Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Innovative programs for youth and young adults (January 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48067 48067-11177991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public.
Lunch will be served starting at 11:30 a.m.
This event will be live webstreamed. Check the event site at http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2018/innovative-programs-youth-and-young-adults for viewing details. Join the conversation: #policytalks

About the event:

In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, the Ford School will host a panel discussion of the importance of investments in youth and young adults, with participation from national and university experts. Broderick Johnson, former Obama Administration Cabinet Secretary, will speak of his work mentoring young men of color to help them reach their full potential through the White House's My Brothers Keeper Task Force. Luke Shaefer, Director of Poverty Solutions, will discuss a summer employment program for marginalized youth launched in summer 2017. Brian Jacob, Co-Director of the Youth Policy Lab, will speak about the Grow Detroit's Young Talent program which launched in early 2017.



About the speakers:

Broderick Johnson, former Obama Administration Cabinet Secretary, and Chair of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force

Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy; Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics; Professor of Education at the University of Michigan

Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor and Director, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:41:26 -0500 2018-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Broderick Johnson
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (January 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47119 47119-10799202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join Michigan Law as we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a lecture by Professor James Forman of Yale Law School. Professor Forman will discuss his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, which explores how decisions made by black leaders, often with the best of intentions, contributed to disproportionately incarcerating black and brown people.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

James Forman Jr. is one of the nation’s leading authorities on race, education, and the criminal justice system, and a tireless advocate for young people who others have written off. Professor Forman attended Yale Law School, and after he graduated, worked as a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. After clerking, he took a job at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented juveniles and adults in felony and misdemeanor cases.

Professor Forman loved being a public defender, but he quickly became frustrated with the lack of education and job training opportunities for his clients. So in 1997, along with David Domenici, he started the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, an alternative school for dropouts and youth who had previously been arrested. The Maya Angelou school has been open for almost twenty years, and in that time has helped hundreds of vulnerable young people find a second chance, begin to believe in themselves, graduate, get jobs, and attend college.

At Yale Law School, where has taught since 2011, Professor Forman teaches Constitutional Law and a course called Race, Class, and Punishment. Last year he took his teaching behind prison walls, offering a seminar called Inside-Out Prison Exchange: Issues in Criminal Justice, which brought together, in the same classroom, 10 Yale Law students and 10 men incarcerated in a CT prison.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:10:54 -0500 2018-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
The Other America: Still Separate. Still Unequal. (January 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43116 43116-9726235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

This interdisciplinary, day-long event will focus on racial inequality as it manifests in relation to the lived experiences of Black Americans. Throughout the day, panelists will discuss the criminal justice system and state violence against Black people, economic inequality and immobility, inequities in healthcare and education, and issues pertaining to race and the environment. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Political Studies, the Institute for Social Research, Political Scientists of Color, Rackham Graduate School, the School of Public Health and the Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and History.

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, we have invited the following distinguished panelists to take part in the day’s events:

9am Opening Remarks and Welcome
Hakeem J. Jefferson and Steven Moore, Event Organizers, PhD Candidates in Political Science

915am-10:40am Panel 1: Criminal Justice and State Violence against Blacks in the United States
Moderator: Christian Davenport, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Megan Ming Francis, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
The Strange Fruit of American Politics

Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Criminal Justice Outcomes and Race: From the Routine Traffic Stop to the Ultimate Penalty

Andrea Ritchie, Attorney and Activist, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Invisible No More: Police Violence and Criminalization of Black Women—Remedies and Resistance

Audience Q&A

10:40am-10:50am Break

10:50am-12:15pm Panel 2: Economic Inequality and Immobility
Moderator: Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor of Social Work, Dir. of Poverty Solutions at UofM

Darrick Hamilton, Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School
The (Economist’s) Burden: Why Studying Hard and Working Hard ain’t Enough for Black Americans

Becky Pettit, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Racial Inequality in an Era of Mass Incarceration

William Elliott III, Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
From Crisis to Revolution: Making Education the True Equalizer it was Meant to Be

