Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Latinx Lunch Series (January 23, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58358 58358-14485813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Visit the Hatcher Gallery to participate in a lunch series focused on building community on campus for Latinx students while providing education and resources for mental health wellness. We'll have open discussions founded on principles of Positive Psychology, and hope it will be a space to build community, reduce stigma regarding mental health support, and promote resilience of Latinx Wolverines. Topics include the importance of connection, how to build self-compassion, and fostering hope.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:39:16 -0500 2019-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mi Gente Latinx Lunch Series
Council of Global Student Organizations Introductory Meeting! (February 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60752 60752-14961655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Quito Project

The Council of Global Student Organizations is a new international council at the University of Michigan which is focused on connecting all student organizations that travel internationally in order to network, learn best practices, and access resources.

CGSO was created because we recognized that many SSO's lack formal training and support from the University of Michigan so we wanted to create a space where all participating organizations can learn the skills to ensure that their initiatives abroad are collaborative and as impactful as possible.

Our first council meeting will be on Wednesday, February 6th at 6pm in room B1580 in Blau Hall. Please register to attend using this link: tinyurl.com/joincgso.

At our first meeting you will learn how your org can be apart of a collaborative council on how to responsibly engage with international communities. Enhance your cultural humility and awareness so your project can have a positive impact. Network with others who share your passion for international community engagement and leadership, and learn how these skills can directly translate to your career.

For more information please check out our website (tinyurl.com/cgsoumich), Facebook page (tinyurl.com/cgsoumichfb) or send us an email (contact-cgso@umich.com).

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:04:32 -0500 2019-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Quito Project Rally / Mass Meeting CGSO Flyer
Arthur Aiton Lecture (February 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60745 60745-14961646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Scholars generally associate the nineteenth-century rise of liberal imperialism with the European “civilizing mission” in Africa and Asia. They tend not to link its rise with U.S. intervention in Latin America. This talk considers Latin America’s role in the spread of liberal imperialism by exploring how U.S. settler colonists sought to forge an “empire of liberty” in Central America during the 1850s. While this imperial endeavor was fiercely contested by many Central Americans, it enjoyed strong support among some Central American liberals. Such support raises new questions about both liberal imperialism and Latin America’s transition from colonies to nation-states.

Michel Gobat is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests focus on modern Central America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and international history. His latest book is Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard, 2018), which traces Central America’s encounter with U.S. settler colonialism during the mid- nineteenth-century era of global imperial expansion. His other publications include Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (Duke, 2005), which explores how Nicaragua was transformed by the U.S. occupation of 1912-1933; and “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review (2013).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:29:09 -0500 2019-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Latina/o Studies Graduate Student Outreach (February 13, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60940 60940-14990929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

The Latina/o Studies Program will be having an outreach event for graduate students interested in the Latina/o Studies Graduate Certificate. Lunch will be served.

The Latina/o Studies Program offers a 12-credit hour Graduate Certificate focusing on the study of Latina/o experience within the U.S. and in a transnational perspective. The goal of the Certificate in Latina/o Studies is to provide a structured program of study for graduate students in programs such as American Culture, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, History, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Screen Arts and Cultures, Sociology, Spanish, and Women's Studies and in the Professional Schools (Business, Education, Law, Medicine, Natural Resources and the Environment, Nursing, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, etc.) with in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of the field. The Certificate Program is particularly useful to graduate students whose academic and career trajectories require area-focused knowledge and training. Application deadline is March 15. For more information visit our website here: https://lsa.umich.edu/latina/graduates/graduate-certificate.html

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Reception / Open House Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:23:33 -0500 2019-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Reception / Open House Picture
Brazil Initiative Lecture. From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61038 61038-15024924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Brazilians have recently elected a far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. The talk introduces the general panorama of Brazilian macro and micro politics from ‘Lula-ism’ to ‘Bolsonaro-ism’, marked respectively by the rise and fall of economic growth as well as by democratic collapse. These changes in national development have also shaped the individual self and the capacity to aspire to a better life, as well as ways of doing politics and understanding the world. An examination of these processes can help us understand how the very citizens that exemplified Brazil's rise as a global democratic power came to support military intervention and Bolsonaro.

Pinheiro-Machado will draw on her longitudinal ethnography (with Dr. Lucia Scalco) on consumption and politics among young people from Morro da Cruz, the largest favela of Porto Alegre. In an effort to understand the conservative subjectivity that has emerged amongst low income groups (especially amongst male voters) the researchers have been following youth since 2009, through the political polarization that took place in Brazil after 2013, to the recent transformations that resulted in the election of Bolsonaro.
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Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a social scientist and an anthropologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, Brazil). Previously, she was a Lecturer at the Department of International Development at University of Oxford, and held visiting positions at University of São Paulo and Harvard University. She is the author of the award winning book ‘Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South (Routledge 2017) as well as numerous peer-review journal articles. With Dr Lucia Scalco, Pinheiro-Machado has been carrying out ethnographic research on the ‘politics of the poor’ since 2009. They are currently completing a book manuscript entitled: From Hope to Hate: Poverty and Politics in Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro. Funded by the Australian Research Council, she is part of a team examining the new consumer practices in the Global South (Mexico, Brazil, China, and Philippines). Pinheiro-Machado also acts as a public intellectual and writes for The Intercept Brasil.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:15:01 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Black God, White Devil: Herzog and the Slavery Film (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60103 60103-14838288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What are the dominant relations between race, capitalism and history in the slavery film? In this lecture Lund explores the possibilities and limits of this question, with special attention paid to Werner Herzog's unusual contribution to the genre, Cobra Verde (1987).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:50:44 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Breaking the Barriers of Voluntourism: Engaging in Sustainable Cultural Humility Practices Aboad (February 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60436 60436-14883912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: The Quito Project

This workshop is the second installment of a two part series tackling the issues of "voluntourist" behaviors which tend to decay international community partnerships over time.

At the workshop, participants will learn from faculty experts about best practices for respectful international engagement, have the opportunity to share what they have learned from their previous experiences abroad, and receive resources to help them during their time overseas.

In addition, we will also be addressing how one can navigate their social identities abroad and how to anticipate varying social systems in order to best prepare you for your time abroad.

This workshop will also ensure that you and your organization gain the tools to establish that your initiative is successful in creating mutually-equitable partnerships with the international communities that you are interacting with.

Free dinner will be provided to all participants!

Please register to attend here: tinyurl.com/voluntourist-behaviors

Questions? Please email thequitoproject@gmail.com

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:04:05 -0500 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 North Quad The Quito Project Workshop / Seminar Workshop Flyer
Black God, White Devil: Herzog and the Slavery Film (February 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60103 60103-15054321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What are the dominant relations between race, capitalism and history in the slavery film? In this lecture Lund explores the possibilities and limits of this question, with special attention paid to Werner Herzog's unusual contribution to the genre, Cobra Verde (1987).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:50:44 -0500 2019-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Fifth Annual University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Symposium. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism across Borders (March 7, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61688 61688-15170136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Annual Symposium is a professional development workshop for educators in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The objective of this year's symposium is to incorporate the concepts of race, ethnicity, nationalism, political tension, questions of identity, and globalization into academic curriculum and teaching models at the university and K-12 school level. Graduate students and faculty from both institutions will present pedagogical talks related to their research and propose ways to incorporate that research into K-12 school classrooms.

