Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CMENAS & LACS Filmscreening. Crayons of Askalan by Dr. Laila Hotait Salas (followed by Q&A with the filmmaker) (March 13, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50099 50099-11642047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Film Description: This creative hybrid documentary is based on the true story about the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi, who in 1975 at the age of just 15 years was convicted to 15 years' imprisonment, which he served in the Israeli high-security prison Askalan. It was only thanks to the help of his fellow inmates and their families that he managed to survive mentally. Colour crayons that were smuggled in became his only contact with the outside world - not through letters, but through his distressed and allegorical drawings, which are brought to life in partially animated sequences.

Filmmaker Bio: Laila Hotait Salas, Ph.D, is a Lebanese-Spanish filmmaker and artist. Her academic work deals with Arab contemporary cinema and its filmmakers.

As a filmmaker herself, her first documentary film, ‘Crayons of Askalan’ (2011) has been presented in more than 20 film festivals, including Hot Docs, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, CPH:DOX and DocsDF. Her sound art works have been presented at international venues such as the Centre Pompidou, the Kunst-im-Tunnel Museum Düsseldorf and several art galleries. Hotait was selected by the CPH:LAB as an international emerging film talent in 2011. Her work has received support from institutions including the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Sundance Documentary Fund Program, Screen Institute Beirut and the Doha Film Institute and is currently developing a feature film that was selected by Cine Qua Non Lab residency program.

Laila Hotait has been teaching film writing and directing at the University Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, for five years.

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Film Screening Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:21:14 -0500 2018-03-13T14:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening film_image
The Republic of the Unlettered: Ordinary Litigants, Civil Law and Writing during the Spanish Imperial Enlightenment (March 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49787 49787-11532480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

An overview of Professor Premo's 2017 book, The Enlightenment on Trial, this lecture add deeper consideration of the constraints of traditional approaches to intellectual history and special attention to women’s subjectivity in legal sources from eighteenth-century Peru and Mexico.

Bianca Premo is an associate professor of Latin American history at Florida International University. Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics in Spanish American history, including the law, childhood and youth, intellectual history, gender, slavery and ethnohistory. In recent years, she has explored the history of Mexico City and Oaxaca, as well as Spanish history, especially the rural region around the city of Toledo. She is the author of Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (UNC, 2005) and, most recently, The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire (Oxford, 2017), as well as over a dozen articles and book chapters on colonial Spanish America appearing in journals including The Hispanic American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, and The William and Mary Quarterly. Her work has been supported the NEH, the ACLS, and the National Science Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:01:00 -0500 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Bianca Premo
Brazil Initiative Lecture. Dr. Celina Turchi on the Zika Crisis in Brazil: A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Health (March 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50249 50249-11690345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In 2015, a mysterious increase in the incidence of microcephaly in northeast Brazil alarmed health authorities, physicians, scientists, and the public. The spike in the number of mothers who gave birth to babies with this profound neonatal malformation was mostly concentrated in the poorest areas of the country. Responding to a request from the Ministry of Health, Celina Turchi, a physician and epidemiologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the leading institution of biomedical sciences and public health in Brazil, immediately organized a collaborative network of epidemiologists, infectious diseases specialists, clinicians, reproductive healthcare practitioners, pediatricians, neurologists and biologists to identify the causes of the epidemic. These studies established the connections between microcephaly and infection by the Zika virus, a virus transmitted by the Aedes genus, mainly Aedes aegypti, and passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. In 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus to be the cause of a global public health emergency.

The response Turchi led to the Zika crisis offers a model of how collaborative groups of scientists and interdisciplinary research can meet the needs of the population, especially the most vulnerable, in societies stratified by social and economic inequality. Her leadership has been internationally recognized. In 2016, she was considered by Nature International Weekly Journal of Science as one of the ten most important scientists in the world; and in 2017, Time magazine listed Turchi a pioneer in her field and one of the world's 100 Most Influential People.

In her talk at the University of Michigan, Turchi will discuss her experience in addressing the Zika crisis, including her ongoing work with the interdisciplinary Microcephaly Epidemics Research Group.

For more information or to contact Dr. Turchi, please email Elizabeth (Bebete) Martins at bmartins@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:51:29 -0500 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion celina_image
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
Resonances of Walter Benjamin in Latin American Thought (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50501 50501-11782506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This event concerns the relations between the work of Walter Benjamin and critical thought in Latin America. Since the 1970s Benjamin’s work has been extremely influential for Southern Cone artists and intellectuals in particular, and this influence took on unique characteristics during the dictatorships of the late 20 th century and the concomitant rise of neoliberalism, when Benjamin’s idiosyncratic mix of Marxism and cultural criticism resonated with efforts to respond to the multifarious manifestations of power and ideology in the region. Willy Thayer, Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby, and Federico Galende (currently in residence in RLL as a visiting professor in Wi 18), are some of the central figures of contemporary Chilean critical thought, and they have all been strongly influenced by Benjamin. This colloquium is an occasion to consider the intersections of Benjamin’s work and critical thought in Latin America, including the ways in which the historical, political, and cultural registers that confronted Benjamin resemble or differ from those confronting contemporary Latin America.

