Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Center for Global Health Equity Introductory Seminar (September 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77700 77700-19901736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the Introductory Seminar for the Center for Global Health Equity, where we will discuss:
What is the purpose of the Center?
What has been our journey to date?
Where are we going?

Speakers Include:
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
Nancy Love, PhD
Joseph Kolars, MD
John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Laura Rozek, PhD
Andries Coetzee, PhD

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:32:00 -0400 2020-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Speakers
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (October 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
PICS Career Event. Next Steps Virtual PICSnics Video Conference with Audrey Sharp (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75719 75719-19574577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in living and working abroad, working for an international non-profit service organization, or exploring how you can use your International Studies education to work in communications and development? Learn from PICS alumna Audrey Sharp (BA ‘15) through her post-graduation experiences and her work with Outreach360.

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

Register at: http://myumi.ch/9oNoW

Audrey Sharp was born and raised in Suttons Bay, Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan as an International Studies and Spanish major in 2015. Following graduation, Audrey moved abroad to serve with Outreach360, an international service organization. She lived in both the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua for three years, where Audrey led international volunteer groups and taught the students in Outreach360's Learning Centers. In 2018, Audrey returned to Michigan and assumed the role of Development and Communications Director for Outreach360. She is currently slow traveling around the United States while continuing to work remotely for Outreach360. Audrey also continues to travel to both the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua several times each year.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:37:32 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Next Steps Virtual PICSnics Video Conference with Audrey Sharp
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-14563721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-20162611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
A "Common Spectacle" of the Race: The Visual Politics of Founding in the Age of Garveyism (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75583 75583-19542895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Addressing a crowded Liberty Hall full of members of the New York Division in the summer of 1920, Marcus Garvey declared, “We are a new people, born out of a new day and new circumstance. We are born out of the bloody war of 1914-1918.” This essay is concerned with the constitution of a new people, attending in particular to the role of images, performance, and practices in the project of political founding. Focusing on the 1920 and 1921 convention, I argue that for the United Negro Improvement Association, political founding was a vehicle through which participants came to understand themselves as constituting the figure of Universal Negro—a figure represented through the convention as a transnational and empowered political subject. Political founding was on this view a process of transforming one’s self-perception, of cognizing oneself as a member of a transnational people politically capable of transforming the prevailing conditions of racial domination.

Professor Getachew will present a short introduction to her pre-circulated paper; this will be followed by brief comments by Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (University of Michigan) and audience questions.

***NOTE: The link to the pre-circulated paper will be supplied in the Zoom registration confirmation email.***

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (PUP, 2019).

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prwS5vb6R2ORRvW9taPevQ

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:17:06 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Adom Getachew
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (November 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-11-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945: Virtual Launching of *Radical History Review 138 * (November 12, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76899 76899-19774598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://myumi.ch/v2Z2Q

The *Radical History Review* Issue 138, “Fascism and Anti-fascism Since 1945” is currently open access (until January 2021) and available to read on the Duke University Press website. (https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/138)

Presenters: Co-editors Jessica Namakkal (Duke), Mark Bray (Rutgers), Eric Roubinek (UNC Asheville) and Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan)

Respondents: Federico Finchelstein (The New School); Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

Contributors to this special issue of *Radical History Review* study histories of fascism and antifascism after 1945 to show how fascist ideology continues to circulate and be opposed transnationally despite its supposed death at the end of World War II.

The essays cover the use of fascism in the 1970s construction of the Latinx Left, the connection between antifascism and anti-imperialism in 1960s Italian Communist internationalism, post-dictatorship Argentina and the transhistorical alliance between Las Madres and travestí activism, cultures of antifascism in contemporary Japan, and the British radical right's attempted alliance with Qathafi's Libya. The issue also includes a discussion about teaching fascism through fiction in the age of Trump, a reflection on the practices of archiving and displaying antifascist objects to various publics, and reviews of recent works on antifascism, punk music, and the Rock Against Racism movement. Please RSVP for the Zoom link and password (RSVP link can be found below). This event is sponsored by the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:25:45 -0500 2020-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945
The Impact of Access to Clean Water on Cognitive and Physical Development: Evidence from Mexico's Programa de Agua Limpia. (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77316 77316-19838098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

Dr. Brown will discuss The Impact of Access to Clean Water on Cognitive and Physical Development: Evidence from Mexico's Programa de Agua Limpia.


BIO:
Ryan Brown's research interests span multiple fields of applied microeconomics including development economics, labor economics, health economics, economic demography, and political economy.

