Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Racism and Race Relations in the United States: What Value for an International Human Rights Perspective? (September 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76542 76542-19725088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Debates and protests in the United States about systemic racism are dominated by discussions of American institutions, law, and practices and the need to change them. But international human rights law, developed over decades to address and respond to human rights violations around the world, offers important frameworks and rules to address racism and race discrimination. Human rights law has already been utilized by some advocates for change in the U.S., but not as much as in other countries. This distinguished panel will offer perspectives on whether and how an international human rights lens provides an added value for discussions of, and solutions to, problems of racism in the United States. It will consider how human rights law might change ongoing conversations, as well as its limits. It will also offer a comparison between the use of human rights on issues of race discrimination in the United States and South Africa.

Please note: This event will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/WwzWk

Panelists:
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School; Former White House National Security Council, Director for Human Rights
Yasmin Sooka, Former Member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Hardy Vieux, Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First

Moderator:
Steven Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan

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Catherine Powell
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
Former White House National Security Council, Director for Human Rights

Catherine Powell is a Professor at Fordham Law School, where she teaches constitutional law, human rights, and digital rights. She is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), jointly affiliated with the Digital & Cyberspace Policy and Women & Foreign Policy programs.

Powell’s current work focuses on the role of race and gender (https://www.justsecurity.org/71742/viral-justice-interconnected-pandemics-as-portal-to-racial-justice/) in our emerging touchless society—and the ways it amplifies structural inequalities in the platform economy. In recent writing, she has coined the terms Color of Covid (in a CNN op-ed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/opinions/covid-19-people-of-color-labor-market-disparities-powell/index.html) and Gender of Covid (in CFR’s Think Global Health blog: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/color-and-gender-covid-essential-workers-not-disposable-people), building on other recent law review articles on intersectionality in the Georgetown Law Journal (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3605810 ) and UCLA J. Int’l L. Foreign Aff (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339362 ).

Her prior experience includes stints on President Barack Obama’s White House National Security Council (Director for Human Rights) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff. Previously Professor Powell has been on the Columbia Law School faculty as founding director of the Human Rights Institute and the Human Rights Clinic. Since then, she has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown Law Schools. Before going into academia, she was a litigator with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, following a clerkship with SDNY Judge Leonard Sand.

Powell is the first Black woman academic to serve on the prestigious American Journal of International Law board of editors and sits on the American Society of International Law Executive Council. She co-chairs Blacks in the American Society of International Law (BASIL) and was previously on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) board of directors and chair of HRW’s U.S. Program Advisor Committee.

Professor Powell is a graduate of Yale College, Yale Law School, and Princeton’s graduate program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was a post-graduate fellow at Harvard Law School.

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Yasmin Sooka
Former Member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Yasmin Sooka is a leading human rights lawyer. Sooka is the former executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa. Sooka served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1996 to 2001 and chaired the committee responsible for the final report from 2001 to 2003. She was appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2004. Since 2000, Sooka has also been a member of the advisory body on the Review of Resolution 1325 on women and peace and security. In July 2010, she was appointed to the three member panel of experts advising the secretary general on accountability for war crimes committed during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka. Sooka currently chairs the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.

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Hardy Vieux
Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First

As the senior vice president, legal, Hardy leads and directs Human Rights First’s legal initiatives—including its pro bono legal representation, which pairs lawyers at the nation’s top law firms with indigent refugees in need of counsel in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Hardy also oversees the organization’s impact litigation, which seeks to make systemic change on behalf of those seeking asylum in the United States by challenging harmful governmental policies and laws in federal court.

Since January 2017, Hardy has also served as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In that role, Hardy taught a seminar focusing on the role of nongovernmental organizations in policy formulation. He has led weeklong student spring break trips to Guatemala, during which students volunteered with a Guatemalan NGO that applies multidisciplinary forensic scientific methodologies to identify missing and disappeared persons to provide truth to victims and their families, assist in the search for justice and redress, and strengthen the rule of law. In fall 2020, Hardy is once again teaching a Ford School seminar entitled The Role of Courts in International Human Rights.

In 2014, Hardy served as a policy fellow in the Middle East, where he worked at Save the Children International in Amman, Jordan. There, he handled child protection policy issues impacting Syrian refugee children living in Jordan.

Prior to living in the Middle East, Hardy was in private legal practice in Washington, D.C., for over ten years. While in private practice, Hardy also handled numerous pro bono matters, ranging from litigation stemming from the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to juvenile detention impact litigation and asylum representation. In 2010, the D.C. Bar recognized him as its Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

Before moving to private practice, Hardy was a criminal appellate defense counsel in the United States Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he served as lead counsel in a capital punishment case. He is a frequent media commentator on military justice issues.

Hardy started his legal career as a law clerk in federal district court in Denver, Colorado.

Hardy serves on the board of directors of the National Military of Justice and the WISER Girls Secondary School, a Kenyan residential school focused on empowering young women. He also served on the board of trustees of DC Scholars Public Charter School.

Hardy is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School—serving as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law—and Ford School of Public Policy, where he earned his law and Master of Public Policy degrees. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1993.

