Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Day With(out) Art - Film Screening (December 1, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101451 101451-21801360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

RSVP: https://bit.ly/UM-DWA-2022
Spectrum Center is proud to partner with the Visual AIDS organization for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting BEING & BELONGING, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today. Join us for a free screening December 1 from 5-7 PM in the Spectrum Center. The program features new work by Clifford Prince King, Jaewon Kim, Mikiki, Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes, Camila Arce, Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry, and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas & Santiago Lemus. A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. AIDS is not over! A screening of the films will be accompanied by a short discussion with Evan Hall, HIV test counselor from Unified HIV Health & Beyond.

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Film Screening Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:29:15 -0500 2022-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Film Screening Flyer for the BEING AND BELONGING film screening, as part of the Day With(out) Art observance for World AIDS Day presented by the Visual AIDS organization. Text shares that this will be a film screening and discussion at the UM Spectrum Center on Thursday, 12/1 from 5-7pm.
Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (December 5, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101589 101589-21801550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

RSVP: myumi.ch/DJxXM
Co-hosted by Spectrum Center and MESA and typically held the second Monday of the month, these gatherings provide space for QTBIPOC students to build on-campus community. We have shifted December's gathering to avoid conflicts with student finals and finishing up the fall semester, and we will be decorating cookies! There will be desserts, drinks, and good company as we co-create this space together. Come chat, hangout, connect, snack, and vibe with us in the adjoined MESA/Spectrum offices!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:58:33 -0500 2022-12-05T15:30:00-05:00 2022-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A promotional flyer for the "Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings December Gathering." There are three rainbows across the top, and details about the event are overlaid on a picture of snowflakes. Text explains the event is December 5 from 3:30-5pm in the Spectrum Center and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs offices in suite 3000 of the Michigan Union.
Self Care Goody Bags with MOSAIC (December 8, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101560 101560-21801523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Stockwell Hall
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Please join MOSAIC as we wrap up this semester by making self-care goody bags! These bags can be given as encouragement to friends to finish out this semester strong or yourself as a reminder to continue to work hard!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:33:58 -0500 2022-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Stockwell Hall Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Self Care Goody Bags with MOSAIC
FAM Friday's🥙 🎨 🎵 (January 13, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101736 101736-21805283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Trotter Multicultural Center welcomes STAMPS in Color into our F.A.M. Friday community! SiC are a group of artists, designers, and creatives of color whose mission is to increase the creative, social, and professional opportunities for students, graduates, and faculty of color at the Stamps School of Art and Design. Striving to provide a space to delve into and react to diverse topics, entertainment, and endeavors pertaining to issues of race and ethnicity as well as intersections with other social identities.

SiC will be leading a Paint n’ Sip based on one of their member’s line art drawings. We hope to create a fun and relaxing space for students to indulge in creativity and explore beverages from other cultures. Supplies will be provided to those that register.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:58:47 -0500 2023-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Image of FAM Fridays Flyer
PaWWS and Relax with Hawkeye at the Spectrum Center (January 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103350 103350-21807071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See more Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Wolverine Wellness's PaWWs and Relax is coming to the Spectrum Center on January 17th and March 28th for some therapy dog goodness! Stop by any time between noon and 1pm to give Hawkeye some loving. For more information about the PaWWs and Relax series, please see https://uhs.umich.edu/therapy-dog.

Please note that therapy dog events can be very popular and the Center may get crowded. Please be patient and courteous to other attendees. If you are afraid of or allergic to dogs, or do not like crowded spaces, it is recommended you do not visit the Center during this event time.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:23:51 -0500 2023-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Paws and Relax is coming to the Spectrum Center from noon to 1 PM on January 17th and March 28th.
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 22, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 22, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 23, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 24, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
Implicit Bias (January 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96263 96263-21801373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In this session, participants will learn to:

Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:37 -0400 2023-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 25, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
The Queer World Conversations (January 25, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 26, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 28, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 28, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 29, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 29, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
The Queer World Conversations (February 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Pronouns 101 (February 2, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103163 103163-21806212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

The Spectrum Center Pronouns 101 workshop is a 2-hour workshop on the basics of pronouns, their usage, and the connection between pronouns and transgender communities. Participants will have the chance to practice using different sets of pronouns and create an action plan for implementing what they learn into their work.

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Share what pronouns are and why they are important in their own words.
Identify the correct pronouns/forms in various sentence structures.

Additionally, participants will:

Practice different methods of addressing harm, such as calling in, calling out, and scripting.
Use the Action Planning resource to develop one tangible, actionable goal related to their increased inclusivity around pronouns.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:36:06 -0500 2023-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Event name, date, and time.
The Queer World Conversations (February 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
The Microaggression Session (February 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96265 96265-21801384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
Validate experiences with microaggressions
Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:02 -0400 2023-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T12:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
We’ve Been Here All Along: Finding Belonging and Purpose Through Connecting with Cultural & Community Ancestors (February 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103087 103087-21808806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event Description: Join us for a film screening and discussion of “My Name is Pauli Murray,” a portrait of the life and impact of a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world toward a more just and equitable future. After the screening, please join us for a discussion with Dolores Chandler (they/them) where we will explore the painful impact of institutional erasure, what can be learned from Murray’s legacy and our activist ancestors, as well as consider Murray as a model for changing the world through living authentically as our full, undivided selves.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:05:54 -0500 2023-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A square image with a blue background. With a title circled in pink that reads: We've Been Here All Along: Finding Belonging and Purpose Through Connecting with Cultural and Community Ancestors. Underneath the title there is an event description and a photo and description of our guest speaker Dolores Chandler. The flier has both an image in the top left corner of Pauli Murray, a Black androgynous presenting person and in the center towards the right there is an image of Dolores chandler, a mixed race-Black masculine presenting person. The bottom of the image is outlined with the details of the event such as location, date, time, and the RSVP link.
Love is Love Valentine's Day (February 9, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104452 104452-21809090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Martha Cook Residence
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

This Valentine's Event hopes to bring our communities together to appreciate and share love! We'll be painting tote bags in an expression of what love means to us. We hope to celebrate ALL love by empowering our LGBTQ+ community members and promoting positive discussions on support!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:21:04 -0500 2023-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Martha Cook Residence Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Pink gradient poster that says Valentine's Event Love is Love Where: 7 PM Martha Cook Gold Room When: February 9th Join Multicultural chairs Carly and Tasneem, RA Elizabeth, RA Sophia, & DPE Salma
FAM Friday's🥙 🎨 🎵 (February 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101737 101737-21802300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

F.A.M. Fridays is a series that will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music on one Friday of each month. We will explore the different foods our campus community and larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series will also showcase student creativity through art and music. This series is meant to amplify students from marginalized communities and build community through programming.

Join Trotter Multicultural Center as we celebrate Black History Month with BBQ, music, and jewelry making!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:41:30 -0500 2023-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering F.A.M. Fridays flyer with pictures of Satchel BBQ
Queer Night @ UMMA (February 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103764 103764-21807782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Open late with something to discover around every corner – join your neighbors at Feel Good Friday and experience the restorative power of a fun Friday night surrounded by art, music, and culture. 

Free and open to the public. 

February is Queer Night @ UMMA

This month’s Feel Good Friday is a collaboration between the Ann Arbor District Library, Detroit Zine Festival, LGBT Detroit, Necto, U-M Spectrum Center, Stand With Trans, and the U-M Library. 

Featuring: 

Performances by Ahya Simone, Jezebel 

Music by DJ E

Letterpress printing with the U-M Library

Zine-making with the Detroit Zine Fest

Button Making with the Ann Arbor District Library

Open mic + storytelling session with the U-M Spectrum Center

18+ Afterparty at Necto with Jaida Essence Hall. Discounted cover after 11PM with show of UMMA wristband. For more info, click here.

Refreshments in the UMMA Café & other free swag!

… and more!

All Galleries open! 

Special thanks to Detroit-based musician and DJ, KESSWA, for their partnership in planning performances for the night. 

SAVE THE DATE: the next UMMA Feel Good Friday will be April 14, 2023  

Queer Night @ UMMA is organized in collaboration with the U-M Library, Ann Arbor District Library, Spectrum Center, LGBT Detroit, Necto, Stand With Trans, Detroit Zine Festival, and Detroit-based musician KESSWA. 

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:15:40 -0500 2023-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
The Queer World Conversations (February 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Queer: Here, There, & Everywhere (February 16, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104903 104903-21810427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Join the Spectrum Center Programming Board for Queer: Here, There, & Everywhere! This is an international x LGBTQ student social hour safe space hosted at the Spectrum Center. Refreshments will be provided. No RSVP required!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:17:51 -0500 2023-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T21:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Queer: Here, There, & Everywhere will take place Thursday, February 16th from 7 to 8 PM at the Spectrum Center, 3020 Michigan Union.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Show Some Love (February 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104462 104462-21809103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join GILE in our celebration of YOU on February 17th from 4-6pm at our Show Some Love event hosted in North Quad space 2435. During February, queer people often feel a little more isolated on campus; this event is to feel the love from our community.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:39:34 -0500 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Hot Pink back ground with light pink heart in center
Rainbow Roundup (February 19, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104626 104626-21809741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 19, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

The U-M LGBTQ alumni group invites LGBTQIA2S+ University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, alumni, and allies to attend Rainbow Roundup at the Detroit Observatory on the Ann Arbor campus. Rainbow Roundup will be a social event with no planned presentations or speeches. The event will be an opportunity for University of Michigan LGBTQIA2S+ community members to meet and network. Food and beverages will be provided by U-M LGBTQ Alumni.

The Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory was built in 1854, making it the second oldest building on campus. Located at the corner of E. Ann Street and Observatory, an addition was opened in 2022 which includes a welcome center with an accessible street level entrance. The Detroit Observatory will have docents on site providing tours of this historic facility during the event.

