Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation (November 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88348 88348-21653427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm in room 4310 of the Modern Languages Building.

Translators of literary works perform numerous functions simultaneously in relation to both a written work and its author. These functions include the linguistic, the cultural, the socio-political and the personal. Varied though they are, these functions might be summed up in the words “partner” and “mouthpiece.” After a brief detour into how her life trajectory led her to the field of Arabic-English translation, Nancy Roberts will relate her attempts to serve as “partner” and “mouthpiece” in the process of translating works originating in Palestine (Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses [زمن الخيول البيضاء], Lanterns of the King of Galilee [قناديل ملك الجليل] and Gaza Weddings [أعراس آمنة], and Ahlam Bsharat’s Codename: Butterfly [اسمي الحركي فراشة]) and Libya (Najwa Bin Shatwan’s, The Slave Yards [زرايب العبيد], and Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say [كلمة الليل في حق النهار]).

Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, politics and education; international development; Arab women’s economic and political empowerment; Islamic jurisprudence and theology; Islamist thought and movements; and interreligious dialogue. Literary translations include works by Ghada Samman, Ahlem Mostaghanemi, Naguib Mahjouz, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ibrahim al-Koni, Salman al-Farsi, Laila Al Johani, and Haji Jabir, among others. Her translation of Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 won the 1994 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award; her rendition of Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour (Cairo: AUC Press, 2007) was awarded a commendation in the 2008 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, while her English translations of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings (Cairo: Hoopoe Press, 2017), Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015) and Time of White Horses (Cairo: Hoopoe Reprint, 2016) won her the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She is based in Wheaton, Illinois.

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:45:08 -0400 2021-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Nancy Roberts
Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88791 88791-21657766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please save the date for a one-day symposium on Friday, November 12, 2021, exploring how various modes of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest.

10:00 am – 5:30 pm (hybrid)
Join us in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Michigan Room of the Michigan League
or virtually through Zoom
For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program (AMAS), the Department of Middle East Studies (MES), and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. Co-organized by Khaled Mattawa and Graham Liddell, the symposium features three panels that reflect on different forms of translation in Arab American communities in the Midwest. The event culminates a reading by Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail.

The symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, with the option to attend by remote access.

This event is free and open to the public. For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

PANEL 1: Translation for Community Needs

This discussion will focus on the translation and interpretation services that are crucial for maintaining wellness and facilitating civic engagement and personal development among Limited English Proficiency (LEP) communities in Michigan, particularly Arab Americans. Moderated by Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (professor at UM-Dearborn), the panel includes Karen Phillippi (director of the Office of Global Michigan), Anisa Sahoubah (director of ACCESS’s Youth and Education department), and Bilal Hammoud (chair of the Language Access Task Force for the State of Michigan).

PANEL 2: Arab American Media

This panel will center on the ways that Midwest Arab-American communities past and present have represented themselves in media. Moderated by Graham Liddell (Ph.D. candidate, U Michigan), the panel includes Ali Harb (reporter for Al Jazeera English), Hany Bawardi (professor at UM-Dearborn), William Youmans (professor at the George Washington University), and Lana Barkawi (Executive and Artistic Director of Mizna).

PANEL 3: Living in Translation

Our final panel will feature a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction), the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet, translator, and professor at U Michigan), Fady Joudah (poet, physician, and translator), and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University).

Reading by Dunya Mikhail
The symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail.

For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:48:27 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Conference / Symposium Translating Arabic
Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality (December 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88886 88886-21658822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Robert Phillips, Ball State University
Edwige Crucifix, Bryn Mawr College
Shanon Shah, King's College London
With Adi Saleem Bharat, University of Michigan

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

This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical and contemporary representations and experiences of queer Jews and Muslims in a wide range of geographies. By placing the question of gender and sexuality at the heart—and not merely as a subsection—of (ethno-)religious identities and spiritualties, the speakers queer normative understandings of Jewishness/Judaism and Muslimness/Islam in order to broaden the horizon of Jewish and Muslim coexistence and, perhaps more importantly, co-resistance.

Katrina Daly Thompson (she/they) is Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also the Director of the Program in African Languages, and a core faculty member in Second Language Acquisition. She holds additional affiliations in Anthropology, Gender & Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Folklore, and the Middle East Studies Program. Her research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse, with specific projects in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, North America, and online. Her third monograph, Misfits, Rebels, and Queers: An Ethnography of Muslims on the Margins, is under contract with NYU Press.

Robert Phillips is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Ball State University. He lectures on ethnographic methods and the anthropology of religion and technology with much of his empirical research conducted in India and Singapore. Most recently, Phillips has published Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Currently, Phillips is looking at how queer and Jewish individuals are embracing alternative models in the healing of individual and collective trauma.

Dr. Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Francophone literature, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society in the works of French and North African women. Her research and teaching stems from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics, nineteenth-century bourgeois taste, and inter-war Jewish identity.

