Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights (February 24, 2017 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38173 38173-6987116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 7:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Gallery hours are 7am-5pm Monday-Friday.

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Exhibition Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:05:29 -0500 2017-02-24T07:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Michel Mergen
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (February 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Study Abroad First Step Session (February 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Peer Led Support Group (February 26, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 26, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2017-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (February 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (February 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Peer Led Support Group (March 1, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-01T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-01T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-02T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 3, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
Peer Led Support Group (March 5, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 5, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-05T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-05T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Another Country (March 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-06T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 6, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Expect Resistance: Artist Lecture & Reception with Shanna Merola (March 6, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38639 38639-7320022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In her lecture, "Expect Resistance," Merola will discuss the various roles that art and activism play in her work with grassroots movements across the country - from the historic fight to reclaim Richmond, Virginia’s African Burial Ground to the deeply embattled struggle over water privatization in Detroit and Flint, Michigan. Within her different bodies of work Merola will also draw parallels between historic flashpoints in American history, through an archival exploration of the Detroit 67 Rebellion to firsthand documentation from the front lines of Ferguson, Missouri and Standing Rock, North Dakota.

Followed by opening reception for Shanna Merola pop-up exhibition, "Another Country."

About "Another Country":

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:23:15 -0500 2017-03-06T15:30:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Standing Rock observing
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 6, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Another Country (March 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
"Letters of Stone:Reading Between and Beyond the Lines" (March 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39293 39293-7918146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The talk will dram on Professor Robins' heartbreaking and inspiring book Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:51:42 -0500 2017-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 7, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Food Literacy for All: Linda Jo Doctor (March 7, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39309 39309-7944130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All (NRE.639.038 and ENVIRON305.003) will be structured as an evening lecture series, featuring different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:40:32 -0500 2017-03-07T18:30:00-05:00 2017-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion poster
25th Wallenberg Lecture: Bryan Stevenson (March 7, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37513 37513-6610215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallenberg Lecture

Stevenson is a fierce advocate for social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. As a civil rights lawyer, he litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. He, like Raoul Wallenberg, show that one person can make a difference.

Join us for his Wallenberg Lecture.
March 7, 2017
7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Wallenberg.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:08:54 -0500 2017-03-07T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-07T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallenberg Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bryan Stevenson
rEVOLUTION Art Show: Call for Submissions (March 8, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38802 38802-7403508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) is now accepting submissions for its 12th annual art show, rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change.
Themes of the show are GENDER, SEXISM, SEXUAL VIOLENCE & EMPOWERMENT.
Art of any medium is welcome, including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, spoken word, poetry.
Please fill out the form at tinyurl.com/sapacrev so we have all the information about your artwork. Submissions are due by March 8th, 2017.
Please e-mail artrevolution@umich.edu with any questions.

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Other Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:12:56 -0500 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Other SAPAC rEV
International Women's Day in Lane Hall (March 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39232 39232-7860180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

On Wednesday, March 8, International Women's Day, Lane Hall will be open and available to any students, faculty, staff, and community members seeking a safe and accessible space for rejuventation, discussion, and action in pursuit of gender equity and justice. Free snacks and refreshments available.

To reserve meeting space for discussion or social justice work, please send requests to irwg@umich.edu.

At 3pm in Room 2239, listen to Victoria Reyes' research talk, “The Rape of Nicole and the Murder of Jennifer: Gender, Sovereignty and the U.S. Military in Subic Bay, Philippines.“ More information: goo.gl/g14sJC

Lane Hall is located at 204 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI. Ramp and elevator access at E. Washington Street entrance. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women's Studies.

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Other Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:26:40 -0500 2017-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Other women's empowerment symbol
Another Country (March 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Black Bodies, Social Justice, and the Archive (March 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38662 38662-7326435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In association with the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Lecture featuring civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, the Institute for the Humanities and the University of Michigan School of Information will host an open seminar on the relationships between the new conceptions of the archive and the advancement of social justice causes in the United States.

Amidst the rejection of facts and historical perspective, progress in addressing structural and overt racism, police brutality, and inequitable incarceration requires a critical interrogation of what an archive is, where it lives or dies, and how it should persist and be used. The day-long seminar will bring together a group of junior scholars from around the country whose work is deeply informed by the witnessing power of the archive – from body cam data to hidden historical records – to illuminate and address contemporary social justice challenges.

The event is free and open to the public.

Photo: A jar of soil from the site of each lynching in Alabama, at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Courtesy of Brian Palmer/brianpalmer.photos.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:51:15 -0500 2017-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Jars by Brian Palmer
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 8, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 8, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
PCAP Membership Meeting (March 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37038 37038-6128213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS are held every other Wednesday from 6-8pm in East Quad, at 701 E. University Avenue, in the RC. The strength of the PCAP Community rests on an enduring commitment to consistently show up, engage in open dialogue and access supportive resources. Workshop Facilitators who are NOT students must attend all meetings.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:24:23 -0400 2017-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar PCAP
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (March 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion Dana Natural Resources Building
Peer Led Support Group (March 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Another Country (March 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-09T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 9, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
"Remnants" (March 9, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38490 38490-7191732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

"Remnants" is an award-winning, minimalist piece that includes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently presented as a one-man performance by the author. The play reflects more than 40 years of conversation between the playwright and a small group of Holocaust survivors. "Remnants" is thus not testimony, but rather recreates memory as it erupts within sustained and deepening acquaintance.

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Performance Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:00:26 -0500 2017-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Remnants
Detroiters Speak: The Crisis in Public Education in Detroit Since the 1990s (March 9, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38404 38404-7165985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

This panel will be moderated by Peter Hammer (WSU Detroit Equity Action Lab & Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights).

Speaker Bios:

HELEN MOORE

Helen Moore has been a life-long advocate and warrior for the children of Detroit, beginning with her days as a State of Michigan Social Worker and continuing with Black Parents for Quality Education and The Keep the Vote No Takeover Coalition. She is also a member of Detroit’s Council of Elders. Ms. Moore educates her community on school district policy, student rights, and other education-related legal issues and parental involvement efforts. She earned a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and a juris doctorate from the Detroit College of Law.

BERNA RAVITZ

My passion for education began bubbling within me long before I could articulate it. As a youngster I was decidedly unchallenged by school. Ironically that led me to acquire a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s in Education, certification in Bilingual Education, and finally, a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. All of this was in pursuit of the magic formula for 'evening the playing field' for all of my students. I began utilizing gifted and talented strategies (constructivist education) and saw amazing results in the progress of our students. My Experience as Michigan Teacher of the Year, National Distinguished Principal as well as an Educational Fulbright exchange allowed me such incredible experiences that are invaluable in my work even today. Upon retirement from my being a principal, I worked for several years as an Educational Coach in Detroit Public Schools; I currently dedicate my time towards fulfilling the mission of Simply Start Kids.

RUSS BELLANT

Russ Bellant is a retired City of Detroit employee, President of the Helco Block Club, President of the Detroit Library Commission, member of the Detroit Public Schools Task Force and also a founding steering committee member of RESTORE northeast Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:26:41 -0500 2017-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Another Country (March 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Climate Change and Health Seminar Series (March 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38182 38182-6987129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: Climate and Health

The goal of this seminar series is to stimulate a conversation on climate change and health by engaging faculty and students from across campus. Understanding and promoting the latest science surrounding climate change and health through this seminar series will be a catalyst to the development of a collaborative research agenda.

SPEAKERS
Keynote speaker Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, is the Dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University and a national leader in the area of research on environmental exposures. She conducts interdisciplinary research using participatory research models to identify culturally appropriate interventions to decrease the impact of environmental and occupational health hazards in vulnerable populations, including workers and young children.