The Detroit Observatory is located at 1398 E. Ann Street on the corner of E. Ann Street and Observatory. The entrance to the Detroit Observatory is on Observatory at the welcome center and includes an accessible street level entrance. The Detroit Observatory will have docents on site providing tours of this historic facility during the event. Parking is available in nearby University parking structures on Sunday. The Ann Street Parking Structure is located at 1115 E. Ann Street and is known as Lot M86. The Catherine Street Parking Structure is located at 1120 Catherine Street and is know as Lot M5.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:18:05 -0500 2023-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Event name, date, time, and location.
Aromantic Awareness Week 2023 Events (February 19, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104731 104731-21810050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 19, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: http://bit.ly/3Xv4jUZ


Celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week with the Aro/Ace CenterSpace! Learn about aromantic identities and build community across UM's three campuses. Allies and members of the a-spectrum community are welcome.

What is Aromanticism? Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships. (source)


Events:

Sunday 2/19, 2-3 pm, hybrid - Aro Panel. Listen and ask questions to a panel of aro-spec people! This event is open to everyone!

Monday 2/20, 4-5:15 pm, hybrid - Relationships Aro-cation Workshop. Learn how to navigate and thrive in a healthy relationship as an aro person! Open to everyone!

Wednesday 2/22, 7-8 pm, in-person - Origami and Painting. Come hang out and make frogs with us using fun pride themed paper! If origami isn’t your style then we also have painting! Open to everyone!

Friday 2/24, 6-7 pm, hybrid - Trivia. Test your aromanticism knowledge with aro-themed trivia! Open to everyone!

Saturday 2/25, 4-5 pm, virtual - Multi-College Discussion. Come hang out in small groups with cool people from over five different colleges! Topics will include exploring our aro identities, intersectional identities, amatonormativity, relationships, media representation,and other ideas you give us! Open to people of aspec identities.

All the in-person and hybrid events will be taking place at the Spectrum Center (3020 Michigan Union). For hybrid and virtual events, registrants will be emailed the Zoom link.

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Other Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:53:56 -0500 2023-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2023-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Other Join the Aromantic/Asexual Centerspace for Aro Week!
Aromantic Awareness Week 2023 Events (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104731 104731-21810051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: http://bit.ly/3Xv4jUZ


Celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week with the Aro/Ace CenterSpace! Learn about aromantic identities and build community across UM's three campuses. Allies and members of the a-spectrum community are welcome.

What is Aromanticism? Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships. (source)


Events:

Sunday 2/19, 2-3 pm, hybrid - Aro Panel. Listen and ask questions to a panel of aro-spec people! This event is open to everyone!

Monday 2/20, 4-5:15 pm, hybrid - Relationships Aro-cation Workshop. Learn how to navigate and thrive in a healthy relationship as an aro person! Open to everyone!

Wednesday 2/22, 7-8 pm, in-person - Origami and Painting. Come hang out and make frogs with us using fun pride themed paper! If origami isn’t your style then we also have painting! Open to everyone!

Friday 2/24, 6-7 pm, hybrid - Trivia. Test your aromanticism knowledge with aro-themed trivia! Open to everyone!

Saturday 2/25, 4-5 pm, virtual - Multi-College Discussion. Come hang out in small groups with cool people from over five different colleges! Topics will include exploring our aro identities, intersectional identities, amatonormativity, relationships, media representation,and other ideas you give us! Open to people of aspec identities.

All the in-person and hybrid events will be taking place at the Spectrum Center (3020 Michigan Union). For hybrid and virtual events, registrants will be emailed the Zoom link.

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Other Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:53:56 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T17:15:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Other Join the Aromantic/Asexual Centerspace for Aro Week!
Allies at Work (February 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96266 96266-21801385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In this session, participants will learn:

The role of allies in creating inclusive environments and creating change
The best practices for being an ally
How to apply these best practices in a work environment
To identify unique obstacles towards being an ally in a remote working environment
To challenge their own practices to be more intentional and effective allies
You will benefit by:

Raising self-awareness and initiating new actions
Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others
Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:54:04 -0400 2023-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Hands
The Queer World Conversations (February 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series (February 22, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101745 101745-21802310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is a student-centered program that promotes civic engagement throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

This session will feature panelists who will discuss the different perspectives of U.S. Immigration, their journey, and resources. Register for the zoom link on Sessions @ Michigan

Dr. Silvia Pedraza (Professor of Sociology and American Culture at the University of Michigan) - She was born and raised in Cuba, from where she immigrated with her family at the age of 12. Her research interests include the sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, and the sociology of Cuba's revolution and exodus. Her work seeks to understand the causes and consequences of immigration as a historical process that forms and transforms persons and nations; as well as social revolutions’ rupture with the past and attempt to create a different present. With a B. A. and M. A. from the University of Michigan, Silvia Pedraza has long been a Wolverine. She holds a Ph. D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, where she specialized in Demography as well as Stratification, and in Latin American Studies.

Rebeca Ontiveros-Chavez (Managing Attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center’s) - She serves children who entered the United States and are detained in federal custody in facilities contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and children who have been released to sponsors in Michigan. She has also represented individuals in the metro Detroit area on a variety of immigration matters. In 2019, she was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to the Foreign Language Board of Review as the Limited English Proficiency Populations Advocate. She is the co-founder of the Immigrant Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary lab that brings students together from different disciplines at the University of Michigan and MIRC attorneys to work on various projects that advance client needs and improve legal services. She also advocates for equity as a member of the Michigan Advocacy Program’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Melanie Grund (Senior Advisor on Immigrant Affairs, Food Security, and Housing for the Oakland Executive) - She is the founder of GCB Global Strategies, a global entrepreneur specializing in strategic planning and project management for non-profit organizations as well as political mentoring for foreign-born populations in southeast Michigan. As a young peace activist, she worked with children from both sides of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. She went on to work for Congressman Sander Levin and built a comprehensive outreach plan for the wide variety of foreign-born populations in his district, particularly on refugee issues and resettlement. She left government work in January 2015 to start GCB with the mission of “leaving the world better than she found it.” Currently, Melanie serves as the Senior Advisor on Immigrant Affairs, Food Security, and Housing for the Oakland Executive. She is a Core Member of the Southeast Michigan Regional Refugee Resettlement Collaborative and co-chairs the housing sub-group. In December 2023, she will graduate from the Ford School with her Master of Public Affairs where she focuses on immigration policy and food systems change.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:25:24 -0500 2023-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Presentation TDLS Flyer
Aromantic Awareness Week 2023 Events (February 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104731 104731-21810052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: http://bit.ly/3Xv4jUZ


Celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week with the Aro/Ace CenterSpace! Learn about aromantic identities and build community across UM's three campuses. Allies and members of the a-spectrum community are welcome.

What is Aromanticism? Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships. (source)


Events:

Sunday 2/19, 2-3 pm, hybrid - Aro Panel. Listen and ask questions to a panel of aro-spec people! This event is open to everyone!

Monday 2/20, 4-5:15 pm, hybrid - Relationships Aro-cation Workshop. Learn how to navigate and thrive in a healthy relationship as an aro person! Open to everyone!

Wednesday 2/22, 7-8 pm, in-person - Origami and Painting. Come hang out and make frogs with us using fun pride themed paper! If origami isn’t your style then we also have painting! Open to everyone!

Friday 2/24, 6-7 pm, hybrid - Trivia. Test your aromanticism knowledge with aro-themed trivia! Open to everyone!

Saturday 2/25, 4-5 pm, virtual - Multi-College Discussion. Come hang out in small groups with cool people from over five different colleges! Topics will include exploring our aro identities, intersectional identities, amatonormativity, relationships, media representation,and other ideas you give us! Open to people of aspec identities.

All the in-person and hybrid events will be taking place at the Spectrum Center (3020 Michigan Union). For hybrid and virtual events, registrants will be emailed the Zoom link.

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Other Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:53:56 -0500 2023-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Other Join the Aromantic/Asexual Centerspace for Aro Week!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Aromantic Awareness Week 2023 Events (February 24, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104731 104731-21810053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: http://bit.ly/3Xv4jUZ


Celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week with the Aro/Ace CenterSpace! Learn about aromantic identities and build community across UM's three campuses. Allies and members of the a-spectrum community are welcome.

What is Aromanticism? Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships. (source)


Events:

Sunday 2/19, 2-3 pm, hybrid - Aro Panel. Listen and ask questions to a panel of aro-spec people! This event is open to everyone!

Monday 2/20, 4-5:15 pm, hybrid - Relationships Aro-cation Workshop. Learn how to navigate and thrive in a healthy relationship as an aro person! Open to everyone!

Wednesday 2/22, 7-8 pm, in-person - Origami and Painting. Come hang out and make frogs with us using fun pride themed paper! If origami isn’t your style then we also have painting! Open to everyone!

Friday 2/24, 6-7 pm, hybrid - Trivia. Test your aromanticism knowledge with aro-themed trivia! Open to everyone!

Saturday 2/25, 4-5 pm, virtual - Multi-College Discussion. Come hang out in small groups with cool people from over five different colleges! Topics will include exploring our aro identities, intersectional identities, amatonormativity, relationships, media representation,and other ideas you give us! Open to people of aspec identities.

All the in-person and hybrid events will be taking place at the Spectrum Center (3020 Michigan Union). For hybrid and virtual events, registrants will be emailed the Zoom link.

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Other Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:53:56 -0500 2023-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Other Join the Aromantic/Asexual Centerspace for Aro Week!
Aromantic Awareness Week 2023 Events (February 25, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104731 104731-21810054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: http://bit.ly/3Xv4jUZ


Celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week with the Aro/Ace CenterSpace! Learn about aromantic identities and build community across UM's three campuses. Allies and members of the a-spectrum community are welcome.

What is Aromanticism? Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships. (source)


Events:

Sunday 2/19, 2-3 pm, hybrid - Aro Panel. Listen and ask questions to a panel of aro-spec people! This event is open to everyone!

Monday 2/20, 4-5:15 pm, hybrid - Relationships Aro-cation Workshop. Learn how to navigate and thrive in a healthy relationship as an aro person! Open to everyone!

Wednesday 2/22, 7-8 pm, in-person - Origami and Painting. Come hang out and make frogs with us using fun pride themed paper! If origami isn’t your style then we also have painting! Open to everyone!

Friday 2/24, 6-7 pm, hybrid - Trivia. Test your aromanticism knowledge with aro-themed trivia! Open to everyone!

Saturday 2/25, 4-5 pm, virtual - Multi-College Discussion. Come hang out in small groups with cool people from over five different colleges! Topics will include exploring our aro identities, intersectional identities, amatonormativity, relationships, media representation,and other ideas you give us! Open to people of aspec identities.

