brain functioning, increased attention and focus, increased clarity in thinking and perception, lowered anxiety levels, and better sleep. Mindfulness is a skill that can be learned and most effective when practiced on a regular basis. Come see how 15 minutes can help you make the most of your study time!

Feel free to drop in and socialize with other students or stay all day to get some work done. Either way, CEW+ is here to support you!

Bring friends to study together in our quiet spaces, or just hang out and meet other students from different departments in relaxing and welcoming spaces throughout the Center. Children are welcome with a designated child-friendly study space.

If you would like to attend the lunch, please RSVP. No registration is otherwise needed to drop in.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:17:54 -0400 2019-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Social / Informal Gathering Study Day
24th Annual Lavender Graduation (May 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60881 60881-14981921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Annual Lavender Graduation, also referred to as LavGrad, is a celebration to honor LGBTQ graduates of the University of Michigan. Established by Ronni Sanlo in 1995, University of Michigan was the first commemorative event of its kind celebrated at an institution of higher learning. This commencement ceremony acknowledges the contributions of any graduates from any school/college at the University and of any academic level. All participants within the LGBTQ communities will receive a free rainbow 2019 tassel, a lavender cord, and a Lavender Degree. Participating graduates are welcome to invite their loved ones to celebrate their accomplishments.

Doors open at 4:00 pm
Ceremony 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Reception 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center (address: 428 S. State Street)

Please register for Lavender Graduation prior to the deadline of Monday, April 1, 2019 at 11:59PM. REGISTER: bit.ly/UmichLavGrad

Those with any accessibility or accommodation needs can email spectrumcenter@umich.edu. Please email at least 2 weeks prior to the event. We want this event to be accessible to all!

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During the Lavender Graduation Ceremony, Spectrum Center recognizes the accomplishments of the graduating class by awarding several individuals and groups who have impacted the LGBTQ community. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, March 22, 2019, at 5pm. More info: bit.ly/UmichLavGrad

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:52:04 -0400 2019-05-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-02T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Ceremony / Service a flyer with a purple background and thick purple and grey lines surrounding text
Community Celebration Honoring 2019 Graduates and the Start of Summer (May 3, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63077 63077-15553741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Together, let’s celebrate the graduation of students from across campus and enjoy a festive, relaxing vibe as we head into summer. Stop by and enjoy delicious refreshments in our recently renovated, bright and airy gathering space. Families, including children, are welcome.

RSVP requested, but not required. We hope you are able to join us!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 01 May 2019 15:20:34 -0400 2019-05-03T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-03T15:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Social / Informal Gathering Ohana Celebration Flyer
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (May 8, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-05-08T12:15:00-04:00 2019-05-08T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (May 15, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-05-15T12:15:00-04:00 2019-05-15T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (May 22, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-05-22T12:15:00-04:00 2019-05-22T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (May 29, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-05-29T12:15:00-04:00 2019-05-29T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (June 5, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-06-05T12:15:00-04:00 2019-06-05T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (June 12, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-06-12T12:15:00-04:00 2019-06-12T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits (June 19, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 62246-15551645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Wednesdays at 12:15pm

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.

Free and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required.

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Well-being Wed, 15 May 2019 15:38:05 -0400 2019-06-19T12:15:00-04:00 2019-06-19T12:45:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Well-being Breathe
UROP Summer Research Symposium (July 31, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63907 63907-15985743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s culminating event for all students participating in UROP Programs. The event celebrates the partnerships created between students and research mentors, and serves as a conference where students present their summer research and learn about the research fellow students have worked on.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:55:54 -0400 2019-07-31T13:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Summer 19
Pride Outside 2019 (September 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64856 64856-16476904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Field
Organized By: oSTEM

Come one, come all!

Out in STEM, Spectrum Center, Central Student Government, and the College of Engineering are extremely PROUD to host Pride Outside 2019!

Join us for music, free pizza and "Michgian Pride" t-shirts, a drag show, lawn games and tons of cool LGBTQ+ and affirming student organizations and local groups!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:09:44 -0400 2019-09-02T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-02T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Field oSTEM Fair / Festival Pride Outside Flyer
LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Mixer (September 10, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65060 65060-16509321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Rackham and the Spectrum Center in kicking off the new semester! Meet new friends and connect with other LGBTQ+ students in UM graduate programs. This free event will take place in the Rackham Assembly Hall, with food provided. There will be vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. All foods will be nut-free. Registration required, go to myumi.ch/qggG1 to do so!

We're so excited to see you there!

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:18:01 -0400 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Spectrum Center Reception / Open House Details of the LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Mixer
Growth and Grit: Developing a Mindset for Success (September 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65979 65979-16678382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science Learning Center

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

Registration Link: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/growth-and-grit-developing-a-mindset-for-success-science-success-series/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:40:53 -0500 2019-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Make It Stick: Research-Based Learning Strategies You Need to Know (September 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65980 65980-16678383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science Learning Center

The study and learning strategies students often bring to college are often insufficient to help them succeed at the university level. Particularly in challenging STEM courses, students can't simply memorize or cram their way to a good grade. This workshop will focus on the popular learning strategies to avoid, as well as the top three strategies you don't know but are shown by research to be the most effective for long-term learning.

Registration Link: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/make-it-stick-research-based-learning-strategies-you-need-to-know-science-success-series/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:39:54 -0400 2019-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Queer/Cuir Américas Symposium (September 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63432 63432-15694219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

What are the meanings of queer and cuir in Latinx America and the Caribbean? What are the politics of translation and knowledge production in our hemisphere? Join the Cuir Américas Working Group | Grupo de Trabajo Feminista/Queer/Cuir for a bilingual discussion on LGBTQ Latinx, Indigenous, and Afro-diasporic gender, sexuality, and politics, including a panel discussion, keynote address by Ochy Curiel, and reception.

1pm | Welcoming words by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, Women's Studies), Constanza Contreras Ruiz (English), Kerry White (American Culture)


1:15pm | Roundtable on Queer/Cuir Studies in the Américas

Marcia Ochoa, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
Marlene Wayar, Independent Scholar, Argentina
Diego Falconí-Trávez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University/College of the Holy Cross
Juliana Martínez, American University.

Moderator
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, University of California, Santa Cruz/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

3:00 | Break

3:30-5:00pm Keynote lecture
Ochy Curiel, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
“Encuentros y Desencuentros: Between Decolonial Feminism and Cuir/Queer Theory and Practice" (in Spanish).

Drawing on decolonial feminism which brings together and is complicated by the contributions, theories, analyses and practices of the most critical currents in feminism—such as Black feminism, feminist autonomous separatism, lesbian feminism, the feminism of indigenous women and Abya Yala’s indigenous origins—as well as the contributions of the decolonial turn around the historical construction of modernity and coloniality, this presentation seeks to problematize certain cuir/queer positions and analyses which only consider those bodies that are generated by and sexualized within privileged positions in regards to race, class, and geopolitics. At the same time, this paper tries to revive more critical and radical cuir/queer positions that contribute to constructing projects of social transformation and collective emancipation.

Ochy Curiel is professor of Gender Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is an Afro-Dominican feminist, lesbian, anti-racist, and decolonial singer/scholar/activist who has been at the forefront of contemporary Afro-feminist movements throughout Latin America.

5:00-6:00pm Reception

Event is free and open to the public and will be in English and Spanish. Interpretation/translation will not be provided.

Major funding for this event provided by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) through a Think-Act Tank grant. Additional support provided byBrazil Initiative (LACS), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), Department of American Culture, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Women's Studies, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Latina/o Studies Program, the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI), the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), and the U-M Office of Research (UMOR).

For more information about the symposium please contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes at lawrlafo@umich.edu.

For more information about the special issue of GLQ on Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable, please visit https://cuiramericas.org/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:34:29 -0400 2019-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Latina/o Studies Conference / Symposium Poster
Spectrum Center's BiBQ (September 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65057 65057-16509319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join us on Bi Visibility Day with a bar-b-que! We’ll be celebrating the bi, pan, ply, fluid, and non-monosexual communities with food, fun and resources. We’ll also be chalking in the diag and making buttons. This event is free and open to the public!