This event takes place on the University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus. The event will be live-streamed to an international audience.

Jueves 7 de marzo – Thursday, March 7, 2019


9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote 1: Joseph Carroll-Miranda, Profesor del Departamento de Estudios Graduados de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Alasuwada: Más allá de raza, étnias, nacionalismos y fronteras/ Alasuwada: Beyond Race, Ethnicity, Nationalisms and Borders

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Panel 1: Narración del pasado y construcción de memoria - Narrating the Past and the Construction of Memory

Timnet Gedar, African Studies Center, University of Michigan: Pan-Africanism and the Abyssinian Crisis: Exploring Solidarity through Historical Print Media

José M. Encarnación Martínez, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Deporte, nacionalismo y puertorriqueñidad: Nociones políticas de la soberanía deportiva puertorriqueña

Monte-Angel Richardson, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan: Political Violence and Historical Narratives


1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel 2: Religiosidad e identidad a través de las fronteras - Religiosity and Identity across Boundaries

Janaki Phillips, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Haunted Houses and the Colonial Experience in India

Mekarem Eijamal, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: “Beyond One Hand”: Copts, Rhetoric, and Erasure in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Wilmarie Rivera Pérez, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Las religiones afrocaribeñas y el diálogo interreligioso en la clase de Estudios Sociales

Ahmed Mitchie, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: From Colonial divide et impera to the War on Terror: A Case Study on the Racialized Muslim Subject in the Moroccan Hirak al-Rif

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Viernes 8 de marzo / Friday, March 8, 2019

9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote Speech: Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Associate Professor of Spanish and American Culture, University of Michigan: The Queer Drag of Race and the Performance of Not Looking Puerto Rican: Javier Cardona’s You Don’t Look Like… (1996)

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Panel 3: Identidad, educación y transnacionalismo - Identity, Education, and Transnationalism

Mai Ze Vang, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: The Uncivilized and Thailand’s New Education Bill

Coral Padilla Matos, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Afrodescendencia y niñez: Reivindicando identidad desde la música

Wilfredo R. Santiago Hernández, Departamento de Inglés, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: This Came From the Gut, From the Blood, From the Soul: Puerto Rican and Filipino Representations in Hip Hop

Miranda García, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Identity in Contemporary Advertising: A Critical Reading


1:30 – 2:30 pm Panel 4: Migración, transnacionalismo y la producción de conocimiento - Migration, Transnationalism, and the Production of Knowledge
Marisol Fila, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Transnational Partnership and a Collaborative Production of Knowledge: Afrodescendants in Argentina

Glorimarie Peña Alicea, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Migración de retorno y nociones de hogar en las memorias de los migrantes dominicanos y el merengue

Cheryl Yin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Where is “Home” for Cambodian-Americans Deportees?: Home, Identity, and Residency Status


2:30 – 3:30 pm Taller - Workshop
Darin Stockdill, School of Education, University of Michigan: Instructional Design: Problem-posing teaching and concept development

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:44:47 -0500 2019-03-07T08:30:00-05:00 2019-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium image_event
Fifth Annual University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Symposium. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism across Borders (March 8, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61688 61688-15170137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Annual Symposium is a professional development workshop for educators in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The objective of this year's symposium is to incorporate the concepts of race, ethnicity, nationalism, political tension, questions of identity, and globalization into academic curriculum and teaching models at the university and K-12 school level. Graduate students and faculty from both institutions will present pedagogical talks related to their research and propose ways to incorporate that research into K-12 school classrooms.

This event takes place on the University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus. The event will be live-streamed to an international audience.

Jueves 7 de marzo – Thursday, March 7, 2019


9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote 1: Joseph Carroll-Miranda, Profesor del Departamento de Estudios Graduados de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Alasuwada: Más allá de raza, étnias, nacionalismos y fronteras/ Alasuwada: Beyond Race, Ethnicity, Nationalisms and Borders

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Panel 1: Narración del pasado y construcción de memoria - Narrating the Past and the Construction of Memory

Timnet Gedar, African Studies Center, University of Michigan: Pan-Africanism and the Abyssinian Crisis: Exploring Solidarity through Historical Print Media

José M. Encarnación Martínez, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Deporte, nacionalismo y puertorriqueñidad: Nociones políticas de la soberanía deportiva puertorriqueña

Monte-Angel Richardson, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan: Political Violence and Historical Narratives


1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel 2: Religiosidad e identidad a través de las fronteras - Religiosity and Identity across Boundaries

Janaki Phillips, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Haunted Houses and the Colonial Experience in India

Mekarem Eijamal, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: “Beyond One Hand”: Copts, Rhetoric, and Erasure in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Wilmarie Rivera Pérez, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Las religiones afrocaribeñas y el diálogo interreligioso en la clase de Estudios Sociales

Ahmed Mitchie, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: From Colonial divide et impera to the War on Terror: A Case Study on the Racialized Muslim Subject in the Moroccan Hirak al-Rif

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Viernes 8 de marzo / Friday, March 8, 2019

9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote Speech: Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Associate Professor of Spanish and American Culture, University of Michigan: The Queer Drag of Race and the Performance of Not Looking Puerto Rican: Javier Cardona’s You Don’t Look Like… (1996)

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Panel 3: Identidad, educación y transnacionalismo - Identity, Education, and Transnationalism

Mai Ze Vang, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: The Uncivilized and Thailand’s New Education Bill

Coral Padilla Matos, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Afrodescendencia y niñez: Reivindicando identidad desde la música

Wilfredo R. Santiago Hernández, Departamento de Inglés, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: This Came From the Gut, From the Blood, From the Soul: Puerto Rican and Filipino Representations in Hip Hop

Miranda García, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Identity in Contemporary Advertising: A Critical Reading


1:30 – 2:30 pm Panel 4: Migración, transnacionalismo y la producción de conocimiento - Migration, Transnationalism, and the Production of Knowledge
Marisol Fila, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Transnational Partnership and a Collaborative Production of Knowledge: Afrodescendants in Argentina

Glorimarie Peña Alicea, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Migración de retorno y nociones de hogar en las memorias de los migrantes dominicanos y el merengue

Cheryl Yin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Where is “Home” for Cambodian-Americans Deportees?: Home, Identity, and Residency Status


2:30 – 3:30 pm Taller - Workshop
Darin Stockdill, School of Education, University of Michigan: Instructional Design: Problem-posing teaching and concept development

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:44:47 -0500 2019-03-08T08:30:00-05:00 2019-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium image_event
Creating Handmade Books in Cuba: Ruth Behar Reflects on Rolando Estévez's Artistic Designs for Ediciones Vigía and El Fortín (March 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61798 61798-15186443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

join us for a special presentation by Professor Ruth Behar about the University of Michigan’s extensive collection of works by renowned Cuban book artist, Rolando Estévez. During the presentation, Professor Behar will discuss the lineage of book arts in Cuba, specific works from the Ediciones Vigía and El Fortín Collections, and her ongoing collaborations with Estévez. Participants will have a chance to engage with the books directly.

This is event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Latina/o Studies Program, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan Library, and ArtsEngine.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:12:24 -0500 2019-03-14T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
LACS Lecture. Asylum Journey: Ten Years in the US Immigration System (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61689 61689-15170138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Journalist and U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow, and his son Oscar Gutiérrez Soto will be sharing their personal 10-year journey through the US immigration system.

In 2008, Emilio applied for asylum to escape death threats stemming from his journalistic exposure of military corruption in Mexico. During the first seven months of living in the US, Emilio and Oscar were in a detention facility before being released with work permits. In July 2017, after nearly 10 years of living in the US, the asylum case was denied and their attorney quickly filed to reopen the case. During a regular ICE check-up in December, 2017 Emilio and Oscar were almost deported and then detained in an ICE facility in El Paso, Texas for eight months. Upon release, Emilio accepted the 2018 U-M Knights Wallace Fellowship and joined the University of Michigan this year. Emilio was awarded the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award by the National Press Club in 2017 and organizations such as the U-M Knights Wallace Foundation, Reporters without Borders, the National Press Club, and the Society of Professional Journalists have advocated on his behalf.

This event will take place at the International House Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:20:39 -0500 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
The Premodern Colloquium. Mirar por una y otra parte: Iridescence, Visual Pedagogy, and the Image (March 24, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60485 60485-14899152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Around the turn of the seventeenth century, a variety of authors writing in Spain invoked the shifting chromatics of iridescent materials—whose colors appear to change with alterations in the geometry of illumination or view—to teach audiences about the world in which they lived. While some of these texts drew connections between fluctuating hues and the mutability of the earthly realm, others saw parallels between the same vibrant visual effects and the nature of the divine. This article examines how authors exploited the pedagogical potential of iridescent materials to teach lessons about Catholic doctrine, both by navigating the semantic variability of iridescence itself and by breathing new life into the venerable philosophical traditions that made meaning from it.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:59:46 -0400 2019-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
LACS Lecture. Judicial Abolitionism in Nineteenth- Century Spanish America: Afro-Uruguayan Soldiers and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60662 60662-14937077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This presentation examines how judicial litigation about the freedom of formerly enslaved black soldiers in late 1820s Montevideo shaped the first arguments about the abolition of slavery in the newly created country of Uruguay. Spanish diarist José María Márquez, who occupied the position of “Public Attorney for the Poor and Slaves” in Montevideo, published in his newspaper stories about the black soldiers he defended. This news became the first public arena to discuss the complete abolition of slavery. The actions of former slaves then black soldiers and their negotiations to secure freedom provided strong arguments and nationalist bases for conceiving a plan for full abolition. Through the lens of these actions and the communication between the courts and the public arena, here we examine judicial actions as one of the sources of abolitionism in the newly formed Spanish American republics, instead of Anglo-centric and North Atlantic models of abolitionist societies and newspapers.

Alex Borucki is associate professor of history in the University of California, Irvine, where he also is director of the Latin American Studies Center. He is the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), which was finalist of the 2016 Harriet Tubman Book Prize. Apart from Spanish-language books and articles published in Argentina and Uruguay, he has published articles on the slave trade and the African diaspora in the American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, History in Africa, Itinerario, Atlantic Studies, and Slavery and Abolition.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:54:18 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Lelia Gonzalez's Black Diaspora Feminist Project in the Americas (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62128 62128-15299879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Lelia Gonzalez is oftentimes remembered in Brazil as one of the most important black feminist scholars and activists of the twentieth-century. My lecture will explore her political life shaped by her international travel throughout Africa and the Americas, and how she formulated a transnational understanding of black culture, gendered anti-black racism, and the movement for black liberation. I will explore Gonzalez’s idea of “Amerifricanidade” that expresses a common black identity in the Americas that centers African heritage and that challenges the erasure of blackness and indigeneity in the construction of Latin Americanness. Gonzalez is traveling, writing, and carrying out her political activism at the same time as Abdias Nascimento and Molefi Asante, for example, but she has received little attention in the scholarship on the global black radical and feminist traditions. The political life and work of Gonzalez reminds scholars of the African diaspora precisely why black Brazilian women should be given more intellectual attention in black radical thought and why Africana Studies requires a refocus on Brazilian scholars and social movements.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:22:36 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Machis-NO: Challenging Machismo Culture in our Community (March 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62540 62540-15399285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

A conversation about machismo in the Latinx community featuring members of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Alpha Omicron Chapter, moderated by Prof. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Presented in collaboration with Delta Tau Lambda Sorority, Alpha Chapter and the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies Program. Pizza will be served. Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:56:01 -0400 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Celebrating César Chávez at U-M: Workshop, Talk, Flor y Canto and Reception with Muralist Jeff Abbey Maldonado (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61896 61896-15230396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

-Arts Workshop (limited capacity): 4:00-5:30pm, American Culture, 3512 Haven Hall
-Artist Talk and Poetry Performance: 6:00-7:00pm. Angell Hall Auditorium D
-Reception: 7:30pm, 3512 Haven Hall. Food will be served.

The Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of American Culture, the Center for Educational Outreach and La Casa invite you to celebrate Chicano labor leader César Chávez’s enduring legacy and the richness of Latinx culture at the University of Michigan. Please join us for a very special arts workshop with visiting artists Jeff Abbey Maldonado and Dulce Santoyo, to be followed by an artist talk featuring Jeff Maldonado and including a Flor y Canto Nahuat Xochitl in Cuitcatl Flower and Song Celebration with local and student poets. Our evening will culminate with a reception in 3512 Haven Hall to celebrate the University Housing donation of Maldonado’s 1998 César Chávez mural to Latina/o Studies and American Culture.

Jeff Abbey Maldonado lives and works in Pilsen, Chicago. He has maintained his studio for the past 20 years. He studied under Mario Castillo, professor at Columbia College, who is credited with painting the first Latino mural in Chicago. Maldonado’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Cultural Center, The Field Museum, and the Chicago History Museum. Currently, he is Founder and Director of the J-Def Peace Project, which promotes youth empowerment through the arts. Dulce Santoyo is an emerging Latina artist working in Chicago.

The Chávez mural was donated to American Culture in summer 2018 thanks to the student activism of La Casa. It previously was held by University Housing—a unit of Student Life—and was displayed in the César Chávez Lounge at the Mosher-Jordan “Mo-Jo” Student Residence Hall in the Hill Neighborhood on Observatory, home to the Michigan Research Community and the Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program. The mural is an interpretation of the activism of César Chávez, born of Mexican heritage in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. Chávez founded and led the National Farm Worker's Association (NFWA), the first successful farm workers union, later known as United Farm Workers (UFW).

Events are free and open to the public.

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Performance Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:05:30 -0500 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Performance picture
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
Human Flow - Film Screening and discussion (March 28, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60994 60994-15000023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:45pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Human Flow Film Screening & Discussion

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II.
Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration.
The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

https://www.humanflow.com/

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Film Screening Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:28:48 -0500 2019-03-28T17:45:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:45:00-04:00 School of Nursing U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Film Screening Human Flow Film Screening Poster
LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019 (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62027 62027-15276106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art project is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by associate professor of anthropology Jason De León.