All the in-person and hybrid events will be taking place at the Spectrum Center (3020 Michigan Union). For hybrid and virtual events, registrants will be emailed the Zoom link.

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Other Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:53:56 -0500 2023-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Other Join the Aromantic/Asexual Centerspace for Aro Week!
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
SOAR Info Session & Lunch (March 7, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105014 105014-21810584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Students are invited to come learn about the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program, with current students and staff.

Lunch will be provided!

SOAR offers a research and mentoring experience on HIV, health disparities, and social justice.

Benefits include paid research opportunities, academic credit in Public Health and/or Women's & Gender Studies, use of a personal laptop or iPad, assistance in applying to graduate school and much more.

Applications are open to rising juniors.

Please sign up for lunch!

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Meeting Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:53:58 -0500 2023-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-07T13:30:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Institute for Research on Women and Gender Meeting photo of SOAR cohort
Hired In (March 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96267 96267-21801387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In this session, participants will:

Increase awareness of how implicit bias can show up during the hiring process
Gain an awareness of the importance of consistent guidelines, evaluation and candidate experience
Discuss equitable hiring conventions
Increase knowledge regarding affirmative action goals
Learn about resources that exist in LSA and on campus

Audience:

This workshop is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA. External guests may request to join as room allows

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:00:04 -0400 2023-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Working at computer
The Queer World Conversations (March 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
SOAR Info Session & Lunch (March 8, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105017 105017-21810586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Students are invited to come learn about the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program, with current students and staff.

Lunch will be provided!

SOAR offers a research and mentoring experience on HIV, health disparities, and social justice.

Benefits include paid research opportunities, academic credit in Public Health and/or Women's & Gender Studies, use of a personal laptop or iPad, assistance in applying to graduate school and much more.

Applications are open to rising juniors.

Please sign up for lunch!

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Meeting Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:57:56 -0500 2023-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T14:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Meeting flyer with photo of SOAR cohort
Kaleidoscope Conversations: LGBTQIA People of Clor (March 8, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105853 105853-21813109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join us for some food, music, and a place to build community as we have a casual conversation around the experiences of LGBTQIA people of color.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:56:46 -0500 2023-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T19:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering a colorful flier with event details
Gender Inclusive Living Resource fair (March 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105857 105857-21813156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Are you looking to familiarize yourself with LGBTQ+ affirming resources? If so, join the DPE’s for the Gender Inclusive Living Resource Fair! At this Gender Inclusive Living Resource Fair, you will have the opportunity to learn information about LGBTQ+-affirming resources in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area, stuff your own pillow, and build your own wellness resource bag. We are also happy to announce that one of the items available to attendees of the resource fair will be TransTape. Supplies are limited and will be offered at a fist come first served basis. We look forward to seeing you!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:38:11 -0500 2023-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 West Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Fair / Festival West Quadrangle
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
F.A.M. Friday's 🥙 🎨 🎵 (March 10, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101738 101738-21802301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

FAM Fridays is a series that will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music on one Friday of each month. We will explore the different foods our campus community and larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series will also showcase student creativity in art and music. This series is meant to amplify students from marginalized communities and build community through programming.

Join our organizations as we celebrate Latinx culture in Trotter! Be integrated in community, eat delicious food and get ready to dance! We will have a dance instructor teaching us how to cumbia & bachata while listening to vibrant music. Participants will have a chance to create their own art by working with any of our crafts available (beading, painting, etc.)

We will be enjoying Chela’s Restaurant & Taqueria during the event as well!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:52:41 -0500 2023-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering FAM Fridays Flyer with event details
Books with Buddies (March 12, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104905 104905-21810428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Join the Spectrum Center Programming Board for brunch and a guided book club-style discussion of the 119-page novella *The Empress of Salt and Fortune* by Nghi Vo, snacks provided! A limited number of digital copies are available for claim via the registration link. Book summary:

"A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece."

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:25:14 -0500 2023-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion "Books with Buddies" will take place Sunday, March 12th from 1 to 3 PM in the Spectrum Center.
Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (March 13, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104963 104963-21810512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 9:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Join Spectrum Center and MESA for our March Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering of this semester! Typically held on the second Monday of the month, these gatherings provide space for QTBIPOC students to build on-campus communities with each other. There will be food, drinks, and good company as we co-create this space together. Come chat, hang out, connect, snack, and vibe with us!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:58:12 -0500 2023-03-13T09:30:00-04:00 2023-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A promotional flyer for the "Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings March Breakfast." There are three rainbows across the top, and details about the event are overlaid on a picture of cherry blossoms. Text explains the event is March 13 from 9:30-11am in the Spectrum Center and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs offices in suite 3000 of the Michigan Union.
Sideways Glances: The Poetics of Queer Space in the Post-socialist Balkans (March 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104015 104015-21808277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In the last twenty years, activists, artists, and scholars in the former Yugoslavia have begun to unearth, document, and reconstruct queer histories, spaces, and cultural practices that have historically been marginalized and threatened by erasure in the region. This “archeological impulse” comes on the wave of queer activism and the rise of LGBTQ+ visibility politics following the collapse of state socialism in the 1990s, while frequently challenging western perceptions of the region within the dominant Orientalizing and Cold War imaginaries. Drawing on this growing body of scholarship and activism, my presentation examines the transformation of štajga, or the cruising grounds—from a previously invisible site of sexual modernity in late Yugoslav socialism into a counter-archive of queer history in the postsocialist present. In particular, I focus on Uroš Filipović’s Staklenac (Glass Arcade, 2002), a seminal work of queer autofiction in Serbia, alongside the more recent work of the queerANarchive collective, founded in 2010 in Split as an attempt to document, archive, and render discursive the geographies and practices of queer culture in the context of postsocialist Croatia. I argue that štajga serves not only as an historical alternative to the contemporary politics of queer visibility and respectability, but also as a site that registers the shifting relations between non-normative sexuality, queer poetics, and capitalist form.

This hybrid event is presented by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) at IRWG with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Register to attend in person or on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/Mr7ne

About the Speaker:
Vladislav Beronja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a co-editor of Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture (de Gruyter, 2016), and has published widely in the field of contemporary Balkan literature and popular culture. His translation of Dino Pešut’s novel Tatin sin (Daddy’s Boy) is forthcoming with Fraktura Publishers in the fall 2023.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:34:07 -0500 2023-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion The text in the image says "Cosponsors: UM Department of Comparative Literature" followed by the IRWG logo. "Sideways Glances: The Poetics of Queer Space in the Post-socialist Balkans" "Tuesday, March 14, 2023; 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET; 2239 Lane Hall & Zoom". There is an image of Vladislav Beronja on the left side and an image of a couch sitting on top of rocks by the shore on the right side.
Apply to be the next Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist! (March 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104675 104675-21809807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

For more info and to apply: https://www.cew.umich.edu/advocacy-initiatives/twink-frey-visiting-social-activist-program

Each year the Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist (TFVSA) Program brings to CEW+ a social justice activist whose work affects women and recognizes gender equity issues. One goal of the program is to build the capacity and effectiveness of social activists by giving the TFVSA time, space, and support to work on a project that would not be possible under the activist’s usual working circumstances.

The TFVSA program gives the selected TFVSA time for reflection, research, planning, and writing related to their area of activism. Each TFVSA is required to work on a project that will advance their future work and potentially benefit other activists.

If selected, the applicant is invited to reside near campus for up to one month or make intermittent visits to Ann Arbor and work remotely. The 2024 residency will take place during the winter semester with a presentation of their project the following fall semester at the CEW+ Annual Advocacy Symposium. The activist receives a $10,000 stipend to cover their expenses while in Ann Arbor. Travel expenses to and from Ann Arbor are separately reimbursed by the endowment fund.

ELIGIBILITY

The TFVSA program supports activists whose work addresses gender equity issues that affect the lives of women and/or girls. The program defines social justice and equity programs broadly to include activism in such areas as housing, employment, income support, food security, education, violence, child care, health care, and employer benefits like paid sick leave and retirement income.

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Other Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:48:57 -0500 2023-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Other TFVSA Call for Proposals Flyer
The Queer World Conversations (March 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action (March 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105809 105809-21812991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action is a new 6-hour workshop developed by the University of Michigan Spectrum Center. This workshop aims to deepen our UM community's understanding of, and ability to engage with, LGBTQIA2S+ allyship. In Towards Solidarity, we move beyond basic conceptualizations of allyship and challenge participants to center liberation as they show up actively for LGBTQ+ communities. Learning outcomes include:

Through their participation in this program, participants will:

- Develop their understanding of LGBTQIA2S+ allyship away from “ally” as an identity term and toward solidarity, a developmental, intersectional, and active set of practices;
- Increase self-awareness to more effectively be in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities;
- Gain knowledge about how LGBTQ+ oppression operates on multiple levels
- Identify inclusive practices, skills, and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities, particularly at U-M;
- Commit to the practice of allyship and showing up in solidarity in their personal and professional lives

In this public offering of our workshop, lunch will be provided. We expect that all participants to complete our 1-hour webcourse prior to joining Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action.


Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:

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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:47:26 -0500 2023-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The public Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action will be held Wednesday, March 22nd from 10 AM to 4 PM.
"Portraits of Feminism in Japan" Reception and Artist's Roundtable (March 22, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104990 104990-21810543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Celebrate the artists in our current exhibit, Portraits of Feminism in Japan, on Wednesday, March 22nd with a reception and roundtable conversation.
Reception (in person): 6:00 - 7:00 pm ET, Lane Hall Exhibit Space

Artists’ Roundtable (hybrid): 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. ET in Lane Hall 2239 or on Zoom

About the exhibit:

The exhibit features original works by nine incredible contemporary artists. The involved artists are U-M students, local artists, and artists based in Japan, all of whom are nominated by members of our community.

This exhibit presents portraits of eight feminists who have shaped the landscape of women's and gender rights in Japan and beyond. The portraits and accompanying texts challenge simplistic understandings of "feminism" while also drawing attention to a diversity of experiences, needs, and activism within Japan. This exhibit will also spotlight the history of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies' 75th anniversary celebration.