Food being offered includes:
BBQ Chicken (gluten-free)
BBQ Jackfruit (gluten-free, vegan)
Coleslaw (gluten-free, vegetarian)
Tater-tots (vegan)
Bread & rolls (gluten-free available)
Iced tea & ice water

Food will be served starting at 5pm. Right after the event wraps up, join us for chalking positive messages for the bi, pan, ply, and fluid folks at University of Michigan!

Parking, accessibility, and wayfinding details can be found at http://bit.ly/2mrtITH.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

For more information on Bi Visibility Day, check out bivisibilityday.com

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:46:26 -0400 2019-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Details about the BiBQ event included in event description
Togetherness: QTIPOC Dinners - September (September 26, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66688 66688-16770205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

QTIPOC Dinners are a series of events MESA and Spectrum Center have created together to center the experiences of queer and trans indigenous students & students of color in a relaxed environment. Each dinner is hosted by a local individual we believe can bring a lot to the metaphorical (and actual) table and free food is provided to all who attend. This dinner will feature food from Baba Dari Mediterranean Grill including Chicken Shawarma bowls, Falafel bowls, and Fattoush Salad

This month's host is Dominique Canning. Here's a little more about her:
Dominique is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics (with a focus on sociolinguistics and phonetics) and in her 4th year at the University of Michigan. She graduated in 2016 from Eastern Michigan University (EMU) where she was part of the McNair Scholars Program.

Dominique’s research is partially motivated by her own identity as a queer woman of color. She identifies as aromantic asexual and is frequently conscious of how she uses language to navigate through both academic and non-academic spaces. At EMU, she researched the discussion around asexual inclusion in queer spaces online. Though she is not currently looking at asexuality specifically, she looks at queerness and language in her current research. Most recently, she examined the way language was used to construct Titus Andromedon's identity as a Black gay man in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. In her future research, she plans to look at how queer people of color use language to construct their own identities in various spaces.

All dinners are hosted 5:30 to 7pm at 1443 Washtenaw. Reserve your spot at this dinner or any of the upcoming dinners at: http://bit.ly/QTIPOCfall2019

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:42:01 -0400 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering The date, time, and location of September's Togetherness Dinner. Additionally, there is a shortened version of Dominique's "about" and a picture of her. Dominique is a Black woman with glasses and short, springy hair. She is smiling at the camera.
Lecture: The Shadow of Diagnosis: Mental Illness and Black Queer Desire (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63937 63937-16483060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The American Studies Consortium presents a lecture by Prof. GerShun Avilez (Maryland).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:52:53 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Queer in STEM: a Post-Graduate Experience (October 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67500 67500-16866606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Rackham Graduate School and Spectrum Center for a panel and conversation about holding an LGBTQ+ identity in STEM fields while persuing a graduate degree and beyond. Registration required, found at https://myumi.ch/9oode.

Panelists will include individuals who have a PhD Industrial and Operations Engineering, a PhD Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, a PhD Robotics, and MA in Biomedical Engineering

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:25:03 -0400 2019-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Queer in STEM information, including date, time, and location. The background is a blurry image of a public study space and a rainbow runs vertically down the right side of the image. The Rackham, Student Life, and Spectrum Center Block M logos line the bottom.
LGBTQ Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (October 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65489 65489-16605649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

(Psst, there's a training event for folks new to editing to Wikipedia on October 2nd! Learn more and register for that session here: http://bit.ly/2KtnOuK)

Wikipedia is the largest, most popular online reference work, covering all areas of history and contemporary life. However, both the topics it covers and the people who edit its articles don’t reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community. In honor of LGBTQ History Month, join us for an LGBTQ Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Together we’ll improve representation of LGBTQ people, events, and topics in Wikipedia.

Why:
Most Wikipedia editors are straight, cis, white men. Let's change that.
Most Wikipedia articles are about straight, cis, white men. Let's change that.

Who should attend:
LGBTQ folx and allies; anyone interested in improving LGBTQ representation in Wikipedia

Please bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. If you're new to editing or have no ideas in mind, we can help get you started!