Ryan's work has primarily focused on applying econometric techniques to population representative data in both developed and developing country settings, to examine how changes in the social, physical, and/or economic environment can have a persistent impact on health, preferences, and human capital accumulation. Recently, I have also begun to explore the relationship between the success of women competing for positions in entry-level positions and its subsequent impact on the gender gap at the top of the career ladder.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:22:41 -0400 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity (November 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79254 79254-20241308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar in the Center for Global Health's series: Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity.
Panelists include:
Cheryl Moyer, Medicine
Laura Rozek, School of Public Health
Jodi Lori, Nursing
Elizabeth King, School of Public Health
Bridgette Carr, Law

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:09:26 -0500 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
LACS Virtual Event. The Covid-19 Crisis: Effects on Criminal Violence and Public Security in Latin America (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78805 78805-20129170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free event; please register at http://myumi.ch/ZQbrP

Latin America is the region with the highest incidence of homicides per-capita in the globe. Whereas the region accounts for only 13 percent of the world's population, it reports around 40 percent of total homicides. In many areas, criminal groups contend the state for dominance as they cash in billions of dollars from the drug trade. The COVID health crisis has disrupted the drug market and the balance of power within criminal organizations. At the same time, countries across Latin America are struggling with weakening economies, massive unemployment, abusive police behavior, and the shadow of militarization and populism.

This panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to analyze the different channels in which the pandemic might accentuate criminal violence and other public security pre-existing challenges in the region. Examples will be drawn from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Presenter Biographies:

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is a MIDAS and NCID postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Edgar’s research agenda explores how colonial era institutions and contemporary criminal violence shape economic under-performance, particularly within Latin America. His dissertation-related book project studies the role Indigenous groups have played in the state-building process of the region since colonial times. Using extensive archival data of colonial Mexican courts, combined with automated text analysis, he examines the complex interactions between Indigenous communities and the colonial state. Edgar’s research on contemporary challenges to development focuses on criminal violence and policing. He is co-authoring a book that draws on extensive fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study the differentiated effects of state interventions against organized criminal groups.

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her work has appeared in the *American Political Science Review*, *American Journal of Political Science*, *World Development, Comparative Political Studies*, *Annual Review of Political Science*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* and other journals. Her first book, *Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, *The Political Logic of Poverty Relief* (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief.

Eduardo Moncada is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research agenda focuses on the political economy of crime and violence as well as comparative urban politics in Latin America. Moncada is the author of *Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America* (Stanford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of *Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics* (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In his forthcoming book, *Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals and Police in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press), he analyzes the different ways in which victims mobilize to negotiate, end or prevent extortion at the hands of armed criminal groups. He has published articles in *Perspectives on Politics*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Comparative Politics*, *Studies in Comparative International Development*, and *Global Crime*, among others. Moncada's research has received support from the Fulbright-Hays program, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation / National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor of Crime, Law & Governance at the University of Florida, with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has published research on Venezuela in the *Journal of Latin American Studies*; *The Sociological Quarterly*; *Crime*, *Law*, and *Social Change*; and *REVISTA M. Estudos sobre a Morte*, *os Mortos e o Morrer*. She has also published extensively in outlets such as *The Christian Science Monitor*, *NACLA*, *The Conversation*, and *Insight Crime*. Her book *Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Fieldwork*, co-authored with Patricia Richards (University of Georgia) was published last year with University of California Press.

Sandra Ley is Assistant Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). Prior to her arrival at CIDE, she was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Sandra studies criminal violence and political behavior. Her research focuses on the political consequences of criminal activity. Her most recent work examines how violence affects the activation of civil society, political participation and accountability. Sandra’s work includes several sources of information. She conducted extensive fieldwork in the north and south of Mexico; she designed an original post-election survey and built a unique database on protests against crime and insecurity in Mexico. Together with Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, she is the coauthor of the book Votes, *Drugs, and Violence. The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been published in *British Journal of Political Science*, *Comparative Political Studies*, *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, *Latin American Politics and Society*, *Latin American Research Review*, among other international academic journals. Sandra received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2014.

This event funded in part by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu
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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:26:41 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_image
What’s Next for US Foreign Policy? (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79227 79227-20231468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

The Weiser Diplomacy Center is partnering with the American Academy of Diplomacy to bring seasoned U.S. diplomats to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy after the presidential election 2020. We invite students and the community to join Ambassador Ron Neumann in conversation with Ambassador Dawn Liberi, Ambassador Hugo Llorens and Ambassador Alexander Vershbow.

About the speakers:

Ambassador Dawn Liberi is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi from 2012 to 2016. Ambassador Liberi started her career in Africa where she served in five posts with USAID over a span of twenty years, focusing on key development issues. Serving as the USAID Mission Director in Nigeria (2002-2005), she managed a $100 million program of assistance and brokered a $20 million public-private sector alliance to fund community development activities. As USAID Mission Director in Uganda (1998-2002), Ambassador Liberi managed one of the largest HIV/AIDS and micro-enterprise programs in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to significantly reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence and assisting Uganda to develop high value exports.