Rosina Bierbaum, PhD, U-M School of Natural Resources & Environment professor, focuses her research on the interface of science and policy, principally on issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation at the national and international levels. She has served in both the executive and legislative branches of government for two decades, as the Senate-confirmed director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Environment Division, and in multiple capacities at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

Marie O'Neill, PhD, is a U-M School of Public Health Associate Professor. Dr. O'Neill's research interests include health effects of air pollution, temperature extremes and climate change (mortality, asthma, hospital admissions, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment; and socio-economic influences on health. She has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pan American Health Organization, and in Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health and the National Center for Environmental Health as a Fulbright Scholar.

Lorraine Cameron, PhD, is a Senior Environmental Epidemiologist for the Michigan Climate and Health Adaptation Program at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Working groups will be formed to discuss climate change and health research. Lunch provided.

Register: http://bit.ly/2lcjKmy

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:54:34 -0500 2017-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 School of Nursing Climate and Health Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer with date, location, and speaker description
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 10, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
The DAAS African American Workshop (March 10, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39295 39295-7918195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Numerous accounts have identified the racialized nature of mass incarceration and its impact on minority communities, poverty, crime, inequality and even, daily life. Yet, we know little about how mass imprisonment and its racially disproportionate features affect criminal justice apparatuses themselves. Through ethnography of the criminal courts in Chicago-Cook County, this research examines how the racial divides and segregation that define mass incarceration manifest within our criminal courts and transform them from central sites of “due process” to central sites of “racialized punishment.” In these sites, the mostly black and Latino defendants confront a workgroup of white professionals who are charged with classifying and deliberating on the criminality of a racialized offender pool. Despite a host of due process protections and professionals who espouse colorblind ideologies, the court process relies on a legal habitus entangled with racial ideologies and practices. Court professionals use racialized tropes and narratives regarding the immoral character of criminal defendants to efficiently sort and process the backlog of cases caused by mass incarceration. By mobilizing a moral rubric to encode racial difference, professionals maintain court processes as “race-neutral.” In their view, disdain for defendants is not based on the color of their skin but the moral violations they embody – allowing racist narratives to become integrated into one’s criminal defense with impunity. Ultimately, this account reveals the courts as “the cultural engine” and crucial gateway for the racialization of criminal justice - where racism and discretion collide with dire effects to both the experience and appearance of justice.

Bio:
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Assistant Professor at Temple University in the Department of Criminal Justice with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Beasley School of Law. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University where she was a Legal Studies Fellow and received the Badesch Fellowship from Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Ford Foundation Fellowship Postdoctoral Award and the 2015 New Scholar Award (co-winner) awarded by American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime. She is also an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Foundation. Her book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court was recently nominated for an NAACP Image Award and her legal commentary has been featured on NBC News, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN. Her recent op-ed in the New York Times entitled, "Chicago’s Racist Cops and Racist Courts" shows the complicity of the criminal courts in the racist culture of policing and injustice in Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:13:00 -0500 2017-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 10, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Peer Led Support Group (March 12, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Another Country (March 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 13, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Another Country (March 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 14, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
CASC Talks: Opening Minds and Borders (March 14, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39359 39359-8241174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

We are proud to host both Professor Samer Ali, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Culture. Professor Ali will speak on the history, evolution, and current prevalence of Islamophobia in the United States.

Presentations will be followed by a collective Q&A. Refreshments will be provided!

RSVP: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E2579
If you have questions, please contact cascboard@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:21:11 -0500 2017-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Green and blue background with text reading: "CASC Talks - Opening Minds and Borders: Perspectives on Islamophobia and Refugee Assistance" with additional description of the date and time of event, along with the CASC and Near Eastern Studies Logo.
Food Literacy for All: Saru Jayaraman (March 14, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39310 39310-7944131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All (NRE.639.038 and ENVIRON305.003) will be structured as an evening lecture series, featuring different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:45:23 -0500 2017-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion saru
Another Country (March 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Community Engagement Case Study Workshop for Students (March 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39261 39261-7885904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Community engagement work is tough: there are so many opportunities to blunder your project or relationship with your community without even realizing you are making a mistake. Join one or all of these interactive, interdisciplinary workshops facilitated by the Ginsberg Center, to learn the nuances of professionalization, communication, power differences, intercultural awareness, and developing cultural humility to enhance your skill set and help you better engage in your current client-based projects. This is an ideal workshop for any student who plans to participate in work that involves engaging with communities beyond campus. One of 3 workshops, each focusing on a different case.

Lunch and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP using the link below so we can plan accordingly.

Co-sponsored by the Edward Ginsberg Center, Michigan Engaging Community through the Classroom (MECC) program, School of Information, and the Transactional Lab & Clinic at the Law School

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:51:13 -0400 2017-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Winter 2017 Case Study Workshops
The Women's March: Notes from the Field (March 15, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38979 38979-7532150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An immediate question for scholars of – and activists in – the women’s movement is whether it will be able to mobilize a new generation activists to re-fight battles that were seemingly won long ago. The January 21st Women’s March on Washington was a significant first effort to mobilize women as women in the Trump era.

In this talk, Professor Michael Heaney (Organizational Studies and Political Science) will present preliminary findings from surveys of participants at the Women’s March on Washington, and discuss his larger research project on grassroots women’s movements in the U.S.

Recommended Advance Reading: "Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21st Century" by Kristin A. Goss and Michael T. Heaney

Refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:50:01 -0400 2017-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Women's March in Washington DC, 2017
Legal Observing and Know Your Rights for Community Safety (March 15, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38644 38644-7320024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Shanna Merola-- a lens based media artist and activist legal worker-- leads this workshop which provides people with the tools to make confident, informed decisions during police encounters. Participants will learn best practices on filming and documenting the police at protests and the “magic words” that let cops know when you are invoking your rights

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:08:09 -0500 2017-03-15T15:30:00-04:00 2017-03-15T16:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Legal Observing Detroit
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 15, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Peer Led Support Group (March 15, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Sex Positivity (March 15, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39502 39502-8112286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

In partnering with Yoni Ki Baat and oSTEM this dialogue hopes in encourage conversations about stigmas surrounding sex. Through small group activities and conversation we hope to address questions such as: why does sex sometimes have a negative connotation? To what extent and to whom do people feel comfortable sharing their sex lives? Do different cultures and communities allow for the same level of expression of sexual attraction?

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:42:18 -0500 2017-03-15T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-15T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
Another Country (March 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 16, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Symposium on Violent Interactions between Law Enforcement and Black Americans (March 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39763 39763-8290329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

Last summer, Dallas trauma surgeon Brian H. Williams, M.D., FACS, found himself thrust into the middle of a national crisis. A peaceful protest about police treatment of African Americans had ended in bloodshed, with 12 officers shot by a lone gunman. Williams led the team that worked to save their lives – and emerged with a new drive to confront violence and racism.
On March 23, he’ll share his story with leaders, scholars and community members from U-M and southeastern Michigan, at a special symposium on violent interactions between law enforcement and black Americans.
The event will take a look at the public health impacts of such interactions -- as well as the historical and current factors that play into it. It’s designed to bring people from many fields together to work toward solutions by joining action teams that will continue their work after the event is over.
RSVPs are now being accepted for the symposium, which will run from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Auditorium of the School of Public Health II building at 1420 Washington Heights. Light refreshments will be served.
The event was organized by Washtenaw County’s Public Health and Sheriff’s departments; U-M’s Department of Internal Medicine, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School of Public Health, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Students of Color of Rackham; as well as Eastern Michigan University and My Brother’s Keeper-Washtenaw County.
In addition to Williams, the event will feature a panel of speakers that includes the Washtenaw County sheriff, a former state representative, and a U-M professor and postdoctoral fellow – with a Wayne State University leader acting as moderator.
The event will explore how individuals can advocate for social justice, anti-bias reforms, and community building, how community mobilization be used as a strategy to promote social cohesion and community-level advocacy for safer environments for all, and potential strategies to address the upstream and downstream factors resulting in violent interactions between law enforcement and blacks.
The event is free and open to the public. Community members, students, public policy and health professionals, social scientists, legislators, and law enforcement are especially encouraged to attend.
RSVP at http://bit.ly/SymposiumRSVP

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:32:09 -0400 2017-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Conference / Symposium Brian Williams, M.D., FACS
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 16, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
HIV Today Panel (March 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39392 39392-8044717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us for HIV Today, part of LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Week, as we hear a panel of speakers share their personal experiences and stories about HIV in today's society.