Gender-inclusive restrooms are on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th floors of Hatcher South

RSVP through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/2H4Ewye

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:35:57 -0400 2019-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar "Pride on the Streets"
Medical School Student Panel Discussion (October 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65981 65981-16678384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Here is your chance to hear about what life is like for several medical school students and residents. Learn about each of their paths to medicine, experiences in medical school, and things they wished they had known in college. You can also submit your own questions ahead of time using the following link: http://tiny.cc/med-student-panel.

Registration Link: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/medical-school-student-panel-discussion-2/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:40:54 -0400 2019-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
National Coming Out Week / LGBTQ History Month Keynote (October 8, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67007 67007-16796435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join us as we welcome River Coello to campus as our keynote speaker for National Coming Out Week 2019 and LGBTQ History Month 2019.

*About River:*
River Coello is a queer and trans multidisciplinary artist from Guayaquil, Ecuador living in Chicago, Illinois.

As an actor, River has appeared on various stage productions, having trained at Acting Studio Chicago, Second City Training Center, and the University of Michigan. As a writer, River’s work explores various liminalities of the human condition through a focus on River’s own identities and experiences, grounded in a deeply spiritual perspective.

*Acerca de:*
River Coello es un/a artista multidisciplinario/a cuir/qüeer y trans de Guayaquil, Ecuador viviendo en Chicago, Illinois.

Como actor/actriz, River ha aparecido en varias producciones de teatro, habiendo entrenado en Acting Studio Chicago, Second City Training Center y la Universidad de Míchigan. Como escritor/a, el trabajo de River explora varias liminalidades de la condición humana a través de un enfoque en sus propias identidades y experiencias, bien fundado/a en una perspectiva profundamente espiritual.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:09:32 -0400 2019-10-08T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Date, time, location of the keynote, and a description of River Coello identical to that in the event description. The logos of all co-sponsors are below the text. Beside the text is a chest-up shot of River, an Ecuadorian individual with long dark brown hair and dark brown eyes in a strapless sweater or dress.
UM Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Faculty Alliance (UMFA) - Annual Faculty Reception (October 9, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66626 66626-16767973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UM Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Faculty Alliance

Annual reception and brief meeting (about 6pm) for UM faculty and deans who are LGBT or interested in issues related to LGBT faculty

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Reception / Open House Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:03:07 -0400 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UM Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Faculty Alliance Reception / Open House Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Togetherness: QTIPOC Dinners - October (October 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66690 66690-16770209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

QTIPOC Dinners are a series of events MESA and Spectrum Center have created together to center the experiences of queer and trans indigenous students & students of color in a relaxed environment. Each dinner is hosted by a local individual we believe can bring a lot to the metaphorical (and actual) table and free food is provided to all who attend.

This month's host is Layla Mohammed Abdul-Jabbar. Here's a little more about her:
Layla Mohammed Abdul-Jabbar (she/her/hers) is a new media artist and animator based in Metro-Detroit. She is involved with the local DIY community, discussing intersectionality between topics such as mental health, queerness, and racial and religious inequalities. She finds inspiration from nightlife, body horror, Islamic architecture, and whatever’s popping on the Instagram explore page. Her latest piece In the Margins: Illuminating Islamic Queerness is an experimental documentary animation which investigates the intersection of faith, sexuality, and gender by following people who identify as queer and/or trans and Muslim. She graduated with her BFA at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

All dinners are hosted 5:30 to 7pm at 1443 Washtenaw. Reserve your spot at this dinner or any of the upcoming dinners at: http://bit.ly/QTIPOCfall2019

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:16:30 -0400 2019-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering The date, time, and location of September's Togetherness Dinner. Additionally, there is a shortened version of Layla's "about" and a picture of her. Layla is facing the camera wearing goggle-like eyewear, long dangling earrings, and has her hair pulled up. The photo has a blue filter applied over it.
Third Annual LGBTQ Monologues (October 10, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67334 67334-16839873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center is excited to host the Third Annual LGBTQ Monologues as a part of our National Coming Out Week series! Envisioned as an event that meets the need for LGBTQ spaces and visibility, the LGBTQ Monologues event is a platform for all of our stories to be heard. This year, our theme is Intergenerational Dialogues, inspired by the many ways our community and the world at large has changed in the past few decades. Community elders from SAGE Detroit and rising students will share the stage and speak to their experiences in an ever-evolving context of living while queer.