Construction of Hostile Terrain Pop-UP Exhibition
MARCH 27-28, 8 AM-4 PM, 2ND FLOOR, MASON HALL, OUTSIDE ROOM 2436

In shifts on March 27-28, 2019, several hundred student volunteers will construct a border wall map on a blank wall space on the second floor of Mason Hall. The map will show the death locations of 3000 migrants. Toe tags will be hand-filled out and plotted on a giant grid, representing recovered bodies from the Arizona desert. Please contact jpdeleon@umich.edu if you are interested in being involved with the installation. The exhibit will remain in Mason Hall through the first week of April 2019.
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Screen preview followed by a panel Q&A: A documentary on the work of Jason De León
MARCH 28, 4 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM A

Join us for a test screening of a documentary about the work of Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. This film focus on clandestine migration from Central America and the North American Migrant Trail.

Panelists: RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA (Director, Producer, Cinematographer); JASON DE LEÓN (Producer, Advisor); JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE (Field Producer, Advisor and Sound)
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Round-table: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019
MARCH 29, 12-2 PM, ANGELL HALL, AUDITORIUM B

We will discuss the realities currently experienced by migrants along the US/Mexico border and the history of America’s border security paradigm known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Given the heightened discussion in recent months about the supposed dangers posed by migrants and the potential role that a border wall would play in securing America’s southern geopolitical boundary, this roundtable seeks to facilitate an open and frank discussion about what migration currently looks like, who is migrating, and why. In addition to facilitating a conversation about the lives of migrants, our panelists will also discuss the important roles of history, storytelling, art, and film in the telling and (re) presentation of nuanced information about America’s current border crisis. Of particular interest is how the panelists seek to tell new and impactful stories about about a social process that has a deep history and often overdetermined by simplistic tropes such as the “noble migrant” and “foreign invader.”

Moderator: DANIEL NEMSER, Romance Languages and Literatures

Panelists: JASON DE LEÓN, Anthropology, Director of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; LUCY CAHILL, Curator of Hostile Terrain Exhibition; RAÚL O. PAZ PASTRANA, Filmmaker, Director of Border South film; JOHN A. DOERING-WHITE, Anthropology and Social Work
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This event series is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the International Institute with generous support from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of American Culture, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Latina/o Studies Program, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Migration and Displacement

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition image
Sustainable Systems Forum (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62198 62198-15311073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

Participatory action research (PAR) is a powerful methodology for generating collective knowledge and change. We will describe PAR, its particular relevance to agroecology and food system work, and its application in our educator training program Laboratorios para la Vida (LabVida). LabVida has been working for eight years to train educators to use school gardens and food systems as venues for inquiry-based learning linking local and academic knowledge. We applied PAR to development and analysis of our training program, and invited participating educators to use PAR with their groups to explore and improve their food environments. PAR has proven to be an effective tool for generating small but significant changes in participants' narratives and practices.

Helda Morales is from Guatemala City and went to college there. She did graduate work in Costa Rica and then at U of M. Her research has documented the importance of traditional knowledge in constructing sustainable agriculture systems that avoid using harmful pesticides. Recently, she has focused on education and food systems, working with local urban and rural growers and farmers markets as well as international organizations. She is a founder and active member of AMA-AWA, the Alliance of Women in Agroecology.

Bruce Ferguson grew up in Kalamazoo, studied at Kalamazoo College. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan with John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto focusing on ecological succession and restoration. He currently does research and teaching in agroecology, food systems, and pedagogy. He is in Ann Arbor, spending part of his sabbatical year at U of M.

Their current research involves school gardens and food system education. They are both members of the Department of Agriculture, Society, and the Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where they are part of a group working on scaling out agroecology to achieve more just and sustainable food systems. Together, Bruce and Helda coordinate Laboratorios para la Vida, a program that trains teachers to use gardens and food systems as educational tools.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:41:51 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion lechugas loreto
LACS Lecture. On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerrillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early Twenty-First Century (April 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62831 62831-15477383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk explores the principle arguments in Alexander Fattal’s new book “Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) about the convergence of marketing and militarism in twenty-first century propaganda. The talk considers the Colombian government’s efforts to engage in a form of ‘brand warfare’ against members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the smaller guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN). Since 2007, the government has been working with the same advertising firm that stewards brands such as Mazda and RedBull in Colombia, to lure guerrillas out of the insurgency and transform them into consumer citizens. The ethnography critiques those efforts, pointing to problems that emerge when branding captures critical state functions, like waging a war.

Dr. Alexander L. Fattal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is also a documentary artist whose creative and scholarly work focuses on the mediation of the Colombian armed conflict.
@FattAlx | www.alexfattal.net

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:10:30 -0400 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
Representing Latinx Voices in American Journalism (April 9, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62362 62362-15355261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
3:30pm (Reception)
4:00-5:30pm (Panel Discussion)
3512 Haven Hall
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Please join us for a panel discussion on the representation of Latinx issues, perspectives and voices in American journalism, featuring current Knight-Wallace Fellows Luis Trelles of Radio Ambulante and Aaron Nelsen, former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News, together with Sarah Alvarez, Founder and Executive Editor of Outlier Media and Serena Maria Daniels, founder of Tostada Magazine in Detroit. This event is a collaboration between the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of American Culture, and Wallace House, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards. Reception will be held before the panel. Free and open to the public.

Luis Trelles is a producer for Radio Ambulante, a podcast distributed by NPR which tells the stories of Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. His work has appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab, and NPR’s Planet Money and All Things Considered. Trelles has reported on Cuban immigration, the ethnic tensions between Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, and the causes for Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. In 2017 he covered the emergency efforts in the U.S. commonwealth after Hurricane Maria. Trelles teaches at the journalism school of the City University of New York, where he mentors emerging Latino journalists through its bilingual program. @cu_bata

Aaron Nelsen is the former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News. Previously, he was a Time correspondent and New York Times contributor in Chile. He also worked for Reuters covering the Chilean stock exchange and currency market. Prior to that he was the business editor and education reporter for the Brownsville Herald in Texas and a general assignment reporter for the Temple Daily Telegram in Texas. In 2017, he documented a small group of community activists in the Rio Grande Valley as they worked to save a wildlife preserve from the path of President Trump's border wall. @amnelsen

Sarah Alvarez, founder and executive editor of Outlier Media, started her career in civil rights law in New York. Before founding Outlier Media, she worked as a senior producer and reporter at Michigan Radio, the statewide NPR affiliate. In that role, she covered issues important to low-income families, child welfare and disability. Her work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Bridge Magazine, and The Detroit News. Sarah believes journalism is a service and should be responsive to the needs of all people. She lives in northwest Detroit. @media_outlier @sarahalvarezMI

Serena Maria Daniels is an award-winning Chicana journalist. A recovering daily newspaper reporter, she is the founder and chingona-in-chief of Tostada Magazine, a Detroit-based independent new media platform that uses food journalism as a means of preserving culture and breaking down barriers. Tostada empowers journalists of color or of immigrant backgrounds to report stories from within their communities. As a freelance food journalist, Serena writes about halal burgers, Ramadan IHOP, chapulín pizza and other topics at the intersection of food, culture, and migration for Thrillist, Eater Detroit, Latino USA, Remezcla, and others. Her favorite tacos come from back home in LA and she prefers her pizza square. Find Tostada on Twitter and Instagram @tostadamagazine and Serena @serenamaria36

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:29:07 -0400 2019-04-09T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Don’t wait until the September 15th deadline, join CGIS & Newnan Advising Center for a walk-in advising event to discuss Winter 2020 CGIS applications.