We will be engaging the panelists in conversations about getting tested, communicating with partners, current research, blood donation, community services, and living with HIV. (There will also be an opportunity for audience members to personally ask questions to the panelists or to use an anonymous dropbox.) Come ready to learn and/or to gain insight from professionals and people from the U of M community. We hope to see you there!

FREE FOOD from Jerusalem Garden will also be available starting at 5:45pm

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Presentation Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:44:20 -0500 2017-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Spectrum Center Presentation HIV Panel Poster
Young & Elected (March 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39459 39459-8069324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join us for an exciting evening with State Representatives Darrin Camilleri, Abdullah Hammoud and Jewell Jones, Ypsilanti Mayor Pro-Tem Nicole Brown and Michigan GOP Co-Chair Amanda Van Essen Wirth.

Panelists will be asked to share their journeys to public office and the issues their communities are grappling with. Audience members will be invited to ask questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:53:04 -0500 2017-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Ginsberg Center Lecture / Discussion Young and Elected Image
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Safe/Brave Spaces (March 16, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39503 39503-8112288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

This dialogue in partnership with the Black Student Union will allow for an open space to talk about what safe and brave spaces are and why they are important on our campus, particularly for the black community on campus. It will also encourage discussion on triggers and how to respond to something that is triggering.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:41:45 -0500 2017-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
A Glimpse Into the Refugee Crisis (March 16, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39110 39110-7692826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program (MRAP) as they host their capstone event on March 16, 2017 from 7:30-10:00 p.m. at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. At this event, the audience will have the opportunity to hear from former refugees who will be sharing their moving stories about resettling in the United States. The event will also host photographer Jim Lommasson, who will speak about his current project What We Carried, which depicts stories of displacement, loss, and the preservation of identity through objects brought from displaced Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Professionals in the refugee sector will then provide insight into the largest humanitarian crisis of our generation and how we can
take action.

This event will be followed by a reception with Jim Lommasson and members of the refugee community. Organized by the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, with support from the U-M LSA Student Government, Language Resource Center, International Institute, Multi-Ethnic Student Association, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:54:38 -0500 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Helmut Stern Auditorium
Night in the D with Semester in Detroit! (March 16, 2017 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39446 39446-8069310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Join Semester in Detroit for a special edition Day in the D - at night! We'll be grooving out at Bert's Jazz Club, featuring an open mic night following a special performance and talk by Bill Meyer.

*This event is also an optional session for our Detroiters Speak: Toward Education Justice.*

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/meTOIIiV1eVjxFJb2

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:32:12 -0500 2017-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Social / Informal Gathering Night in the D Cover Photo
Another Country (March 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 17, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 17, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Social Justice Art Festival 2017 (March 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38538 38538-7217363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: School of Social Work

The Social Justice Art Festival aims to explore how art can be used as a tool to promote social justice and encourage dialogue among community members, social work students, and the University of Michigan family at large. The festival will feature a variety of artwork from artists in the University of Michigan community and beyond, including visual displays, musical performances, and interactive installations. The artwork submitted highlights a range of social justice topics, including internationality, body acceptance, identity, and protest, all of which connect back to the theme of what it means to claim, move throughout, and inhabit space. There will be locally sourced and cultivated coffee and tea available for a small fee.

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Exhibition Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:24:56 -0500 2017-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center School of Social Work Exhibition Brenda Miller Slomovits
Exotic: Human Rights & Erotic Labor in Guam (March 18, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39122 39122-7712178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

New in 2016 from Director Amy Oden and Back of the Room Productions, “Exotic” documents migrant labor practices in the adult entertainment industry in Guam. Using the island's strip clubs and massage parlors as a lens through which to explore U.S. militarization, immigration, and race and discrimination, "Exotic" helps audiences understand the link between labor rights abuses and sex trafficking.

"Exotic" is presented in Ann Arbor through a partnership between the University of Michigan's Gender-Based Violence and Engaged Learning group (GEL) and the community partner organization, the Michigan Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP Michigan). This event is made possible by generous sponsorships from the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).

Free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.

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Film Screening Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:10:54 -0500 2017-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-18T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Film Screening "Exotic"
Peer Led Support Group (March 19, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Another Country (March 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Opening Reception for Tracey Snelling exhibition, "Here and There" (March 20, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39290 39290-7918108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us immediately following Tracey Snelling's Stamps lecture for an opening reception with the artist.

About the exhibition and artist:

"Here and There" examines the similarities, differences, and struggles that exist in the US as well as abroad. With nearly half the world's population living in poverty, and over 1.5 billion people living in extreme poverty, this continues to be one of the main challenges of our time. With my installation One Thousand Shacks, I look at the problems of extreme poverty, as well as the strength, tenacity, and ingenuity that is demonstrated in the struggle to survive. New works will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.


Bio:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:25:16 -0500 2017-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T19:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Reception / Open House Tracey Snelling Shacks
Another Country (March 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 21, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Another Country (March 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
The Intersection of National Security and Human Rights (March 22, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38780 38780-7397070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Join the conversation: #policytalks
This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing details.

Towsley Policymaker in Residence Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD '97) will moderate a panel discussion on the intersection of human rights and U.S. national security.

Panelists:
Rear Admiral John Dudley Hutson, former United States Navy officer, attorney, and former Judge Advocate General of the Navy.
Phil Klay, American author, Dartmouth graduate, and former Marine, who frequently writes for The New York Times.
Ian Fishback (MA ‘12), University of Michigan PhD Candidate in Philosophy and former United States Army officer.

Moderator:
Hardy Vieux, Legal Director at Human Rights First, Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence

From the speakers' bios:

John D. Hutson was born in North Muskegon, Michigan. He was commissioned in the U.S. Navy upon graduation from Michigan State University in 1969. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972. Upon admission to the State Bar of Michigan, he attended the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. In 1973, he was assigned to the Law Center in Corpus Christi, TX, where he served as Chief Defense Counsel and Chief Trial Counsel. In 1975, he was transferred to Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, CA. He served as the Station legal officer for two years before returning to Newport to serve as an instructor at the Naval Justice School, where he taught Civil Law, Procedure, and Evidence.
In 1980, Hutson attended Georgetown University Law Center where he earned a Master of Laws degree in labor law. He was then assigned as a legislative counsel in the first of three tours in the Office of Legislative Affairs for the Navy. In 1984, he was assigned to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME, where he served both as Staff Judge Advocate and Administrative Officer.
Hutson assumed duty as Executive Officer of the Naval Legal Service Office, Newport, RI, in 1987. In 1989, he returned to Washington, DC, to serve as Staff Judge Advocate and Executive Assistant to the Commander, Naval Investigative Command.
In August 1989, Hutson moved to the Office of Legislative Affairs as Director of Legislation. Between October 1992, and November 1993, he was assigned as the Executive Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. In November, 1993, he resumed duty in the Office of Legislative Affairs.
In August 1994, he assumed duty as Commanding Officer, Naval Legal Service Office, Europe and Southwest Asia, located in Naples, Italy. In July 1996, Hutson returned to the Naval Justice School as Commanding Officer. He was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, and assumed duties as the Judge Advocate General of the Navy in May 1997. He also served as the DOD/JCS Representative for Ocean Policy.
Hutson served as Dean & President of the University of New Hampshire School of Law from July 2000 through January 2011.
Hutson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (with three gold stars), Meritorious Service Medal (with two gold stars), Navy Commendation Medal, and Navy Achievement Medal.

Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an MFA. His story “Redeployment” was originally published in Granta and is included in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere.
In 2014 Klay’s short story collection Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction. He was also shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize and named a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree. In 2015 he received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundations James Webb award for fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life, the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Award for best debut work in any genre, the American Library Association’s W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize, and the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing.

Ian Fishback is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy who holds an M.A. from the Department of Political Science. His research interests are political and moral philosophy, moral psychology, conflict studies, the law of armed conflict, and criminal law. He is writing a dissertation on the relationship between the morality and law with respect to two principles: proportionality and necessity.
Ian has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to transitioning to academia, he served as an officer in the paratroopers and Special Forces from 2001-2010, including four combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as a philosophy instructor at West Point from 2012-2015.
TIME magazine named Ian one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his role in reforming detainee treatment standards in the US military from 2005-6.

Moderator Hardy Vieux is the legal director at Human Rights First, “an independent advocacy and action organization” that uses American influence to protect “human rights and the rule of law." He currently manages the organization’s refugee representation work. Previously, he worked for Save the Children International on issues impacting Syrian refugee children in Amman, Jordan.
Within HRF, Vieux leads the refugee representation program, which arranges pro bono legal representation and addresses the psychosocial needs of clients seeking asylum. In addition, Human Rights First is currently conducting campaigns to protect LGBT rights, to prevent the torture of terrorism suspects and to close Guantanamo, and to fight anti-Semitism. While most other organizations specialize in one activity or the other, one of HRF’s strengths is that its direct legal services work informs its advocacy and vice versa. Vieux teaches at the Ford School during the Winter 2017 semester as Towsley Policymaker in Residence.

The Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program (T-PMR) was established in 2002 to bring individuals with significant national and/or international policymaking experience to campus, enhancing our curriculum and strengthening our school's ties to the policy community.

Cosponsored with: Human Rights First.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Mar 2017 11:03:08 -0500 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Hardy Vieux
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Privacy & Security Challenges in Investigative Journalism (March 22, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39380 39380-8044709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information Assurance

Knight-Wallace journalists, Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard will share the stories behind the biggest data leaks in history, and how privacy and security play important roles and present significant challenges in investigative journalism in the digital age.

Admission is free and light refreshments included. For more information visit www.safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance .

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:13:53 -0500 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-22T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Privacy & Security Challenges in Investigative Journalism
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (March 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
Opening Reception: 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38808 38808-7422725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Opening Reception with guest speakers from the University of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Corrections, and artists from previous exhibitions.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:17:41 -0400 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House Event art
Peer Led Support Group (March 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Masculinity (March 22, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39504 39504-8112289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

This dialogue will be a space to unpack the idea of masculinity and with our partnership with H.E.A.D.S., will have a focus on what masculinity means to black males and how that differs from what masculinity means to other men. We hope to discuss how masculinity is portrayed in the media including the hyper sexuality of black men in media.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:51 -0500 2017-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
Another Country (March 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
The Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture (March 23, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39952 39952-8414296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Two generations of scholarship rightly upended the notion that slavery and segregation left a people crippled by a subordinate place in the social order. Scholarly focus has been on resistance, resilience, and resolve. Yet, while resilient, African Americans were no less vulnerable to depression, psychosis and other expressions of mental illness. Aided by the release of hundreds of files from Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, Earl Lewis takes a look at post-Civil War African Americans in Virginia struggling to cope with the demons within. In this work, which is part of a larger study of race, mental illness and mental health, he begins to examine the black insane and the institutions that were built to contain them during the formative years of Jim Crow America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:32:35 -0400 2017-03-23T15:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 23, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Symposium on Violent Interactions between Law Enforcement and Black Americans (March 23, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39763 39763-8290326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

Last summer, Dallas trauma surgeon Brian H. Williams, M.D., FACS, found himself thrust into the middle of a national crisis. A peaceful protest about police treatment of African Americans had ended in bloodshed, with 12 officers shot by a lone gunman. Williams led the team that worked to save their lives – and emerged with a new drive to confront violence and racism.
On March 23, he’ll share his story with leaders, scholars and community members from U-M and southeastern Michigan, at a special symposium on violent interactions between law enforcement and black Americans.
The event will take a look at the public health impacts of such interactions -- as well as the historical and current factors that play into it. It’s designed to bring people from many fields together to work toward solutions by joining action teams that will continue their work after the event is over.
RSVPs are now being accepted for the symposium, which will run from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Auditorium of the School of Public Health II building at 1420 Washington Heights. Light refreshments will be served.
The event was organized by Washtenaw County’s Public Health and Sheriff’s departments; U-M’s Department of Internal Medicine, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School of Public Health, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Students of Color of Rackham; as well as Eastern Michigan University and My Brother’s Keeper-Washtenaw County.
In addition to Williams, the event will feature a panel of speakers that includes the Washtenaw County sheriff, a former state representative, and a U-M professor and postdoctoral fellow – with a Wayne State University leader acting as moderator.
The event will explore how individuals can advocate for social justice, anti-bias reforms, and community building, how community mobilization be used as a strategy to promote social cohesion and community-level advocacy for safer environments for all, and potential strategies to address the upstream and downstream factors resulting in violent interactions between law enforcement and blacks.
The event is free and open to the public. Community members, students, public policy and health professionals, social scientists, legislators, and law enforcement are especially encouraged to attend.
RSVP at http://bit.ly/SymposiumRSVP

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:32:09 -0400 2017-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:00:00-04:00 Public Health II Michigan Medicine Conference / Symposium Brian Williams, M.D., FACS
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Healthy/Positive Behaviors (March 23, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39505 39505-8112290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

This dialogue will give participants the space to learn about and share their self-care strategies for themselves, their relationships, and the community. Partnering with CAPS we will be guiding discussion around questions like: what does a healthy relationship look like for me? What is my self-care plan? How can I be an activist and practice self-care?

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:18 -0500 2017-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
Detroiters Speak: Examining University Engagement with Detroit (March 23, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37967 37967-6814969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Speakers will include:

---Dr. Kendra Hearn - Clinical Associate Professor, UM School of Education, Director of Teach for American Interim Certification Program

---Joel Berger - UM Alum ('10), TFA Corps member 2010-2012 (Winan Academy Middle School), 2012-2014, Brenda Scott Middle School (EAA), 2014-present, Cass Technical High School, DFT Executive Board Member (2017-)

---Ashley Lucas - Associate Professor, UM School of Music Theatre and Dance/Residential College, Director, Prison Creative Arts Project

---Aaron Kinzel, Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies, UM Dearborn

---Jamila Martin, Operations Director, 482Forward

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:22:20 -0400 2017-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Another Country (March 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
SEGREGATED SPACES (March 24, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39863 39863-8394892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Initiative for Inclusive Design invites you to join us for our presentation on segregated spaces. There will be a lecture from disability rights activist Celeste Adams, covering disability history and culture, followed by a panel discussion on the group’s research concerning accessible spaces on campus. We aspire to create a lasting effect on the Ann Arbor community and architecture students, who will be responsible for accessibility in the future. Please join us to support this crucial, yet frequently overlooked issue.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:58 -0400 2017-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Segregated Spaces at Taubman College
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Artist Panel: 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38809 38809-7422726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as a prison artist in this informal panel discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:17:00 -0400 2017-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Art photo
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Concertina Maze, Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Vol. 9 (March 26, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38810 38810-7422727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from this year’s journal read by friends and family of contributing authors. Books will be available for sale.