Ambassador Hugo Llorens is a recently retired (December 31, 2017) U.S. Ambassador. He currently makes his home in Marco Island, Florida. On a part-time basis, he does international business and security affairs consulting. Llorens provides advice to U.S. and international firms on political, trade and investment matters pertaining to markets in Latin America, Europe, South Asia and the Western Pacific. He utilizes his 36 years of diplomatic experience and leverages his network of global contacts to enhance his clients’ business prospects. He also does public speaking on leadership and foreign affairs issues, and is currently writing a book about his diplomatic experiences.

Ambassador Alexander Sandy Vershbow is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security in Washington DC. Ambassador Vershbow was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from February 2012 to October 2016, the first American to hold that position. He frequently chaired meetings of the North Atlantic Council and other NATO committees. He was directly involved in shaping the Alliance’s political response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, in adapting NATO’s strengthened deterrence and defense posture, and in deepening NATO’s partnerships with non-Allies in Europe, the Middle East and Northeast Asia.

Moderator:

Ambassador Ronald Neumann, President, American Academy of Diplomacy

Formerly a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Ronald E. Neumann served three times as Ambassador; to Algeria, Bahrain and finally to Afghanistan from July 2005 to April 2007. Before Afghanistan, Mr. Neumann, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served in Baghdad from February 2004 with the Coalition Provisional Authority and then as Embassy Baghdad’s liaison with the Multinational Command, where he was deeply involved in coordinating the political part of military actions.

Prior to working in Iraq, he was Ambassador in Manama, Bahrain (2001-2004), Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near East Affairs (1997-2000) with responsibility for North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and Ambassador to Algeria (1994 to 1997). He was Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (Iran and Iraq; 1991 to 1994). Earlier in his career, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and in Sanaa in Yemen, Principal Officer in Tabriz, Iran and Economic/Commercial Officer in Dakar, Senegal. His previous Washington assignments include service as Jordan Desk officer, Staff Assistant in the Middle East (NEA) Bureau, and Political Officer in the Office of Southern European Affairs.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:28:32 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Diplomacy Center Livestream / Virtual American Academy of Diplomacy
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (December 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
STS Speaker. Enclosure and Permeation (December 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77489 77489-19875785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:01:58 -0500 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion LFSRoberts graphic
U-M Center for Global Health Equity: Climate, Vulnerability and Health Seminar (December 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79775 79775-20491895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Nancy Love (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Joseph Eisenberg (School of Public Health) will lead a multi-disciplinary panel on navigating data gaps towards creating impact in low income countries. Professors Love and Eisenberg lead a climate-focused Challenge Group through the new UM Center for Global Health Equity, which seeks to bring experts from across the University together in multi-disciplinary collaborations that can positively impact some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Panelists include:
Pamela Jagger, School of Environment and Sustainability
Marie O'Neill, School of Public Health
Dirgha Ghimire, Population Studies Center
Branko Kerkez, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:54:15 -0500 2020-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (January 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79654 79654-20438372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a discussion of Julius S. Scott's seminal book, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution. Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History, the work presents a remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era. The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World.

Featuring remarks by Julius S. Scott (University of Michigan), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Rebecca J. Scott (University of Michigan), and Stephen Ward (University of Michigan). Chaired by Matthew J. Countryman (University of Michigan).

Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Department of History, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

Speakers

Julius S. Scott
Lecturer, Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan

Professor Scott is author of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (2018). Based on his influential but previously unpublished 1986 Duke University doctoral dissertation, The Common Wind has earned numerous accolades, including the MAAH Stone Book Award and the Special Achievement Award from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Laurent Dubois
Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Professor Dubois specializes in the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. Recent books include Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (2016). In 2009 he edited, with Julius S. Scott, Origins of the Black Atlantic. Professor Dubois is faculty director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University.

Rebecca J. Scott
Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Professor Scott's research centers on the intersection of law and slavery, both in the United States and the Caribbean. Her books include Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (2008) and Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (with Frederick Cooper and Thomas C. Holt; 2014). Professor Scott is the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Stephen Ward
Associate Professor, Afroamerican & African Studies and the Residential College, University of Michigan

Professor Ward's teaching and writing focus on African American political thought and social movements, particularly the Black Power movement, and the evolution of cities since World War II, with an emphasis on grassroots activism and community-based approaches to urban redevelopment. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016). Professor Ward is faculty director of the U-M Semester in Detroit Program.

Matthew J. Countryman (chair)
Associate Professor of History, American Culture, University of Michigan

Professor Countryman's work centers on twentieth-century African American social movements. He is the author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2007). Professor Countryman is chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:49:45 -0500 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Conference / Symposium The Common Wind
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80751 80751-20783452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary, 1985. The movie follows the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo, a group of mothers who challenged authorities during the repressive regime in Argentina (1976-1983), trying to discover the whereabouts of their missing sons and daughters, taken by the regime.
During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. The faculty discussant will be Susan Waltz, Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Sioban Harlow, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Other dates include Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcu-srj4jHtZpCETVEs-3WM5xygNoTF4m

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:00:02 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Chicanas/os & the 3rd World in San Diego (February 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81264 81264-20879903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Join Latina/o Studies Feb. 1st at 4pm for a workshop with Francisco Beltrán & his discussion on his article, Chicanas/os & the 3rd World in San Diego!
We will read, discuss, and offer comments and suggestions on Prof. Beltrán’s in-progress article that examines the development of Third World consciousness among Chicana/o students in San Diego, California, in the early 1970s.