Professors Thayer, Collingwood-Selby and Galende will deliver papers, followed by a discussion. This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:41:42 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Film Screening. Memories of Disintegration: Ibero-American Experimental Film (Ann Arbor Film Festival) (March 21, 2018 9:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50838 50838-11881898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

As the profile of Ibero-American cinema, the Spanish- and Portuguese-language films of Latin America, continues to rise on the festival circuit, a strong commitment to experimentation remains in the cinema emanating from the region. First-rate film schools in Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, among other nations, are producing a new generation of filmmakers who eschew the proliferation of digital techniques, returning to tactical analog modes of production (This program features work made on Video8, Super 8, 16mm, Super 35mm, and VHS). Playing with notions of self-reflexivity and nostalgia, real and imagined, these filmmakers test the boundaries of both narrative and documentary genres. Showcasing the diverse voices of these talented young artists, each of the six films highlight the vision and ingenuity of Ibero-America. These shorts have screened at Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, along with strong Latin American showcases such as the Morelia, Mar del Plata, Valdivia, and Havana film festivals. Curated by Josh Gardner of Cinema Lamont, Detroit.

Use our discount code for 15% off tickets: AAFF56_UMLACS

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Film Screening Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:17:15 -0500 2018-03-21T21:15:00-04:00 2018-03-21T23:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening LACS_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Arguedas & Subsumption (March 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51213 51213-12021424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Professor Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: "Arguedas and Subsumption" Thursday March 22nd 4:00 -6:00 pm RLL Commons.

Workshop on “Oligarchies, Agrarian Reform and the Gothic” on Friday March 23rd between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm RLL Commons.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:26:32 -0400 2018-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Prof. Ericka Beckman
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Arguedas & Subsumption (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51213 51213-12021425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Professor Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: "Arguedas and Subsumption" Thursday March 22nd 4:00 -6:00 pm RLL Commons.

Workshop on “Oligarchies, Agrarian Reform and the Gothic” on Friday March 23rd between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm RLL Commons.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:26:32 -0400 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Prof. Ericka Beckman
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Screening of Videos and Discussion with Xangô Group (March 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48559 48559-11251659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: University Library

Join us for a projection of the translated and edited video, together with a series of short videos about the experiences of Afro-Argentine women and more recent immigrants. A member of Xangô will join the conversation and the debate after the screenings. Free and Open to the Public.

All the activities are possible thanks to the sponsorship of the U-M Library through the Student Mini Grant, and the support of the Language Resource Center.

For more info, contact Marisol Fila at mafila@umich.edu

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:24:32 -0500 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad University Library Film Screening Xangô Events
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 26, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Polemical Identities, Electorate Demographics and Electoral Rules: Strategic Identity-Signaling by Protestant Candidates in Brazilian Municipal Elections (March 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51236 51236-12021450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Abstract: I analyze how electoral rules and electorate demographics affect whether candidates who hail from polemical minority groups highlight or downplay this identity when running for political office. I present a model predicting that when voters rely entirely on identity signals, an office-motivated candidate’s decision to broadcast or downplay her polemical identity will depend on 1) Electoral rules, 2) Constituency demographics and the 3) The electoral salience of the candidate’s identity. This model motivates my analysis of the use of Protestant ballot titles by Protestant candidates in Brazilian municipal elections from 2002 to 2014. In line with the model’s predictions, I find that Protestant candidates are significantly more likely to broadcast their Protestant identity in proportional city council races compared to majoritarian mayoral races, but that this difference shrinks as Protestants compose a relatively larger fraction of the electorate. This model and accompanying empirical analysis build on behavioral findings regarding the pervasiveness of identity voting as well as the fundamental prediction from political economy that proportional rules allow for a wider range of competitive alternatives relative to majoritarian rules to show why candidates often project median identities. Additionally, it provides a novel assessment of how electoral rules mediate the expression of Protestant Christianity in Brazilian politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:43:27 -0400 2018-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (March 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Migrant Stories (March 31, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51402 51402-12098137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Tricontinental Solidarity Network

The event will feature performances in the form of poetry, storytelling and spoken word by women of color students from UM. We aim to create a space where race, migration and sexuality form the overarching themes of the performances.
Our keynote speaker is Professor Ather Zia, anthropologist and poet, who works on Kashmir and teaches at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Performance Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:41:33 -0400 2018-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Tricontinental Solidarity Network Performance Migrant Stories Event details!
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (April 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (April 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Brazil Initiative Lecture. How to Become Good Neighbors: Educational and Cultural Relations Between the University of Michigan and Brazil (1938-1945) (April 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50469 50469-11771176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In December 1938, during the Eighth International Conference of American States held in Lima, the University of Michigan announced the Brazilian Fellowship Program, combining funds from the university and from the Brazilian government. This came at a critical moment for Inter-American relations and the Good Neighbor Policy as the United States intensified its efforts to secure the cooperation of Latin American countries, given the rising war clouds in Asia and Europe. It was also a moment of strong disputes among Brazilian politicians within between those who supported Germany and those who supported the US. The Brazilian Fellowship Program was launched in 1939, and the University of Michigan claimed to be the first American university to establish exchange fellowships for graduate studies with Latin American countries. This presentation will discuss the intricate process of building this particular program of cultural and educational exchanges. At a moment when the US cultural diplomacy towards the “other American republics” was taking its first steps, this initiative mobilized various institutions, interests, and dynamics in the US and in Brazil. In examining the local practices of this particular experience of inter-American cultural relations, I will reflect on the negotiations, obstacles, tensions, and contingencies that characterized the transnational circulation of people and ideas in a time when Latin America was a laboratory for US cultural diplomacy.

