Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
PCAP Coffee Hours (June 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107964 107964-21818639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Purchase your favorite cup of Joe & join us for fun-filled mornings of creativity & conversation.

Coffee Hours Are:
Super casual.
All are invited.
PCAPers: Bring guests!
Kids welcome.
Always outside in public.
If it rains hard, we reschedule.

When: 10AM —12PM Wednesdays - May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16
Where: RoosRoast - 1155 Rosewood St b, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 May 2023 09:42:43 -0400 2023-06-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Summer Coffee Hours
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
PCAP Coffee Hours (July 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107964 107964-21818640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Purchase your favorite cup of Joe & join us for fun-filled mornings of creativity & conversation.

Coffee Hours Are:
Super casual.
All are invited.
PCAPers: Bring guests!
Kids welcome.
Always outside in public.
If it rains hard, we reschedule.

When: 10AM —12PM Wednesdays - May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16
Where: RoosRoast - 1155 Rosewood St b, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 May 2023 09:42:43 -0400 2023-07-19T10:00:00-04:00 2023-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Summer Coffee Hours
Humanize the Numbers (July 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108924 108924-21820594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Humanize the Numbers* presents the perspectives of men in Michigan prisons.

The prison system regulates every part of an inmate's identity. Instead of using their name, they are given an ID number. Visiting room photos and mug shots are tightly regulated. Personal info is recorded: height, weight, etc. In the process, their humanity is denied.

This exhibit reveals the faces and stories of those in prison. It lifts up the voices of those who have been silenced by the criminal legal system. The Humanize the Numbers project gives them a freedom not normally allowed in prison. They share their stories with the world outside. By doing so, those in prison reclaim their humanity.

Proudly presented by Prison Creative Arts Project, MI Radio, and The Guild of Artists & Artisans

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Exhibition Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:25:03 -0400 2023-07-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-07-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Buckles, 2017
Humanize the Numbers (July 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108924 108924-21820595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Humanize the Numbers* presents the perspectives of men in Michigan prisons.

The prison system regulates every part of an inmate's identity. Instead of using their name, they are given an ID number. Visiting room photos and mug shots are tightly regulated. Personal info is recorded: height, weight, etc. In the process, their humanity is denied.

This exhibit reveals the faces and stories of those in prison. It lifts up the voices of those who have been silenced by the criminal legal system. The Humanize the Numbers project gives them a freedom not normally allowed in prison. They share their stories with the world outside. By doing so, those in prison reclaim their humanity.

Proudly presented by Prison Creative Arts Project, MI Radio, and The Guild of Artists & Artisans

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Exhibition Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:25:03 -0400 2023-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Buckles, 2017
ELEVATE THE MIC (July 21, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108841 108841-21820463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Event Date: July 21, 2023 @ Ann Arbor Art Fair
Event Time: 11AM – 5PM
Venue: Stage on Main – Corner of Main and Williams, Ann Arbor
Presenting Sponsors: DTE & the Ark

Join us for an inspiring day at *ELEVATE THE MIC: Performers Uniting for Social Progress.* Experience powerful spoken word, captivating music, and heartfelt performances that advocate for positive change and social justice in our community.

Be moved by passionate artists as they use their voices and talents to shed light on pressing social issues, challenge prevailing narratives, and promote inclusivity, equality, and unity.

This event is more than just a performance. Connect with like-minded individuals, engage in meaningful conversations, and learn about organizations dedicated to social progress.

*Note: Leave your mark on the collaborative healing-centered art project at the event. Designed for creators of ANY age & ALL skill levels in the community! All materials provided.*

Event Schedule:
11 AM Youth Arts Alliance
12 PM Voices of the Underheard w/ LAITR
1 PM MI Citizens for Prison Reform
2 PM American Friends & Service Committee Band
3 PM In & On Our Own Terms, by the Linkage Community/Shakespeare in Prison Alumni

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Performance Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:14:40 -0400 2023-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Jocelyn, a spoken word performer on stage
In & On Our Own Terms (July 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108930 108930-21820606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The goal of *In And On Our Own Terms* is for each artist to tell a story from their own experience that would not typically be part of the broader narrative about mass incarceration.