Interested in performing? Share your narratives at the event by applying at this link - http://bit.ly/Monologues19. Deadline is Oct 2nd, 2019.

Want to learn more about the event logistics, like parking and directions? Check out http://Monologues19Details.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Performance Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:22:27 -0400 2019-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Performance Time, date, and location for the Third Annual LGBTQ Monologues, including the links to apply and to event details. In the background there is a cartoon person with purple lipstick speaking into a microphone. Their face from the nose up is covered by a rainbow flag.
International Pronouns Day (October 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67006 67006-16794278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

October 16th is International Pronouns Day and the Spectrum Center and University Library have teamed up to celebrate it! There are multiple ways to get involved in the day and we'd be excited to see you at any of them.

*Pronoun Pin Giveaway | All day (while supplies last) | Multiple locations*
Visit the information desk of Hatcher, Shapiro, or Taubman libraries to grab a pin with your pronouns (or the space to write them in) and learn a little about the day! We will be handing them out as long as they last, but they went quick last year. Make sure to get to the closest library as soon as you can!

*Create Your Own Pronoun Button | 3 - 5pm | Shapiro Library Lobby*
Miss your chance to pick up a button or want to make one with some more personal flair? Join Library Ambassadors in Shapiro to make one yourself! Supplies will be available to make a button all your own and peers to discuss the importance and role of pronouns in our lives!

*Pronoun Info Tabling | TBD | The Diag near Mason Hall*
Come and visit members of the Spectrum Center Programming Board for fun ways of learning how to use and talk about pronouns, take your pronoun visibility to the next level, and so much more!

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Other Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:39:45 -0400 2019-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Other Information of the times and locations of International Pronoun Day activities in the style of a "Hello, my name is" nametag. The words "name is" are crossed out and replaced with a written-in "pronouns are."
Fall into Wellness (October 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68000 68000-16977594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Health Service
Organized By: University Health Service

Students - Join us October 17, 2019 for an afternoon of well-being boosters and fall fun!

Featuring:

Hawkeye the Wellness Dog (12-2 PM)
Free STI testing and treatment for U-M students (see details on event website)
Free treatment for partner(s) also provided
Mini Wellness Coaching (see details on event website)
Free food! (Chela's taco bar while supplies last, Michigan cider and donuts!)

Location: Wolverine Wellness, lower level of UHS (207 Fletcher Street)

Please see the event website for more information about free testing and mini wellness coaching. For questions, contact lastmc@umich.edu.

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Well-being Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:42:33 -0400 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Health Service University Health Service Well-being Fall leaves with yellow text Fall Into Wellness
Spectrum Center- Allyhood Development Training (October 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66767 66767-16776782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This session is open to the entire U-M community.

The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will:
Grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work.

Audience:
This session is open to the entire U-M community.

Presenter: Elizabeth Gonzalez, Education & Training Program Manager, Spectrum Center



Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:10:54 -0400 2019-10-18T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-17128444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

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

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
Sounds Fake But Okay (October 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67046 67046-16796478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event navigation details - http://bit.ly/35VIVhJ

The Spectrum Center is inviting UM alumni and co-creators of the asexuality-focused podcast Sounds Fake But Okay to talk about being content creators in the asexual community. Learn about why these two friends came together to make the podcast, how they've kept it going for over two years, their evolution as creators, and maybe pick up something new to listen to!