Portraits of Feminism in Japan will run through 12 May 2023. The exhibit space is located on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 South State Street) through the main entryway. The exhibit is open for viewing M-F 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

This event is presented by the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), the Center for Japanese Studies, the Department of Women's & Gender Studies, and the Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+).

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Reception / Open House Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:43:06 -0500 2023-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Reception / Open House The text reads "Portraits of Feminism in Japan / 03.22.23 / Reception and Artists' Roundtable". The graphic is a photo of Takatoshi Hayashi's Kokeshi portrait of Nobuko Yoshiya.
WSN LGBTQ+ Drop-In Support Group (March 22, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106496 106496-21814351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Join WSN for this drop-in peer-led support group for LGBTQ+ students. We'll specifically be offering support surrounding the recent incidents targeting queer existence and expression, in addition to whatever participants feel they need that day. Free, no sign-up required, and open to all U-M students - just join the Zoom at the scheduled time.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/94425387819

Have questions? Send a message to WSNDirectors@umich.edu.

Add the WSN Events Calendar at bit.ly/WSNEventsW23

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Well-being Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:18:21 -0400 2023-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being WSN Logo
Robotics DEI Seminar: Post-Publication Name Change Policies, Why they Matter, and Whether they Work (March 23, 2023 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106435 106435-21814266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:15pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Abstract
Many academics and scientists, particularly those who are trans, have publications under more than one name. This talk will argue why it is important to allow authors to (silently) correct their names on previous publications, how we went from almost no publisher allowing this to proper policies at thousands of publication venues in just a few years, and what's still missing. We'll also talk about issues with third-party tools like Google Scholar, and take a look at how effective all of this is in getting authors to be cited by the right name.

Bio
Danica Sutherland is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, doing research in machine learning (particularly representation learning, kernel methods, statistical testing, and learning theory). More relevantly for this talk, she is a core organizer at Queer in AI, a member of the Name Change Policy Working Group, and has worked to set up name change policies in machine learning venues for both her own benefit and others'.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:22:43 -0400 2023-03-23T12:15:00-04:00 2023-03-23T14:15:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Workshop / Seminar
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Hello, My Name Is... Name Change Clinic (March 24, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104628 104628-21809744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration not required!

Join the Jim Toy Community Center's OUTreach and the Outlaws at the University of Michigan for a free clinic dedicated to addressing the challenges of name changes for transgender and gender nonconforming people.

They will provide details on how to legally change your name and gender marker in the state of Michigan. Information on how to update your Social Security, Passport, Driver’s License, and Birth Certificate will also be available. Legal volunteers will be on-site after the presentation to answer questions and assist with forms. Finger-printing services will be available on site with no fee. If you would like to take advantage of the finger printing services, please bring a government-issued photo ID.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be an officer from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office to offer fingerprinting at the event. This is a necessary step in the process for adults 22 or older, and providing the officer in this space skips the need to go to the Sheriff's Office directly and individually.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:21:42 -0500 2023-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 2023-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Event name, date, time, and location.
PaWWS and Relax with Hawkeye at the Spectrum Center (March 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103350 103350-21807072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See more Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Wolverine Wellness's PaWWs and Relax is coming to the Spectrum Center on January 17th and March 28th for some therapy dog goodness! Stop by any time between noon and 1pm to give Hawkeye some loving. For more information about the PaWWs and Relax series, please see https://uhs.umich.edu/therapy-dog.

Please note that therapy dog events can be very popular and the Center may get crowded. Please be patient and courteous to other attendees. If you are afraid of or allergic to dogs, or do not like crowded spaces, it is recommended you do not visit the Center during this event time.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:23:51 -0500 2023-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Paws and Relax is coming to the Spectrum Center from noon to 1 PM on January 17th and March 28th.
The Queer World Conversations (March 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Uplifting 'U': Student-Led Well-Being Forum (March 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106064 106064-21813652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Please join Wolverine Support Network at an open forum designed for students to share their thoughts on campus well-being and resources with a focus on mental health services and supports. The voices of students of color, students with disabilities, non-traditional students, and other underrepresented identities on campus will be highlighted. Mental health is a racialized issue, therefore approaches need to be developed with an understanding of identity and its interaction with systems.

All students, faculty, and staff are welcome & encouraged to attend.

A free meal will be provided by MCatering. Please RSVP at this link so we can estimate how much food to supply: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PzVR66FhmErxcO. Vegan & Halal options will be available.

For a asynchronous or more individualized engagement option, students are encouraged to fill out this Qualtrics survey prior to the event, or in lieu of attending: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vnWpp9woXb3UWi.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the event, email WSNDirectors@umich.edu or tbultman@umich.edu.

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Well-being Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:58:41 -0400 2023-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Wolverine Support Network Well-being Uplifting "U" Mental Health Forum Advertisement
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Trans Healthcare Panel (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106989 106989-21815079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/SCPB-trans-forum

Do you have questions about gender affirming healthcare and medically transitioning? Join the Spectrum Center Programming Board for a conversation with experienced medical professionals who will address your questions and more. This will be a virtual event held on Zoom on March 31 from 10-11:30am.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:51:58 -0400 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion No additional information
What the F Art Fair (April 1, 2023 1:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106358 106358-21814125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 1:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: What the F/UAC

Interested in fun prints, unique jewelry, pottery, and more? Drop in to What the F’s semi-annual art fair, dedicated to showcasing/selling the art of women, queer, and/or BIPOC artists across all different styles and mediums. This year we have 36 artists showcasing and selling their work! On April 1st, you can find the art fair in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union from 1-4 pm. Come join us!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:14:38 -0400 2023-04-01T01:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union What the F/UAC Fair / Festival WTF Art Fair Graphic
AFSPUM Out of the Darkness Walk (April 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104319 104319-21808820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Support Network

Join WSN & AFSP's U-M chapter in raising awareness and much-needed funds for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention at the AFSP Out of the Darkness University of Michigan Campus Walk. Suicide is preventable, and no one is ever alone.

April 2nd at 2 PM at Ferry Field, Ann Arbor

Register for the WSN team for free at bit.ly/wsn-afspwalk
Same day registration begins at noon.

Have questions about the WSN Walk Team or WSN in general? Reach out to WSNDirectors@umich.edu.

Have questions about the AFSPUM Walk? Contact Meghna Singh at mssingh@umich.edu.

Add the WSN Events Calendar at bit.ly/WSNEventsW23

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Well-being Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:48:08 -0500 2023-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Support Network Well-being AFSPUM OOTD Walk
Implicit Bias (April 4, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96263 96263-21803860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In this session, participants will learn to:

Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:37 -0400 2023-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
The Queer World Conversations (April 5, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-04-05T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
Take Back the Night Rally and March (April 5, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105882 105882-21813192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN)

Join UofM student organization University Students Against Rape in creating an environment that advocates for and uplifts survivors of sexual violence.The rally portion will begin with performances by Groove UM, the G Men and the Harmonettes. We are honored to be joined by Kyle Richards, an advocate for bystander intervention and sexual assault prevention, who was shot twice after interrupting an in-progress sexual assault. Following the rally, attendees are invited and encouraged to join our student organizers in marching through UofM campus and parts of downtown Ann Arbor and taking back the night. The pre-show for the rally will begin at 6:30pm on April 5, 2022 in the Michigan Union. The rally will begin at 7pm.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:35:57 -0500 2023-04-05T18:30:00-04:00 2023-04-05T21:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN) Rally / Mass Meeting Take Back the Night Ann Abor & March poster on a blue, 1920's themed background. Text reads: "Take Back the Night Ann Arbor Rally and March, Presented by University Students Against Rape, April 5, 2023, Michigan Union Ballroom. Doors open 6:30pm, Rally 7pm. FT. Kyle Richards, It's On Us. Performances by: Groove UM, The G-Men, & The Harmonettes. Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence.
Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (April 10, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105311 105311-21811544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 9:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Join Spectrum Center and MESA for our April Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering of this semester! Typically held on the second Monday of the month, these gatherings provide space for QTBIPOC students to build on-campus communities with each other. There will be food, drinks, and good company as we co-create this space together. Come chat, hang out, connect, snack, and vibe with us!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:03:09 -0500 2023-04-10T09:30:00-04:00 2023-04-10T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering A promotional flyer for the "Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings April Breakfast." There are three rainbows across the top, and details about the event are overlaid on a picture of spring blossoms. Text explains the event is April 10 from 9:30-11am in the Spectrum Center and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs offices in suite 3000 of the Michigan Union.
Queering Identity: A Conversation with 2Fik (April 10, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106868 106868-21814954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join 2Fik in conversation with Adi Saleem Bharat for a discussion about deconstructing reified, oppositional notions of Jewishness and Muslimness through performance art and the possibility of broadening (or queering) our understandings of what it means to be Jewish and Muslim in the twenty-first century. 2Fik is a multidisciplinary artist known for embodying multiple, unique characters. Through his social and political works, 2Fik creates lives for characters who almost seem real, whose stories, personalities, and interests are rooted in our world. Each of his creations are conceived in a voyeuristic way that pushes the spectator to wonder what exists beyond the scope of the work. Each character in this humorous and interpretative world becomes a reflection of our society. Québécois by adoption, French by birth, and Moroccan by origin, 2Fik stages his characters much in the manner of a soap opera/reality show, thus creating a dialogue between reality and fiction that provokes a reflection on our society and our place in it. A pioneer in his field with a nearly twenty-year career, he masters the art of caricature and encourages the reflection on universality, equality between men and women, and the acceptance of oneself as a unique being. His work has been the subject of a number of critical scholarly analyses, from Denis Provencher's book Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (2017) to Gil Hochberg's article "From 'sexy Semite' to Semitic ghosts: contemporary art between Arab and Jew" (2020).


Register for the virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/qG26Z

Credit : Albert Zablit

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:25:40 -0400 2023-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Image Credit: Albert Zablit
Lavender Graduation 2023 (April 11, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106648 106648-21814623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Ceremony: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Reception: 6:30 - 7:15 PM

The annual Lavender Graduation—known affectionately as LavGrad—is a celebration to honor LGBTQ+ graduates of the University of Michigan. Established by Ronni Sanlo in 1995, the inaugural LavGrad at the University of Michigan was the first commemorative event of its kind held at an institution of higher learning. This commencement ceremony celebrates the contributions of any graduate from any program at the university and of any academic level.