As many of you know, Francisco Beltrán received his Ph.D. in History from UC Santa Barbara in 2019. He is a US historian who specializes in Mexican American, Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, race, ethnicity, borderlands, and immigration histories. He has previously taught courses on these topics at UC Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. He is currently an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Research Fellow within LSA at the University of Michigan.

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/ThirdWorldSanDiego

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:21:48 -0500 2021-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Chicanas_os and the Third World in San Diego Poster
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (February 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80754 80754-20783462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That search leads to the trail of two little boys who were plucked from a nightmare and offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre.
The discussant will be Maggie Barnard, Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Hardy Vieux, Ford School of Public Policy. During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. Other dates include Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdemurzwiHt3BJvJfo8Zs8mA5-Xx9gwYA

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:28:27 -0500 2021-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Finding Oscar
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (February 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80782 80782-20791339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/yKAkP

Melissa Blanco Borelli is Associate Professor of Theatre Scholarship and Performance Studies and Associate Director of the International Program for Creative Collaboration and Research (IPCCR), School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of *She Is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body* which won the Society of Dance History Scholars' 2016 de la Torre Bueno Prize for best book in Dance Studies. She has been faculty at MIT, University of Surrey, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include identity and corporeality; blackness in Latin America; dance on screen; film studies; feminist historiography and performance/auto-ethnography; cultural memory; digital humanities; decolonial aesthetics; and thinking beyond "the human." A recipient of a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council grant, she was the Principal Investigator (2018-2020) on a project that co-creates digital performance archives with Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities affected by the armed conflict. The archive will be available soon. She is the current President of the Dance Studies Association.

For this talk, Dr. Blanco Borelli will discuss her chapter in *Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World *(Bloomsbury, 2021) entitled "Community, Coloniality, and Convivencia in the Festival de Danza de Santa María la Antigua del Darién, Colombia," as well as her research and writing methodologies, "Historicizing Hip(g)nosis."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:52:06 -0500 2021-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about *La Sirga* (2012) (February 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81573 81573-20927561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Join us for our first event of LACS' Spring 2021 Colombian Film Series. This will be a virtual Zoom panel to discuss the film, *La Sirga*, with the film director William Vega, Juliana Martinez (American University), and Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (University of Michigan). The film is available to University of Michigan affiliates via the library. Please watch independently before the Zoom discussion.

Registration for the panel discussion:
https://myumi.ch/PlXlj
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on February 11.

*La Sirga* (2012)
A Colombian refugee tries to rebuild her life at a guest house located on the shores of a great lake in the Andes. Winner of eight international film festival awards.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191612/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on February 11. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on February 11.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:17:41 -0500 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion La Sirga poster
EIHS Lecture: Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine (February 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79650 79650-20438368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk will examine the history of the slave trade in the Iberian Atlantic and its relationship to the emergence of novel practices related to the study and quantification of bodies and nature. Specifically, it will discuss the development of ideas about the human body, population, and disease that appeared in Iberian-Atlantic slave markets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The practices undergirding the development of the slave trade as a technological, bureaucratic, economic, legal, and intellectual enterprise went hand in hand with the appearance of new notions about risk, disease, nosology, and population health that would become normative in subsequent decades. In analyzing the invisibility of both this history and the archives of the slave trade in traditional HSMT narratives, this lecture will also examine the role that ideas about knowledge (and what constitutes knowledge) have had in shaping fundamental and exclusionary tenets in the histories of science and Medicine in Euro America.

Pablo F. Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works on histories of knowledge-making, race, and health and corporeality with a particular focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, and more largely the African Diaspora. His book The Experiential Caribbean Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, won the William H. Welch medal in medical history, the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize in Africana religion, and Honorable Mention for the Bolton-Johnson Book Prize in Latin American history.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:07:50 -0500 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Pablo F. Gómez
LACS Event. Prison-Industrial Complexity: On Carceral Material Worlds & Ethical Aporias in Ecuador (February 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81771 81771-20953363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Virtual Event. Register at http://myumi.ch/R5D0Q

Chris Garces is Research Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Visiting Invited Professor in the Law School at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. His ethnographic interests range from the study of politics and religion—or contemporary political theologies–to the Western outgrowth of penal state politics, and counter-histories of Catholic ethics in Latin America. His co-edited volume, *Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century *(Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penality), will be published in February 2021.