The goal is not to define any artist by the experience of having been incarcerated, but rather to amplify a story that only that artist can tell—a story that is important to the artist to tell, and an opportunity to use the medium of theatre to share it with the community.

Performance Schedule:
July 21 – 3 PM
Ann Arbor Stage on Main (353 S. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104)

August 19 – 7 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

August 20 – 3 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

Doors open one hour before the performance.
Pop-up art exhibit in Detroit Public Theatre lobby.
Free & open to the public, donations welcomed.

Interested? Give us a heads-up with the link provided. (https://myumi.ch/QqpJ7)

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Performance Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:37:56 -0400 2023-07-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Artist & storyteller, Marjani, performing on stage
Humanize the Numbers (July 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108924 108924-21820596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Humanize the Numbers* presents the perspectives of men in Michigan prisons.

The prison system regulates every part of an inmate's identity. Instead of using their name, they are given an ID number. Visiting room photos and mug shots are tightly regulated. Personal info is recorded: height, weight, etc. In the process, their humanity is denied.

This exhibit reveals the faces and stories of those in prison. It lifts up the voices of those who have been silenced by the criminal legal system. The Humanize the Numbers project gives them a freedom not normally allowed in prison. They share their stories with the world outside. By doing so, those in prison reclaim their humanity.

Proudly presented by Prison Creative Arts Project, MI Radio, and The Guild of Artists & Artisans

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Exhibition Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:25:03 -0400 2023-07-22T09:00:00-04:00 2023-07-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Buckles, 2017
PCAP Coffee Hours (August 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107964 107964-21818641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Purchase your favorite cup of Joe & join us for fun-filled mornings of creativity & conversation.

Coffee Hours Are:
Super casual.
All are invited.
PCAPers: Bring guests!
Kids welcome.
Always outside in public.
If it rains hard, we reschedule.

When: 10AM —12PM Wednesdays - May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16
Where: RoosRoast - 1155 Rosewood St b, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 04 May 2023 09:42:43 -0400 2023-08-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-08-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Summer Coffee Hours
In & On Our Own Terms (August 19, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108930 108930-21820607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The goal of *In And On Our Own Terms* is for each artist to tell a story from their own experience that would not typically be part of the broader narrative about mass incarceration.

The goal is not to define any artist by the experience of having been incarcerated, but rather to amplify a story that only that artist can tell—a story that is important to the artist to tell, and an opportunity to use the medium of theatre to share it with the community.

Performance Schedule:
July 21 – 3 PM
Ann Arbor Stage on Main (353 S. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104)

August 19 – 7 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

August 20 – 3 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

Doors open one hour before the performance.
Pop-up art exhibit in Detroit Public Theatre lobby.
Free & open to the public, donations welcomed.

Interested? Give us a heads-up with the link provided. (https://myumi.ch/QqpJ7)

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Performance Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:37:56 -0400 2023-08-19T19:00:00-04:00 2023-08-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Artist & storyteller, Marjani, performing on stage
In & On Our Own Terms (August 20, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108930 108930-21820608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The goal of *In And On Our Own Terms* is for each artist to tell a story from their own experience that would not typically be part of the broader narrative about mass incarceration.

The goal is not to define any artist by the experience of having been incarcerated, but rather to amplify a story that only that artist can tell—a story that is important to the artist to tell, and an opportunity to use the medium of theatre to share it with the community.

Performance Schedule:
July 21 – 3 PM
Ann Arbor Stage on Main (353 S. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104)

August 19 – 7 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

August 20 – 3 PM
Detroit Public Theatre (3960 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)

Doors open one hour before the performance.
Pop-up art exhibit in Detroit Public Theatre lobby.
Free & open to the public, donations welcomed.