Dr. Shanon Shah conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform), based at King's College London, and is Tutor in Interfaith Relations at the University of London's Divinity programme. He is also the Director of Faith for the Climate, a faith-inspired network of climate justice activists, and an editor at Critical Muslim, the flagship quarterly publication of the Muslim Institute (a London-based educational fellowship).

Adi Saleem Bharat is an LSA Collegiate Fellow and, from Fall 2022, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Center for Jewish Studies. His research examines the intersection of race, religion, gender, and sexuality in contemporary France, with a focus on Jews and Muslims. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations, which examines and challenges the construction of a polarized, oppositional category of "Jewish-Muslim relations" in media and political discourse in France.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:19:19 -0400 2021-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Pride Flag
Sacred Time Project 2022: Justice Through an Islamic Lens (February 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91702 91702-21681623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Muslim Students' Association

We invite you to join us on February 4th and 5th for our annual Sacred Time Project conference insha'Allah. This year's topic is Justice Through an Islamic Lens. Our speakers are Ustadha Rukayat Yakub, Imam Mohamed Magid, and Sister Muna Jondy.

Food will be provided on both days of the conference. The event will be extremely beneficial and we hope to have members of the community attend as we discuss various topics. Attendees will engage in constructive and thought-provoking discussions on racism, colorism, and misogyny and how we can better work towards addressing these social justice issues both as individuals and a community. Feel free to invite your family and friends as well--all are welcome and we look forward to seeing you!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact either of our STP co-chairs, Hadeel (abulenin@umich.edu), or Zeina (zeinae@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:01:01 -0500 2022-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-04T22:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Muslim Students' Association Conference / Symposium Title of Conference (Justice Through an Islamic Lens), with Speaker headshots and names (Ustadha Rukayat Yakub, Imam Mohamed Magid, and Sister Muna Jondy)
Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89834 89834-21665912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy
Maira Hayat, Notre Dame University

Monday, Mar. 14 via Zoom: Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.

Abstract:
Bureaucracies tend to feature in political and social theory as sites of structural violence, patriarchy, sovereign excess, or foils to ethical enterprise. This talk, however, argues for the unique importance of studying bureaucracy as a site of ethical laboring. Tracing the specific, surprising and sophisticated ways in which God participates in everyday bureaucratic practice in an Irrigation Department in Pakistan, it shows how bureaucrats’ attempts to be “good Muslims” can produce “good bureaucrats.” The yield is a deeper understanding of how state officials experience and navigate the pull of the ‘private’ in everyday ‘public’ waterswork, and how this in turn determines the service they provide. In foregrounding ethical laboring, the talk brings together the anthropology of bureaucracy, ethics, and secularity towards newer configurations.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:16:28 -0500 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations (April 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92209 92209-21688189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations
April 6, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research at Pew Research Center

Abstract:

A typical public opinion survey cannot provide reliable insights into the attitudes and experiences of relatively small and diverse religious groups, such as adults identifying as Jewish or Muslim. Not only are the sample sizes too small, but adults who speak languages such as Russian, Arabic, or Farsi (and not English) are excluded from interviewing. This presentation discusses how Pew Research Center has sought to address this research gap by fielding large, multilingual probability-based surveys of special populations. Examples include the Center’s 2017 Survey of Muslim Americans and the 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans. These studies present numerous challenges in sampling, recruitment, crafting appropriate questions, and weighting. The presentation will also discuss the Center’s methods for studying racial and ethnic populations with the goal of reporting on diversity within these populations, as opposed to treated them as monolithic groups.

Bio:

Courtney Kennedy is director of survey research at Pew Research Center. Her team is responsible for the design of the Center’s U.S. surveys and maintenance of the American Trends Panel. Kennedy conducts experimental research to improve the accuracy of public opinion polls. Her research focuses on nonresponse, weighting, modes of administration and sampling frames. Her work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics. She has served as a co-author on five American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) task force reports, including chairing the committee that evaluated polling in the 2016 presidential election. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, Kennedy served as vice president of the advanced methods group at Abt SRBI, where she was responsible for designing complex surveys and assessing data quality. She has served as a statistical consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census and panels convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Kennedy has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in survey methodology. She received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan in statistics and political science. Kennedy has served as AAPOR standards chair and conference chair.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:21:45 -0500 2022-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Muslim Modernity in South Asia (May 20, 2022 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94722 94722-21763082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 9:45am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Muslim Modernity in South Asia
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Michigan
May 20-21, 2022
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

Co-organized by Farina Mir (Department of History, UM) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University), this workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to revisit established understandings of Muslim modernity in South Asia, particularly as they relate to questions of gender, colonialism, the status and role of the ulama, Islamic law, and notions of political and religious subjectivity. All papers are precirculated. Conversations on each paper will be opened with a comment from a member of the UM faculty, followed by open discussion. Please join us and contribute to the conversation!