Everywhere it seems, democracy has been freighted with the psychic weight of punitive infrastructure. Symptomatically, for most citizens, a world without prisons is impossible even to imagine. But consider the flip side of this most curious problem: uncomfortable or intrusive memories—that in the name of enforcing justice and democratic order, living human beings are being held in cages—publicly forgotten almost as soon as they are remembered. The prison is a machine for disappearing humans and remaking worlds. Carcerality as such boxes the prisoner into what might be called ethical aporias, unrelenting state-imposed sacrifice and civil disregard, or an experimental process of human disposal which nevertheless demands increasingly accelerated flows of exchange between free citizens and dehumanized offenders. In this talk, I explore how even the most modest of prison technologies participate in penal infrastructure’s human unmaking and world-remaking processes. Taking into account Ecuador’s 20th century material history of a humble water spigot in a municipal prison, I demonstrate the perverse tenacity of carceral relations and how penality itself—the state-sponsored ritual reproduction of punishment across the prison-neighborhood nexus—involves continuous, albeit disavowed human experimentation on diverse citizen-subjects.

Lecture presented in conjunction with HIST197: Journeys & Stories

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Prison Creative Arts Project, and The Quito Project
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:52:19 -0500 2021-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Prison-Industrial Complexity poster
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk

The phrase “Arts of Devotion” typically brings to mind traditional ritual objects used as part of religious practices, or evokes items like costumes, masks, dances, songs, poetry, and literature. Arts of Devotion can tend to be conflated with only those items that are understood as “traditional,” rather than those that emerge from the contemporary moment, as if modern and contemporary art can only be associated with the purely secular world.

Yet there are numerous contemporary artists who have incorporated elements of the devotional into their works, and devotional arts have changed with the advent of modern technologies and changing socio-political contexts. We might also consider Arts of Devotion as potentially extending beyond the usual association with the religious to other “devotional” relationships, such as those for political or revolutionary leaders, or individuals’ loved ones.

This year’s conference explores both contemporary and traditional Arts of Devotion by bringing together scholars from across disciplines and temporal and regional contexts, to engage with one another and a broader audience of faculty, students, and the general public.

Free and open to the public.
This conference is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the U.S. Department of Education

Co-sponsors: African Studies Center, Center for Armenian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, History of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

For schedule and panel information:
https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
LACS Indigenous Languages Program Event. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82092 82092-21034704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at https://myumi.ch/3q00K

Lecture presented by Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Discussant: Laura Pensa, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M

In the early 1970s, sociologist Orlando Fals Borda combined sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements in collaboration with the National Association of Peasant Users on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The presentation examines the development of participatory action research, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists and preparing accessible materials for a campesino readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. The fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and anthropology at Georgetown University. An anthropologist pursuing dual lines of research in ethnographic history and collaborative ethnography, she previously looked at the role of literacy and historical memory in indigenous activism in Colombia and at the emergence of indigenous intellectuals in Latin America. Her recent work centers on collaborative ethnography that draws equally on academic and nonacademic agendas, theories, and methods. She is the author of *The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada*, *Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia*, and *Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research* all also published by Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:05:16 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia poster
Faculty Recital: Matthew Bengtson, piano (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81766 81766-20953358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Iberia, Book 1 and 2 Isaac Albeniz
12 Estudios ritmicos y sonoros (world premiere) Roberto Sierra

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Performance Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Designing for Impact in Global Health (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82821 82821-21179589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar for the UM Center for Global Health Equity: Designing for Impact in Global Health.

Panelists include:
Kathleen Sienko, College of Engineering
Paul Clyde, William Davidson Institute
Rocky Oteng, School of Medicine
Kentaro Toyama, School of Information
Grace Burleson, College of Engineering
David Green, Social Entrepreneur
Jesse Austin-Breneman, College of Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:12:00 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Panelists
The Quito Project Annual Event. One Year In: Lessons in Virtual Teaching | Conversations with Student and Community Educators (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83268 83268-21328378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

To join: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92081280992

In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, The Quito Project's annual event has been rethemed to create a collaborative panel and conversation space for student educators to discuss lessons learned from a year of teaching virtually.

The panel features speakers from PALMA, En Nuestra Lengua, and the School of Education. Conversation will focus on resources/strategies for engaging students in a virtual format, addressing access disparities, and what things teachers hope to bring over from online teaching as they transition back into in-person learning.

This workshop is open to educators in all disciplines, especially those who are still university students themselves. We will offer a space for students to hear from their peers and share their own experiences from a challenging year.

For more information, contact: averysan@umich.edu


Co-sponsors: The Quito Project, School of Education, Romance Languages & Literatures, PALMA (Proyecto Avance, Latino Mentoring Association)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:50:02 -0400 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion The Quito Project Annual Event image
CWPS 20th // Faculty *in Conversation* (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82694 82694-21161627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/4p3pN

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. As part of the ongoing virtual celebration of this milestone, CWPS invites four esteemed U-M faculty members to reflect on the Center’s founding, its contributions to increasing the diversity of arts and research at University of Michigan, and to imagine the possibilities for the next twenty years.

Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, is a scholar and practitioner of ethnomusicology. He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of West Africa. His research interests include the performing arts as individually and collectively created and experienced, the performance of historical and social memory, politics, ideologies, values, and religious philosophy in Akan court music. Professor Ampene’s latest book, *Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool*, was published on June 30th, 2020 by Routledge. Dr. Ampene was Director of the Center for World Performance Studies from 2011-2016.

Lester Monts is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (ethnomusicology). From 1993 until 2014, he served as senior vice provost for academic affairs and senior counselor to the president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. He is currently director of the Michigan Musical Heritage Project that seeks to capture on film the state’s folk, ethnic, and immigrant music traditions. Monts received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota.

Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and head of the minor in Global Theatre & Ethnic Studies. A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC) beginning in 1979. He has directed plays in various professional companies there, such as Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests, and Réné Kalisky’s Aïda Vaincue. Dr. Nkanga received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has led the Center for World Performance Studies graduate seminar since 1999.

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, on the faculty since 1995, and is best known as a founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she was awarded a New York Performance Award for the collective work of the Urban Bush Women from 1984-1994. Her studio teaching is informed by years of study in various mid-twentieth century modern dance and Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance techniques. She performed in New York for more than a decade with such choreographers as Dianne McIntyre, Kevin Wynn, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Professor Wilson served on the Center for World Performance Studies faculty advisory committee for over a decade.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:46:38 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS 20
Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury (April 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82620 82620-21147746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

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

Register here: tinyurl.com/ZorroLatinxSuperhero

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:17:44 -0500 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury
LACS & CSAS Conversation: Madam Vice President: Navigating South Asia and the Caribbean | A virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83434 83434-21377669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration is required: http://myumi.ch/4pE97

Moderator:
Dr. Supriya Nair, Professor of English, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Ambassador Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor from Practice, Law School, University of Michigan

Dr. Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Dr. Rupert Lewis, Emeritus Professor in Political Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

The Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies present a virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Kamala Harris inhabits multiple identities that are often seen as separate or non-legible within the same frame (South Asian/South Asian American, Black, Caribbean). What does her Vice Presidency mean vis-a-vis these identity categories? How does Kamala Harris help bridge South Asia and the Caribbean, making visible connections that evade our commonplace understandings of people and places? This event seeks to discuss these themes as well as how we understand Kamala Harris as an international and domestic figure and how international and domestic politics and concerns are deeply intertwined.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:23:57 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion LACS/CSAS Event
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82975 82975-21233240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/E30vd

In this virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. For this session, Dr. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera will discuss his recent research in Puerto Rico, including an innovative outreach initiative to assist Puerto Rican artists in the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma. Participants can learn about this research ahead of the session by visiting the Mellon Foundation blog: https://mellon.org/shared-experiences-blog/after-storm/

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is chair of the Department of Performance Studies and the Department of Theatre in the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and was recently appointed as the next dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on 20th and 21st Century performance in North America and the Caribbean with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are negotiated across national borders through migratory circuits of circulation and exchange. His work documents a wide array of performance practices ranging from theatre and concert dance to social dance, popular music, fashion, and speech.

He is author of *Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics* (University of Michigan Press, 2012), a study of the role performance played in the development of Latina/o queer publics in the United States from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.

He is currently completing a book manuscript, *Reggaetón’s Queer Turn: Sexuality, Abstraction, and Contemporary Art in the Circum-Caribbean*, which pursues feminist and queer uptakes of the popular music and dance cultures of reggaetón in circum-Caribbean contemporary art to theorize the role of black aesthetics in the sexual cultural politics of the Spanish speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. He is also conducting fieldwork and archival research towards two other projects: *Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museum Cultures, and the Live Event*, which looks at the ways race has been collected and exhibited in North America and the Caribbean since the mid-1990s and *Choreographing the Latina/o Post-Modern: Puerto Rican Moves in the New York Dance Avant-Garde*, a cultural history of Puerto Rican participation in the New York City experimental dance scene since the 1980s.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:09:33 -0500 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Rivera-Servera Headshot
Globally Engaged Career Panel (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83274 83274-21330358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

An open Q&A will follow! Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Xew9R

Join the International Institute for a virtual conversation with a panel of distinguished professionals, all graduates of U-M area studies programs, who have pursued career paths with a global reach. Our panelists will share their stories and experiences, based on questions prepared in advance by U-M Masters in International and Regional Studies (MIRS) students. This event is open to anyone seeking new perspectives on globally engaged career paths and job search insights.

This event is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the US Department of Education.

About the Panelists:
Emily Etue received an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment and a Graduate Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and spent almost a decade working throughout Asia, mainly in the Asia-Pacific Region. Now based in Texas, her private sector and international non-profit experience opened a network of connections that she actively works to maintain. Emily strongly believes in the power of networking and feels it is the key ingredient to finding a fulfilling career.

Frank Hennick is a Grants Manager at CAPI USA, a nonprofit that provides basic needs, jobs skills, and civic engagement services to immigrant and refugee communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro. Before joining CAPI, he worked with the Karen Organization of Minnesota (KOM), a nonprofit that provides human services to St. Paul’s growing community of Karen refugees from Burma and their children. He completed his M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2013 and his research focused on tensions between nationalism and the process of European integration, and how these tensions play out in education policy, public art and monuments, music, and journalism. He lives in St. Paul, where he remains involved with the Center for Victims of Torture and counts down days until the Brewers’ baseball season.

Evan Hoye works in Academic Services at the University of Michigan International Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 2015, double majoring in International Studies (Norms, Security, and Cooperation) and German, with a minor in Translation Studies. Prior to joining the International Institute, Evan served in a number of student services administration roles at the University of Michigan, including project management at the School of Information, stewarding the release and promotion of an educational app commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial Celebration.

Lydia McMullen-Laird is a journalist for WNYC radio in New York covering climate change and the environment. Previously, she lived in China and conducted research on a Fulbright Fellowship, worked in environmental law for the Natural Resources Defense Council and began her journalism career producing environmental videos. While studying at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, she interned at the American Embassy in Moscow. McMullen-Laird is also passionate about sustainable living and is the co-founder of the NGO Live Zero Waste.]

Moderators:

Sam Breazeale, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Katherine Downs, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; MSW Candidate in School of Social Work


Co-sponsors:
African Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International Institute, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Residential College

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:24:55 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion event_image
GPASS Event. The Bioarchaeology of the Lower Rio Verde, Oaxaca, Mexico (April 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83795 83795-21532311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Link to the event: https://wccnet-edu.zoom.us/s/89151954844
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Arion T. Mayes is a professor of biological anthropology at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She is a Research Associate with the New York African Burial Ground and the San Diego Museum of Man. Her work entails both national and international fieldwork in Oklahoma, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the revitalization of unstudied museum collections. Her research in bioarchaeology and dental anthropology focuses on the effect of subsistence strategies on population health with an emphasis on transitional dietary regimes, and population variation as evidenced through morphological change, occupational stress, and disease processes. As one of the earliest regions of independent domestication of plants in the world, Oaxaca allows for temporally extensive studies of biocultural adaptations and the biological history of a region. She has authored several articles and one book chapter regarding the early people of the lower Rio Verde of Oaxaca, as well several articles on population and dental variation in New World populations. Dr. Mayes has received and participated in research grants and awards including the National Geographic Society, SDSU University Grants Program, NSF, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

The Global Project in Applied Social Sciences (GPASS) is a collaboration between area studies centers at the International Institute and Washtenaw Community College with the goal of developing new curriculum related to applied social sciences through global studies content. Participating area studies centers are: the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This project is funded in part by three Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the US Department of Education.

Co-sponsors:
Washtenaw Community College
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:26:05 -0400 2021-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Event image
Reflections on the Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Challenges and Future Opportunities (May 13, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84001 84001-21619355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Live Spanish interpretation available

May 13, 2021 • 10:30-12 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)
WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife Panel: "Reflections on the Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Challenges and Future Opportunities" with Sue Anne Bell, Deena Kelly Costa, Megan Eagle, Sheria Robinson-Lane and international guests. https://umich.zoom.us/s/97036823249

Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., FNP-BC, is an assistant professor at the University of
Michigan School of Nursing, with expertise in disaster preparedness and response,
community health and emergency care. Trained as a health services researcher, her
work focuses on the health and well-being of aging populations in the context of a
disaster. She is currently serving a three-year term on the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Advisory Council. Her original training is as a family nurse practitioner, and she is clinically active in disaster response through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s National Disaster Medical System, with recent deployments to a COVID-19 cruise ship quarantine, Hurricane Maria and the 2018 Paradise, California, wildfire.

Megan Eagle, MSN, MPH, FNP-BC is a clinical instructor at the University of
Michigan School of Nursing. Since 1995, she has been providing primary health care
services to underserved populations. She has done research on the health care
needs of uninsured adults in Washtenaw County, the adaptability of group prenatal
care models to the family practice setting and on strategies for addressing maternal mortality in rural areas. She has served as a clinical preceptor to adult and family nurse practitioner students and also supervised clinical placements for students from the schools of Social Work, Pharmacy and Medicine. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Deena Kelly Costa, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is an assistant professor at the University of
Michigan School of Nursing and co-director of the National Clinician Scholars
Program. She received both her master's and Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania. A trained health services researcher with clinical expertise in adult
critical care nursing, Costa’s work has been published in leading journals such as JAMA, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Chest. Given her expertise, Costa advised Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office on staffing and scope of practice regulations that informed Executive Order 2020-30 during the spring surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sheria G. Robinson-Lane, Ph.D., MSN, MHA, RN is an assistant professor at the
University of Michigan School of Nursing. Robinson-Lane’s work aims to reduce
health disparities and improve health equity for diverse older adults and family
caregivers managing pain and chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease. Her
current work is focused on improving the ability of Black, Latino and other diverse older adults to successfully age in place through culturally responsive and community-engaged care practices. Robinson-Lane completed her Ph.D. at Wayne State University and a postdoctoral fellowship in advanced rehabilitation research training at the University of Michigan Medical School

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 09 May 2021 13:27:20 -0400 2021-05-13T10:30:00-04:00 2021-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Livestream / Virtual Reflections on the Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Challenges and Future Opportunities
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Andean Circle Event. New Perspectives on the Cuzco Region (May 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84108 84108-21620295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at: https://myumi.ch/pdP3y

Presentations:

*State Expansion in Middle Horizon Peru: Re-Examining Wari Impact on the Local Communities of the Cusco Region*, by Veronique Belisle

In the Andes, the Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) has traditionally been interpreted as a period during which a strong Wari imperial state conquered several provinces and tightly controlled local populations. In the Cusco region of southern Peru, research conducted at large Wari installations has long guided reconstructions of Wari power, leading scholars to argue that Wari presence resulted in the loss of local autonomy and the reorganization of economic activities. In this talk, I use regional surveys and excavation data from the local center of Ak’awillay to test this model and evaluate Wari military, economic, and religious impact in Cusco. Results do not support the hypothesis of a military conquest of the region and suggest strong continuity in agricultural production, exchange networks, and ritual activities. I conclude that Wari impact in Cusco was not as strong as originally proposed and that similar to other early states worldwide, Wari influence did not penetrate very deeply into local life.

*Colonial Legends and the Anthropological Reconstruction of Inca Origins*, by R. Alan Covey

Spaniards collected myths of Inca origins as part of political and religious discourse on colonization. Certain versions of the story eventually became part of Peruvian national history, a legend that John Rowe challenged in the 1940s with his own historical paradigm. Rowe's historicist approach influenced the work of lo andino scholarship in archaeology and ethnohistory as research proliferated from the late 1960s onward. In recent decades, a new body of archaeological data has demonstrated the need for a new anthropological paradigm for Inca origins. The completion of horizontal excavations and regional surveys, and the introduction of new analytical techniques (radiocarbon dates, bioarchaeology, geochemical analysis) have generated multiple lines of evidence for independently reconstructing important aspects of Inca state formation and early territorial expansion. Recent and emerging research encourages new approaches to the ethnohistoric record and better engagement with data from Inca provincial regions. This talk will review the intellectual history of the discourse on Inca origins, summarize current evidence, and identify areas for future interpretation, including issues that are difficult to resolve with archaeological evidence.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 May 2021 11:40:17 -0400 2021-05-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium
Latinx Heritage Month 2021: Opening Ceremony (September 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86384 86384-21633906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Latinx Heritage Month 2021 is just around the corner! Join us on Wednesday, September 15th at 6 PM (doors open at 5:30 PM) for the Opening Ceremony! We are excited to kick off our month-long celebration and look forward to you joining us! The event will include a keynote and logo reveal. Register here: https://myumi.ch/1p3Xo

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:46:57 -0400 2021-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Ceremony / Service Green border with cream center. Flowers and leaves entering image from four corners. In dark green font, from top-to-bottom: Florecemos de nuestras raices symbol; “Florecemos de Nuestras Raices”; “We Bloom from our Roots”; LATINX HERITAGE MONTH; OPENING CEREMONY; Wednesday, September 15th; 6PM-8PM; DOORS OPEN 5:30PM; 530 S STATE ST, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109; THE UNION ROGEL BALLROOM
The Clements Bookworm: The Hacke ‘Pirate’ Atlas (September 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84871 84871-21625217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the late 1600s, English mapmaker William Hacke masterfully produced multiple copies of a manuscript atlas drawn from captured Spanish sea charts. One copy of these atlases is now held at the University of Michigan Clements Library. In this episode of the Bookworm, past Fellows Chet Van Duzer and Danny Zborover discuss their research on these 17th century sources. Van Duzer will explain indications of the locations of shipwrecks in Hacke Atlases—and how information about the treasure on those wrecks was later added (a change inspired by William Phips’ spectacular recovery of treasure from a Spanish wreck in 1687.) Zborover shares his research focused on the deep roots of entanglements between the Chontal Indigenous people in southern Mexico, and English, French, and Dutch pirates. He considers the Clements’ Hacke Atlas to be “one of the most instructive sources for our understanding of these Pacific coast colonial interests.”

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Tom Root in celebration of Corie Root's birthday.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:00:24 -0400 2021-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Folio 56v/r, Clements Library Hacke Atlas. “King Charles’s Harbour” (today Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica.)