Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. COVID, White Supremacy, Black Women’s Concerns (June 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74937 74937-19102720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

In response to the latest events across the country and the world, on Thursday, June 18 our women panelists will address COVID in the context of white supremacy and police brutality, major problems of pandemic proportions.

We will discuss these issues with a focus on individual, peer and family relations, and community organizing. Our overarching theme, Identity and Vulnerabilities, will be used to frame the discussion.

Guests:

Andrea B. Williams, JD: Director, Advocacy Training and Community Engagement; STEPS To End Family Violence Program; Rising Ground, NYC
Yatesha D. Robinson, LMSW, MA: Field Faculty and LEO Lecturer III; Social Work; University of Michigan
Marah A. Curtis, MSW, PhD.: Professor of Social Work; Institute for Research on Poverty; Center for Demography and Ecology; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lauren Davis, LMSW: Assistant Director - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Adjunct Lecturer in Social Work; University of Michigan
Lady Carlson, Lead Organizer at West Side Sponsoring Committee and Together Louisiana.
Triana R. Shanks, PhD: Professor & Director of Community Engagement; Social Work; University of Michigan
Please join us!

Now is the moment for action.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:18:29 -0400 2020-06-18T15:00:00-04:00 2020-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion
Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76869 76869-19772602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Join the ENGAGE team for a discussion featuring prominent water justice activists Monica Lewis Patrick and Bryce Detroit to discuss their work, how water injustice is tied to historic and systemic discrimination, and how lack of access to clean, safe water has exacerbated our current public health crises

Monica Lewis Patrick is Chief Executive Officer of We the People Detroit and a long-time water justice advocate.

Bryce Detroit is CEO and Founder of Detroit Recordings LLC and a long-time water justice advocate.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.

This session is approved for CE Contact Hours. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:24:16 -0400 2020-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76870 76870-19772604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

With our power, resources, and knowledge - what can we do about water injustice as a school? All discussions and ideas are welcome - whether it be proposing new field placements that focus on water and environmental justice, integrating more course content on how water injustice is tied to systemic and historic discrimination, or current advocacy efforts demanding access to safe, clean, water is a human right.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:23:06 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference (October 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78661 78661-20099529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Black Radical Healing Pathways

The 2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference: Beyond Voting is this Saturday, October 24, 2020, from 12 PM to 4:30 PM ET!

Register today at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

With the U.S. general election days away, we’ll have rich conversations all afternoon about how we might reimagine our current democracy. While the theme speaks to a crucial election year where our votes are an explicit argument against white supremacy and anti-blackness, we also know that voting is not the only tool we wield to transform the injustices we are immersed in.

Come! Join in community to learn about what other tools we have. Build relationships, care for ourselves and one another, and dig into how we abolish the systems that bind us to the settler colonial project of white supremacy.

We invite you to visit our website to browse the conference schedule, explore this year’s Beyond Voting theme, and register for the conference at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

Sponsors:
The Carceral State Project
Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee, SSW​
LGBTQ+ Advocates & Speakers Grant, Spectrum Center
Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP)
Rackham Student Government (RSG)
School of Social Work (SSW)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:46:29 -0400 2020-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Black Radical Healing Pathways Conference / Symposium Multicolored text on a yellow background with a black, red, and green raised fist on the far left. Text reads from top to bottom, centered down the page: (in black) Building Power Against White Supremacy 2020, (in kelly green) Beyond Voting!, (in red) Saturday, October 24 at 12 PM - 4:30 PM EDT, (in green) Register + More Info: (in black) https://tinyurl.com/BPAWS20, Keynote Speaker Danielle Atkinson, Founder & Executive Director, Mothering Justice. Danielle’s headshot shows a smiling brown-skinned black woman with locs that reach just past her shoulders. She is wearing a gold necklace with a lattice-chain pattern, with a black shirt underneath white floral sweater featuring large-scale blooming flowers of blood red, cloud white, and blush pink peppering her sweater.
Twitter as a Tool for Connection and Advocacy During COVID-19: What We Know From Hundreds of Social Work Faculty (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79489 79489-20341506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This webinar, hosted by the Parenting in Context Lab, will present research on how social work faculty have used Twitter for connection and advocacy, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conditions of the pandemic have contributed to social isolation and stress among many social workers and the populations they serve. The role of technology and social media for social work practice are currently amplified. This presentation, drawing from data on hundreds of social work faculty, will describe how social workers can leverage Twitter as a professional resource for connection and advocacy.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:45:47 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Presentation Garrett T. Pace
Centennial Lecture Series: Sharon Parrott - Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future (May 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83998 83998-21619323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Join us for our Centennial Lecture Series featuring Michigan Social Work Alumna, Sharon Parrott, MSW '92.

Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future: The health and economic crisis shined a light on and exacerbated longstanding problems that were in plain sight for those willing to see them long before COVID-19. The crisis made clear the weaknesses in our economic and health security programs that are supposed to protect people when hard times hit while also showing in the starkest terms the stark inequities across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration that long pre-dated the pandemic. Parrott will talk about the impacts of the health and economic crisis across different groups, both the strengths and weaknesses of our public response to the crisis, the opportunity for long-term, systemic policy changes that could broaden opportunity, reduce poverty and inequality, narrow disparities, and move us toward universal health coverage, and the challenges to achieving these policy goals. Parrott will also reflect on the “long arc” of policy change and the forces that can create and stymie change.

For more information and to register, please visit our website: https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/centennial/?page=event-details&nid=62603

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 May 2021 11:41:59 -0400 2021-05-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Sharon Parrott, MSW '92