Simone P. Kropf holds a PhD in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Brazil, and is a professor at the Graduate Program of the History of Sciences and Health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS). She has written about the history of biomedical sciences in Brazil in 20th century (particularly regarding tropical medicine and Chagas disease), the history of cardiology, and the history of scientific and cultural relations between the United States and Brazil.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:32:45 -0500 2018-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion simone_image
LACS Exhibition. #NoHumanIsAlien: Germán Andino's The Habit of Silence (April 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51074 51074-11953454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reception: An exhibition of Germán Andino’s graphic history: The Habit of Silence (El hábito de la mordaza)

Honduran journalist and artist Germán Andino’s harrowing work of graphic history depicts gang violence in the city of San Pedro Sula from personal and deeply humane perspective. The installation of his work as a mural in a central public space on our campus is intended to provoke conversation in place of silence. Much reporting on Central America depicts the problem of gangs and violence as far away and impossible to solve, and the victims and perpetrators of this violence as essentially alien. With the hashtag #NoHumanIsAlien, the artist and organizers invite reflection on a crisis of violence in Central America that has been exacerbated, and in important ways created, by policies originating in the United States. We hope to spark and enrich debate on our campus about current immigration policies, including the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran migrants and the asylum claims of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, children who have fled the conditions depicted in Andino’s work.

This exhibit, a large-scale comic strip along the halls of the second floor of Mason Hall, will be open for viewing from March 19 - April 6, 2018.

Join us for the opening reception with Germán Andino on March 26, 2018 from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.

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Exhibition Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:10 -0400 2018-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Exhibition andino_image
Authoritarian Legacies: Persistent Patronage Networks and the Erosion of Merit-Based Judicial Selection in Mexico. (April 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51197 51197-12018596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Abstract:

During Mexico’s transition to democracy, at the end of 1994, a Judicial Council was created with the explicit aim of establishing a merit-based system for the selection and promotion of judges at all levels of the federal judiciary. However, a series of indicators including nepotistic practices and ad hoc examinations show a divergence between the formal merit-based judicial career and the actual practice of appointments and promotions, which is biased in favor individuals with connections to sitting judges and persons already working in the federal judiciary. Why? What is the source of the divergence between the formally merit-based career and the actually biased hiring practices? This paper argues that patronage networks formed during the authoritarian period, when the Supreme Court hand-picked lower court judges, have persisted under the democratic regime eroding the meritocratic selection system. Based on archival data, and on a unique dataset on nepotism within the judiciary, the paper uncovers the patronage networks, and aims at showing their persistence and effects on the performance of the Judicial Council set to select judges on merit since 1995. Leveraging a relational perspective, the paper offers a mechanism of transmission and reproduction of enduring authoritarian practices despite democratic efforts to uproot them.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:46:59 -0400 2018-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
2nd Annual Men of Color Symposium (April 7, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51463 51463-12123946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The 2nd Annual Men of Color Symposium will occur on Saturday, April 7 in the Michigan Union from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Check-in/Breakfast is from 9:00 am to 9:50 am. This year's theme is "Breaking Barriers". The Men of Color Symposium focuses on cross-cultural learning, identity development, community building, skill development, and wellness for self-identified men of color. The symposium will include keynote speakers and interactive dialogic base concurrent sessions. The sessions and speakers will create opportunities for men of color to learn from each other, build community, as well as to develop academically, personally, and professionally.

All are welcome to attend. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Register below. While you will be able to register onsite pre-registration helps us to plan to make the symposium as impactful as possible. We also have limited space for the conference and concurrent sessions. The earlier you register the greater choice of concurrent sessions you will have.

For more information email the planning committee at My.Brothers.PC@umich.edu and or
contact Leon Howard at 734-764-3300

Registration Link:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/992

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:41:19 -0400 2018-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium MOC2018
LACS - ICPJ Dinner and a Movie (April 10, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51800 51800-12251587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Join LACS and the Latin American Task Force (LATF) of Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice to share a delicious dinner and a film pertaining to current Latin American issues.

Focusing on universal themes of justice, racism, power, and corruption, 500 Years tells the story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in history. Told from the perspective of the majority indigenous Mayan population in Guatemala, the film explores their struggles in the country’s growing fight against impunity.

DINNER OPTION: $8.00 Pilar’s Tamales Meal - Includes one Tamale with salsa, organic casamiento, fried plantains, and curtido (veg. option available)
Please RSVP to reserve your meal: http://icpj-2018-dinner-movie.eventbrite.com

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Film Screening Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:46:11 -0400 2018-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening 500 Years
Politicians and Social Media in the Global South (April 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51880 51880-12274528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

A one-day seminar workshop to examine contemporary scholarship on political social media in the Global South. The workshop will feature a mix of talks and small workgroup sessions to explore these topics, with specific attention to politicians and political collectives.