Interested? Give us a heads-up with the link provided. (https://myumi.ch/QqpJ7)

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Performance Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:37:56 -0400 2023-08-20T15:00:00-04:00 2023-08-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Artist & storyteller, Marjani, performing on stage
The Andalus of the Possible (September 7, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110958 110958-21825916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde in 1983, Palestinian poet Mamud Darwish called Palestine “the Andalus of the possible.” Taking inspiration from Darwish’s words, this talk asks: what has the memory of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) made possible for Palestinian writers and thinkers? Since the early twentieth century, several prominent Palestinian writers have turned to the memory of al-Andalus to reflect on the political plight of their homeland, to decry occupation and cultural erasure, and to imagine a future for Palestine. Drawing on examples from this long tradition of Palestinian writing about al-Andalus, this talk maps the intersection of two diasporic imaginaries that have crisscrossed the Mediterranean: the Andalusi imaginary and the Palestinian one.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:17:21 -0400 2023-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Andalus Image
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture | Haiti's Current Crisis: A Human Rights Perspective (September 18, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111636 111636-21827351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Moderator: Bénédicte Boisseron, Professor and Chair of the Department of AfroAmerican and African Studies, and affiliate faculty in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature.

This in-person event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Human rights violations are systematic in Haiti. The situation has worsened considerably since the multiplication of massacres in 2018 and the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021. The gangs control large areas of the country and practice a scorched-earth policy. Haitian journalist Roberson Alphonse will share his observations on the Haitian tragedy.

Roberson Alphonse is head of national news at le Nouvelliste, Haiti’s oldest and largest daily newspaper, where he has covered topics including the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the mismanagement of international aid, gang violence, and the introduction of cholera to Haiti by UN Nepalese peacekeepers. Alphonse is also the director of information at Radio Magik9, where he hosts a popular daily program. He survived an assassination attempt in October of 2022 and was able to flee to Miami. He has continued hosting his radio show from the United States and was a candidate for the 2023 UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize for Press Freedom.

Currently, Roberson Alphonse is working on his Knight Wallace project "Helping Haitian Journalists Navigate an Increasingly Volatile Press Environment". Haiti is a resilient country with vast potential and deep-rooted struggles with poverty and violence. Gangs have strengthened their territorial hold on Haiti’s capital city, the judiciary strains to function, and murders– including multiple recent murders of journalists– frequently go unsolved. Alphonse’s research will seek out training methods and international partnerships that could bolster protections for journalists and help nurture a culture of media safety in Haiti and elsewhere.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:26:42 -0400 2023-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Lecture | Haiti's Current Crisis: A Human Rights Perspective
Organize Against the Machine: Labor's Response to AI (September 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112291 112291-21828764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

This is an event that explores the dynamic intersection of labor and automation. In a world shadowed by AI-driven job displacement, this event addresses the vital questions: How can we preserve the dignity and value of human workers in an increasingly automated environment? What strategies can we employ to adapt without losing our essential humanity? Join us on this series of events as we navigate the future of work, and the quest to uphold human dignity amid the rise of automation.

The event will feature a panel discussion with labor and technology experts, Elizabeth Faue, Molly Kleinman, Merve Hickok, and Lionel Robert. Seating is limited, register today!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:25:09 -0400 2023-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion Man holding sign of protest
Sonic Contributions (September 22, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Sonic Contributions (September 23, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Paint OUT (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109473 109473-21822072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for an IMMERSIVE public art-making workshop to explore the power of arts and send goodwill to the thousands of people incarcerated in Michigan.

Free & open to the public. All ages & abilities welcome!
Food tickets & SWAG bags available to the first 200 guests.