Before you leave for the summer, come and find out how studying abroad can fit into your degree plan, learn about scholarships and financial aid, and more!

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 27, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-27T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-27T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-28T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-28T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-29T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
Brown Bag: "Liverpool, Slavery and the Atlantic Cotton Frontier, 1763-1833" (July 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64169 64169-16177692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Alexey Krichtal will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Jacob M. Price Fellowship. A 5th year PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, Krichtal studies the development of cotton cultivation in the Americas and Liverpool's role as the linchpin of an Atlantic circuit for the distribution, marketing, and sale of that commodity.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:18:43 -0400 2019-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Atlantic Map 1788
Brown Bag: "Cinema of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their Imaginations Return to the Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63916 63916-15993697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Yasmine Espert will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the inaugural Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Her research this year is also supported by the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Fellowship for 20th Century Art. A PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, her dissertation research explores how artists of African and Afro-Asian descent map their dreams of the Caribbean.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:54:11 -0400 2019-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Caribbean map
WCED Lecture. The Politics of the Middle-Income Trap (September 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64627 64627-16397015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Beginning in the mid-2000s, economists in both academia and development multilaterals have drawn increasing attention to countries, especially in Southeast Asia and Latin America, being stuck in middle-income. Political leaders in those regions have also expressed concerns about this “Middle-Income Trap.” But while economists point to policies required to move into higher income, they have generally ignored the political and institutional aspects of the trap. Two factors merit special attention: “disarticulation politics,” involving social cleavages that impede the creation of coalitions necessary to create effective institutions; and unstable, fragmented party systems that undermine the long time horizons necessary for institutional development and policy implementation. Doner will explore these issues through cross-national and cross-sectoral variation in specific issue areas and institutions.

Richard F. Doner is Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Doner's research focuses on the political and institutional bases of economic development, especially in Southeast Asia. His books include "The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand’s Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective" (2009); "From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry" (with David McKendrick and Stephan Haggard, 2000); and "Driving a Bargain: Japanese Firms and Automobile Industrialization in Southeast Asia" (1991). His co-edited volumes include "Explaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and East Asia" (2010), and "Economic Governance and The Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia" (with Fred Deyo and Eric Hershberg, 2001). His articles have appeared in journals such as "International Organization," "World Politics," "Journal of Development Studies," "Journal of Contemporary Asia," "Journal of Asian Studies," "Science, Technology and Society," "Journal of East Asian Studies," "Review of Policy Research," and "World Development." Dr. Doner has written or consulted for the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, and business associations in Southeast Asia. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Northeast Thailand and an assembly line worker at General Motors in California.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:42:02 -0400 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Richard Doner
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Artist Conversation & Reception for Yo Tengo Nombre (September 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64981 64981-16499295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us for conversation with Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence, and curator Amanda Krugliak, followed by reception.

About "Yo Tengo Nombre":
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:06:26 -0400 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Illegal Entry
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
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
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (September 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64983 64983-16499296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram.Today: The Art of Ruth Leonela Buentello with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

About Ruth Leonela Buentello's exhibition "Yo Tengo Nombre":
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:03:24 -0400 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Illegal Entry
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (September 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Lecture: Día de los Muertos and the Art of Fulgencio Lazo (October 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67431 67431-16849215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Fulgencio Lazo is a Zapotec/Mixtec artist based in Seattle and his hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico. For more than 26 years he has been working with museums, art centers and community groups to create “tapetes” or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. These installations are collaboratively designed and installed with community members over the course of several days. Lazo has had more than 50 solo shows throughout the United States, Mexico, and Japan and is represented by galleries in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Monterrey and Valle de Bravo. In Seattle, where he has lived since 1990, he is most known for his tireless work to create programs and spaces that are inclusive and reflect diverse audiences. He has co-founded some of Seattle’s most iconic traditions within the Latino community, including Seattle’s annual Oaxacan celebration known as Guelaguetza, International Children’s Day, and the Day of the Dead celebrations at many venues, including the Seattle Art Museum. Most recently he co-founded Studio Lazo, an organization of artists and community members creating a welcoming venue that especially showcases the creativity of Latino artists, writers and musicians.

Lazo will lecture on ofrendas, a Día de los Muertos tradition from Mexico, and on his artwork which includes the installations of tapetes, carpets of colored sand in bright compositions to honor the dead.

For the full description of Fulgencio's visiting artist visit to Ann Arbor, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:58:29 -0400 2019-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Fulgencio Lazo
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
WCED Panel. Brazil under Bolsonaro: What Is Emerging? What Is Submerging? (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65918 65918-16670246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Moderator: Robert Jansen, associate professor of sociology, U-M. Presenters: Guilherme Casarões, lecturer in international relations, Fundação Getúlio Vargas São Paulo Business School (FGV EAESP); Marília Corrêa, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Benjamin Lessing, assistant professor of political science, University of Chicago.

Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro became notable to the public as a controversial right-wing congressman. His brash criticism of left-wing politicians, praise of military dictatorship, support of pension reform and privatizations, defense of the “traditional Brazilian family,” and the promise to address Brazil’s rampant crime rates through violent policing helped him gain the support of many conservative segments. Meanwhile, during his first nine months in office, his government is already facing criticism for his divisive rhetoric, attacks on the press, laxing of environmental regulations, and cuts to education, leading many public figures to denounce him as an authoritarian figure. In this panel, Benjamin Lessing, Guilherme Casarões, and Marilia Corrêa will discuss different aspects of Bolsonaro’s government and Brazil’s current political landscape.

Robert Jansen is a comparative-historical sociologist with substantive interests in politics, culture, and memory. He has recently completed a book on the historical emergence of populist mobilization in early twentieth century Peru. He is currently working on a project on the history of historic preservationism in the United States.

Guilherme Casarões is a lecturer at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas São Paulo Business School (FGV EAESP). He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from the University of São Paulo and an M.A. in international relations from the State University of Campinas. He has authored many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Brazilian foreign policy and Latin American politics. Among his publications are “Brazil First, Climate Last: Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy” (GIGA Latin America Focus, 2019); “The Evolution of Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies: Four Perspectives” (Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics, 2018); “Itamaraty’s Mission” (Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 2014); and “Itamaraty on the Move” (Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2013). He has been a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University and Brandeis University.