In the last decade, politicians in various parts of the world have invested in social media campaigns, including in settings where a relatively small proportion of the voting public is actually online. Leaders may use social media for a range of reasons including to actively court constituents, to present a narrative on their political program to the international community, or to use the affordances of social media to frame the agenda on a specific issue.

Social media can also present a means for politicians to bypass the free professional media corps to directly speak to the electorate, and exercise greater control over the story crafted about them. After an early phase of enthusiasm on the scope of social media to bring decentralized power to the people, we increasingly have a balanced view of the potential and risks of online behavior for democratic societies.

Today, we see a social media environment in which a vast majority of major national politicians in countries throughout the world build social media presences for a diverse mix of these reasons. What do these developments mean for the future of political campaigning? What tactics have worked? How is the online strategy impacted by ideology, national economic priorities, or political structure?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:21:07 -0400 2018-04-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Billboard
LACS Lecture. Andean Circle Conference: Everyday Practice in the Andes (April 17, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51939 51939-12297185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Everyday Practice in the Andes
April 17-18, 2018
Great Lakes Room Central, Palmer Commons

The RIWs Círculo Andino and Religion in the Premodern Atlantic invite you to an end of year symposium that engages with habits, routines, and commonplace ways of being and doing in the Andean republics. Student and faculty presentations will consider the everyday life of religion, language and communication, national history, subsistence, and mobility. Please join us:

Tuesday, April 17
5-6:30pm Book Discussion
Discussion with Frank Salomon of his recent monograph At the Mountain’s Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (2018).

Wednesday, April 18
9:30 – 10:45am: Practice in Diachronic Perspective
Dr. Kenneth Mills, History; Georgia Ennis, Anthropology; Jo Osborn, Anthropology;

11am – 12:30pm: Practice in Synchronic Perspective
Dr. Bruce Mannheim, Anthropology; Allison Caine, Anthropology; Augusto Espinoza, History; Anne Marie Creighton, Anthropology

1:45 – 2:45pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr. Frank Salomon
“Ethnography of a Modern But Not New-Age Mountain Temple”
In his keynote address, Dr. Salomon will address his most recent work on daily religious life in high Andean Peru. Dr. Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. An ethnographer and ethnohistorian of the Andes, he has written extensively on both Andean textuality and religion.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:33:12 -0400 2018-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium
LACS Lecture. Andean Circle Conference: Everyday Practice in the Andes (April 18, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51939 51939-12297186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Everyday Practice in the Andes
April 17-18, 2018
Great Lakes Room Central, Palmer Commons

The RIWs Círculo Andino and Religion in the Premodern Atlantic invite you to an end of year symposium that engages with habits, routines, and commonplace ways of being and doing in the Andean republics. Student and faculty presentations will consider the everyday life of religion, language and communication, national history, subsistence, and mobility. Please join us:

Tuesday, April 17
5-6:30pm Book Discussion
Discussion with Frank Salomon of his recent monograph At the Mountain’s Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (2018).

Wednesday, April 18
9:30 – 10:45am: Practice in Diachronic Perspective
Dr. Kenneth Mills, History; Georgia Ennis, Anthropology; Jo Osborn, Anthropology;

11am – 12:30pm: Practice in Synchronic Perspective
Dr. Bruce Mannheim, Anthropology; Allison Caine, Anthropology; Augusto Espinoza, History; Anne Marie Creighton, Anthropology

1:45 – 2:45pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr. Frank Salomon
“Ethnography of a Modern But Not New-Age Mountain Temple”
In his keynote address, Dr. Salomon will address his most recent work on daily religious life in high Andean Peru. Dr. Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. An ethnographer and ethnohistorian of the Andes, he has written extensively on both Andean textuality and religion.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:33:12 -0400 2018-04-18T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-18T14:45:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (August 27, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 27, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (August 28, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-08-28T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (August 29, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-08-29T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (August 30, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-08-30T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (August 31, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-08-31T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 1, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 1, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 2, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-02T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 3, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 3, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-03T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 4, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-04T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 5, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-05T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 6, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-06T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 7, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 8, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 9, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-09T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 10, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 11, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 12, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-12T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 13, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-13T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 14, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-14T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 15, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-15T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 16, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-16T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 17, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13470178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-17T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 18, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 19, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-19T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 20, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-20T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-in: One-year since Hurricane Maria (September 20, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54565 54565-13598941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

The Listening to Puerto Rico teach-in event will feature a panel discussion with U-M faculty and collaborators from Puerto Rico. During this discussion you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future. During the teach-in event, there will be an opportunity for audience members to share their own story about Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico or to ask the panelists a question. Light refreshments will be provided.

Panelists will include:

- Moderator: Will Potter, Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department and Senior Academic Innovation Fellow
- Rose Figueroa, Two-time Michigan Alumna who helped lead collection efforts across Michigan in the wake of Hurricane Maria
- Larry La Fountain-Stokes, Interim Director of Latina/o Studies Program and Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan
- Amilcar Matos-Moreno, PhD Candidate in the School of Public Health
- Luis Trelles, Producer, Radio Ambulante and 2018-19 Knight Wallace Fellow

This event is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both housed in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. This teach-in is associated with the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out, which is an online learning event created by the Office of Academic Innovation at U-M and the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Notre Dame. We encourage you to join the online conversation, which is is live until September 24th.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:47:53 -0400 2018-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Puerto Rico Mural
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 21, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Latina/o Studies Program Welcome Back Luncheon! (September 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55706 55706-13775070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Join us for food, music, and fun to kickoff Latinx Heritage Month! You'll be able to meet faculty, students and staff part of the LS Program and learn more about the majors and minors.

Catering by Chela's Restaurant & Taqueria

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Reception / Open House Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:05:31 -0400 2018-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Reception / Open House Poster
Decolonizing Our Disciplines: A Roundtable Discussion (September 21, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53183 53183-13274238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for an interdisciplinary lunch conversation on grappling with colonial legacies and enacting decolonial methodologies and practices in academic institutions. Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/akOrsbew0Vn1Yk7D3.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:04:42 -0400 2018-09-21T12:30:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 22, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-22T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 23, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Teach-Out Series: Listening to Puerto Rico (September 24, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53872 53872-13567910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

In June 2018, teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame traveled to Puerto Rico to film testimonies from Puerto Ricans from all walks of life. In this Teach-Out, you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.

These individual testimonials are complemented by resources that are meant to deepen your understanding of an urgent multidimensional crisis that involves policy, culture and history, political economy, environmental loss, civil infrastructure, public health, and human dignity. In this teach-out, we spotlight a number of successful organizations, strategies and solutions that are contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery.

Understanding begins with listening. But “listening” is not just about hearing people’s words: it also implies taking notice of, and acting on, what people say. Shaped by the individual experience of everyday life, the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out invites you to hear many voices from a distressed but resilient island and discover how you can contribute to the island’s recovery.

This Teach-Out is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us in listening to Puerto Rico.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:01:57 -0400 2018-09-24T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach-Out
Ross Global Showcase (September 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52064 52064-12407322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Global Initiatives

Come learn about the global opportunities the Ross School of Business offers to students across the university!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:23:51 -0400 2018-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Global Initiatives Fair / Festival Ross School of Business
LACS Lecture. Colombian Sexuality Education Public Policy (September 27, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56056 56056-13823422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:30am
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

One of the resources we have to promote sexual and reproductive health is sexuality education. In Colombia, schools are a main source of information on sexuality, and they require support in understanding the micro as well as the macro social context in which they exist. Marta Carolina Ibarra Avila will discuss the Colombian Sexuality Education public policy, its main outcomes and its biggest challenges, as well as the importance of sexuality education in school settings. Marta Carolina Ibarra Avila works in the promotion of sexual and reproductive human rights through research and psychosocial intervention. She is a doctoral candidate at the Universidad de los Andes and is a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education.

This event is a brown bag event. Refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:51:07 -0400 2018-09-27T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion sph_image
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53563 53563-13407925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Fran Antmann’s photographs, taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2017, evoke the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The photographs speak to the close relationship of these communities with the natural and spiritual worlds. They record the daily lives of the Maya but also evoke their underlying world of mystical and religious experience -- the rituals that give continuity and permanence in a world of disposable culture. The work focuses on indigenous healers, many of whom are women believed to have connections with the supernatural. They use ancient Maya practices and derive theirpower and knowledge from dreams. These rituals survive despite the genocide of the Maya people perpetrated over several decades until 1996. The resurgence of Maya identity in the renewal of formerly suppressed Maya practices celebrates the endurance of indigenous cultures.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Maya Healers will be on display in Lane Hall from September to December 2018, with an exhibit opening taking place on September 28 from 3 to 5 pm in the Lane Hall Gathering Space.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:11:41 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Reception / Open House Fran Antmann, Maya Healers
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad opportunities. Learn about UM faculty-led programs and meet with staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office. Enjoy performances from global student orgs, maize-n-blue giveaways, and free candy from around the world!

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 3, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-03T19:30:00-04:00 2018-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 4, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
“Crisis at the Border: Shifting Policy in a Country of Immigrants” (October 9, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54523 54523-13592099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

From zero tolerance and separation of families to harsh rhetoric likening some immigrants to “animals,” America’s current approach to immigration has sent shock waves through both sides of the Rio Grande. Now a country built on the shoulders of immigrants is deeply divided on how to stem the crisis. Join acclaimed journalist María Elena Salinas as she talks with a Ford School policy expert and reporters who have covered both sides of the U.S. - Mexico border and the complex web of issues driving the current immigration debate.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:57:03 -0400 2018-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion María Elena Salinas with journalists Ginger Thompson and Aaron Nelsen, and policy expert Ann Lin
Agrupación Xangô Event Series. Transnational Movements of African Descendant People in Argentina: Immigration, Race, and Nationalism (October 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56060 56060-13823426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This event will give a brief historical overview of African migrations in Argentina and the current situation of African and Afrodescendant migrants and refugees in Argentina and their main tensions: Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia.

Agrupación Xangô is a dynamic Afro-Argentine association whose mission is to forge bonds with international groups, promote the visibility of Afro-descendants, enhance global scholarship, and advocate for social justice and human rights in Argentina and throughout the African diaspora.