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Performance Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:16:23 -0400 2017-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance cover of Concertina Maze
Peer Led Support Group (March 26, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Patents, social justice, and public responsibility (March 27, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36888 36888-5993510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. RSVP at http://umichfordschool.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_d43P0098ezJPhNb

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

About the symposium:
In recent years, the public has become increasingly critical of patent systems. Rather than seeing them as merely technical and legal domains far removed from their daily lives, citizens have begun to see patent systems as connected to matters of health, economic inequality, agriculture, public morality—even democracy. This civil society interest is not entirely surprising. After all, both the number of patent applications and the scope of patentable subject matter has grown across the world. And, patents have been granted on the fruits of indigenous knowledge, genetically engineered animals and plants, human embryonic stem cells, and business methods, to name a few. This one-day symposium aims to grapple with this growing controversy, and explore ways forward for patents and patent systems that maximizes the public interest and social justice. It brings together a notably diverse array of experts on these issues, including historians, political scientists, legal and science and technology studies scholars, and civil society advocates, whose work focuses on the intersection of patents and the public interest.

The day will end with a book talk and reception celebrating the publication of Shobita Parthasarathy’s Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Agenda:

8:30 - 8:45 am: Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00 am: Introductions

9:00 - 10:40 am: Session 1: Patents and Democracy

11:00 - 12:40 pm: Session 2: The Patent System as a Moral Domain

12:40 - 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 - 3:40 pm: Session 3: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Patents

3:40 - 4:00 pm: Coffee break

4:00 pm: Book launch



Symposium speakers include:

Margo Bagley, Emory University School of Law
Mario Biagioli, University of California--Davis
Margaret Chon, Seattle University Law School
Graham Dutfield, University of Leeds
James Love, KEI
Kali Murray, Marquette University Law School
Sandra Park, American Civil Liberties Union
Alain Pottage, London School of Economics
Susan Sell, Australian National University

Session Moderators:

John Carson, History, University of Michigan
Rebecca Eisenberg, Law School, University of Michigan
Paula Lantz, Public Policy, University of Michigan

For more information, please contact Erin Flores | fspp-events@umich.edu | 734-615-9691 or Kush Patel | kshpatel@umich.edu | 734-763-4463

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:17:18 -0400 2017-03-27T08:30:00-04:00 2017-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Conference / Symposium
Patents, Social Justice, and Public Responsibility (March 27, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39555 39555-8136864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In recent years, the public has become increasingly critical of patent systems. Rather than seeing them as merely technical and legal domains far removed from their daily lives, citizens have begun to see patent systems as connected to matters of health, economic inequality, agriculture, public morality—even democracy. This civil society interest is not entirely surprising. After all, both the number of patent applications and the scope of patentable subject matter has grown across the world. And, patents have been granted on the fruits of indigenous knowledge, genetically engineered animals and plants, human embryonic stem cells, and business methods, to name a few. This one-day symposium aims to grapple with this growing controversy, and explore ways forward for patents and patent systems that maximizes the public interest and social justice. It brings together a notably diverse array of experts on these issues, including historians, political scientists, legal and science and technology studies scholars, and civil society advocates, whose work focuses on the intersection of patents and the public interest.

The day will end with a book talk and reception celebrating the publication of Shobita Parthasarathy’s Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Agenda:

AGENDA:
8:30 - 9:00 AM: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:45 - 9:00 AM: INTRODUCTIONS

Sidonie Smith, Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

9:00 - 10:40 AM: PATENTS AND DEMOCRACY

Moderator: John Carson, Department of History, University of Michigan

Patent Politics in the Age of Illiberalism
Kali Murray, Marquette University School of Law

Promoting the Progress of Public Interest Patent Law Advocacy
Sandra Park, American Civil Liberties Union

Re-embedding intellectual property into public policy - Advocacy and the importance of short causal chains
Susan Sell, Australian National University

10:40 - 11:00 AM: COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:40 PM: PATENTS AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE

Moderator: Rebecca Eisenberg, Law School, University of Michigan

Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge: Personal Reflections on the Biopiracy Debate, 1988-2017
Graham Dutfield, University of Leeds

Global Intellectual Property: Partnerships and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Margaret Chon, University of Seattle

Intellectual Property Regimes and Genetic Resources: The Push for Transparency, Policy Space, and Fairness
Margo Bagley, Emory University School of Law

12:40 - 2:00 PM: LUNCH

2:00 - 3:40 PM: CONSIDERING THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND MORAL DIMENSIONS OF PATENTS

Moderator, Paula Lantz, Public Policy, University of Michigan

The role of patents when R&D costs are delinked from drug prices.
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International

Justice framed as dignity; reflections on diagnostic patents in IVF treatment
Alain Pottage, London School of Economics

Patent Responsibly: Can We Assess the Social Cost of Patenting?
Mario Biagioli, University of California—Davis

3:40 - 4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK

4:00 PM: BOOK LAUNCH, PATENT POLITICS

Shobita Parthasarathy discusses her new book, Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017), followed by discussion with Richard Hall, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan, then audience Q&A.

Susan Collins, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan, will introduce the launch.

5:30 PM ON: RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:07:41 -0500 2017-03-27T08:30:00-04:00 2017-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Institute for the Humanities Conference / Symposium patents
Another Country (March 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
CSEAS Lecture. Communal Violence in Myanmar: Roundtable Discussion (March 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39698 39698-8241180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Since 2012, Myanmar has experienced recurrent, sporadic, collective acts of lethal violence, realized through repeated public expressions that Muslims constitute an existential threat to Buddhists. Much of this has been directed at those who identify as Rohingya, but it has not been limited to this category. The panelists discuss the narratives, genealogies and typologies of this violence, drawing on scholarship from South and Southeast Asia.

Panelist:
Nick Cheesman, Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, 2016-17 Member of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study

Mike McGovern Associate Professor, Anthropology & Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Michigan

Matt Schissler Doctoral Student in Anthropology, University of Michigan

Moderated by Allen Hicken, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Co-sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Conflict
and Peace Initiative

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:13:06 -0400 2017-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Myanmar-flier
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 27, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Another Country (March 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Citizen Interaction Design Speaker Series: Build With, Not For (March 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39836 39836-8388491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

The Citizen Interaction Design program sponsors an appearance by Laurenellen McCann, a social practice artist and internationally recognized expert in civic engagement and community technology.

Laurenellen McCann will discuss their work in addressing the need to invest more in the “civic” in civic tech — prioritizing community leadership and stewardship in the lifecycle of public interest technology. They will do so from the perspective of non-binary gender identity in an industry that often struggles with diversity and inclusion internally.

