Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Sex Education from the Margins (November 2, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100882 100882-21800473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC and MESA are excited to welcome HEART for a conversation on unpacking consent and healthy relationships as well as a discussion of their book *Sex Talk: A Muslim’s Guide to Healthy Sex and Relationships*! This event will also feature a panel of SAPAC students and HEART members as they discuss their roles and impact, how intersecting identities shape decision making and thinking around sexuality and relationships, and more! Light refreshments will be provided! Event is open to all!



When: Wednesday November 2nd, 6:30-8:30pm

Where: North University Building, Room 1528



HEART is a national public-health nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sexual health, uprooting gendered violence, and advancing reproductive justice by establishing choice and access for the most impacted Muslims. Learn more about HEART here: hearttogrow.org/mission/



*Sex Talk: A Muslim’s Guide to Healthy Sex and Relationships* is a self-guided reflection workbook for Muslims to break the ice around uncomfortable conversations and create safe, healthy relationships. This resource will allow you to think critically not just about the topics of sex and healthy relationships, and violence, but also deeply reflect on how our faith and cultural identities intersect with our sexuality and the decisions we make regarding

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:59:49 -0400 2022-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 2022-11-02T20:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Lecture / Discussion Sex Education from the Margins: Unpacking Consent and Healthy Relationships
SAANference 2023: Beyond Borders (February 10, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104176 104176-21808559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The South Asian Awareness Network is proud to present our annual social justice conference Beyond Borders: Confronting Division and Forging Unity. Our theme this year aims to empower our attendees to confront oppressive borders as they exist socially and politically, cultivating meaningful solidarity in the South Asian diaspora and beyond.

This year, our keynote address will take place on February 10th at 6:30pm. Refreshments will be served. The next day on February 11th at 12:00pm, registration and lunch buffet will begin in Angell Hall Auditorium C + D. At registration, you will be assigned to one of two tracks, each with three workshops. If you are one of the first 100 attendees to show up at registration, you will receive a free tote bag as well as preference for which track you would like to be assigned to. Later that night, we will be hosting a formal where you can show up in your South Asian cultural attire for refreshments, music, and lots of dancing!

Follow us on Instagram (@um_saan) as we count down until conference! Please reach out to saan@umich.edu with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:25:29 -0500 2023-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 2023-02-10T21:00:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium SAANference 2023 flyer
SAANference 2023: Beyond Borders (February 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104176 104176-21808560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The South Asian Awareness Network is proud to present our annual social justice conference Beyond Borders: Confronting Division and Forging Unity. Our theme this year aims to empower our attendees to confront oppressive borders as they exist socially and politically, cultivating meaningful solidarity in the South Asian diaspora and beyond.

This year, our keynote address will take place on February 10th at 6:30pm. Refreshments will be served. The next day on February 11th at 12:00pm, registration and lunch buffet will begin in Angell Hall Auditorium C + D. At registration, you will be assigned to one of two tracks, each with three workshops. If you are one of the first 100 attendees to show up at registration, you will receive a free tote bag as well as preference for which track you would like to be assigned to. Later that night, we will be hosting a formal where you can show up in your South Asian cultural attire for refreshments, music, and lots of dancing!

Follow us on Instagram (@um_saan) as we count down until conference! Please reach out to saan@umich.edu with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:25:29 -0500 2023-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium SAANference 2023 flyer
27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105257 105257-21811459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event is OPEN to the public! All are welcome. Registration is NOT required.

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is a conference organized by Graduate students in Complit.

This year’s theme is “INSURGENT RESEARCH: Practice and Theory,” and will spotlight research that aspire to function as *counter-counterinsurgency,* offering models for materially resisting and challenging capitalism, colonialism, militarism, racism, the destruction of the environment, mass incarceration, policing, and so forth.

Our panelists are graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars and researchers, faculty, as well as activists from across the country and beyond.

We are excited to have Dr. Joy James as our keynote speaker for the 27th CLIFF. James is a scholar, author and activist, and the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Their academic work and public engagement address police and prison abolitionism, political imprisonment, radical feminism, and diasporic anti-Black racism.

Join us to learn about scholarship that takes the leap from theory to practice, from discourse to action, from critique to insurgency!

You can find an overview of our schedule below.

Friday, March 10th
Location: Haven Hall, Room 5670, 5th floor

10 am - 10:30 am. Breakfast

10:30 am - 10:45 am. Opening remarks by Frieda Ekotto

10:45 am - 12:15 pm. Panel 1: Counterinstitutional representations
Presenters:
Morinade Stevenson (Grad student, Emory University)
Abigail Cowan (Grad student, Pennsylvania State University)
Basmah Arshad (Grad student, University of Michigan)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm. Lunch

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 2: Spain, Mexico and Pakistan: lessons from the international insurgent past
Presenters:
Bruno Renero-Hannan (Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, SUNY)
Peter Gelderloos (Movement participant and writer)
Shehryar Qazi (Undergrad student, Cornell University)

2:45 pm - 3 pm. Coffee Break

3 pm - 4:30 pm. Panel 3: Tech-tics and theories of insurgency and counterinsurgency
Presenters:
Mike (Activist)
Max Segal (Undergrad student, University of Pittsburgh)
Samriddhi Agrawal (Grad student, New York University)

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Book signing and reading with Joy James**
**Location: Third Mind Books**
Link to event: https://tinyurl.com/jjbooksigning


Saturday, March 11th
Location: Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor

9:30 - 10 am. Breakfast

**10 am - 11:15 am. Keynote address by Joy James**

11:15 am - 11:25 am. Coffee Break

11:25 am - 12:45 pm. Panel 4: Writing the revolution: theses and rhymes
Presenters:
Tom Nomad (Researcher, Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare)
Cheryl Emerson (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm. Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 5: Part I Fugitive pedagogies: human and nonhuman bodies
Presenters:
Raechel Anne Jolie (Researcher, Cleveland Sex Workers Alliance)
Sue McRae (Grad student, University of North Texas)

2:45 pm - 2:55 pm. Coffee Break

2:55 pm - 4 pm. Panel 5: Part II
Fugitive pedagogies: practices from the Undercommons
Presenters:
Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos (Alumn, University of Michigan)
Parker Miles (Grad student, University of Michigan)

4 pm - 5 pm. Closing remarks and reception

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Conversation with Joy James and local activists**
**Location: Bridge Community Café (Ypsilanti)**

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:38:11 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Event Poster
27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (March 11, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105257 105257-21811460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event is OPEN to the public! All are welcome. Registration is NOT required.

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is a conference organized by Graduate students in Complit.

This year’s theme is “INSURGENT RESEARCH: Practice and Theory,” and will spotlight research that aspire to function as *counter-counterinsurgency,* offering models for materially resisting and challenging capitalism, colonialism, militarism, racism, the destruction of the environment, mass incarceration, policing, and so forth.

Our panelists are graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars and researchers, faculty, as well as activists from across the country and beyond.

We are excited to have Dr. Joy James as our keynote speaker for the 27th CLIFF. James is a scholar, author and activist, and the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Their academic work and public engagement address police and prison abolitionism, political imprisonment, radical feminism, and diasporic anti-Black racism.

Join us to learn about scholarship that takes the leap from theory to practice, from discourse to action, from critique to insurgency!

You can find an overview of our schedule below.

Friday, March 10th
Location: Haven Hall, Room 5670, 5th floor

10 am - 10:30 am. Breakfast

10:30 am - 10:45 am. Opening remarks by Frieda Ekotto

10:45 am - 12:15 pm. Panel 1: Counterinstitutional representations
Presenters:
Morinade Stevenson (Grad student, Emory University)
Abigail Cowan (Grad student, Pennsylvania State University)
Basmah Arshad (Grad student, University of Michigan)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm. Lunch

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 2: Spain, Mexico and Pakistan: lessons from the international insurgent past
Presenters:
Bruno Renero-Hannan (Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, SUNY)
Peter Gelderloos (Movement participant and writer)
Shehryar Qazi (Undergrad student, Cornell University)

2:45 pm - 3 pm. Coffee Break

3 pm - 4:30 pm. Panel 3: Tech-tics and theories of insurgency and counterinsurgency
Presenters:
Mike (Activist)
Max Segal (Undergrad student, University of Pittsburgh)
Samriddhi Agrawal (Grad student, New York University)

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Book signing and reading with Joy James**
**Location: Third Mind Books**
Link to event: https://tinyurl.com/jjbooksigning


Saturday, March 11th
Location: Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor

9:30 - 10 am. Breakfast

**10 am - 11:15 am. Keynote address by Joy James**

11:15 am - 11:25 am. Coffee Break

11:25 am - 12:45 pm. Panel 4: Writing the revolution: theses and rhymes
Presenters:
Tom Nomad (Researcher, Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare)
Cheryl Emerson (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm. Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 5: Part I Fugitive pedagogies: human and nonhuman bodies
Presenters:
Raechel Anne Jolie (Researcher, Cleveland Sex Workers Alliance)
Sue McRae (Grad student, University of North Texas)

2:45 pm - 2:55 pm. Coffee Break

2:55 pm - 4 pm. Panel 5: Part II
Fugitive pedagogies: practices from the Undercommons
Presenters:
Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos (Alumn, University of Michigan)
Parker Miles (Grad student, University of Michigan)

4 pm - 5 pm. Closing remarks and reception

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Conversation with Joy James and local activists**
**Location: Bridge Community Café (Ypsilanti)**

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:38:11 -0500 2023-03-11T09:30:00-05:00 2023-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Event Poster
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture (2023) (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105259 105259-21811464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Professor Evelyn Alsultany will be delivering the Spring 2023 Betty Ch'Maj Lecture on her new book, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion", that was just published. Join us for this amazing talk and stay for the reception that will follow!

Evelyn Alsultany is an associate professor at the University of Southern California and is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. media.

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

Register to join remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-6qrDMiE9Uot_-WWsK0yzoR63QaP4tB

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:47:32 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Kurdish Women's Prison Writings Crossing Borders: Translation As Feminist Solidarity (March 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104615 104615-21809730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from twenty-two Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds. In the book, the authors reflect on their personal and collective struggles against heteropatriarchal and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey, as well as the radical feminist principles and practices through which they transformed the political structures and state offices in which they operated. Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust conditions to engage in collective resistance.

The English translation of The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics, published in November 2022, was collectively undertaken by a group of twenty-six volunteer translators. So very much like the original text, the translation itself has been a product of feminist solidarity. In this panel, five members of the translation team get together to discuss the book and its English translation as part of the larger Kurdish women's movement.

Register to receive the Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/8e4dg
*This event takes place at 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:41:46 -0500 2023-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion The book cover for "THE PURPLE COLOR OF KURDISH POLITICS; Women Politicians Write from Prison; Edited by Gultan Kisanak; TRANSLATION COORDINATED BY RUKEN ISIK, EMEK ERGUN AND JANET BIEHL" is displayed in the center of the image. The bottom of the image reads "Kurdish Women's Prison Writings Crossing Borders: Translation As Feminist Solidarity".
In this Holy Place: Ritual Healing Sites in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106526 106526-21814407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Part of the Meet the Author Series. In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sick and injured visited sites associated with healing deities in order to be cured. In Palestine, ritual cures were often sought at sites associated with water, and especially at the thermal-mineral springs. This talk will show how evidence from Hammat Gader and Hammat Tiberias indicates that Jews and Christians bathed in these springs alongside devotees of Asclepius, hoping that a divine healer would appear to them in a dream and heal them. Join guest speaker Dr. Megan Nutzman April 3rd at 4:00-5:30pm in Tisch Hall, Room 1014.

Additionally, Dr. Nutzman will be leading a discussion about her book in a different location for a small group of faculty and graduate students at 9:00am. If you are interested please contact Deborah Forger at dkforger@umich.edu to register as space is limited.

*Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late antique Palestine*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:38:08 -0400 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
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