Free and Open to the Public. Light Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please contact Marisol Fila at mafila@umich.edu.

Cosponsors: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University Library, Language Resource Center, Center for Global and Intercultural Study, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks (KCP) Visiting Professors Program, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:40:31 -0400 2018-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion immigration_image
Agrupación Xangô Event Series. Candombe! Afro-Argentine Culture and Dance (October 12, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56062 56062-13823428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Candombe is a dance, rhythm and music representative of the Afro-Argentine culture and the Rio de la Plata region. Join us for an interactive Candombe workshop with Agrupación Xangô. Attendants are encouraged to participate. Bring comfortable clothes.

Agrupación Xangô is a dynamic Afro-Argentine association whose mission is to forge bonds with international groups, promote the visibility of Afro-descendants, enhance global scholarship, and advocate for social justice and human rights in Argentina and throughout the African diaspora

For more information, please contact Marisol Fila at mafila@umich.edu

Cosponsors: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University Library, Language Resource Center, Center for Global and Intercultural Study, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks (KCP) Visiting Professors Program, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:41:05 -0400 2018-10-12T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop / Seminar candombe_image
LACS Lecture. Honduras, Nine Years after the Coup: Resistance, Human Rights, and the International Community (October 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56361 56361-13887666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Most Hondurans, and the international community at large, consider the Honduran presidential elections of November 2017 fraudulent; the US does not. Juan Orlando Hernandez is not only not recognized as a legitimate president by the people; due to the unconstitutionality of his bid for reelection, he is considered a dictator. Emerging from the people, the #FueraJOH movement has led to creative organizing strategies and tactics, both nationally and internationally. Nine 9 years after the coup d’état that destroyed constitutional order in Honduras, a new generation is emerging to challenge the JOH Nationalist Party regime and its continuity of bad government. This talk will focus on the responses to tyranny in Honduras and how the international community can engage to support Hondurans, both in Honduras and those in the migrant trail.

Cosponsor: Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:42:34 -0400 2018-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion suyapa_image
American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference (October 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56413 56413-13896809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the rate of democratic expansion worldwide has slowed and even receded. Some of the reasons suggested for this recession have been a disillusionment with the prevailing democratic models that, for all their benefits, often limit popular participation. The banner of participatory democracy has been hoisted by social movements, by scholars from different disciplines and has also made an appearance in cultural production. This conference proposes to look into what role culture plays in broaching possible crises of the democratic model, how culture participates in the discussion of current democratic models in the cultural and linguistic spheres, and how culture can strengthen and/or expand democracy. The concept of democracy is understood here as a broad umbrella theme that implies different paradigms of belonging and social inclusion and applies to various disciplines.

Keynote speakers will include: Alexandra Lucas Coelho (Portuguese writer), Luiz Ruffato (Brazilian writer), Sidney Chalhoub (Brazilian historian, Harvard University), and Kalaf Epalanga (Angolan-Portuguese writer and musician)

The full conference schedule and registration information are available on the APSA website:

http://apsa.us/apsa-international-conference-2018/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:50:55 -0400 2018-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
LACS Film Screening and Q&A. O Processo (The Trial) (October 18, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56704 56704-13967644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

O PROCESSO (THE TRIAL) is a behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female President. As Ramos’ camera quietly follows the proceedings, the film witnesses a spectacle of betrayal and corruption and the collapse of the nation’s democratic institutions.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature film at Vision du Reel, Documenta Madrid, Indie Lisboa, and Buenos Aires Documentary Film Festival.

Maria Augusta Ramos has won major awards for her seven documentary films, including, in 2013, the Marek Nowicki Prize from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for her body of work.

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:20:37 -0400 2018-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-18T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening film-image
American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference (October 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56413 56413-13896810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the rate of democratic expansion worldwide has slowed and even receded. Some of the reasons suggested for this recession have been a disillusionment with the prevailing democratic models that, for all their benefits, often limit popular participation. The banner of participatory democracy has been hoisted by social movements, by scholars from different disciplines and has also made an appearance in cultural production. This conference proposes to look into what role culture plays in broaching possible crises of the democratic model, how culture participates in the discussion of current democratic models in the cultural and linguistic spheres, and how culture can strengthen and/or expand democracy. The concept of democracy is understood here as a broad umbrella theme that implies different paradigms of belonging and social inclusion and applies to various disciplines.

Keynote speakers will include: Alexandra Lucas Coelho (Portuguese writer), Luiz Ruffato (Brazilian writer), Sidney Chalhoub (Brazilian historian, Harvard University), and Kalaf Epalanga (Angolan-Portuguese writer and musician)

The full conference schedule and registration information are available on the APSA website:

http://apsa.us/apsa-international-conference-2018/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:50:55 -0400 2018-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
LACS Field Research Grant Symposium (October 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56787 56787-14003778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The LACS Field Research Grants are funded by the Rackham Graduate School, the LACS Brazil Initiative, and the International Institute to support graduate students conducting preliminary fieldwork in Latin America. The grants provide students with the opportunity to establish professional and academic contacts, familiarize themselves with sources relevant to their studies, conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations, and refine their projects.