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Steven Ratner
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Director, Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan

Steven Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Director of the University of Michigan’s Donia Human Rights Center. His research addresses a range of public international law issues, including the normative orders concerning armed conflict, regulation of foreign investment, individual and corporate accountability for human rights violations, and the intersection of international law and global justice. He has served on two expert panels of the UN Secretary-General addressing post-conflict justice in Cambodia and in Sri Lanka and is a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law. A former member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, he is also a member of the international Working Group on Business and Human Rights Arbitration, which is promoting arbitration as a way to provide a remedy for human rights violations by business entities. His most recent book is The Thin Justice of International Law: A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations, issued by Oxford University Press in 2015. The fifth edition of his casebook, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (Kluwer Law, with Jeffrey Dunoff and Monica Hakimi), was published next year.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:15:45 -0400 2020-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Donia Human Rights Center Livestream / Virtual Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Racism and Race Relations in the United States: What Value for an International Human Rights Perspective?
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
Today’s Racial Divides: How Has Education Failed Us? (October 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75541 75541-19519140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says, “The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude, but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.” In this political era, racial divisions are showing up in starker terms, some of that due to what happens or does not happen in education around race, class, culture, geographic differences, and economic realities.

For most of the 20th century and into the 21st, educational lessons and materials were and are woefully inadequate in explaining these racial divisions. Federal prison populations have great diversity, representing all kinds of people here and around the world. Instructor Judy Wenzel’s high school students at the federal prison in Milan provided wisdom and valuable lessons for the rest of us. This round table discussion will focus on peoples’ own educational experiences regarding racial issues and on ways education could be improved—and on ways to bridge our divides.

The study group will be held on Wednesday, October 14.
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, 07 Aug 2020 09:47:27 -0400 2020-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
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
Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. U.S. Race Relations and Foreign Policy (January 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78674 78674-20099542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Please note: This event will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/zx1Md

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated in 1998 that one of her “most important jobs is to call attention to the dangers that still confront us and to the direct connection that exists between the success or failure of our foreign policy and the day-to-day lives of the American people.” In my talk, I will explore the presence and impact of race relations on U.S. foreign policy and U.S. actions at home. I will speak to these issues through the lens of the diplomatic profession, including through the unique challenges and experiences I faced as a Black woman, and first U.S. ambassador to the world’s newest independent nation, the Republic of South Sudan, serving under the first Bi-racial American President of the U.S.

Moderator: Monica Hakimi, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and James V. Campbell Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

This event is co-sponsored by: African Studies Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center, and University of Michigan Law School.

Ambassador (ret.) Susan D. Page possesses deep expertise in international relations, particularly in Africa, excellent French language skills, and the political, legal and analytical acumen of a Harvard-trained lawyer – her first career.

Page was sworn in as ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan on November 16, 2011. Following her historic tenure as the first U.S. ambassador to the world’s newest nation, she served as Acting Permanent Representative to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., to the U.S. Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and later chaired the U.S. Government’s multi-agency Security Governance Initiative (SGI) team for Ghana. Among her numerous positions in international affairs, Ambassador Page was Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) to Haiti, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Rule of Law, Global Focal Point (GFP) Review Implementation, deputy assistant secretary of State for African Affairs covering Central Africa, Southern Africa and Sudan, and Legal and Political Adviser to the Horn of Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat for Peace in Sudan where she co-drafted essential elements of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) for Sudan. In addition, she was Director of the Rule of Law and Corrections Advisory Unit of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), Regional Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Washington, DC, and senior legal expert in Rwanda and Sudan for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ambassador Page is the recipient of several top awards from the State Department for her work on Sudan, South Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa, including the Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service for “leading the U.S. Mission to South Sudan under extremely challenging circumstances and advancing the President’s goals.”

Ambassador Page is a member of The Carter Center Board of Trustees and an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD). She serves as a board member of Road Scholar, is on the Advisory Council of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) and on the Advisory Board of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She is a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors and numerous other professional organizations.

In August of 2020, Page joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as Professor of the Practice of International Diplomacy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy with a concurrent appointment as Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She is also assisting with the growth of U-M’s Weiser Diplomacy Center. Ambassador Page was a Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in 2019-2020.

Ambassador Page began her foreign affairs career at the U.S. Department of State in 1991 as attorney-adviser for Politico-Military Affairs in the Office of the Legal Adviser following the conclusion of her Rotary International Postgraduate Fellowship to Nepal where she conducted research on women’s and children’s rights. Page was also a foreign service officer/regional legal adviser for East and Southern Africa for USAID, based in Kenya and Botswana, and political officer in Rwanda.

Originally from the Chicago area, Ambassador Page received her *Juris Doctor (JD)* from Harvard Law School, her A.B. in English *With High Distinction* from the University of Michigan, and Certificates of Distinction (English) and Merit (Psychology) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland before attending law school. She loves learning about other cultures, traveling, and playing euchre.

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Monica Hakimi, the James V. Campbell Professor of Law, teaches and writes in the fields of public international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Her research ties together doctrine and theory to examine how international law operates and adapts to contemporary challenges, particularly in the areas of human and national security.