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Presentation Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:25:57 -0400 2017-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Presentation Laurenellen McCann
"Starving the Beast" documentary film screening and discussion (March 28, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38647 38647-7320027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Starving the Beast examines the ongoing power struggle on college campuses across the nation as political and market-oriented forces push to disrupt and reform America’s public universities. The film documents a philosophical shift that seeks to reframe public higher education as a ‘value proposition’ to be borne by the beneficiary of a college degree rather than as a ‘public good’ for society. Financial winners and losers emerge in a struggle poised to profoundly change public higher education. The film focuses on dramas playing out at the University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Louisiana State University, University of Texas and Texas A&M.

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Film Screening Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:27:32 -0500 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Starving the Beast
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 28, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
The Attica Prison Uprising and Why It Matters Today, Dr. Heather Thompson (March 28, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38811 38811-7422728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

In 1971 nearly 1300 prisoners began one of the 20th century's most important protests for better conditions and basic human rights. Their struggle was ended brutally by the state of NY with vast consequences for criminal justice policy in this country. Dr. Thompson spent more than a decade recovering this history for her book Blood in the Water. It is a story of hope, horror, heroism, and even a most shocking cover up. In this talk Thompson will share Attica's history as well as explain why this history matters today.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:08:02 -0400 2017-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T20:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Art photo
Another Country (March 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the 21st Century (March 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38042 38042-6859812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

This event will be live webstreamed. Check back here just before the event for viewing details.

About the book:

Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers, particularly African Americans, and analyzes how economic and residential segregation keep them from achieving the American Dream of upward mobility.


About the author:

Kristin S. Seefeldt's primary research interests lie in exploring how low-income individuals understand their situations, particularly around issues related to work and economic well-being. She is the author of Working After Welfare (W.E. Upjohn Institute Press), which discusses employment advancement and work-family balance challenges as experienced by former welfare recipients. Currently, she is conducting research on families' financial coping strategies during an economic downturn and is a Principal Investigator of a survey examining the effects of the recession and recovery policies on individuals' well-being. Previously, Seefeldt was an Assistant Research Scientist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Assistant Director of the National Poverty Center, both at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public and Environment Affairs, Indiana University. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in Sociology and Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:50:30 -0500 2017-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Abandoned Families
Commemorating the anniversary of In re Gault (March 29, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39544 39544-8118461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

On the 50th anniversary of In re Gault, join distinguished speakers Barry Feld and Sandra Simpkins to examine the past, present and future of due process and other constitutional protections for juveniles. Barry Feld is the Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and author of numerous book on juvenile justice including, most recently, The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics and the Criminalization of Juvenile Justice. Sandra Simpkins is a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School and, among other professional activities, is the Due Process Monitor for the settlement agreement between the Department of Justice and the Juvenile court of Shelby County, Tennessee. Sponsored by the Juvenile Justice Clinic.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:23:23 -0500 2017-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 29, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Peer Led Support Group (March 29, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-8468263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting
MLift Presents Janae Marie Kroc (March 29, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39872 39872-8397030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: MLift

Janae Marie Kroc, world champion powerlifter, bodybuilder and transgender woman, shares her journey as an athlete. Get an inside look into the motivation and training regimen of a champion, while gaining an understanding of what it takes to accomplish your goals within the current fitness industry.

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:02:24 -0400 2017-03-29T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T20:30:00-04:00 Mason Hall MLift Exercise / Fitness MLift logo
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Gender Identity and Pronouns (March 29, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39506 39506-8112291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

This dialogue will be a space for conversation about what gender identity is It will also explain and unpack the normalization of gender neutral pronouns and leave space for discussion on why some people choose them instead of gendered pronouns. Also, in partnership with LSA SG this dialogue hopes to touch on the changes the University has made for better inclusion of people of all genders.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:37:05 -0500 2017-03-29T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
Peer Led Support Group (March 29, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
Another Country (March 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Environmental Criminal Enforcement (March 30, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39541 39541-8118456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:15pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join the Environmental Law & Policy Program for its 2017 conference on environmental criminal enforcement. The conference will begin on Thursday, March 30, at 4:15 PM with a keynote session commemorating the 30-year history of the Environmental Crimes Section at the Justice Department. This panel discussion will feature the eight prosecutors who have served as Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section: Jud Starr (1987-1989), Jerry Block (1989-1991), Neil Cartusciello (1991-1994), Ron Sarachan (1994-1997), Steve Solow (1997-2000), David Uhlmann (2000-2007), Stacey Mitchell (2007-2014), and Deborah Harris (2014-present). Their discussion will provide an overview of criminal enforcement under the environmental laws from the Exxon Valdez, Colonial Pipeline, and Koch Petroleum to the Gulf oil spill, Volkswagen, and Lumber Liquidators, along with hundreds of other cases prosecuted over the last 30 years.

The conference will continue on Friday, March 31. We will begin the morning with a panel discussion about the role of criminal enforcement in environmental and worker safety disasters, with a focus on the Gulf oil spill and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. Environmental prosecutors often focus on cases where the harm is greatest but those cases also raise questions about whether criminal prosecution is appropriate for industrial accidents. Our second panel of the morning will focus on fraud and concealment, with a focus on the recent prosecution of Volkswagen and the use of Title 18 charges generally. During lunch we will feature breakout discussions in two recurring areas of environmental criminal enforcement: pipeline safety issues (with an emphasis on the 2010 Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River) and international smuggling cases (with a focus on the 2016 prosecution of Lumber Liquidators for importing illegally seized hardwoods from Asia). These smaller breakout sessions will give conference participants a greater opportunity to join the discussions. Our conference will conclude with a panel discussion about the criminal prosecution of state and local officials for the Flint drinking water crisis. We will explore the extent to which residents of Flint, Michigan were betrayed by their state and municipal governments–as well as the difficult question of under what circumstances government officials should face criminal charges. Our moderators are University of Michigan law professors who are joined by panelists that include academics, prosecutors, and defense attorneys from throughout the United States who are leading experts on environmental crime. Our conference participants include Michigan faculty and students, as well as Ann Arbor residents and interested citizens from throughout Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:34:48 -0400 2017-03-30T16:15:00-04:00 2017-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium South Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 30, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
SAPAC Dialogue Series: Consent Skills (March 30, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39507 39507-8112292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

In partnering with Sigma Sigma Rho and Sexperteam this is a dialogue to build consent skills with a particular focus on listening and learning from the perspective of South Asian students. There will be a focus on navigating conversations with parents about sex, given cultural constraints, and how lack of conversations with parents about sex can impact romantic relationships and understanding of consent.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:39:30 -0500 2017-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A flyer for the SAPAC Dialogue Series
Sustainability Symposium (March 30, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39233 39233-7860181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The Sustainable Living Experience is hosting a sustainability fair for Oxford residents! About a dozen campus organizations and departments will be present, sharing information about jobs, internships, majors, and minors. Learn how to get involved and apply for leadership positions with various student orgs, and hear what the SLE seminar and learning circles have been up to.

Food will be provided, and karaoke will follow brief presentations and tabling activities! Get ready for sustainable food demos with Chef Buzz, and local popcorn popped onsite in a popcorn machine.

Some of the groups coming include: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Program in the Environment (PitE), Planet Blue Student Leaders, the UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), SLE Peer Facilitators, and Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum (MBGNA).