In this conference, students who received the 2018 Field Research Grant will present on their research conducted over the summer. This event is free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at lacs.office@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:27:56 -0400 2018-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference (October 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56413 56413-13896811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the rate of democratic expansion worldwide has slowed and even receded. Some of the reasons suggested for this recession have been a disillusionment with the prevailing democratic models that, for all their benefits, often limit popular participation. The banner of participatory democracy has been hoisted by social movements, by scholars from different disciplines and has also made an appearance in cultural production. This conference proposes to look into what role culture plays in broaching possible crises of the democratic model, how culture participates in the discussion of current democratic models in the cultural and linguistic spheres, and how culture can strengthen and/or expand democracy. The concept of democracy is understood here as a broad umbrella theme that implies different paradigms of belonging and social inclusion and applies to various disciplines.

Keynote speakers will include: Alexandra Lucas Coelho (Portuguese writer), Luiz Ruffato (Brazilian writer), Sidney Chalhoub (Brazilian historian, Harvard University), and Kalaf Epalanga (Angolan-Portuguese writer and musician)

The full conference schedule and registration information are available on the APSA website:

http://apsa.us/apsa-international-conference-2018/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:50:55 -0400 2018-10-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Coco with Hot Cocoa: Movie Night with Students Helping Honduras (October 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56414 56414-13896812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Take a study break and join Students Helping Honduras while we watch Coco on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 8pm in EQ B834! SHH hosts various fundraising and outreach events in order to promote education and youth empowerment among rural Honduran communities; every dollar we raise goes directly towards the construction of elementary schools in Honduras. There will be hot cocoa and donuts for sale! Enjoy a fun movie while supporting a great cause! #paralosniños

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:31:16 -0400 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Students Helping Honduras Film Screening Flyer
Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar (October 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54164 54164-13537237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In 2016 Rebecca Scott and Cuban historian Carlos Venegas came upon a record of the “confession” of María Luisa Coleta, a refugee from the Haitian Revolution who had been unlawfully enslaved in 1796, as narrated to Friar Félix, who had been summoned to her deathbed in Havana. Coleta declined to accept last rites, however, unless the friar would return with a scribe to copy down her story and take the document to a judge to initiate a freedom suit on behalf of her daughters, so that they would not suffer what she had suffered. The many folios of that lawsuit form the basis for the present essay, complemented by documents from France, England, and the Dominican Republic that trace the Atlantic dimension to this story. Together they cast light on the complexities of discerning and documenting status in the Atlantic world in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution.

A paper will be circulated in advance of the workshop; please contact Michael Gawlik (mrgawlik@umich.edu) if you would like a copy.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:30:20 -0400 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
2020 Census: Citizenship, Science, Politics, and Privacy (October 31, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56065 56065-13823433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Preparations for the 2020 Census are underway, amidst conversations, controversy, and lawsuits over the possible addition of a citizenship question to the decennial survey. Join us as we bring together Census officials, stakeholders and scholars to discuss what's at stake in 2020. 

Event will also be live streamed: http://bit.ly/ISRCensusStream

Speakers:

Keynote: Al Fontenot, Associate Director, Decennial Census Program, U.S. Census Bureau

Panel 1: Citizenship and Politics

Opening remarks by U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Michigan

Barbara Anderson, former chair of the U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee, Ronald A. Freedman Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Population Studies, University of Michigan

James House, Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology, University of Michigan

Angela Ocampo, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Kurt Metzger, Mayor, City of Pleasant Ridge, MI | Founder and Director Emeritus,
Data Driven Detroit (D3)

Panel 2: Data Privacy and Science

John Eltinge, Assistant Director for Research and Methodology, U.S. Census Bureau

David Johnson, Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Research Professor, Survey Research Center at ISR

Joelle Abramowitz, Director of the Michigan Research Data Center, ISR

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:17:31 -0400 2018-10-31T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Census event flyer
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jesus Loves Japan: Pentecostal Christianity among Nikkei “Return Migrants” from Brazil (November 1, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54098 54098-13528367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Today, there are roughly 186,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan, the majority of whom are of Japanese descent. While they benefit from the visa policy that confers the right to settlement virtually as a right of blood, they often feel discriminated in their supposed ancestral homeland. In this social context, many have been converting to Pentecostalism, which has exploded in Latin America since the 1970s. Based on a yearlong fieldwork conducted in Toyota, Japan, this lecture tells a story about the Nikkei Brazilians who envision Pentecostalism as the “third culture” that can help them transcend ethno-national boundaries.

Suma Ikeuchi studies the intersection of religion, diaspora, and citizenship with a focus on Global Japan. After obtaining her PhD in Anthropology from Emory University in 2016, she taught Religious Studies at the University of Alabama before joining the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to bkinzer@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:46:18 -0400 2018-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Suma Ikeuchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
LACS Field Research Grant Symposium (November 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56787 56787-14003779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The LACS Field Research Grants are funded by the Rackham Graduate School, the LACS Brazil Initiative, and the International Institute to support graduate students conducting preliminary fieldwork in Latin America. The grants provide students with the opportunity to establish professional and academic contacts, familiarize themselves with sources relevant to their studies, conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations, and refine their projects.