Ingalls Mall North
881 N University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Presented in collaboration with American Friends Service Committee & Nation Outside

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:46:22 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering Neon green hand print over pink dripping spray paint on black background.
Michigan in Washington Fall 2023 Application Deadline (October 2, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110233 110233-21824612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington program is accepting applications for Winter 2024 and early admission to Fall 2024. The deadline is October 2nd and applications are available on M-Compass. Info Session: September 12th and 19th at 6:00 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99157149437

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Meeting Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:35:22 -0400 2023-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
Global Advocacy, Local Impact: 7th Annual Advocacy Symposium (October 4, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110388 110388-21824859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/1Aypx

Click here to access the full interactive program: https://myumi.ch/35wk9

This year’s symposium brings together local and global advocates whose work inspires change. We invite you to become part of the conversation around ending violence toward women and girls, the power of lived experience to promote systems change, and the impact of intergenerational feminist mentorship. Participate in workshops focused on Navigating Gender in AI, Supporting Non-traditional Students, Empowered Communication, and Mindful Self-Compassion and Self-Advocacy. The symposium will culminate with a keynote by international scholar Marina Alsahawneh, Gender and Inclusion Officer at Jordan Open Source Association. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Free and open to all. RSVP at myumi.ch/1Aypx.

Registration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26th.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:43:20 -0400 2023-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium Symposium flyer
The Impact of AI on the Lives and Rights of Women in the US and the Middle East (October 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113519 113519-21831110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Overview: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of our society and our lives. However, just like any emerging technology, AI’s impact varies greatly for different demographic groups, in different geographic regions, and is shaped by social conventions, culture, religion, economic realities, among many other factors. We invite everyone who is interested in understanding the impact of AI to join Marina Alsahawneh and Merve Hickok for a discussion of the impact of AI on women in the US and the Middle East. They will discuss gender biases in AI algorithms, opportunities and gender inequity in the AI-enabled workforce, and cyber-based violence against women. They will discuss how these intersect with the political, social, cultural, economic and religious features of different geographic regions.

Speakers:
Marina Alsahawneh, Gender and Inclusion Officer at Jordan Open Source Association

Merve Hickok, Responsible Data & AI Advisor, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Moderator:
Jing Liu, Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science

More information and registration here: https://midas.umich.edu/ai-womens-rights/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:36:50 -0400 2023-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion AI-generated image of a woman in profile with abstract geometric designs
Wallenberg Medal and Lecture | Lucas Benitez, Farmworker Leader (October 10, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105004 105004-21810558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallenberg Lecture

Lucas Benitez, a co-founder of the Florida-based labor and human rights organization the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and a key organizational leader and member of the CIW’s Fair Food Program worker education team, will receive the Wallenberg Medal and deliver the keynote Wallenberg Lecture at 7:30pm on October 10th in Rackham Auditorium.

In addition to being one of the earliest farmworker leaders in the Fair Food movement, Benitez played a critical role in the investigation of several slavery cases, helping to free over 700 farmworkers in one case alone.

Born in Guerrero, Mexico, Mr. Benitez migrated at the age of 16 to Immokalee, Florida where he worked in the tomato fields. Working conditions, including poor wages, long hours, and a climate of intimidation and violence, prompted him to act and eventually to help found the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Since it was founded in 1993, the CIW has used a range of strategies to raise awareness about working conditions for farmworkers and to advocate for their basic human rights. In addition to being one of the earliest farmworker leaders in the Fair Food movement, Benitez played a critical role in the investigation of several trafficking and slave labor cases, helping to free over 700 farmworkers in one case alone.

For his work with the CIW, Benitez has been called “one of the most visible farmworker leaders in the US” by the Los Angeles Times. On behalf of the Fair Food Program, Lucas Benitez traveled to the White House to accept the 2015 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Also on behalf of the Fair Food Program, he accepted the 2014 Clinton Global Citizen Award and the 2016 James Beard Leadership Award. Benitez has won numerous national and international awards, including the Rolling Stone Magazine Brick Award for “America’s Best Young Community Leader,” the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award, and, along with two co-workers, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

“Lucas Benitez’s work with the CIW reflects the ongoing need for frontline advocates for vulnerable people in our society. This movement harnesses the economic influence of consumers to improve working conditions, labor practices, and pay for farmworkers through its worker-led, market-enforced approach to the protection of human rights underlying corporate supply chains,” said Sioban Harlow, Professor Emerita of Epidemiology and Global Public Health and chair of the Wallenberg Medal Selection Committee.