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Fair / Festival Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:54:41 -0400 2017-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T20:30:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Fair / Festival Symposium flyer
Detroiters Speak: Emergency Mismanagement - The State's Role in Detroit's Public Education (March 30, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37968 37968-6814970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Details to follow

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:10 -0500 2017-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Environmental Criminal Enforcement (March 31, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39541 39541-8118457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:30am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join the Environmental Law & Policy Program for its 2017 conference on environmental criminal enforcement. The conference will begin on Thursday, March 30, at 4:15 PM with a keynote session commemorating the 30-year history of the Environmental Crimes Section at the Justice Department. This panel discussion will feature the eight prosecutors who have served as Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section: Jud Starr (1987-1989), Jerry Block (1989-1991), Neil Cartusciello (1991-1994), Ron Sarachan (1994-1997), Steve Solow (1997-2000), David Uhlmann (2000-2007), Stacey Mitchell (2007-2014), and Deborah Harris (2014-present). Their discussion will provide an overview of criminal enforcement under the environmental laws from the Exxon Valdez, Colonial Pipeline, and Koch Petroleum to the Gulf oil spill, Volkswagen, and Lumber Liquidators, along with hundreds of other cases prosecuted over the last 30 years.

The conference will continue on Friday, March 31. We will begin the morning with a panel discussion about the role of criminal enforcement in environmental and worker safety disasters, with a focus on the Gulf oil spill and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. Environmental prosecutors often focus on cases where the harm is greatest but those cases also raise questions about whether criminal prosecution is appropriate for industrial accidents. Our second panel of the morning will focus on fraud and concealment, with a focus on the recent prosecution of Volkswagen and the use of Title 18 charges generally. During lunch we will feature breakout discussions in two recurring areas of environmental criminal enforcement: pipeline safety issues (with an emphasis on the 2010 Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River) and international smuggling cases (with a focus on the 2016 prosecution of Lumber Liquidators for importing illegally seized hardwoods from Asia). These smaller breakout sessions will give conference participants a greater opportunity to join the discussions. Our conference will conclude with a panel discussion about the criminal prosecution of state and local officials for the Flint drinking water crisis. We will explore the extent to which residents of Flint, Michigan were betrayed by their state and municipal governments–as well as the difficult question of under what circumstances government officials should face criminal charges. Our moderators are University of Michigan law professors who are joined by panelists that include academics, prosecutors, and defense attorneys from throughout the United States who are leading experts on environmental crime. Our conference participants include Michigan faculty and students, as well as Ann Arbor residents and interested citizens from throughout Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:34:48 -0400 2017-03-31T08:30:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium South Hall
Another Country (March 31, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (March 31, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (March 31, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (March 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Study Abroad First Step Session (March 31, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
rEVOLUTION (March 31, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38493 38493-7198126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 7:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

The themes of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center's 12th annual art show are GENDER, SEXISM, SEXUAL VIOLENCE & EMPOWERMENT.
The art show will feature painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, spoken word, and poetry.
Please e-mail artrevolution@umich.edu with any questions.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:14:33 -0500 2017-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 West Quadrangle Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Exhibition rEVOLUTION
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Winter Ally Training (April 2, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38059 38059-6866196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 1:00pm
Location: The Connector
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Deadline to apply to attend training was 3/22/17.

If you have already applied for Ally Training, our Event Coordinator will send an email requesting your RSVP to attend in early March.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:50:08 -0400 2017-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 The Connector Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar A poster for Winter Ally Training listing the time, location, and focus of the event
Change Our World with Nyle DiMarco (April 2, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40087 40087-8466108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Nyle DiMarco, the first deaf winner of America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, shares how he overcame adversity to become a successful and influential advocate for many diverse groups.

Learn about how you can embrace your unique identities and support all the diverse identities on the University of Michigan campus. Get your FREE ticket at the Michigan Union Ticket Office with a valid MCard!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:15:08 -0400 2017-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Change Our World
Peer Led Support Group (April 2, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 37669-6655083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:02 -0400 2017-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Meeting Michigan Union
9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline (April 3, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40173 40173-8508883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

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Other Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:17 -0400 2017-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other
Another Country (April 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (April 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (April 3, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (April 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline (April 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40173 40173-8508885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

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Other Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:17 -0400 2017-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other
Study Abroad First Step Session (April 3, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Annual Copernicus Lecture. The Glory and Poverty of the ’68 Generation (April 3, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38178 38178-6987124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

1968 was a watershed year in the world. In democratic countries, people protested against conservative social norms and the stability of democratic institutions. In Eastern Europe, it was dictatorship that was questioned in the name of democracy. In Poland more specifically, students and members of the intelligentsia fighting for freedom were severely repressed, and the regime launched a brutal anti-Semitic campaign that forced tens of thousands of Jews into exile. It is in 1968 that the spirit of communist reform died and that the spirit of the democratic opposition against communism was born. In this lecture, Adam Michnik will discuss the different threads that woven together made 1968 the defining moment of his generation, a turning point for Poland, and a dramatic crossroads for Polish Jews.

Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first independent newspaper and currently its biggest daily. A historian, Michnik co-founded the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR) in 1976, and was a prominent Solidarity activist during the 1980s. He was detained many times during 1965-80, spending a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the communist regime. Michnik participated in the Round Table Talks of 1989 that led peacefully to the first contested elections since the start of the communist regime. He was a member of Poland’s first non-communist parliament from 1989 to 1991. His many notable awards and honors include the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, the Goethe Medal, and the Erasmus Prize, as well as honorary degrees from several institutions including the University of Michigan.

Part of the Minorities series at the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, which focuses on the fates and challenges various minorities face, from ethnic and racial groups to people with disabilities and members of LGBT communities. How do different political regimes come to define groups as minorities, and how do they engage with them as a result? What can the experience of minorities in the other parts of the world teach us?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:56:07 -0500 2017-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2017-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Adam Michnik
Another Country (April 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (April 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks
22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (April 4, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/33027 33027-4650835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Prison Creative Arts Project is proud to announce the dates for the upcoming 22nd Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibition will take place at Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 22 to April 5, 2017. This event is free and open to public.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:07:05 -0400 2017-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Intersection
Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (April 4, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38964 38964-7532124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 17 - April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 2017 from 4 - 7 pm, featuring a performance by Ballet Folklórico De Detroit at 6 pm.
Gallery Talk by Nancy De Los Santos and exhibition curator Maria Cotera: Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12 pm, Walter P. Reuther Library Woodcock Conference Room
Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University
5401 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

Born and raised in Chicago by Mexican-American parents, Nancy De Los Santos is an accomplished filmmaker and proud “Chicana from Chicago” who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining the image of Latina/os in the mainstream media. Among her most celebrated works are as Co-Writer and Co-Producer of The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latin Image in Hollywood Cinema, with Susan Racho and Alberto Dominguez, and as Associate Producer on the feature film Selena.

In Chicana Fotos, an exhibit of evocative photographs taken in the 1970s, we meet a very different Nancy: a woman armed with a camera, capturing historic events in the struggles for social justice of the time. Nancy’s photographs of Chicano Movement marches and rallies, farmworker mobilizations in Chicago and Texas, and Latina organizing in the Midwest and internationally offer a priceless documentary view of Latina/o politics in the 1970s. Her more intimate pictures of everyday Latina/o life capture what it was like to live through a period of radical social transformation. The exhibit includes rare photographs of UFW organizing activities in Chicago, the Texas Farmworker Pilgrimage of 1977, and the first ever International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975. These images are supplemented by never before exhibited documents from the Walter P. Reuther UFW Collection.

Chicana Fotos was curated by University of Michigan professor Maria Cotera (with assistance from Pau Nava) and designed by students and faculty of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design. Stamps School faculty Hannah Smotrich and Katie Rubin co-taught the collaborative, interdisciplinary Exhibition Design class with students Ian Crowley, Rachel Dawson, Emilie Farrugia, Kelsi Franzino, Andrew Han, Jack Hyland, Maggie Lemak, Megan Lewin-Smith, Katie Mongoven, Olivia Moore, Pau Nava, and Sarah Wolf.