Marília Corrêa is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2019-21. She received her Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Her dissertation, titled “Unusual Suspects: Persecuted Officers and Soldiers Under Military Rule in Brazil, 1964–1985,” studies the military dictatorship in Brazil, examining the life trajectories of armed forces officers and soldiers who did not support the 1964 coup. Focusing on the perspectives of these expelled soldiers, she examines how they remember their expulsions from the military, life during the dictatorship, and the ways in which their experiences and the memory they created affected these men socially and culturally. Her dissertation is situated at the intersection of political, social, and gender history, as well as at the history of memory, law, and human rights of Latin America in the context of the Cold War. Her research has been funded by the Tinker Foundation, the Nelle M. Signor Graduate Scholarship in International Relations, the Illinois Program for Research in Humanities and the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.

Benjamin Lessing, assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, studies "criminal conflict"—organized violence involving armed groups that do not seek formal state power, such as drug cartels, prison gangs, and paramilitaries. His first book, "Making Peace In Drug Wars" (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2017), examines armed conflict between drug cartels and the state in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. Lessing has also founded the Criminal Governance in the Americas project, which is measuring the extent and intensity of gang rule over civilian populations throughout Latin America, and is co-director of the Project on Political Violence at Chicago. Lessing has also studied gang-state negotiations and armed electioneering by paramilitary groups. Prior to his doctoral work at UC Berkeley, Lessing lived in Rio de Janeiro for five years, first as a Fulbright scholar, later conducting field research on arms trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean for non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Viva Rio, Brazil’s largest NGO.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks 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.

Cosponsored by the U-M Brazil Initiative and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:59:59 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Photo by Rafaela Biazi on Unsplash
LACS Event. A History of Coffee in Three Cups (October 2, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67270 67270-16831228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Do you know where you coffee came from? If you're at Zingerman's Coffee Company, probably yes. More and more, roasters and coffee shops emphasize how and where they source their beans. But how did coffee get to those places - Costa Rica, Brazil, and Ethiopia - in the first place? And what happened when it got there?

Join us for a conversation with Casey Lurtz, author of the recent book From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. We'll talk about how coffee spread outward from Eastern Africa and how its introduction reshaped local societies and economies. Looking at the multiplicity of ways in which coffee has been grown, we'll think beyond roasting and brewing to understand how the histories of where coffee is cultivated flavor our morning cup.

This talk will be paired with sample tastings of three distinctive coffees brewed at Zingerman's Coffee Company.

***Please note this event takes place at Zingerman's Coffee Company at 3723 Plaza Dr. #5, Ann Arbor (near Costco). This is not the same as the Zingerman's Next Door Cafe or Deli in Kerrytown.

Cosponsors: African Studies Center and Zingerman's Coffee Company

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:52:01 -0400 2019-10-02T19:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion lurtz_event_image
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
LACS Central American Contexts Series. A Fixed but Porous Border: Nineteenth Century Negotiations over the Mexico-Guatemala Frontier (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66682 66682-16770197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

News coverage and political discourse around the ongoing immigration debate and the situation on the US-Mexico border rarely includes the historical and geographic contexts of migration in Central America, where many current migrants begin their journeys. Throughout the fall semester, the LACS Central American Contexts Series will sponsor speakers and events at U-M in an effort to more deeply contextualize the lived experience of diverse Central Americans and the geographic, social, and political relationship between Central America and southern Mexico.

In the first event of this fall speaker series, Dr. Casey Lurtz, assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will speak about the history of Mexico's other border, the southern border with Guatemala. This lecture will expand on the research for her recent book, “From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico” (Stanford University Press, 2019), as well as her recent piece on the Stanford University Press blog (available at https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-borders.html).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:13:44 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Guatemala_image
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency (October 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66296 66296-16725813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In this presentation, Prof. Gordillo argues that the concept of “ambient thickness” can help us analyze the atmospheric intensities that in the form of heatwaves, droughts, dust storms, forest fires, or toxic smells are defining contemporary experiences of global warming and environmental ruination. Engaging with literatures on materiality, the nonhuman, affect, weather/climate, and atmospheres, Gordillo's argument builds from campesino experiences of deforestation, wind, fumigation, and heatwaves in northern Argentina and from a comparative phenomenology of atmospheric disruptions elsewhere in the world. Gordillo shows that the atmosphere can “thicken” in very different ways and that this density is experienced unevenly depending on class, racial, gender, and cultural backgrounds.Gordillo also highlight that the unsettling thickening of the air created by events such as heatwaves or forest fires brings to light the nonhuman materiality of the planet’s terrain and the urgency of radical change to confront the climate emergency.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:16:20 -0400 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency
Opening Reception: Melody of Nostalgia: Día de los Muertos Tapete & Ofrendas alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 4, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67433 67433-16849229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Reception / Open House Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400 2019-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Melody of Nostalgia (featuring brightly colored work in acrylic)
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Latinx & Muslim in America (October 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67741 67741-16926552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

In honor of Latinx Heritage History Month, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program has invited Dr. Harold D. Morales to give a lecture based on his book, Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority, which is the first complete academic study on Latinx Muslims in the United States.

Dinner will be served!

Dr. Harold D. Morales is an Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University where he teaches courses in religious studies and philosophy of religion. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California Riverside and his B.A. in Philosophy from California State University Fullerton. His research focuses on the intersections between race and religion and between lived and mediated religion. He uses these critical lenses to engage Latinx religions in general and Latino Muslim groups in particular. He is the author of Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority (2018). His work with Latino Muslim communities spans ten years of media analysis and ethnographic research in California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York and New Jersey.

"Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the U.S.A. The U.S. is currently poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities will outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role inthis world changing demographic shift. Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing threats, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities both in their daily lives and in their mediated representations online.In this book, Harold Morales follows the lives of several Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, and their efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the new identity group's place within the public sphere. Based on four years of ethnography, media analysis andhistorical research, Morales demonstrates how the phenomenon of Latinos converting to Islam emerges from distinctive immigration patterns and laws, urban spaces, and new media technologies that have increasingly brought Latinos and Muslims in to contact with one another. He explains this growingcommunity as part of the mass exodus out of the Catholic Church, the digitization of religion, and the growth of Islam. Latino and Muslim in America explores the racialization of religion, the framing of religious conversion experiences, the dissemination of post-colonial histories, and thedevelopment of Latino Muslim networks, to show that the categories of race, religion, and media are becoming inextricably entwined."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:22:55 -0400 2019-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Horror & Enchantment (October 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-16603594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:20:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Horror & Enchantment (October 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-17035289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Crises of Care: Narrating Central American and Mexican Migration through Children and Families (October 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67272 67272-16831235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

