Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78219 78219-19994961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- William Lopez, Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Public Health
- Emily Fredericks, Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Pediatric Psychology
- Matthew Lassiter, Associate Professor of History and Urban and Regional Planning

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return—arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.

Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013, as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez combines rigorous research with narrative storytelling. Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:51:03 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Image of Book on Gray background
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
RESCHEDULED: The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Tommy Orange (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72820 72820-20058231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Department of Native American Studies presents The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: A Conversation with Tommy Orange, award-winning, New York Times Best-selling novelist.

The Berkhofer Lecture is scheduled for Friday, November 6th, 2020, at 7:00 pm on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97486211859

Tommy Orange is the author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever explored – the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best books of the year and won the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemingway Award. There There was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland California.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

For more information on this speaker please visit www.prhspeakers.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:28:33 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tommy Orange
Anti-Racism Exploration/ Discussion Series (January 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80000 80000-20541127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, has written a well-researched, narrative history titled “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents”, that is asking us to look at our collective history from a new paradigm, that of caste vs. race and/class. We are offering this Discussion Series to allow participants to examine and reflect upon this reframing of our history, and its implications for our present and future as a nation. We want to offer participants a safe space forum to interpret, consider, and challenge the insights offered in Caste. Our hope is that through these thoughtful and difficult conversations about our nation’s past, we will gain a better understanding of how that history is operating today.

This Discussion Series will serve our collective benefit by beginning to think of ways that we as individuals and as a community can make changes, big or small, to improve the circumstances and experiences for our children, grandchildren, family, and friends in the near and far futures.


This discussion group, led by co-facilitators Faye Askew-King and Karen Bantel will meet on January 19; February 2 and 16; March 2, 16, 30 from 2:00-4:00.

While the event is free, preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the discussion group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:46:30 -0500 2021-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Event
"Black Bottom Saints" by Alice Randall (February 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79870 79870-20509639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Alice Randall’s magical “Black Bottom Saints” brings to life Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, one of the most influential, artful Black communities in America. The novel, reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime”, comes alive through the voice of Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson (1913-1968) who was a real-life nightclub impresario, dance studio instructor, and entertainment columnist for the Michigan Chronicle.

It takes its shape from the Catholic Saints Day Books with Ziggy choosing his own “52 Saints.” Randall balances the stories of these larger-than-life “Saints” (Dina Washington, Joe Louis, and Sammy Davis, Jr.) with local heroes (Charles Diggs, UAW negotiator Marc Stepp, and Maxine Powell), and creates enthralling characters whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City’s Harlem.

Alice Randall was born in Detroit and raised in Washington DC. She is a Harvard-educated author of novels, including “The Wind Done Gone”, “Pushkin and the Queen of Spades”, “Rebel Yell”, and “Ada’s Rules”. She is also the first African American woman to write a #1 Country and Western song (XXX’s and OOO’s which celebrates Aretha Franklin). With her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, she co-authored the acclaimed cookbook “Soul Food Love” which won the NAACP Image award and the young adult novel “The Diary of B. B. Bright”, Possible Princess”, which received the Phillis Wheatley Award. Alice Randall is a Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:29:33 -0500 2021-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
"The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" by Scott Stonington (February 24, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79871 79871-20509640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

With his unique perspective as both a cultural anthropologist and a physician, Scott Stonington explores decision-making at the end of life in contemporary Thailand in his book “The Spirit Ambulance”. Stonington spent two years in Thailand studying how families struggle to craft good deaths for their elders in the modern world while honoring their Buddhist traditions.

Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world. Ray Yung, M.D., Chief of the Geriatrics Center, will be introducing Dr. Stonington.

Scott Stonington is a medical and cultural anthropologist at the University of Michigan and an internal medicine physician. He has a Ph.D in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, and a MD from UC San Francisco. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Stonington is an Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Department of Anthropology as well as the International Institute (Core Faculty for Global Environment and Health), a Hospitalist in the Department of Internal Medicine at VA Medical Center and a Primary Care Physician at St. Joseph Mercy Neighborhood Family Health Center in Ypsilanti.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:33:22 -0500 2021-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
Who do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership and Restoring Sanity by Meg Wheatley (2018) and Stations Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014). (March 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79967 79967-20521483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants will reflect, discuss and process some novel ideas about:
-Becoming able to create and give service to an “Island of sanity” in chaotic times.
-To select meaningful service work without the outcome being the most important thing. Becoming a “Warrior of the Human Spirit”.

-After a 2 week break, read/complete “Station 11” as a follow-up sample society of an “island of hope”, and reflect on how the arts feed the human spirit in tough times.

The study group led by Instructors Bernie Beach and Barbara Cherem will meet Mondays from March 1 through March 29. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:42:51 -0500 2021-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Gather at the Table - A book discussion (March 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79943 79943-20517549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Sharon Leslie Morgan, the descendant of slaves, and Thomas Norman DeWolf descendant of slaveholder, work through their own prejudices and pain in search of reconciliation and find friendship. We will discuss their story, “Gather at the Table” in the first two sessions, and Morgan and DeWolf will join us for the final session. Please read the book before the first class.

The study group will be led by Instructor Annette Fisch.

The study group will meet Tuesdays from March 16 through March 30. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:04:30 -0500 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Sports and the City: A Century in Detroit (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80481 80481-20728300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat (The New Press, 2020), by Silke-Maria Weineck and Stefan Szymanski, explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city’s shifting fortunes. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan, City of Champions takes readers through Detroit’s stadiums, gyms, fields, and streets, tracing its proud and troubling history alongside its athletic triumphs and defeats. Ketra Armstrong will moderate a conversation with the authors, who will read vignettes from the book.

Ketra Armstrong is a professor of sport management in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, and a University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor. She is also the director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport.

Stefan Symanski is Stephen J. Galetti Collegiate Professor of Sport Management in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. He is an economist who studies sports, and was co-author of the bestseller Soccernomics. He is convinced that economics cannot be understood without also studying history.

Silke Weineck is a professor of German and comparative literature. She is interested in the long history of metaphors and narrative figures. After writing on mad poets, fatherhood, and war, she has discovered a love not so much for sport itself but for the stories it tells.

Free and open to the public.

This event is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:44:34 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat