Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
History & Healing: Reparations and Repair in Detroit & Beyond (January 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116049 116049-21836108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of History

How do we maintain and encourage an authentic commitment to AfroUrbanism by utilizing the knowledge to be found in resources such as storytelling, oral histories, and archives that center the lived experiences of Black peoples? How do projects like the Black Bottom Archives and the Friends of Royal Oak Township’s Truth Toward Reconciliation initiative help us think about the possibilities of reparations as a form of remembrance and healing?

Program

Welcome and Introductions:

Bénédicte Boisseron
Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies
University of Michigan

Opening Remarks and Framing:

Angela D. Dillard (moderator)|
Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and in the Residential College
University of Michigan

Reflections:

Lauren Hood
Founder/Director, Institute for AfroUrbanism
Associate Professor of Practice in Urban and Regional Planning
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan

Marcia Black
Director, Black Bottom Archives

Baba Cheikh Mbacké
Co-Founder, Friends of Royal Oak Township
Preceded by four-minute except of film, A Tale of Ten Cities

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Closing Remarks:
John Carson
Director, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Associate Professor, History
University of Michigan

This event is presented by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of History, and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:47:28 -0500 2024-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of History Lecture / Discussion (Courtesy Black Bottom Archives)
DSI Book Talk | "Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating" (March 7, 2024 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115995 115995-21836051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 2:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability.

Apryl Williams, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the author of Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, which has been featured on Mic.com and Mozilla Explains. Her research has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, Buzzfeed News, and Time Magazine, among others. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Google, the Mozilla Foundation, the Notre Dame IBM Technology Ethics Lab, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.

Please join us for this very special book talk, hosted by the DSI's very own Professor Apryl Williams! This will be a hybrid event, with both in-person and virtual registration options available.

Register here for in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/EPbbM

Register here for virtual attendance: https://bit.ly/3PjuY6a

CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

We would like to thank the following Department Co-Sponsors:
Department of Communication and Media
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Sociology's Gender and Sexuality Workshop
Department of Film, Television, and Media
Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing
Department of American Culture
Department of Women's and Gender Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:48:38 -0500 2024-03-07T14:30:00-05:00 2024-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 North Quad Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion An image of two people leaning out of cell phones toward one another. Hearts are floating in between their heads.