Check out the other Asexual Awareness Week events at http://bit.ly/AsexualAwareness19

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:38:51 -0400 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Times, dates, and locations for all three Asexual Awareness Week events from the Spectrum Center in the colors of the asexual flag - black, gray, white, and dark purple.
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Writing Western Nicaragua's Colonial and Post-Colonial LGBTQ Histories (October 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67275 67275-16831241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dr. González-Rivera's research on western Nicaragua's pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a long-standing Indigenous “transgender” tradition in open-air markets, which rests on pre-colonial economic opportunities for women in tiangues and Nicaragua’s unique association between commerce and femininity. Dr. González-Rivera further contends that contemporary Nicaraguan negative attitudes towards trans women, while less prevalent than in other parts of the world, do exist and are highly steeped in racism and classism due to the association made between trans women and indigeneity. This project thus concludes that working-class women’s continuous economic participation in Nicaragua is a symbol of indigenous resistance to colonialism as is the continued existence of trans women. This presentation also documents the invention of indigenous sodomy in Nicaragua and the ways in which the Spanish contributed to the creation of the contemporary Nicaraguan “cochon,” the term used in the last hundred years to refer to presumably “passive” [“feminine”] male partners in same sex relations between men.

Co-sponsors: Department of History; Rackham Graduate School; Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI) in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG); Women's Studies; Institute for the Humanities

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:04:55 -0400 2019-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T17:15:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
MBLGTACC Conference Delegation Info Sessions (October 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68559 68559-17096957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Interested in attending an LGBTQ+ conference but not sure what to expect? Attend one of our two info sessions! In one hour you'll learn all about the Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual College Conference (MBLGTACC) and what Spectrum hopes to achieve through its student delegation to the conference. No pre-registration necessary.

Session A: Tuesday, October 22nd, 6 to 7 PM, East Quad Room 1423
Session B: Saturday, November 2nd, 3 to 4 PM, East Quad Room B184

The application to apply to be in the delegation is bit.ly/SCatCC2020, in case you are already interested in attending. Application deadline is November 17th.

[Header ID: Invitation to join Spectrum Center's MBLGTACC delegation. MBLGTACC stands for Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual Conference. A picture of Western Michigan University, the hosting school, serves as a background.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:16:11 -0400 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Spectrum Center Presentation Invitation to join Spectrum Center's MBLGTACC delegation. MBLGTACC stands for Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual Conference. A picture of Western Michigan University, the hosting school, serves as a background.
Putting the Ace in Sex Ed (October 23, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67043 67043-16796477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event navigation details - http://bit.ly/32AcHXv

Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences.

Check out the other Asexual Awareness Week events at http://bit.ly/AsexualAwareness19

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:10:59 -0400 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Times, dates, and locations for all three Asexual Awareness Week events from the Spectrum Center in the colors of the asexual flag - black, gray, white, and dark purple.
Asexual / Aromantic CenterSpace (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67048 67048-16796480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: 1443 Washtenaw Ave Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event navigation details - http://bit.ly/31BhMgG

Asexual- and aromantic-spectrum or questioning individuals are invited to a special CenterSpace support meeting just for you! Come by, grab some snacks, and participate in a facilitated discussion about your experiences, the asexual and aromantic communities, and the kind of support you'd like to see from the Spectrum Center

Check out the other Asexual Awareness Week events at http://bit.ly/AsexualAwareness19

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:19:20 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 1443 Washtenaw Ave Building Spectrum Center Meeting Times, dates, and locations for all three Asexual Awareness Week events from the Spectrum Center in the colors of the asexual flag - black, gray, white, and dark purple.
Intersex Awareness 101 (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67121 67121-16803023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join the Spectrum Center in a workshop all about intersex identity and how society's idea of sex isn't as clear-cut as it's made out to be in honor of Intersex Awareness Day (October 26th). The workshop is based on the presentation available from intersex advocacy organization InterAct as a part of their 4intersex campaign. Snacks will be available, including vegan and gluten-free offerings.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:50:05 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Date, time, and location of the Intersex Awareness 101 workshop. The themeing is based around the colors and shapes on an Australian-created Intersex flag, which is a deep purple ring on a golden yellow background.
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-16890095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

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

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
MBLGTACC Conference Delegation Info Sessions (November 2, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68559 68559-17096958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Interested in attending an LGBTQ+ conference but not sure what to expect? Attend one of our two info sessions! In one hour you'll learn all about the Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual College Conference (MBLGTACC) and what Spectrum hopes to achieve through its student delegation to the conference. No pre-registration necessary.