Register to attend LavGrad and/or receive regalia

All LGBTQ+ students who have graduated or will graduate August 2022 - April 2023 are welcome to register for Lavender Graduation. Those choosing to attend the ceremony may invite up to two guests. Students may register to receive Lavender Graduation regalia and giveaways (rainbow tassel, lavender cord, Lavender Graduation certificate, etc) without opting in to the ceremony itself.

Register as a graduate by Sunday, March 26th at 11:59 PM at https://bit.ly/UmichLavGrad.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Ceremony / Service Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:16:03 -0400 2023-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-11T19:15:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Ceremony / Service Event name, date, and time.
Hopwood Reading: Alison Bechdel (April 11, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97253 97253-21794235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Acclaimed cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel will give a presentation/talk followed by a Q&A. Books by Ms. Bechdel will be available for purchase and signing following the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:20:24 -0400 2023-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-11T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Alison Bechdel sitting cross-legged in front of her cartoon art
The Queer World Conversations (April 12, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103266 103266-21806705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

See other Spectrum Center events: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We'd like to invite you to a new event series this semester, the Queer World Conversations! These will be weekly discussions on a variety of topics, but all of them will be discussed with a queer lens. We'll bring the topic, you bring the discussion! Everyone is welcome to join the Conversations, and the voices of those most impacted by the week's topic will be prioritized.

Topics will be announced the week before on our social medias and on the event pages. Registration is not required, nor is consistent attendance. Come when you want, bring your friends, and let's have a Conversation!

Upcoming topics:
4/12/23 - Weight Inclusivity

There are a lot of social ideas of what someone's body "should" look like, especially when it comes to weight. Body positivity is more visible than ever, but so is fatphobia. With the help of our friends of the School of Public Health's Weight Inclusive Initiative, we'll dive into the ways that queer bodies and queer cultures interact with and complicate the already complex ideas we have around one's weight. Are queer people held to a higher standard than non-queer folks? Do we hold each other to higher standards within our own community? Are there any major connections between fatphobia and gender dysphoria?

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:12:26 -0400 2023-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Queer World Conversations are held 10 to 11 AM on Wednesdays at the Spectrum Center. New topics are announced on Tuesdays.
GENDiR Seminar Series: Transfer Learning for Robots and for Humans (April 12, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106863 106863-21814948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Abstract:
Transfer learning --- how information that is learned in one context can be transferred for use in a different setting --- has far-reaching consequences for agents operating under domain shifts. This talk will present lessons learned in transfer learning for robots and for humans. First, the methodology of structural sim-to-real transfer for robots will be presented, which aims to learn the causal structure of a robot manipulation policy or skill in simulation first before deployment on a real robot system. This section of the talk will summarize two algorithms in this area, CREST and SCALE, that were recognized by NCWIT as a Collegiate Award Honorable Mention. I will then draw parallels to how transfer learning can empower navigation of domain shifts in humans using my gender and physical disability transitions as examples. This section will identify human attributes and characteristics, such as empathy, compassion, understanding, and appreciation of differences, that bolster other humans experiencing life transitions. Lastly, I will summarize work done towards teaching such attributes for first-year Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon University through the development and launch of 15-996: Introduction to Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Computer Science.

Speaker Bio:
Tabitha Edith Lee is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. She is a member of the Intelligent Autonomous Manipulation Lab and advised by Prof. Oliver Kroemer. Her thesis research investigates causal robot learning for manipulation: the interplay between robot perception and control through the lens of causality to learn and leverage the causal structure of manipulation tasks. Her research in structural sim-to-real transfer has been recognized by an Honorable Mention selection for the NCWIT Collegiate Award. She is also a Siebel Scholar in Computer Science.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:58:36 -0400 2023-04-12T14:30:00-04:00 2023-04-12T15:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Workshop / Seminar Digital flyer for event. Picture of Tabitha and GENDiR logo. No additional information.
2023 Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 12, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97249 97249-21794229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Presentation of the 2023 Hopwood Writing Awards with a lecture presentation by renowned graphic memoirist, Alison Bechdel. Books by Ms. Bechdel will be available for purchase and signing following the ceremony.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:41:43 -0400 2023-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Alison Bechdel sits cross-legged in front of her cartoon art
FAM Fridays 🥙 🎨 🎵 (April 14, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103308 103308-21807006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

F.A.M. Fridays is a series that will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music on one Friday of each month. We will explore the different foods our campus community and larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series will also showcase student creativity through art and music. This series is meant to amplify students from marginalized communities and build community through programming.

If you're interested in performing, sign up at the link below:

https://forms.gle/eiX2PVBbn1kBN98y9

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:56:25 -0400 2023-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering
Pad Thai and Pronouns (April 14, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107514 107514-21816130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join the Oxford Multicultural Council for an interactive Professional Pronouns workshop on how to incorporate gender-inclusive language and pronoun-use in a workplace setting. Enjoy some Pad Thai while we engage in meaningful discussions about creating a more welcoming and tolerant environment!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:10:48 -0400 2023-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Tan background with cartoon images of Pad Thai, Ke Maw Rice, and Mango Sticky Rice. Text details the info of the event.
The Microaggression Session (April 17, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96265 96265-21803852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 1:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
Validate experiences with microaggressions
Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:02 -0400 2023-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T15:15:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar We're better when we're united
Pride Prom 2023 - Mas-Queer-Ade (April 22, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106996 106996-21815092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 22, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/Masqueerade2023

Join us for a night of mystery at our Mas-Queer-Ade! The Spectrum Center Programming Board invites all UM community members to Pride Prom 2023. There is no dress code, come as you are! This event is free but registration is required to attend. A quiet decompression space will also be provided in conjunction with this event on the 3rd floor of the Michigan Union in the Spectrum Center.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:52:55 -0400 2023-04-22T20:00:00-04:00 2023-04-22T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Event name, date, and time.
Inaction is a (Bad) Choice (April 26, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107647 107647-21816316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SurvivorsSpeak

Join survivors and scholars of sexual assault to advocate for safer campuses + to share insights into Title IX offices and the barriers that prevent investigation and accountability. This is a panel presentation followed by conversation.

Sociologist Nicole Bedera, author of "On the Wrong Side: How Universities Betray Survivors to Protect Perpetrators of Sexual Assault."

Survivor and activist Isabelle Brourman, co-creator of "Stop Protecting Predators"

Sociologist Jackie Cruz, author of "Gender Inequality in Higher Education: University Title IX Administrators’ Responses to Sexual Violence"

Black feminist scholar Wagatwe Wanjuki, author of "Believing Victims is the First Step to Stopping Rape"

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:58:07 -0400 2023-04-26T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SurvivorsSpeak Lecture / Discussion Inaction is a (Bad) Choice: How We Can Intervene on a Culture of Sexual Violence
Social Change Incubator (May 31, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107543 107543-21816189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here by the end of the day on May 10th: https://myumi.ch/j7xPG

WEDNESDAYS ON 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, AND 6/21 FROM 3:00-5:00PM

Are you a student, staff, faculty, or community member interested in learning how your personal stories and passions can lead you into doing the work of social change? Join Dr. Liz DeBetta for a 4-part weekly workshop where you will learn:

- How to define your role(s) in the social change ecosystem
- What narrative power is and how it drives change
- What type of social change work you can do based on your skills, passions, and identity
- How to use your story as a catalyst for change

We will meet in person for two hours each Wednesday starting on 5/31 to develop a social change identity and learn how to become advocates, activists, and change-makers through storytelling.

Participants will be given short readings and other brief assignments to be completed in between sessions. The final session will invite each participant to share their story and how they plan to use it to drive change.

Registration closes May 10th.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 May 2023 14:52:42 -0400 2023-05-31T15:00:00-04:00 2023-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Be the Change graffiti
Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action Workshop (June 7, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107893 107893-21818363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action is a 6-hour workshop developed by the University of Michigan Spectrum Center. This workshop aims to deepen our UM community's understanding of, and ability to engage with, LGBTQIA2S+ allyship. In Towards Solidarity, we move beyond basic conceptualizations of allyship and challenge participants to center liberation as they show up actively for LGBTQ+ communities. Learning outcomes include:

Through their participation in this program, participants will:

Develop their understanding of LGBTQIA2S+ allyship away from “ally” as an identity term and toward solidarity, a developmental, intersectional, and active set of practices;
Increase self-awareness to more effectively be in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities;
Gain knowledge about how LGBTQ+ oppression operates on multiple levels
Identify inclusive practices, skills, and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities, particularly at U-M;
Commit to the practice of allyship and showing up in solidarity in their personal and professional lives


In this public offering of our workshop, lunch will be provided. We expect that all participants to complete our 1-hour webcourse prior to joining Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action.


Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:

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, there is space to report that in the registration, or you can 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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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 May 2023 14:50:08 -0400 2023-06-07T10:00:00-04:00 2023-06-07T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar The Public Towards Solidarity: Allyship in Action will be held Wednesday, June 7th from 10 AM to 4 PM.
Social Change Incubator (June 7, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107543 107543-21816190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here by the end of the day on May 10th: https://myumi.ch/j7xPG

WEDNESDAYS ON 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, AND 6/21 FROM 3:00-5:00PM

Are you a student, staff, faculty, or community member interested in learning how your personal stories and passions can lead you into doing the work of social change? Join Dr. Liz DeBetta for a 4-part weekly workshop where you will learn:

- How to define your role(s) in the social change ecosystem
- What narrative power is and how it drives change
- What type of social change work you can do based on your skills, passions, and identity
- How to use your story as a catalyst for change

We will meet in person for two hours each Wednesday starting on 5/31 to develop a social change identity and learn how to become advocates, activists, and change-makers through storytelling.

Participants will be given short readings and other brief assignments to be completed in between sessions. The final session will invite each participant to share their story and how they plan to use it to drive change.