By the time the Trump Administration's family separation policy took effect in 2018, children had been a focus of news coverage of migration across the US border. Yet this journalistic attention has tended to reduce the complex factors behind the shifting demographics of migration, often attributing it to gang violence. Using child-centered narratives from Central American and Mexico, this talk will discuss how changes in labor markets have pushed many workers to new levels of precarity, forcing them to create new relations within the family and altering the structures of migration. These stories reveal the "crises of care" and other forms of "slow violence" manifesting alongside those of politics, economics, and ecology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Dr. Andersson is a recent graduate of U-M who returns to campus to present her work on Central American and Mexican migration as part of LACS' continuing series, Central American Contexts. This event will conclude with a brief message from the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:42:06 -0400 2019-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Climate, Caravans, and Historical Violence in Central America (October 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67273 67273-16831240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent news coverage of Central American migrants routinely describes them as “climate refugees,” fleeing lands where anthropogenic drought has made small farming impossible. Much of this reporting ignores or minimizes the extreme inequality of land distribution in Central America, as well as the organized violence, corruption, and legal impunity that has maintained that inequality over generations. Rendering migrants as victims of climate change erases their past and their historical agency, reducing them to helpless casualties of a disembodied “anthropocene.” And yet, stories about Central Americans succumbing to climate change are not new. This lecture will show that deterministic climate narratives purporting to explain the poverty of the Central American countryside have their origins in the expansion of the US empire. In the early twentieth century, North American scientists scouting for natural resources were baffled by the tropical landscapes of Central America, some of which contained indigenous milpa fields alongside the ruins of an advanced civilization. Attempting to make sense of terrain which defied deeply held convictions about race, climate, and civilizational development, these scientists created the concept of the “Maya Collapse” as we know it. The Maya Collapse erased a thousand years of Maya history, including half a millennium of colonial domination, and replaced it with a parable of nature’s power over man. Since its emergence among the disciplines of forestry, agronomy, and climatology, the Maya Collapse has taken many forms, but the fable at its core has proven remarkably durable, even in the face of widely available contradictory evidence. Like the climate refugee stories of today, the Maya Collapse redirected the gaze of outsiders away from the political violence and economic exploitation abetted by their own society. Human misery is attributed to nature’s wrath, and to no one in particular.

Tony Andersson earned a PhD in Latin American history from New York University and held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies in 2018-19. His talk, part of the continuing LACS series Central American Contexts, will examine historical connections between violence and climate refugees, especially in Guatemala.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:43:46 -0400 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion andersson_image
Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral's ANDARES (October 17, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67466 67466-16857940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the Public
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

Seating is limited, and advance reservations are recommended
ONLINE: https://cwps-makuyeika-andares.eventbrite.com
PHONE: 734.936.2777

Center for World Performance Studies presents Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral, founded by U-M alumnus Héctor Flores Komatsu, for a one week artist residency that will include class visits, workshops and two performances of their devised-work Andares. This piece chronicles the lives of indigenous youth in México, and the realities that they face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Performances of the piece will take place in the Newman Studio at Walgreen Drama Center on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at 8pm.

Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral is a theatre ensemble dedicated to creating original works about the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s indigenous people, touching with keen, artistic sensibility themes of great social, cultural, and human value. Meaning “wayfarer” in the language of the Wixarika people, Makuyeika was formed after an extensive search across the country’s indigenous communities, a project undertaken by Flores Komatsu as an inaugural recipient of The Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship.

Andares is a theatre creation about the lives of indigenous youth in México, devised collectively through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, as well as traditional music and art forms. The play shines light on a range of realities — land usurpation, widespread violence, ancestral duties, community resistance, — that indigenous people face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Meaning “pathways,” Andares is a genuine, eye-opening, and intimate close-up on Mexico’s most remote corners and the extraordinary stories of its humble, everyday inhabitants.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; LSA Department of American Culture; LSA Latina/o Studies; LSA Native American Studies; LSA Residential College; SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; SMTD EXCEL; and SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the 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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Performance Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:32:36 -0400 2019-10-17T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance ANDARES
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Melody of Nostalgia: Sand Tapete & Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos alongside works in acrylic on canvas (October 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67434 67434-16849241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Visiting Artist Fulgencio Lazo will work with U-M students and community members to design and create two tapetes, or carpets of colored sand for Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. One will be created on the floor of the RC Art Gallery within East Quadrangle, located at 701 E. University Ave., and one at the Ann Arbor District Library at 343 South Fifth Ave.

There will be an opening reception at the RC Art Gallery, October 4th from 6-8pm, and attendees will have the opportunity to contribute ofrendas, or drawings, writings and paper flowers to a wall of remembrance installation for loved ones who have passed in celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Refreshments will be served and Fulgencio will be present to give a short talk and answer questions.

The tapete and Día de los Muertos ofrendas will be on display to the public through October 18.

For more information about activities during Fulgencio Lazo's visit, see https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-news/search-news/rc-studio-art-program-and-the-ann-arbor-district-library-welcome.html

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Exhibition Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:11:51 -0400 2019-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Tapete
Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral's ANDARES (October 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67466 67466-16857941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the Public
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

Seating is limited, and advance reservations are recommended
ONLINE: https://cwps-makuyeika-andares.eventbrite.com
PHONE: 734.936.2777

Center for World Performance Studies presents Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral, founded by U-M alumnus Héctor Flores Komatsu, for a one week artist residency that will include class visits, workshops and two performances of their devised-work Andares. This piece chronicles the lives of indigenous youth in México, and the realities that they face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Performances of the piece will take place in the Newman Studio at Walgreen Drama Center on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at 8pm.

Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral is a theatre ensemble dedicated to creating original works about the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s indigenous people, touching with keen, artistic sensibility themes of great social, cultural, and human value. Meaning “wayfarer” in the language of the Wixarika people, Makuyeika was formed after an extensive search across the country’s indigenous communities, a project undertaken by Flores Komatsu as an inaugural recipient of The Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship.

Andares is a theatre creation about the lives of indigenous youth in México, devised collectively through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, as well as traditional music and art forms. The play shines light on a range of realities — land usurpation, widespread violence, ancestral duties, community resistance, — that indigenous people face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Meaning “pathways,” Andares is a genuine, eye-opening, and intimate close-up on Mexico’s most remote corners and the extraordinary stories of its humble, everyday inhabitants.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; LSA Department of American Culture; LSA Latina/o Studies; LSA Native American Studies; LSA Residential College; SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; SMTD EXCEL; and SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the 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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Performance Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:32:36 -0400 2019-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance ANDARES
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
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
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65326 65326-16571519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born cholo/mestizo city shaped after the influence of new socio-economic sectors of mainly Aymara ethnic origins.

It is during the second half of the past century that the long underprivileged and belittled Quechua/Aymara merchants of the city of La Paz opened the doors to smuggling and to the informal economy that has neither been taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Quechua/Aymara merchants, often stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable, expanded rapidly to challenge the formal economy ran by merchants of diverse European as well as Middle-Eastern origins (mainly Croatian, Lebanese, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and German).

Gastón Gallardo’s presentation will explore the spatial consequences that rose from the “physical” creation of a Quechua/Aymara black market that commercialized with clothing and other imported goods. This black market created a vast ambulant commerce of informal nature that dramatically changed La Paz, the site of Bolivia’s government. What did this mean symbolically? How should we conceptualize the enormous changes the city is encountering today between the rationalized European spatial models of the past and the new mestizo baroque architectural forms of the present? What are the connections between commerce and the vibrant mestizo festivities that have conquered artistically the traditional criollo city of the past?

