Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil” (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72569 72569-18018161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine *O Menelick 2 Ato* and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors, Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty.

Followed by the opening of a digital and print exhibit of selected magazine covers by Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic artists.

The exhibit will be on display until March 11th at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery.

Light reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:19:01 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil”
CANCELLED: “Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata” (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73357 73357-18208321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion of the pre-circulated paper:

“Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata”

This article traces the history of Petrona, an enslaved woman sold in Santa Fe (Argentina), sent to Buenos Aires and later possibly to Montevideo (Uruguay). Her case demonstrates how the legal status of enslaved persons was affected by the redefinitions of jurisdictions and by the forced or voluntary crossings between political units. It sheds light on the circulation and uses of the Free Womb law (1813) in Argentina and Uruguay and traces legal experts’ debates over its meaning. And it reveals the knowledge enslaved people had of those abolitionist norms and how they used them to resist forced relocations, attempt favorable migrations, or achieve full freedom. The article reflects on the impact of independence on enslaved persons’ lives, the gendered bias of the abolitionist process, and the
central yet untold uses of antislavery rhetoric in the national narratives.

The article will be circulated in advance of the event; please contact Elizabeth Collins (elizabac@umich.edu) to obtain a copy.

Magdalena Candioti is Associate Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr Emilio Ravignani” and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. Candioti’s doctoral research focused on the political history of justice in the nineteenth-century Río de la Plata, resulting in the book Un maldito derecho: leyes, jueces y derecho en la Buenos Aires republicana, 1810–1830 (Buenos Aires, Didot). She is currently working on a book on gradual abolition in the Río de la Plata (1810-1860) called El tiempo de los libertos. Esclavitud y abolición en el Río de la Plata. Candioti was a visiting fellow in ILAS-Columbia University, NYC (2010-2011), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), Frankfurt, Germany (2014). In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship by the Slicher van Bath DeJong Foundation, CEDLA (Holland) to conduct comparative research on slavery in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a Fulbright fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Ángela Pérez-Villa is an Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. Her research and teaching focus on the social, legal, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines how during Colombia’s war of independence, political power and legal practice were disputed and reconfigured locally on the terrains of family, sexuality, and gender.

Sponsored by the U-M Department of History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:53:37 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Modo de fabricar velas
Race and Gender in Protest and Politics: From BLM to the 2020 Election (September 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77098 77098-19875777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

How can we interpret the Black Lives Matter movement, anti-police brutality protests, and resulting backlash through an intersectional feminist lens? What are the gender and racial politics involved and how do they intersect with the nomination of Senator Kamala Harris as the vice-presidential candidate? IRWG brings together a panel of scholars who study race, gender, protest, politics, and the media to reflect on and help make meaning of, the current sociopolitical moment.

Speakers
- Christian Davenport, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
- Angela Dillard, Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, History, Residential College
- Shea Streeter, President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science (starting fall 2021)
- Mara Ostfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Anna Kirkland (moderator), Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Women's & Gender Studies


This remote event will be presented via Zoom. Please register in advance.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:47 -0400 2020-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Race and Gender in Protest and Politics
Race and Gender in Protest and Politics: From BLM to the 2020 Election (October 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77098 77098-19796503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

How can we interpret the Black Lives Matter movement, anti-police brutality protests, and resulting backlash through an intersectional feminist lens? What are the gender and racial politics involved and how do they intersect with the nomination of Senator Kamala Harris as the vice-presidential candidate? IRWG brings together a panel of scholars who study race, gender, protest, politics, and the media to reflect on and help make meaning of, the current sociopolitical moment.

Speakers
- Christian Davenport, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
- Angela Dillard, Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, History, Residential College
- Shea Streeter, President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science (starting fall 2021)
- Mara Ostfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Anna Kirkland (moderator), Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Women's & Gender Studies


This remote event will be presented via Zoom. Please register in advance.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:47 -0400 2020-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Race and Gender in Protest and Politics