Registration closes May 10th.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 May 2023 14:52:42 -0400 2023-06-07T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Be the Change graffiti
Social Change Incubator (June 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107543 107543-21816191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here by the end of the day on May 10th: https://myumi.ch/j7xPG

WEDNESDAYS ON 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, AND 6/21 FROM 3:00-5:00PM

Are you a student, staff, faculty, or community member interested in learning how your personal stories and passions can lead you into doing the work of social change? Join Dr. Liz DeBetta for a 4-part weekly workshop where you will learn:

- How to define your role(s) in the social change ecosystem
- What narrative power is and how it drives change
- What type of social change work you can do based on your skills, passions, and identity
- How to use your story as a catalyst for change

We will meet in person for two hours each Wednesday starting on 5/31 to develop a social change identity and learn how to become advocates, activists, and change-makers through storytelling.

Participants will be given short readings and other brief assignments to be completed in between sessions. The final session will invite each participant to share their story and how they plan to use it to drive change.

Registration closes May 10th.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 May 2023 14:52:42 -0400 2023-06-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Be the Change graffiti
Social Change Incubator (June 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107543 107543-21816192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here by the end of the day on May 10th: https://myumi.ch/j7xPG

WEDNESDAYS ON 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, AND 6/21 FROM 3:00-5:00PM

Are you a student, staff, faculty, or community member interested in learning how your personal stories and passions can lead you into doing the work of social change? Join Dr. Liz DeBetta for a 4-part weekly workshop where you will learn:

- How to define your role(s) in the social change ecosystem
- What narrative power is and how it drives change
- What type of social change work you can do based on your skills, passions, and identity
- How to use your story as a catalyst for change

We will meet in person for two hours each Wednesday starting on 5/31 to develop a social change identity and learn how to become advocates, activists, and change-makers through storytelling.

Participants will be given short readings and other brief assignments to be completed in between sessions. The final session will invite each participant to share their story and how they plan to use it to drive change.

Registration closes May 10th.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 May 2023 14:52:42 -0400 2023-06-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Be the Change graffiti
Allyship: Virtual Event with PFLAG Ann Arbor (June 22, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108647 108647-21820244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Health Information Technology and Services Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

Come listen to our guest speakers from PFLAG Ann Arbor, hear their stories and learn more about allyship for the queer community.

PFLAG Ann Arbor builds and supports a community of loving families united with LGBTQ+ people and allies who promote the health and well-being of our community, which includes all sexual and gender minority populations, their families, and allies.

Please RSVP for this event. A recording will be made available to those who register. (Please see the registration link to the right.)

Speaker info:

Kathy Kosobud is the current president of PFLAG Ann Arbor.She is a retired special educator experienced in advocacy for marginalized people. During the pandemic, she decided to revive PFLAG Ann Arbor by moving all operations online in a Google Workspace. Kathy is the parent of a transgender daughter who is in her mid-30’s. Kathy will talk about becoming an ally to her daughter after she came out in her mid-20’s.

Lisa Borgsdorf (she/her) is the Associate Director for Public Experience and Learning for the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) where she collaboratively designs inclusive multidisciplinary programs that cultivate a vital and joyful space for inspiration, connection, and discovery for diverse audiences.She has a M.S. in Museum Education and Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, and a B.A. in History from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. Lisa is proud to volunteer with PFLAG Ann Arbor where she has been board secretary since January 2022. She is honored to have joined the board of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County in November 2022 where she also serves as board secretary.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:28:42 -0400 2023-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2023-06-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Health Information Technology and Services Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Lecture / Discussion Image of rainbows and the speakers. Has date and time of event.
The Venture Out Project: Queer Day Hike and Social (Sponsored by Spectrum Center & Adventure Leadership) (June 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108722 108722-21820322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sessions @ Michigan

Spectrum Center and Adventure Leadership staff invite you to take a trip up north! Join us for an evening of camping near Fife Lake, packed with opportunities to develop new friendships, expand your outdoor skillset, and bask in the beauty of northern Michigan's landscape.After a bonfire and s'mores-filled Friday night, we will spend Saturday morning with The Venture Out Project Volunteer Kay (she/her) on a queer day hike near Mayfield, MI. The 5-mile loop is a well-maintained trail that meanders alongside a river. You're likely to spot deer, an abundance of birds, and other wildlife species. These trails are relatively flat, with only about 115ft of elevation gain, making it a great option for hikers of a wide range of abilities.All group gear, food, and transportation will be provided - and no outdoor experience is necessary!To secure your spot, please plan to participate in a pre-trip Zoom meeting on Wednesday, June 21st @ 6:30PM to discuss gear, food preferences, etc. and answer any questions you may have in preparing for the event. See you out there!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:49:12 -0400 2023-06-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sessions @ Michigan Workshop / Seminar
GENDiR Seminar Series: Queer Voices for Gender Inclusion, Too (June 27, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108625 108625-21820223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Talk Title
Queer Voices for Gender Inclusion, Too: Queer Realities Meet Harm Evaluation Frameworks for Generative AI

Abstract
Transgender and non-binary (TGNB) individuals disproportionately experience discrimination and exclusion from daily life. Given the recent popularity and adoption of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), the potential to further marginalize this population only grows. Assessing these systems for gender-inclusivity requires understanding how TGNB identities uniquely interact with dominant gender norms; crafting harm evaluations for TGNB persons must be guided by TGNB voices, different from gender binary-centric perspectives. Harm measurement frameworks inherently require centering TGNB voices to help guide the alignment between gender-inclusive Natural Language Generation (NLG) and whom they are intended to serve. In this talk, I discuss grounding LLM harm evaluation in the TGNB community and existing interdisciplinary literature to assess how the social reality surrounding experienced marginalization of TGNB persons contributes to and persists within Open Language Generation (OLG). This social knowledge serves as a guide for evaluating popular LLMs (ChatGPT, GPT-2, GPT-Neo, and OPT) on two key aspects: (1) misgendering and (2) gender disclosure. We discover a dominance of binary gender norms in the LLMs and consider what this means for understanding harms to users who don’t ascribe to the gender binary. Across the talk, I contextualize findings in commonly-used robotic manipulation datasets like OpenAI’s CLIP and explore what these insights mean for responsible robotics.
Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593013.3594078

Speaker Bio
Anaelia Ovalle (they/them) is an Afro-Carribean, queer, and non-binary PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Advised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang, Anaelia’s research centers the interfacing of ML design with algorithmic fairness objectives and the broader socio-technical milieu. With particular emphasis on historically marginalized communities, their research synergizes across both algorithmic fairness and critical social theory to guide approaches in mitigating AI-driven sociotechnical harms. Their work operates at 2 resolutions: (1) inclusive natural language processing and representation learning (e.g. how do we center trans communities in NLG, what does nonbinary exclusion mean and look like in a language context?) and (2) expanding AI ethics praxis (in both research and broader institutional mechanization) through intersectionality and participatory design. They have previously interned across several Responsible AI teams including Meta, Amazon Prime Video, and Amazon Alexa. Their research with Alexa was just accepted to ACM FAccT 2023. Prior to their PhD, Elia received a BS magna cum laude in Data Science from the University of San Francisco.

This talk is supported by an LGBTQ+ Project Grant from the Spectrum Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:16:01 -0400 2023-06-27T14:00:00-04:00 2023-06-27T15:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Workshop / Seminar Poster with blue background and abstract shapes. Picture of Anaelia Ovalle with a QR code to this event page, the talk title, and talk date.
QTBIPOC Welcome (September 6, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110237 110237-21824656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Spectrum Center, Trotter Multicultural Center, and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) for food, games, community, and resources as we welcome QTBIPOC students to the University of Michigan.

Connect with peers, staff, and faculty during this casual social gathering. Our goal is to help our new and returning students who are queer and trans, Black, indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) get acclimated to the University of Michigan, find a sense of home and community in our spaces, and get connected to campus resources.

You don’t want to miss it! Come ready to eat, mingle, dance, play games, and just vibe to kick off the new academic year. This event centers QTBIPOC experiences and is open to the U-M community.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:37:03 -0400 2023-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-06T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering QTBIPOC Welcome
Back to School with WiRE+ and GENDiR! (September 6, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110767 110767-21825538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Welcome back to campus, roboticists! Join Women+ in Robotics and Engineering (WiRE+) and Gender Diversity in Robotics (GENDiR) on Wednesday, September 6th from 5:30-7:30pm in FRB 2300 to get to know your peers over refreshments and fun activities. This event is for current and prospective members of WiRE+ and GENDiR. We hope to see you there!

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:43:46 -0400 2023-09-06T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-06T19:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Social / Informal Gathering Yellow background with blue foreground and black decorative squiggles. Text in image is included in event title and details. No additional information.
GREAT COMET AUDITIONS (September 10, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110196 110196-21824478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Submit a virtual audition for "NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812"! Join us as we put on this modern classic! Help us to transform this piece and amplify LGBTQIA+ stories and storytellers as we highlight the Queer themes of this masterpiece!

Audition forms and videos are due by Sunday, September 10. Callbacks will be held Tuesday, September 12 and Wednesday, September 13. Our performances will be December 1-3 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Following a critically exalted premiere at Ars Nova in New York City, a subsequent Off-Broadway transfer, and an acclaimed run on Broadway, this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.

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Auditions Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:54:56 -0400 2023-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 2023-09-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Great Comet Logo
LGBTQIA+ Resource and Connection Fair (September 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111696 111696-21827475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: The Connector
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Stop by the Connector in West Quad for snacks, menstrual and sexual health resources, free hygiene products, and TransTape!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:46:39 -0400 2023-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 The Connector Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Fair / Festival image that says join us in the Connector with event details
Nontraditional Student Stories: A Panel Discussion (September 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110069 110069-21824288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/nontraditional-student-stories-a-panel-discussion

Nontraditional Student Stories: A Panel Discussion is hosted by COUNTS (Council for Nontraditional Students), CEW+, and the LSA Transfer Student Center. Join us for a panel discussion featuring nontraditional and post-traditional students, as well as faculty and staff who support them. 

