Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (October 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77774 77774-19919781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Registration Required: myumi.ch/O4P30

Join members of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) community as they explore the meanings and implications of Wilkerson's work.

Moderator
Earl Lewis
Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy; Director, Center for Social Solutions

Panelists
Aliyah Khan
Associate Professor of English and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Karyn Lacy
Associate Professor of Sociology

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor of American Culture and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Damani Partridge
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Renée Pitter
DAAS Alum, Research Program Manager for the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities, U-M School of Nursing

This live, virtual conversation will occur as a community engagement opportunity following the Penny Stamps Speakers Series Event Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson: In Conversation on Friday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m. More information: pennystampsevents.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:03:09 -0400 2020-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M (October 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78057 78057-19957547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this "Making Michigan" webinar with U-M Professor Stephen Ward, who will discuss the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. You'll learn about the Black Action Movement (BAM I), an important moment in U-M's history of student activism. He'll also discuss the motivations and rationale for Black Studies as an academic discipline, and the origins of U-M's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:51:06 -0400 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and picture of Stephen Ward
The History and Future of Black Studies and BLM: DAAS at 50 (November 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79360 79360-20282623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join local and university community panelists PG Watkins, Omolade Adunbi, Eshe Shirley and Stephen Ward in a discussion about Black Studies and its connection to BLM as the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies commemorates its 50th anniversary and looks to what lies ahead.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:37:04 -0500 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Afro-Indigeneity on the Way to a Post-Settler World (November 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78759 78759-20119194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

What does it mean to be Black and Indigenous? How does racialization specifically affect Afro-Indigenous people? How do the values of settler colonialism perpetuate violence against both Black and Indigenous people, and how can we adopt the values of indigeneity in order to move towards a post-settler world? In this panel discussion, Dr. Kyle T. Mays and Amber Starks will discuss these questions and more.

Dr. Kyle T Mays (Black/Saginaw Anishinaabe) is a transdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual of Indigenous studies, Afro-Indigenous studies, urban history, and Indigenous popular culture. He is an Assistant Professor in Africa American Studies at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 2015. At present, he is working on three books. The first is titled, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (Forthcoming, June 2018, SUNY Press). This book explores how Indigenous Hip Hop artists challenge settler colonialism and construct modern, Indigenous identities through Hip Hop culture. The second book is titled, The Indigenous Motor City: Indigenous People and the Making of Modern Detroit (under contract with the University of Washington Press). This book examines how Indigenous people and representations of them were central to the development of Detroit, from the late 19th century the present. He is also co-editing an anthology titled, Decolonizing Hip Hop: Blackness and Indigeneity in Hip Hop Culture (under contract with Sense Publishers: Youth, Media, and Culture Series).

Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) is an Afro Indigenous (African-American and Native American) activist, aspiring cultural critic/commentator, a student of decolonial theory, and budding abolitionist. She is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent. Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native American identity. She seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identity in both the Black and Native communities through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. Her activism encourages Black and Indigenous peoples to prioritize one another and divest from compartmentalizing struggles. She ultimately believes the partnerships between Black and Indigenous peoples (and all POC) will aid in the dismantling of anti-blackness, white supremacy, and settler colonialism, globally.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/K4NMW

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:50:22 -0500 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Afro-Indigeneity on the Way to a Post-Settler World
A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (January 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79654 79654-20438372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

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

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

Free and open to the public.

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

Speakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:49:45 -0500 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Conference / Symposium The Common Wind
Roots, Routes, and Performative Mobilities: The Next 50 Years of Knowledge Production for Africa and its Diasporas (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81352 81352-20887827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This lecture explores the movements of people and ideas over centuries between and among various geographies of Africa and its diasporas and the impact of such mobilities on shaping politics and identities for people of African descent. Centering the analysis on the country of Liberia and its connections to the United States over several centuries, the lecture presents the concept of “performative mobilities” to frame the larger consequences of movement. Moreover, the lecture argues for the central role that a focus on mobilities will play in the next 50 years of knowledge production in African and African Diaspora Studies more generally.

February 4, 2021 at 4 p.m.
Featuring
Yolanda Covington-Ward,
Department Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies
Secondary Appointment, Department of Anthropology, President, Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
Executive Board Member, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), University of Pittsburgh
Yolanda Covington-Ward received her Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Zoom Register:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UQH7psqiQb-CP67h9En2wQ

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:10:02 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
DAAS @ 50 Website Launch (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81844 81844-20982930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Registration link:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdeGuqDgrHd3Ic-Yc09dkJEqG9pHHy3op


Get ready to embark at the launch of our new DAAS @50 website!

Please join the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies as we continue the commemoration of our 50th anniversary with this very special event. The DAAS @ 50 Planning Committee composed of faculty, students and staff will offer a "tour" of our new website on the 50+ history of African American, African and Diaspora Studies at Michigan.

We will also discuss ways for you to contribute through sharing photos, memories and more!

Register at the link above and prepare for takeoff!

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Presentation Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:30:59 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Presentation
Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

This will be a discussion moderated by Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler and Professor Lawrence M. Jackson about the spaces that lie between Dance and Social Activism. This event will feature a screen dance viewing of Dance artist Lawrence M. Jackson’s work, “Say Her Name…Too." A short screen dance, this work will combine cinematic elements with choreography and explores the lives of 5 Black women who died at the hands of law enforcement. The goal of this work is to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence. Black women have been killed by the police at alarming rates, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence. To lift up their stories, and illuminate police violence against Black women, we need to know who they are, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police…this film aims to do just that…

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

MESA is proud to present Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN. Join us for a thrilling event where Janaya Khan will discuss “The Future within the Black Lives Matter Movement and The Intersections of being a Black, Queer, and Gender-Nonconforming Activist" This event is sponsored by The Spectrum Center and Central Student Government, and will be co-moderated by students Adrian King (they/them), PhD candidate in American Culture, and Jolyna Chiangong, who will be joined by Vice President Of Student Life Dr. Martino Harmon.

With a timely message about the transformational power of protest, Janaya Khan is a leading activist who engages their community in a profound discussion about social justice and equality. Known as ‘Future’ within the Black Lives Matter movement, Janaya is a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist (pronouns: they, them, theirs), staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator who presents an enlightening point of view on police brutality and systemic racism.

“Throughout the political tumult of 2020, one of the most prominent voices to become a source of healing and hope was Janaya Future Khan, whose rapidly-growing audience across social media now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. But while the activist’s weekly Sunday Sermons on Instagram provided a necessary forum for those looking to reflect and regroup during the pandemic and the instances of police brutality that sparked a renewal of energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement, Khan’s activism extends much further back—all the way to their childhood, spent between Toronto and Florida, and their subsequent years as a competitive boxer.

Galvanized by the 2014 killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Jermaine Carby in Toronto at the hands of police officers, Khan has had a longstanding involvement in Black Lives Matter—even launching its first international chapter in Canada—and became a necessary and informed voice for those seeking direction last summer. And like many around the world, Khan found themselves dismayed and angered by the scenes that unfolded on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building, where riots led by Trump supporters sieged the building to disrupt the final counting of the Electoral College ballots in favor of Joe Biden’s Presidential win, resulting in five deaths.” BY LIAM HESS January 10, 2021

MESA and the Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Love, & Loss: Black Women's Networks of Care in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79651 79651-20438369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk explores themes from a new book project that considers Black women’s reproductive care work in the face of miscarriage, infant and child loss, elder care, and sickness. Although this is a book about loss, it is also a book about survival. Professor Simmons argues that during the transition from slavery to freedom, Black mothers mobilized intergenerational and intersubjective connections with other women in their community to manage sickness, take care of themselves and one another, and mourn loss.

LaKisha Simmons is associate professor in History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gendered experiences of racial violence and Black women and girls’ strategies for survival in the face of racism. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans and currently at work on a collection called The Global History of Black Girlhood co-edited with Corinne Field.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 07:22:38 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion LaKisha Simmons
Frieda Ekotto and Lewis Gordon in Conversation: Frantz Fanon in the Times of BLM (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82893 82893-21211376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, and Francophone Studies of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particularly her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world. Her research and teaching focus on literature, film, race, and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb.

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:12:55 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Monuments of Resilience: A Virtual Tour of Sites of Enslavement (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82619 82619-21145771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this live Zoom event for the U-M community, Joseph McGill, founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project, conducts a virtual tour of the slave cabins and burial ground at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the tour, McGill will lead a group conversation about American slavery and its legacy today.

Learn more about Joseph and the Slave Dwelling Project at http://slavedwellingproject.org

Open to U-M students, staff, faculty, and those with U-M login credentials

Co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Anthropology

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:53:40 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Vincent Hutchings, the Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professorship in Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, Inaugural Lecture (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81873 81873-20982979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Even after the historic demonstrations against racially biased policing in the summer of 2020, most White Americans continue to oppose racially liberal policies such as affirmative action. Social scientists dating back at least as far as Gunnar Myrdal have argued that support for egalitarian policies would increase substantially if Whites only knew about the plight of African Americans. Similarly, Black support for policies of racial redistribution is also less than monolithic. For example, some surveys find only tepid support among Blacks for affirmative action or efforts to “defund the police.” Would this support increase if White and Black Americans were informed about the enormous racial wealth gap? We examine this question with two survey experiments fielded online by CloudResearch. Study 1 (N=1,908) was fielded at the height of the George Floyd demonstrations in June of 2020. Subjects were randomly assigned either to a control condition, where they were merely provided a definition of the racial wealth gap, or to one of two treatment conditions that provided a defintion of the racial wealth gap. They were also provided with textual and visual information on the current size of the Black/White racial wealth gap based on information from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances. In general, we find that the treatment conditions do increase information levels on the perceived size of the racial wealth gap, but they do not increase support for racially redistributive policy proposals. In a second experiment, scheduled for February of 2021, we seek to replicate the results of the 2020 experiment and add two additional treatment conditions highlighting the fact that the median household headed by a Black college graduate has less wealth than the median household headed by a White high school dropout. This Study 2 experiment represents an even stronger test of the hypthesis that public support for racially redistributive policies would increase if Americans only knew the truth. We discuss the implications of our findings for the prospects of racial reconciliation in our conclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:30:05 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Image