In this conference, students who received the 2018 Field Research Grant will present on their research conducted over the summer. This event is free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at lacs.office@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:27:56 -0400 2018-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (November 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-13942271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (November 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-13942272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
LACS Lecture Series. Beyond Left and Right: Grassroots Social Movements and Nicaragua's Civic Insurrection (November 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56063 56063-13823429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk offers some starting points for understanding Nicaragua’s civic insurrection via an account of social movements that oppose the state’s proposal for an Interoceanic Grand Canal. The opposition has been represented in the now defunct National Dialogue with the state by the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, an amalgam of diverse interests from the private sector, student movement, grassroots social movements, and civil society. Spanning the political spectrum, these groups make for strange bedfellows, giving the Alliance a certain ideological incoherence beyond the desire to see Ortega and Murillo step down, a restoration of democratic institutions, and an end to the violence. An examination of grassroots social movements, however, provides an often-overlooked entry point into the roots of the civic insurrection. These movements illustrate why traditional ideological and political divisions between the Latin American Left and Right have limited utility for parsing relationships among diverse opposition actors and the self-proclaimed socialist state. An analysis of the factors that drive grassroots resistance to Ortega and Murillo, such as economic policy, corruption, growing authoritarianism, state violence, racism, and land dispossession, reveal a Sandinista state that no longer embraces Leftist politics and a country that has outgrown its old political categories.

Jennifer Goett is Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics at James Madison College, Michigan State University. She is a cultural anthropologist, specializing in political and feminist anthropology. Her research interests include race, gender and feminist theory, social movements, human rights, violence and the state, and critical security studies in Latin America. She has published work on indigenous and Afrodescendant social movements for multicultural rights in Central America, particularly Nicaragua, and on state sexual violence, racialized policing, and infrastructure megaprojects. Goett is the author of Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism (Stanford University Press 2016). The book examines the gendered strategies that Afrodescendant Creole women and men use to assert autonomy over their bodies, labor, and spaces in the context of drug war militarization and state violence in postwar Nicaragua. Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) News blog, and other journals and edited volumes. For two decades, she has engaged in activist work with indigenous and Afrodescendant communities in Nicaragua and Honduras, focusing on collaborative research to secure collective rights to land and natural resources.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:31:54 -0400 2018-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion goett_image
Thrift Shop with Students Helping Honduras! (November 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57408 57408-14186927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Stop by Thrift SHHop in the Michigan League to support Students Helping Honduras! We will resell used clothing, shoes, accessories, and succulents at super low prices. All proceeds will go directly towards the construction of elementary schools in rural Honduran communities!

Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is a UM student organization which promotes education and youth empowerment in order to alleviate the burden of gang violence and extreme poverty among Honduran youth.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:40:33 -0500 2018-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Students Helping Honduras Fair / Festival Flyer
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (November 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-13942273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
Thrift Shop with Students Helping Honduras! (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57408 57408-14186928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Stop by Thrift SHHop in the Michigan League to support Students Helping Honduras! We will resell used clothing, shoes, accessories, and succulents at super low prices. All proceeds will go directly towards the construction of elementary schools in rural Honduran communities!

Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is a UM student organization which promotes education and youth empowerment in order to alleviate the burden of gang violence and extreme poverty among Honduran youth.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:40:33 -0500 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Students Helping Honduras Fair / Festival Flyer
Thrift Shop with Students Helping Honduras! (November 29, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57408 57408-14186929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Stop by Thrift SHHop in the Michigan League to support Students Helping Honduras! We will resell used clothing, shoes, accessories, and succulents at super low prices. All proceeds will go directly towards the construction of elementary schools in rural Honduran communities!

Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is a UM student organization which promotes education and youth empowerment in order to alleviate the burden of gang violence and extreme poverty among Honduran youth.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:40:33 -0500 2018-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Students Helping Honduras Fair / Festival Flyer
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (November 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-13942274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (December 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-13942275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
FLAS Fellowship Info Session (December 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56551 56551-14401059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

FLAS Coordinator will provide information about the upcoming competition for Graduate Academic Year, Undergraduate Academic Year, and Summer FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20.

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Other Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:28:59 -0400 2018-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Other Weiser Hall
Meet & Greet with Eduardo Chavez (January 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58792 58792-14559371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Please join us for a Meet and Greet with Eduardo Chavaz. Refreshments will be served.

As the grandson of both the legendary civil rights activist César Chávez and the Cuban revolutionary Max Lesnik, Eduardo Chávez is the scion of two revolutionary families. This background has informed the majority of his work so far.

Eduardo is making his directorial debut with the feature documentary, "Hailing Cesar," released in April 2018. He is the co-founder of Latindia Studios and a member of the Speakers’ Board for the Chávez Institute for Law and Social Justice.

Eduardo attended Loyola Marymount University on a golf scholarship and graduated with a B.A. in Communications. After college, he played professional golf and studied acting in Miami and Los Angeles.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:44:13 -0500 2019-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-15T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Social / Informal Gathering Poster
Latinx Lunch Series (January 23, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58358 58358-14485813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free dinner will be provided to all participants!

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

Questions? Please email thequitoproject@gmail.com

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:50:44 -0500 2019-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Event Poster