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Ketra L. Armstrong, Professor of Sport Management, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and Director of the Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan 

COUNTS is a university-wide council comprised of faculty, staff, and students focused on supporting the success of underserved students through resource sharing, collaboration, and tracking emerging needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:29:46 -0400 2023-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Building CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Working mother at desk with laptop and baby
"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Schwa?" Exploring the Possibilities of a Gender-Inclusive Italian (September 20, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108989 108989-21820695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This presentation assesses the present situation on the subject of the schwa symbol “[ə]” in Italian language use, and more in general on the state of the discussion in Italy regarding its usage linked to nonbinary identities. The talk will also address the use of schwa as a political linguistic tool that draws strength from the famous (social) margins often mentioned by bell hooks.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:45:47 -0400 2023-09-20T11:30:00-04:00 2023-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Vera Gheno Event
In a Bind? Let's Do It Safely (September 27, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110866 110866-21825683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Interested in finding ways to make your chest look flatter and feel affirmed in your gender? Join us for an interactive workshop on safe binding using chest compression and TransTape.

In a community-style discussion, we'll discuss safe binding tips and tricks, resources, and try-ons—plus, you'll be able to take home resources!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:35:49 -0400 2023-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Illustration by @PocketMilo
Out Week keynote: Fireside chat with Chasten Buttigieg (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113011 113011-21829885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Ford School is proud to support a student-led initiative concluding this year’s Out Week, hosted by Out For Business: a fireside chat with Chasten Buttigieg - author, teacher, education enthusiast, LGBTQ+ rights advocate, and husband of Secretary of Transportation and previous presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

After leaving the 2020 campaign trail, Chasten Buttigieg published his first book, I Have Something to Tell You. In this moving, uplifting memoir, he recounts his journey to finding acceptance as a young gay man in rural Northern Michigan.

In conversation with Emma Jabour (MPP/MBA '24), this discussion will focus on the intersections of identity and allyship, particularly in social and professional contexts.

How to attend
The in-person event is free and open to the U-M community. Mcards will be required for entry. Register as a "first time user" through the Ross School registration system.

The livestream is free and open to the public.

Sponsors
This event is hosted by Out for Business, with support from the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Michigan Ross, Out in Public, and the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:51:06 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Chasten Buttigieg event flyer
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
LIGHTNING: A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza (September 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110204 110204-21824491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Lightning rarely strikes in the same place twice, but UMS is delighted to collaborate with Heads Over Heels Productions and Chroma Productions for two different sets in this drag show extravaganza. This action-packed, special night celebrates queer performance art at the historic Ypsilanti Freighthouse.

Must be 18+ to attend; alcohol will be available for purchase for ages 21+ with ID.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:43:43 -0400 2023-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Heads Over Heels Productions and Chroma Productions
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Amor y Orgullo (October 7, 2023 7:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113231 113231-21830585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 7:45pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

MESA and Spectrum Center will be hosting "Amor y Orgullo" ("Love and Pride") and we want to see you there! This joint event celebrates Latinx Heritage Month and LGBT History Month -- You won't want to miss it! The night will include food and music.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:25:31 -0400 2023-10-07T19:45:00-04:00 2023-10-07T21:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Social / Informal Gathering Amor y Orgullo
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A (October 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113217 113217-21830541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

10/10/2023 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad)

Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A with Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone and Cassius Adair

Join us for an event with academic and performance artist Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone, who is commonly credited with founding the field of transgender studies, and Cassius Adair, who studies the intersection of digital media history and transgender studies. Stone and Adair will be in conversation about how trans people and identities intertwine with technology in the past, present and future, and will take questions from the audience. Stone will also discuss the forthcoming documentary film Girl Island, directed by Marjorie Vecchio, which chronicles Stone's many lives, including being "a sound engineer for Jimi Hendrix, a lesbian separatist, founder of trans studies, and the goddess of cyberspace."

Speaker bios:

Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone is professor emerita of communication at the University of Texas, Austin; founding core faculty and Wolfgang Kohler professor of media and performance studies at the European Graduate School; senior artist at the Banff Centre; University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellow; and occasional hell-raiser at the University of California, Santa Cruz and other institutions of higher learning. She was a Sundance Institute invitee, a member of the Bell Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Group, conducted research on the neurological basis of vision for NIH, and was the director for ten years of the International Conferences on Cyberspace. She is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the State of California, City of Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz Diversity Center; and is the author of numerous publications in the fields of science fiction, neurology, vision, architecture, new media, and anthropology, including "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", a founding text for the academic discipline of Transgender Studies.

Cassius Adair is an audio producer, writer, and researcher from Virginia. Currently, he is an assistant professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City.

Previously, he has been a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and a Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) with an affiliation at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. He is also a research fellow at the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory at the University of Toronto and an outside member of the Precarity Lab at the University of Michigan.

His audio production and narrative editing work spans multiple media and genres. Recent roles include production for the SiriusXM podcast Sounds Gay, with editor JT Green and host Sarah Esocoff, and consulting and editorial for KCRW’s Bodies, Wondery’s Twin Flames and Harsh Reality, Science Friday, Call to Mind, and a yet-to-be-released NPR series. From 2020-2021, he was the lead producer and showrunner of Transcripts, a production of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He has provided editorial consulting for fiction projects, including Brit Bennett’s #1 New York Times Bestseller (and Mariah Carey and Noname reading list pick!) The Vanishing Half. His documentary work has been honored in numerous venues, including the Third Coast International Audio Festival. With Tuck Woodstock, he is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting.

Adair holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. His writing appears in American Quarterly, American Literature, Avidly, The Rumpus, Make Literary Magazine, Nursing Clio, Misadventures Magazine, Semiotic Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. He is a coauthor of the experimental scholarly book Technoprecarious (MIT, 2020) and is currently writing a book about transgender people and the Internet.

This talk is co-sponsored by the U-M School of Information, the U-M Center for Ethics, Society and Computing, the U-M Digital Studies Institute and the U-M Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:56:58 -0400 2023-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion U-M School of Information Guest Talk
Heartstopper Watch Parties (October 10, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112498 112498-21829008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Heartstopper is an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age TV series critically acclaimed for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters. Join GENDiR for weekly watch parties to enjoy this bundle of queer joy! Each week's watch party will have a theme that you can participate in:

- Oct. 10 Episodes 1-3 (Bake-Off) For the bake-off, bring your favorite baked good (homemade preferred, but we know not everyone has time for that!).
- Oct. 17 Episodes 4-6 (Comfort Food) For the comfort food theme, bring a shareable portion of your favorite comfort food. We know our members are well-traveled and from all over the globe, so we're hoping to try new things!
- Oct. 24 Episodes 7-8 (Pajama Party) Finally, wear your favorite comfy pajamas and slippers for the finale Pajama Party. Blankets and stuffed animals welcome!

In addition to these themes, GENDiR will provide light refreshments. Each episode will last about 30 minutes.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:19:31 -0400 2023-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Social / Informal Gathering White background with pale cartoon hearts. GENDiR logo in rainbow colors.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (October 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 16, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Heartstopper Watch Parties (October 17, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112498 112498-21829009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Heartstopper is an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age TV series critically acclaimed for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters. Join GENDiR for weekly watch parties to enjoy this bundle of queer joy! Each week's watch party will have a theme that you can participate in:

- Oct. 10 Episodes 1-3 (Bake-Off) For the bake-off, bring your favorite baked good (homemade preferred, but we know not everyone has time for that!).
- Oct. 17 Episodes 4-6 (Comfort Food) For the comfort food theme, bring a shareable portion of your favorite comfort food. We know our members are well-traveled and from all over the globe, so we're hoping to try new things!
- Oct. 24 Episodes 7-8 (Pajama Party) Finally, wear your favorite comfy pajamas and slippers for the finale Pajama Party. Blankets and stuffed animals welcome!

In addition to these themes, GENDiR will provide light refreshments. Each episode will last about 30 minutes.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:19:31 -0400 2023-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T20:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Social / Informal Gathering White background with pale cartoon hearts. GENDiR logo in rainbow colors.
Black Queer Kinship Histories Conference (October 19, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113825 113825-21831792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of History

D Hutchinson was a doctoral candidate in History that brought joy and intellectual community to every space across the University of Michigan campus. This conference seeks to not only channel the spirit of intellectual kinship D generously shared with us but to also create space for rigorous engagement with D’s central research questions. We have curated a day of learning that invites an interdisciplinary audience of critical thinkers to key questions related to Black queer kinship, history, and possibility.

The conference will bring together D’s beloved family and friends, interdisciplinary scholars, as well as U-M faculty, graduate students, and alumni who, over the course of two days, will reflect on D’s most catalytic research interests as well as their profound scholastic engagement with Black queer kinship.

This event will be livestreamed here: https://umich.zoom.us/my/bqkhconference

Conference Schedule:
Thursday, October 19
Rackham Assembly Hall

6:45 pm | Welcome + Degree Conferral Ceremony
Angela Dillard, LaKisha Simmons

7:15 pm | Arts Showcase and Celebration
Ahya Simone

Friday, October 20
1014 Tisch Hall

10:00 am | Welcome + Conference Keynote
Darius Bost

11:00 am | Roundtable 1: Celebrating D as student, friend and relative
Jennifer Jones, Eshe Sherley, M Aziz, Casidy Campbell

1:30 pm | Roundtable 2: Kinship & the Healing Work of Queer Theory
SaraEllen Strongman, Sydney Tunstall, Mix Mann, Mara Johnson

3:15 pm | Roundtable 3: Current topics in Theory and Histories
Andrea Bolivar, LaVelle Ridley, Cassius Adair, Gabriel Johnson

4:45 pm | Closing
Anna Almore, Adrian King

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:09:00 -0400 2023-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of History Conference / Symposium Collage made by Anna Almore. Find more on Instagram @aalmore
Dinner for Democracy: LGBTQ Policy (October 19, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112313 112313-21828781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Sign up on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/manage/track/edit/6726/sessions

Join us for a presentation and discussion on LGBTQ Policy and how it relates to voting. Learn the basics of how to maximize your vote for the issues you care about, and get FREE DINNER!

This event is offered in partnership with the DEI 2.0 planning committee.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:58:19 -0400 2023-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
Black Queer Kinship Histories Conference (October 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113825 113825-21831793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

D Hutchinson was a doctoral candidate in History that brought joy and intellectual community to every space across the University of Michigan campus. This conference seeks to not only channel the spirit of intellectual kinship D generously shared with us but to also create space for rigorous engagement with D’s central research questions. We have curated a day of learning that invites an interdisciplinary audience of critical thinkers to key questions related to Black queer kinship, history, and possibility.