Audience Q&A

12:15-1:45pm Lunch Break and Graduate Student Poster Session

1:45pm-3:10pm Panel 3: Inequality in Urban Spaces
Moderator: Maggie Hicken, Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Mark Rosenbaum, Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law Dir. and Adjunct Prof. of Law at UC Irvine
The Miseducation of America

Paul Mohai, Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan
Race, the Environment, and Environmental Justice

Abigail Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University
From Collateral Damage to Carceral Grief: Race, Illness, and Policing in the 21st Century

Audience Q&A

3:30pm-4:45pm Roundtable discussion including all panelists
Moderated by Bankole Thompson, Op-ed columnist at The Detroit News

Concluding Remarks Vincent L. Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

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Frank Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (2008), Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty (2017), and Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tells Us About Policing and Race (Forthcoming).
Website: http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/

William Elliot III, professor of social work at the University of Michigan and the founding director of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion. Leading research in the fields of children’s savings and college debt. Research interests broadly focused on public policies related to issues of economic inequality and social development. His research has served as the impetus for Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs and policies across the U.S.
Website: https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/tenure-track/willelli

Megan Ming Francis, associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. Author of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (2014), which won the 2015 American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche in Award for best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Currently working on second book project that examines the role of the criminal justice system in the rebuilding of southern political and economic power after the Civil War.
Website: https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/megan-ming-francis

Darrick Hamilton, associate professor of economics and urban policy at The New School for Social Research at The New School. Has written widely on the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes, which includes an examination of the intersection of identity, racism, colorism, and socioeconomic outcomes.
Website: https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty-list/?id=4d6a-4579-4e44-6b32

Paul Mohai, professor at UM's School for Environment and Sustainability. Teaching and research interests are focused on environmental justice, public opinion and the environment, and influences on environmental policy making. He is a founder of the Environmental Justice Program at the University of Michigan and a major contributor to the growing body of quantitative research examining disproportionate environmental burdens and their impacts on low income and people of color communities.
Website: http://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/paul_mohai

Becky Pettit, professor of sociology at UT Austin. Author of numerous articles focused on social inequality, she is also the author of two books, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (2012) and Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (2009).
Website: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/emp2344

Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, and advocacy around criminalization of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color over the past two decades. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017).
Website: http://andreajritchie.com/

Mark Rosenbaum, civil rights attorney and adjunct law professor at UC Irvine, former professor of the practice at UM law. Rosenbaum has been principal counsel in landmark cases in the areas of K-12 public and higher education, voting rights, poverty law and homelessness, racial, gender, class and sexual orientation discrimination, health care, immigrants’ rights, foster care and criminal defendants’ rights. He most recently argued before the Supreme Court in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and is currently lead counsel in a suit against the state of Michigan alleging it has denied Detroit students equal access to literacy.
Website: http://www.publiccounsel.org/pages/?id=0080

Abigail Sewell, assistant professor of sociology at Emory University. Scholarship focuses on the political economy of racial health disparities, the social construction of racial health disparities, and quantitative approaches for studying racial inequality and structural racism.
Website: http://sociology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/Abigail%20A.%20Sewell.html

Event Moderator--
Bankole Thompson is an Op-Ed columnist at The Detroit News, where he writes twice-a-week on Monday and Thursday. His column encompass politics, culture and economic issues, and his work also appears in the international media such as The Guardian. A leading voice on race and free speech issues, Thompson, has written extensively about how race and the cultural divides shaped the 2016 presidential campaign and election. His groundbreaking coverage of the 2008 historic presidential campaign led to a series of exclusive sit-down interviews with Barack Obama, as well as authoring two books on the former president. A polemic writer and culture critic, Thompson's work has drawn the ire of leading ideological opponents, culminating in an important first amendment victory in a lawsuit against him and The Detroit News by prominent white supremacist James Edwards, whose lawyer also represents Richard Spencer, founder of the Alt-Right Movement. In recognition of his journalistic contributions, the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, in 2015 established the "Bankole Thompson Papers, a collection preserving his work for perpetual use by students and scholars.

The event is free, open to the public, and will be held in the Rogel Ballroom on the second floor of the Michigan Union. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

For more information, contact the event’s organizers, Hakeem Jefferson (hakeemjj@umich.edu) and Steven Moore (stvmoore@umich.edu).

Register for the event in the below section by clicking "REGISTER HERE" or by visiting: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-america-still-separate-still-unequal-tickets-38081456662

Submit a poster here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7tV5cndTUSpaHPCRvgYl-iGuUk-KSBFJjL8j9obh9mOpE8w/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:55:12 -0500 2018-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Conference / Symposium TOA flyer
Workshop on Poverty and Inequality (January 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43185 43185-10703028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 09:49:52 -0400 2018-01-26T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T10:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Student talking
Documentary Screening of "Extreme By Design" (February 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47854 47854-11033295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The William Davidson Institute, Innovate Blue, the Barger Leadership Institute and LSA's Global Scholars Program are jointly sponsoring the screening of a documentary featuring college students introducing innovative products in emerging markets by applying design thinking and social entrepreneurship principles. At the screening, a WDI-managed program that offers a rare opportunity for international teamwork and entrepreneurship open to all undergraduates will also be discussed.
The documentary follows students from Stanford University’s Institute of Design as they create potential life-saving products for people in Bangladesh, Indonesia and other developing countries.
Those attending the screening will have an opportunity to learn about participating in a new virtual exchange program with fellow students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The MENA-Michigan Initiative for Global Action Through Entrepreneurship (M²GATE), managed by WDI, is open to any U-M undergraduate student. Register to reserve your seat at: http://bit.ly/2A6pMc0

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:26:57 -0500 2018-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Film Screening Photo from Extreme By Design
Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America (February 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48820 48820-11308910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center. On the faculty since 1982, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 Presidential campaign. He also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and was Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas in the Department of Justice. Mr. Edelman’s most previous book was So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America, and of course we are here to celebrate Not a Crime to Be Poor.

Event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:38:58 -0500 2018-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion bars
Poverty Solutions Open House (February 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49237 49237-11397809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Please Join Us!

The Education Policy Initiative, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, and Youth Policy Lab cordially invite students across campus to an open house to learn more about our work, meet the staff, and get involved.

Refreshments will be served.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:23:46 -0500 2018-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Reception / Open House 20140828-Canon40D-00294.jpg
Speaker Series Welcomes Entrepreneurship Expert Bayrasli (February 6, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49544 49544-11473477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The WDI Global Impact Speaker Series will feature a professor and author who has worked with entrepreneurs around the world. She will talk about how entrepreneurship has transformed the economies of low- and middle-income countries and how these places will produce the next generation of Silicon Valley-style innovators.

Elmira Bayrasli’s talk, “Steve Jobs Lives in Pakistan: The Rise of Entrepreneurs Everywhere (and What That’s Doing to the World),” is at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6 in room R0210 at the Ross School of Business. It is free and open to the public. A reception will follow immediately.

Bayrasli, author of “From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places,” will discuss how entrepreneurship has taken hold globally. She is co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and a professor at Bard College’s Global and International Affairs program.

“We are really excited to offer this talk by Elmira Bayrasli,” said Amy Gillett, vice president of WDI’s Education Initiative and its Entrepreneurship Development Center. “Students will hear about her vast experience in helping startups scale up in emerging markets and benefit from her great insights into the role that entrepreneurship plays in economic development.”

Bayrasli said countries such as China, Brazil, India, Turkey and Nigeria have transformed economically over the past two decades thanks, largely, to entrepreneurship. She also will talk about what this “rise of the rest” has meant for world affairs, including the election of Donald Trump.

In addition to her teaching and writing, Bayrasli once served as chief spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission while living in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1994-2000, Bayrasli was a presidential appointee at the U.S. State Department, working for then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and U.S. Diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

She is a regular contributor on global entrepreneurship for the online publication TechCrunch. She also provides analysis on foreign policy, particularly on Turkey. Her work has appeared in Reuters, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Bayrasli sits on several boards, including Invest2Innovate, Turkish Women’s International Network and Our Secure Future.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:30:19 -0500 2018-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Elmira Bayrasli