Chicana Fotos is a collaboration between the El Museo del Norte, the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Archive, the Stamps School of Art & Design and the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is the largest labor archive in North America. In addition to internationally significant collections on the history of the North American labor movement, the Reuther Library holds the official records of Wayne State University, as well as extensive records documenting urban affairs, civic life, civil rights, ethnic and religious organizations, and community development across Southeast Michigan.

Chicana Fotos was made possible through the generous financial support of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative and the Stamps School of Art & Design. Gallery talk sponsored by the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:16:14 -0500 2017-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hrChicana-Fotos.jpg
GOIN’ NORTH: BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 1910-1930 (April 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39296 39296-7918389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Summary:
Exhibit of photographs and documents produced by the Michigan Historical Collections in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan, published 1991.
BLACK DETROIT AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

Since Norf is up,
An’ Souf is down,
An’ Hebben is up,
I’m upward boun’.*
They came to Detroit by the thousands from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline and they stayed. They were part of what historians characterize as a watershed in African American History-the Great Migration. From 1910 to 1930, hundreds of thousands of Blacks headed North, leaving the South because of economic hardship, poor educational opportunities, and enticed by the lure of better jobs in northern industries and more freedom. Cites in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced astounding increases in their Black populations, but few more so that Detroit, its institutions and its cultures, took shape and developed. The problems encountered by the migrants in the form of discrimination and racial animosity were problems with which the city would grapple throughout the decades to follow.

This exhibit focused on the two major concerns of the migrants, housing and jobs, and on the attempts made by various organizations in adjusting to life in Detroit. It is primarily compiled from the holding s of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library, particularly the rich collection of the Detroit Urban League. It is also drawn from the Collections of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Walter Reuther Collection of Labor History and Urban Affairs (Wayne State University), the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Detroit News, and tge Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. The exhibit was prepared by Christine Weideman and Karen Jania, staff members of the Bentley Historical Library.

*From the poem, “Northboun’” by Lucy Ariel Williams, printed in Opportunity “: a Journal of Negro Life, June 1926. The journal was a publication of the National Urban League.

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:57:44 -0500 2017-04-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline (April 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40173 40173-8508886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

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Other Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:17 -0400 2017-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other
Study Abroad First Step Session (April 4, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 31885-5974257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.
Presentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office, G155 Angell Hall.
Take your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, and much more.
Attending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:52:02 -0500 2017-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Michigan cap on a desert sand dune
Food Literacy for All: Wayne Roberts (April 4, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39313 39313-7944134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All (NRE.639.038 and ENVIRON305.003) will be structured as an evening lecture series, featuring different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:53:34 -0500 2017-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 2017-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion poster
Women, Entrepreneurship & Social Change Conference (April 5, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39765 39765-8290327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The Center for Entrepreneurship, the Michigan Association of Communication Studies and FreeFrom.org are excited to invite you to a groundbreaking one-of-a-kind conference we're hosting on campus on April 5th entitled Women, Entrepreneurship & Social Change.

This conference brings together female innovators, investors, and CEOs to showcase the largely untapped potential of women as leaders, trailblazers and enforcers of social change. This will also be a great networking opportunity for students.

Speakers include:

Yasmine Mustafa, Founder & CEO, ROAR FOR GOOD
Debra Cleaver, Founder & CEO, Vote.org
Kat Manalac, Partner, Y-Combinator
Lisa McLaughlin, Founder & CEO, Workit Health
Alice Vilma, Director, Morgan Stanley
Kate Glantz, Founder & CEO, Heartful.ly
Mary Ann Beyster, Foundation for Enterprise Development

The conference is from 8:30 AM to 2 PM, but you may attend any portion of the conference. Breakfast and lunch are provided; booths showcasing sponsors, speakers and products from local female-owned businesses will be present.

Registration: Admission is free but registration is required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-entrepreneurship-social-change-conference-tickets-31502356396

See you there!

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:14:27 -0400 2017-04-05T08:30:00-04:00 2017-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Entrepreneurship Conference / Symposium Conference Flyer
Another Country (April 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39234 39234-7860212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The scenes in Another Country emerge from daily images of conflict and uprising. Discarded shoes, tarps and handmade signs that mark the post-industrial landscape become part roadside memorial and part doomsday prophecy. These temporary sculptures - set against the backdrop of environmental decline - evoke a cautionary tale of hazmat crews and oil soaked shorelines.

If there is a place for both apathy and active resistance in the way forward to a better future, Another Country carries the tension that’s in-between. Inspired by the visual resistance of liberation parties, past and present, it urges us to remember why we fight.

Shanna Merola is an artist, activist, and documentary photographer. Working for civil rights attorneys, she photographs first amendment activity at protests and facilitates workshops on best practices during police encounters. Over the past five years she has been a human rights observer for social justice movements across the country - from the deeply embattled struggle over water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan - to the frontlines of uprisings in Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these rallies - from direct actions against fracking companies to the privatization of water both globally and locally. She is currently working on a collaborative production of Know Your Rights Theatre, inspired by the politically radical puppet troupes of the 1960’s.

Merola received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Photo and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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Exhibition Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:59:04 -0500 2017-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Photo by Shanna Merola
Here and There (April 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39732 39732-8265764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

"Here and There" looks at the problems of extreme poverty, and includes artist Tracey Snelling's signature piece "One Thousand Shacks." New works--created on campus during her three-week residency--will examine these issues in the US, how they relate to location and, at times, the disenfranchisement of large groups of people for the sake of big business, political clout, and power.

Curator's Statement:

To meet artist Tracey Snelling evokes the sensation of a strong willed breeze determined to open a backyard door.

As an artist and person, she is down to earth, direct, contemporary, and moving through it all with volition.

Snelling’s artistic practice originally focused on photography as a medium, but soon evolved to include her construction of sculptures based upon cities and towns, strip malls and urban housing.

She refers to her three dimensional work as sculptural rather than diorama or model making because she isn’t particularly interested in the exact rendering of location, or the contextualization of place. Instead, she taps into the energy of community and its humanness—restless, frenetic, din, a choir, extending beyond the confines of walls.

Snelling’s representations are neither judgmental nor opportunistic. They unaffectedly and objectively offer a multidimensional sketch of a place in time, how we occupy space.

Her signature piece "One Thousand Shacks" (included in this exhibition along with new work created during her her residency here) pushes up against the challenges of economic inequalities, racial biases, and imposed class divisions that often limit the options available to so many people. Concurrently, the installation embraces our everyday existence expressed through Snelling’s exuberant palette, bold graphics, video and neon.

Conceptually, Snelling’s stacking method first creates an exalted “big picture” with a myriad of colors, image, text, sound and light. The counterpoint in scale soon immerses the viewer into each small world. With this shift, the onlooker becomes the active participant, the occupant in situ, adding the trappings of their own experiences to each tableau. It is this shift that forces the viewer into a new way of seeing from varying perspectives.

On the one hand, the artist’s sculptures allude to our desire for refuge, a private domain that allows us to be ourselves. On the other, the overall composition reaffirms it is imperative that we co-exist with one another respectfully, forge relationships, understanding our marked differences. It is diversity—the unique and often disparate combination of things, the cacophony of it all, that activates communities and public space.

Snelling’s constructions literally build a way out, one on top of another, charged with the undercurrent of the way we live. They emphasize our universal longing to find a place called home, and be accepted, built on the foundation of one and of many.
–Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator, Institute for the Humanities

About Tracey Snelling:
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:10 -0400 2017-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One Thousand Shacks