Gastón Gallardo is a well-known Bolivian architect and urban planner. Professor Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia, Gallardo has also been its Dean of the School of Architecture, Arts, Design and Urbanism, from 2015 until 2018. He is also a founder member of the School of Architecture at Universidad Católica Boliviana, and has taught at the postgraduate level at several other universities. He holds degrees from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Collegio d’Ingenierie della Toscana, Firenze, Italy, and has done postgraduate work in territorial and urban planning, in Italy and Argentina. Gallardo in widely published in Bolivia and Latin America, and is currently Vice President of the Bolivian Association of History.

Gallardo’s presentation will be in Spanish.

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:36:20 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Dia De La Muertos (November 1, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68327 68327-17046007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 5:30pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: MENA ( Middle Eastern and North African) Public Health

You are cordially invited to this year’s “Dia de Los Muertos” event taking place on November 1st from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the School of Public Health’s Community Room 1680. MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Public Health, La Salud, and PHSAD (Public Health Students of African Descent) have partnered to present a Dia de Los Muertos event which is meant to commemorate all the lives lost to any discrimination or racism in the U.S. and internationally.

Dia de Los Muertos stems from Mexican traditions and originates from Aztec practices. We use this day to celebrate, not mourn, the lives of our beloved departed and rejoice by sharing ofrendas that remember the individual as they were in life. Although this festive occasion is meant to welcome our loved ones, there are many lives that were forgotten both in life and death. These lives were victimized, racialized, and prosecuted during life as a result of structural racism and exclusion. This year, we hope to raise awareness for the lives that were silenced and empower future practitioners to advocate for these communities and prevent future injustices.
We celebrate in community to provide space for the living and dead, and invite you to join us for an evening of activities, dialogue, food and performances! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:17:19 -0400 2019-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T19:30:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower MENA ( Middle Eastern and North African) Public Health Reception / Open House Dia De Los Muertos Event Flyer
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
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
Author's Forum Presents: "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (November 18, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66150 66150-16709270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (American culture) and Felix Contreras (host of NPR’s Alt.Latino, https://www.npr.org/people/4607354/felix-contreras) discuss Hoffnung-Garskof's new book "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean." Q & A follows the conversation.

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individuals—including Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician; Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher; and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havana—built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat José Martí’s writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.

In Racial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.

A model of transnational and comparative research, Racial Migrations reveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:12:04 -0500 2019-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Racial Migrations
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Mental Health Abroad Panel (November 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68672 68672-17136732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join us for a discussion about mental health abroad! Mental health should not be a taboo topic, especially when embarking on a study or internship abroad experience. A panel of past study abroad students will share their experiences with handling anxiety, depression, culture shock, and more while abroad. In addition, we will provide you with resources for both before and during your time abroad. We welcome students preparing to go abroad or those considering it.


*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 09:38:41 -0400 2019-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Students dancing together on abroad program
LACS Central American Contexts Series. From Coffee to Tourism: Grassroots Organizations and Returned Migrants Navigating Economic Shifts in Guatemala (December 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68836 68836-17161716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Much of the recent news coverage and scholarly attention on Central America has focused on reasons for migration including violence, climate change, and dismal economic conditions. Less common is a focus on the influence of returning migrants and the efforts of those attempting to remain. This lecture will showcase local responses in Guatemala to global economic trends, in particular in the coffee and tourism industries. In contemporary Guatemala, market fluctuations and disease have radically altered the structure of the coffee industry creating an opening for other raw products, increasing migration, and driving a shift towards a service economy. Part of this growing service economy is the tourism industry, which is a site of political contention over national identity, development, culture, the past and future. Using ethnographic data from a network of grassroots organizations in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, this talk will discuss how local actors, including former guerrillas, coffee workers, and returned migrants, have used increased tourism for both economic and political ends. These experiences highlight the importance of transnational platform intermediaries that direct tourist flows, opportunities for community-led development, and the risks of a reliance on tourism.

Eric Sippert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Visiting Scholar with the University of Michigan Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is a student of Comparative Politics and Political Theory with research interests that are broadly located at the intersection of resistance, globalization, and development, with a particular interest in Guatemala. Sippert's research aims to understand what types of political action (broadly understood) globalization engenders and what forms it takes. He uses ethnographic methods as well as network mapping to study how groups understand and interact with economic, cultural, and political transnational flows including, but not limited to, capital, aid, migration, and tourism.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:29:20 -0400 2019-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Brazil Initiative at LACS Event. Women, Defiance, and Brazilian History (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69872 69872-17480872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Brazil’s most famous historical icons—from the maroon warrior Dandara to President Dilma Rousseff—defied social expectations based on their gender, race, class, sexuality, and/or region. The constantly changing ways in which artists, screenwriters, journalists, and intellectuals present Brazil’s most famous historical women reflect both tensions over the rights of women in contemporary society and the struggle to unite multiple narratives of Brazilian national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this talk, Dr. Campbell outlines the structure of this project and show how some key historical women have been represented and re-invented in art, literature, film, and TV series. This exploratory paper asks the questions of how and why this group—in most cases the majority of the nation—is tied to the idea of nationhood and how their representation within media affects understandings of Brazilian history.

Dr. Courtney J. Campbell is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Latin American History at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her book, *Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World* (1924-1968) is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:42:39 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion BI-dec4-image
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (December 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
NOS: Dismantling the Otro (January 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71010 71010-17768594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“NOS: Dismantling the Otro” is a presentation of work from the thesis project of Social Theory and Practice major Tess Garcia. The project, which takes the form of a magazine, profiles eight Latinx students at the University of Michigan. Each student participated in a one-on-one interview with Tess, during which they discussed the struggles they face in relation to their heritage. Their answers served as the basis for a feature-style article. Students also took part in individual photoshoots with Tess, whose location, style and focus they directed. Those photos are featured in this exhibition, along with excerpts from each student’s interview. Copies of the original magazine will be available for viewing within the gallery space.

>> Opening Reception: Friday, January 10 from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served.

In Spanish, “nosotros” means “we.” On its own, however, “otros” means “others.” The title of this exhibition omits the latter part of the word to symbolize Tess’s dreams for the Latinx community: a shared space of “we” where nobody feels like the other.

Tess Garcia is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Communication and Media and Social Theory and Practice through the Residential College. Her work in STP has centered around exploring Latinx issues through journalism, culminating in the creation of the print magazine and accompanying exhibition for “NOS: Dismantling the Otro.”

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Exhibition Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:09:37 -0500 2020-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition NOS: Dismantling the Otro
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Food Literacy for All (January 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-14T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
ICPJ Dinner and a Movie. Venezuelans Under Siege (2019, 90 min) (January 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71372 71372-17819288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Co-director Kevin Young (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst) will join for the first installment of the Tuesday "Movies that Move Us" series hosted by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Latin America Caucus. Dr. Young will discuss his new documentary short that explores the impacts of economic sanctions in Venezuela, plus the ways that ordinary Venezuelans are organizing to survive the crisis and build new institutions of participatory socialism. Co-hosted by LACS and the ICPJ. RSVP and (optional) purchase tickets for dinner from Pilar's Tamales at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-dinner-and-a-movie-latin-america-series-tickets-85513024759?aff=ebdssbdestsearch.

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:05:25 -0500 2020-01-14T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Kevin Young, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachussetts Amherst
Food Literacy for All (January 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-21T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020