Professor Hakimi earned her JD from Yale Law School and her BA, summa cum laude, from Duke University. After law school, she clerked for The Hon. Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then served as attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. While at the State Department, she counseled policymakers on nuclear nonproliferation, efforts to reconstruct Iraq immediately after the 2003 war, international investment disputes, and international civil aviation. She also served as counsel before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and worked on cases before the International Court of Justice and U.S. federal courts and agencies.

Between 2013 and 2016, Professor Hakimi was the associate dean for academic programming at Michigan Law. She currently is a contributing editor of EJIL Talk!, the blog that is affiliated with the European Journal of International Law. She also serves on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, the executive council of the American Society of International Law, and the advisory board for the Institute of International Peace and Security at the University of Cologne, Germany.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:57:49 -0500 2021-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Donia Human Rights Center Livestream / Virtual Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. U.S. Race Relations and Foreign Policy
No More Promises: Policing Feminist Rage in Puerto Rico (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80304 80304-20703779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk will trace the ways that activists and ordinary citizens mobilize rage in order to navigate the constraints of colonial capitalism in contemporary Puerto Rico. I argue that the state is preoccupied with the growing rage being articulated by Puerto Ricans, particularly Puerto Rican feminists, because rage has the potential to create networks of solidarity grounded in a refusal of the current order. Both the local and federal government have increasingly criminalized articulations of political rage and have utilized the Puerto Rico Police Department to repress displays of rage in the streets. Looking at recent examples, I show that in their collective rage, Puerto Ricans who had felt silenced by colonial capitalism, misogyny, queer antagonism, and racism have found a way to push back and articulate a different way of living in Puerto Rico.

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92939571938

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:21:57 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Marisol LeBrón, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (The University of Texas at Austin)
Follow the Leader: DEI Through C-Suite Activism (February 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81519 81519-20903745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ross School of Business

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:15 p.m. ET

FOLLOW THE LEADER: DEI THROUGH C-SUITE ACTIVISM

Sparking positive change can happen at every level of an organization, but leaders are uniquely positioned to initiate and accelerate change. Explore how these C-suite executives are taking the lead in shifting attitudes, behaviors, and policies surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizations. Learn what it means to be a social intrapreneur, gain knowledge on implementing inclusive company standards, and understand how leaders track and measure progress and accountability in their organizations.

MODERATOR // JERRY DAVIS // MICHIGAN ROSS
Professor of Business Administration

BRETT J. HART // UNITED AIRLINES
President

NICHOLE JORDAN // REMIX
Chief Operating Officer

MARK KENNEDY // UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
President

BRENDA PAK // BACKPAC SOCIAL ACTIVISM
Co-Founder

Business and Society web page: https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:56:01 -0500 2021-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ross School of Business Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
Rebecca Carroll on "Surviving the White Gaze" (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80172 80172-20572619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join us for a discussion with Rebecca Carroll on her new book, Surviving the White Gaze. Beth Chimera, writing instructor at the Ford School Writing Center, will moderate the discussion.

From the speaker's bio:

Rebecca Carroll is a writer, editor and host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal year for America (WNYC Studios). Most recently, she was a cultural critic at WNYC, and a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has been published widely, and she’s the author of several books about race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. Her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze (Simon & Schuster, Feb 2021), has been optioned by MGM/TV and Killer Films with Rebecca attached to adapt for a limited series.

About the book:

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older.

Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:24:24 -0500 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Carroll
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
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
The Clements Bookworm: African American Children in the Antebellum North (June 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84098 84098-21620232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In her new book “Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North,” Dr. Crystal Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the 19th century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War, showing that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations.

Dr. Webster joins us in conversation with Clements Library Director Paul Erickson. This episode coincides with the celebration of Juneteenth and a growing national recognition of understudied histories and experiences of African Americans in the past.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by an anonymous Clements Supporter.*

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:38:11 -0400 2021-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Book Cover, "Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood" (2021)
The Clements Bookworm: Detroit’s Hidden Channels, French-Indigenous Families in the 18th Century (July 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83967 83967-21619247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Dr. Karen Marrero discusses her new book *Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century* (2020).

French-Indigenous families of the 18th century were a central force in shaping the history of Detroit. Situated where Anishinaabe, Wendat, Myaamia, and later French communities were established and where the system of waterways linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico narrowed, Detroit’s location was its primary attribute. While the French state viewed Detroit as a decaying site of illegal activities, the influence of the French-Indigenous networks grew as members diverted imperial resources to bolster an alternative configuration of power relations. Women furthered commerce by navigating a multitude of gender norms of their nations, allowing them to defy the state that sought to control them by holding them to European ideals of womanhood. By the mid-18th century, French-Indigenous families had become so powerful, incoming British traders and imperial officials courted their favor. These families would maintain that power as the British imperial presence splintered on the eve of the American Revolution.

Karen Marrero is a past Clements Library research fellow and a professor at Wayne State University.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Douglas Johnson.*

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 May 2021 11:22:43 -0400 2021-07-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-07-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Detroit's Hidden Channels" Book Cover, featuring a manuscript map from the Clements Library