Note: All papers are pre-circulated. Contact Farina Mir (fmir@umich.edu) for papers.

Schedule:
Friday, May 20, 2022

9:45 Welcome
Muhammad Qasim Zaman & Farina Mir

10:00 Julia Stephens, Department of History, Rutgers University
“Material Modernities: Tracing Janbai’s Gendered Mobilities Across the Indian Ocean”
Respondent: Gaurav Desai, Department of English, University of Michigan

11:00 Tea/coffee break

11:30 Justin Jones, Theology and Religion, Oxford University
“Islamic Feminist Thought and Islamic Modernism in Modern India”
Respondent: Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History, University of
Michigan

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 SherAli Tareen, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
“Competing Muslim Responses to Colonial Modernity: The
Aligarh-Deoband Divide”
Respondent: Juan Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan

3:00 Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 Farina Mir, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Urdu Akhlaq Literature and Secularity in Colonial, South-Asian Islam”
Respondent: Kathryn Babayan, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Saturday May 21, 2022
9:30 Humeira Iqtidar, Department of Political Economy, King’s College
“Spiritual or Political Equality?”
Respondent: Webb Keane, Department of Anthropology, University
of Michigan

10:30 Tea/coffee Break

11:00 Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Department of Religion, Princeton University
“Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia: A Changing Relationship”
Respondent: Alexander Knysh, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 May 2022 13:41:17 -0400 2022-05-20T09:45:00-04:00 2022-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Bait ur Rouf mosque. Photography: Sandro di Carlo Darsa
Muslim Modernity in South Asia (May 21, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94722 94722-21763083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 21, 2022 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Muslim Modernity in South Asia
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Michigan
May 20-21, 2022
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

Co-organized by Farina Mir (Department of History, UM) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University), this workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to revisit established understandings of Muslim modernity in South Asia, particularly as they relate to questions of gender, colonialism, the status and role of the ulama, Islamic law, and notions of political and religious subjectivity. All papers are precirculated. Conversations on each paper will be opened with a comment from a member of the UM faculty, followed by open discussion. Please join us and contribute to the conversation!

Note: All papers are pre-circulated. Contact Farina Mir (fmir@umich.edu) for papers.

Schedule:
Friday, May 20, 2022

9:45 Welcome
Muhammad Qasim Zaman & Farina Mir

10:00 Julia Stephens, Department of History, Rutgers University
“Material Modernities: Tracing Janbai’s Gendered Mobilities Across the Indian Ocean”
Respondent: Gaurav Desai, Department of English, University of Michigan

11:00 Tea/coffee break

11:30 Justin Jones, Theology and Religion, Oxford University
“Islamic Feminist Thought and Islamic Modernism in Modern India”
Respondent: Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History, University of
Michigan

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 SherAli Tareen, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
“Competing Muslim Responses to Colonial Modernity: The
Aligarh-Deoband Divide”
Respondent: Juan Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan

3:00 Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 Farina Mir, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Urdu Akhlaq Literature and Secularity in Colonial, South-Asian Islam”
Respondent: Kathryn Babayan, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Saturday May 21, 2022
9:30 Humeira Iqtidar, Department of Political Economy, King’s College
“Spiritual or Political Equality?”
Respondent: Webb Keane, Department of Anthropology, University
of Michigan

10:30 Tea/coffee Break

11:00 Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Department of Religion, Princeton University
“Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia: A Changing Relationship”
Respondent: Alexander Knysh, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 May 2022 13:41:17 -0400 2022-05-21T09:30:00-04:00 2022-05-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Bait ur Rouf mosque. Photography: Sandro di Carlo Darsa
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100129 100129-21799245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Aliyah Khan's book on Islam in the Caribbean, *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (Rutgers University Press 2020), is the first scholarly monograph focusing on the literature and culture of enslaved African Muslims and indentured South Asian Indian Muslims in the Americas. Professor Khan’s work appears in publications including *GLQ*, the *Caribbean Review of Gender Studies,* *Caribbean Quarterly,* the *Journal of West Indian Literature*, *Pree: Caribbean Writing,* and *Guernica*. Her interviews on the Caribbean and U.S. Islam, and on Muslim films, art, literature, and music have appeared on and in *National Public Radio,* the *Washington Post*, *Religion News*, American Muslim Today, The Polis Project, the Black Agenda Report, *Sapelo Square*, and Chicago’s *Radio Islam*, among other venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:01:30 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion IISS Lecture Series. *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean*
FAM Fridays 🥙 🎨 🎵 (October 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100251 100251-21799511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

FAM Fridays is a series that will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music on one Friday of each month. We will explore the different foods our campus community and larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series will also showcase student creativity in art and music. This series is meant to amplify students from marginalized communities and build community through programming.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:38:06 -0400 2022-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering FAM Fridays Flyer