The conference will bring together D’s beloved family and friends, interdisciplinary scholars, as well as U-M faculty, graduate students, and alumni who, over the course of two days, will reflect on D’s most catalytic research interests as well as their profound scholastic engagement with Black queer kinship.

This event will be livestreamed here: https://umich.zoom.us/my/bqkhconference

Conference Schedule:
Thursday, October 19
Rackham Assembly Hall

6:45 pm | Welcome + Degree Conferral Ceremony
Angela Dillard, LaKisha Simmons

7:15 pm | Arts Showcase and Celebration
Ahya Simone

Friday, October 20
1014 Tisch Hall

10:00 am | Welcome + Conference Keynote
Darius Bost

11:00 am | Roundtable 1: Celebrating D as student, friend and relative
Jennifer Jones, Eshe Sherley, M Aziz, Casidy Campbell

1:30 pm | Roundtable 2: Kinship & the Healing Work of Queer Theory
SaraEllen Strongman, Sydney Tunstall, Mix Mann, Mara Johnson

3:15 pm | Roundtable 3: Current topics in Theory and Histories
Andrea Bolivar, LaVelle Ridley, Cassius Adair, Gabriel Johnson

4:45 pm | Closing
Anna Almore, Adrian King

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:09:00 -0400 2023-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Collage made by Anna Almore. Find more on Instagram @aalmore
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Book Talk with Andrea Rottmann (October 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113124 113124-21830120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Andrea Rottmann (she/they) is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. She got her PhD in German Studies at the University of Michigan in 2019. Her book *Queer Lives Across the Wall. Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970* came out with the University of Toronto Press in May 2023. Andrea has researched and published on queer spaces, on sexuality and gender in museums, on the politics of queer history and the LGBTIQ movement in Germany and the US. With Martin Lücke (FU Berlin) and Benno Gammerl (EUI Florence) she coordinates the network "Queer Contemporary Histories of German-speaking Europe," which brings together queer history scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:38:45 -0400 2023-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Woman stands outdoors in front of a microphone
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 23, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Rethinking Disability and the Divine Image: Resisting Ableism, Queering Kinship (October 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113451 113451-21831027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The assertion that humanity is made in the image of God has long been a linchpin of Jewish ethical thought, grounding contemporary commitments to human rights, racial justice, gender equity, disability affirmation, and more. But "divine image" traditions rest on a troubling intellectual history, one that traffics in human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and intense ableism. This talk critically examines that complex history and imagines richer alternatives, showing how queer, feminist, and ecologically-informed disability wisdom can catalyze a radical recognition of the sacred among human, animal, and earthy kin.

About Julia:

Julia Watts Belser (she/her) is professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies program, as well as a rabbi and longtime activist for disability and gender justice. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature; she also brings classical Jewish texts into conversation with disability studies, feminist and queer theory, and environmental justice. She is the author of several scholarly books, including Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her latest book is Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (Beacon Press, 2023).

Join us person in 2022 Thayer or online here: https://myumi.ch/m7MeD

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:57:58 -0400 2023-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Professor Julia Watts Belser
Heartstopper Watch Parties (October 24, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112498 112498-21829010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Heartstopper is an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age TV series critically acclaimed for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters. Join GENDiR for weekly watch parties to enjoy this bundle of queer joy! Each week's watch party will have a theme that you can participate in:

- Oct. 10 Episodes 1-3 (Bake-Off) For the bake-off, bring your favorite baked good (homemade preferred, but we know not everyone has time for that!).
- Oct. 17 Episodes 4-6 (Comfort Food) For the comfort food theme, bring a shareable portion of your favorite comfort food. We know our members are well-traveled and from all over the globe, so we're hoping to try new things!
- Oct. 24 Episodes 7-8 (Pajama Party) Finally, wear your favorite comfy pajamas and slippers for the finale Pajama Party. Blankets and stuffed animals welcome!

In addition to these themes, GENDiR will provide light refreshments. Each episode will last about 30 minutes.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:19:31 -0400 2023-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Social / Informal Gathering White background with pale cartoon hearts. GENDiR logo in rainbow colors.
The Stroll Movie Screening (October 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113323 113323-21830754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN)

When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of color during this era, began sex work in an area known as “The Stroll” in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan, where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence.

Reuniting her sisters to tell this essential New York story from their first-hand experiences, Kristen’s intimate narration and interviews bring an astonishing array of archival material of bygone New York from the 1970s through the early 2000s to life.

Please note – Mature content, sexual imagery and sexual violence. No one under 17 admitted.

In order to attend this event please register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stroll-movie-screening-tickets-712460367137?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event will take place on October 25th from 7:00-9:30pm at The Rackham Graduate School. Doors open at 6:45.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:30:46 -0400 2023-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T21:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN) Film Screening The image contains a black trans woman looking to the side of the camera. The image also contains the University Students Against Rape logo and information about the event.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 30, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Halloween Movie Night (October 31, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112499 112499-21829016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Join GENDiR and GoSTEM for our favorite spooky movie, Coraline (2009)! Costumes are encouraged. We'll be providing light refreshments for this event.

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:30:14 -0400 2023-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Film Screening Purple glittery slime drips from the top of the image. "Halloween Movie Night" in orange letters. GoSTEM and GENDiR logos in rainbow.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 3, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED Exhibition By Nour Ballout (November 3, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114009 114009-21832072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Opening Reception November 3, 5-7 pm
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 18, Ann Arbor 48109
Parking free after 5:00 pm
for further information contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:35:28 -0400 2023-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Reception / Open House Wild is the Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 3, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114011 114011-21832142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am to 5 pm, or by appointment serrag@med.umich.edu

Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:58:59 -0400 2023-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Reception / Open House Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 9, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 9, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Veterans Week - LGBTQ+ in the Military Panel (November 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45835 45835-21832245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Since 1778 when Lieutenant Gotthold Frederick Enslin became the 1st servicemember dismissed from the military for homosexuality, persons who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender have faced discrimination in the military. Since the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" LGBTQ+ service members have been allowed to serve openly in the US military and federal benefits have been extended to cover their dependents. Come hear veterans talk about their service, sacrifice and discrimination they faced while serving their country.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:54:47 -0400 2023-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Livestream / Virtual LGBT Flag behind dogtags
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 10, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 10, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 13, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
K-12 Educators in the Crosshairs (November 15, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114735 114735-21833397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Humility Colloquium

How do we equip K-12 educators to survive devastating attacks on the culture war frontlines? K-12 public educators Matthew Hawn (Tennessee high school social studies teacher) and Elissa Malespina (New Jersey high school librarian) were targeted for having conversations about white privilege and racial equity and justice in a contemporary issues class and for ensuring students’ access to LGBTQ+ and racially diverse books in the school library.

Hawn and Malespina were fired from their jobs, appeared in national headlines, and (in Hawn's case) faced state discipline. During the event, they will share the realities of being under attack and offer advice on creative, sustainable strategies for educators, pre-service educators, and allies to prepare and protect themselves and to fight back collaboratively.

Registration for in-person attendance is suggested, though not required.
Register for in-person attendance:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/71559
All questions during the Q&A will be accepted from the in-person audience.
LIvestream available at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96409593277

Doors to the event room open at 4:45pm.
Reception to follow the event, from 6-7pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:45:02 -0500 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 School of Education Humility Colloquium Lecture / Discussion Poster for K-12 Educators in the Crossshairs
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Queer ScientisTs Open Meeting (November 16, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115114 115114-21834065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Queer ScientisTs

Queer ScientisTs (QueST) is having an open meeting to discuss goals for next year - everyone is welcome! We'll be brainstorming issues around campus and strategies for social media outreach/visibility. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.

When: Thursday, 11/16, 5-6pm
Where: 1010 BSB (Biological Sciences Building)

Info/Discord: https://linktr.ee/quest_uofm

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:44:25 -0500 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Queer ScientisTs Social / Informal Gathering Quest Queer Scientists Logo (Beaker with Pride Flag)
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
What the F Magazine Art Fair (November 18, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114859 114859-21833705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: What the F/UAC

Mark your calendars for the What the F Magazine Art Fair! Over 30 incredibly talented women, queer, and/or BIPOC artists will be showcasing and selling their work at this year's Art Fair! There will be a range of mediums featured, including paintings, jewelry, pottery, and much more! Join us on Saturday, November 18th, from 2-6pm. You can find us at the Wolverine Room in the Union (3rd Floor.) We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:28:37 -0500 2023-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union What the F/UAC Fair / Festival What the F Magazine Art Fair Graphic
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 20, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 27, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-27T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-27T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
DAF Lab | Hostile Legislation, Digital Activism, and TransCrip Stories (November 28, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115237 115237-21834273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Accessible Futures Lab

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/EPMnk

Our social media feeds are cluttered with unending news of impending legislation, policy rollbacks, and vociferous attacks on BIPOC, transgender, queer, and disabled people. So-called “anti-woke” schooling efforts have resulted in the dismantling of DEI infrastructures in numerous universities and school districts, alongside statewide adoptions of right-wing curricula that reinvents histories on race and racism in the U.S. Anti-trans actors have successfully lobbied for bans on gender-affirming care and have spearheaded campaigns that target all domains of trans life, ranging across access to bathrooms, medicine, sports, and learning. Our home institutions have declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be over, all while immunocompromised, chronically ill, and disabled people continue to die.

In the midst of this onslaught, how do we survive, much less maintain optimism? This roundtable and workshop considers digital storying as a means for maintaining and amplifying community.


This event will be held on Zoom. We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/EPMnk

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:27:36 -0500 2023-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Accessible Futures Lab Lecture / Discussion Bright red poster, featuring three photos of speakers: V. Jo Hsu, Christina V. Cedillo, and Ada Hubrig. Five figures of various identities and presentations are illustrated at the bottom.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 30, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 30, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
World AIDS Day (November 30, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115334 115334-21834463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Come join us in learning about the experiences of people who are HIV+, over a meal. Learn more about the history of HIV/AIDS and its impact. Further, we will discuss PEP and PrEP, the resources available to protect against HIV.

This event is in collaboration with UNIFIED.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:33:46 -0500 2023-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar World AIDS Day
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023