Session A: Tuesday, October 22nd, 6 to 7 PM, East Quad Room 1423
Session B: Saturday, November 2nd, 3 to 4 PM, East Quad Room B184

The application to apply to be in the delegation is bit.ly/SCatCC2020, in case you are already interested in attending. Application deadline is November 17th.

[Header ID: Invitation to join Spectrum Center's MBLGTACC delegation. MBLGTACC stands for Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual Conference. A picture of Western Michigan University, the hosting school, serves as a background.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:16:11 -0400 2019-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Spectrum Center Presentation Invitation to join Spectrum Center's MBLGTACC delegation. MBLGTACC stands for Midwest Bi, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Asexual Conference. A picture of Western Michigan University, the hosting school, serves as a background.
A World Beyond (November 7, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67212 67212-16824681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Arts in Color

A World Beyond is a showcase of original choreography by current undergraduate dance majors. The theme of the evening is "world-making," a powerful tool used in arts activism that encourages people to imagine and hope for a better reality. Featured works address topics ranging from queer community-building to the visibility of labor.

The performance will include an intermission. RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/events/540756900010921

This event is supported in part by the Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund, Center for World Performance Studies, the SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, and Arts at Michigan.

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Performance Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:32:12 -0400 2019-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Arts in Color Performance Dancer poses in a backbend on the concrete steps of a sunny park.
Literati Bookstore Presents: Andre Aciman (November 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68652 68652-17130519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement

Literati Bookstore is excited to welcome bestselling author André Aciman to Rackham Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan in support of the follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Find Me. The program will feature a conversation with writer Zahir Janmohamed and an audience Q&A. A book signing will follow. Ticketed, but free student tickets are available.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:59:46 -0400 2019-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T20:15:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Books
LGBTQ+ Health & Safety Info Session (November 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68671 68671-17136730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Do you identify as an LGBTQ+ individual or ally and are thinking about studying or traveling abroad? Check out this event, co-sponsored by the Center for Global and Intercultural Study and the Spectrum Center, on addressing health and safety concerns specific to LGBTQ+ individuals. Topics include important considerations when choosing an abroad destination, being out abroad, support services available here and abroad, gendered languages when you use they/them pronouns, and more.


*Event Accommodations:*
Do you need any accommodations that we should know about (disability, dietary needs, etc.)? We encourage you to share this information with us as early as possible, so we can put in place any reasonable accommodations. Please contact the CGIS Accommodations email (CGISaccommodations@umich.edu) to submit an accommodations request.

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Presentation Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:39:26 -0400 2019-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Group of students abroad
Meals with Faculty (November 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65224 65224-16555452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals with Faculty series, which have been created to give you all the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ+ faculty and researchers in the community. There is no required or preferred discipline and all are welcome no matter what you're studying. This month's faculty guests are Cortney Turner of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Andrew Brouwer, a research investigator in epidemiology in the School of Public Health.

The meals are free, but do require pre-registration at http://bit.ly/GradEat

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:30:59 -0500 2019-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Meals with Faculty - February 6th, 5:30 to 6:30 PM. This dinner will be held in the Parker Room of the Michigan Union and features Andrew Brouwer and Cortney Turner as faculty guests.
Paris is Burning: Film Screening and Dialogue (November 15, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69201 69201-17267161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

This is a collaborative & informal film screening located at the School of Social Work for community building, intersectionality, and specifically to raise awareness and uplift Black & Latinx Dragqueens’ and Transwomxns’ voices. With this event, we hope to support the visibility of folx within sex and gender minorities as well as the challenges they face with compounding intersectional identities. Through food, comfort, community, with an intersectional lens, we will also collectively discuss the relevance of this film today and the communities it supports! Food will be served.

***feel free to bring your own pillows and blankets and make space your own***

To register, please go to bit.ly/ParisIsBurning-SSW

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:28:22 -0500 2019-11-15T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T20:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Film Screening Paris is Burning Flyer