The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture honors the legacy of Raoul Wallenberg who graduated from U-M’s College of Architecture in 1935 and saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews near the end of World War II. In 1944, at the request of Jewish organizations and the American War Refugee Board, the Swedish Foreign Ministry sent Wallenberg on a rescue mission to Budapest. Over the course of six months, Wallenberg issued thousands of protective passports and placed many thousands of Jews in safe houses throughout the besieged city. He confronted Hungarian and German forces to secure the release of Jews, whom he claimed were under Swedish protection, and saved more than 80,000 lives.

Administered by the University’s Donia Human Rights Center, U-M awards the Wallenberg Medal to those who, through their actions and personal commitment, perpetuate Wallenberg’s extraordinary accomplishments and human values, and demonstrate the capacity of the human spirit to stand up for the helpless, to defend the integrity of the powerless, and to speak out on behalf of the voiceless.

The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture ceremony is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Please direct any inquiries about the event and requests for event accommodations to wallenberglecture@umich.edu or 734-936-3973.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:36:14 -0400 2023-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-10T21:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallenberg Lecture Lecture / Discussion Wallenberg Medal and Lecture | The 28th Wallenberg Lecture
Dinner for Democracy: Immigration Policy (October 11, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112310 112310-21828777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 7:00pm
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 Immigration 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 11:48:32 -0400 2023-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
Dinner for Democracy: Voting Access (October 12, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112312 112312-21828780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 7:00pm
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 Voting Access 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 11:55:22 -0400 2023-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
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
Dinner for Democracy: Immigration Policy (October 19, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112315 112315-21828782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00pm
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 Immigration 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 12:00:19 -0400 2023-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
More Than "First Do No Harm": Modeling Global Engagement with the U-M/Ghana Partnership (October 19, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112776 112776-21829537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

More Than "First Do No Harm": Modeling Global Engagement with the U-M/Ghana Partnership

Timothy R.B. Johnson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's & Gender Studies

Thursday, October 19, 2023; 7:00 pm

In 1986, Tim Johnson, then chair of obstetrics and gynecology in the U-M Medical School, traveled to Ghana as part of an initial group of Americans to reestablish relationships in medicine. The experience transformed him. Confronted with a shockingly high rate of maternal deaths that could have been prevented in the United States, Dr. Johnson launched a partnership with Ghanaian institutions for training Ob/Gyn health workers -- an unusual and singularly successful partnership, between U-M and Ghana, that continues to this day. The Ob/Gyn partnership led to further collaborations between U-M and Ghana, in other medical fields and beyond, including the social sciences and humanities. We are very excited to host this session with Dr. Johnson in connection with his new book on the partnership, More Than "First Do No Harm," which demonstrates that the partnership serves as vital model for global health collaborations.

Timothy Johnson MD is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan where he was Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for twenty-four years. He is a high- risk obstetrician, and his research interests are fetal behavior, prenatal care, medical education and capacity building for health, global women’s health, global health ethics, and assessment and prevention of sexual harassment in academic medicine. He is active in international teaching and training. In 2022 he received the (UM) President’s Award for Distinguished Service in International Education. He has authored over 300 articles, chapters and books, and is an elected member of the (US) National Academy of Medicine.

For those attending in person, the event will be followed by tours of the Observatory, with observing if weather permits.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:36:56 -0400 2023-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion The history of the Ob/Gyn partnership that led to further collaborations between U-M and Ghana.
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Flexible Formal Privacy for Public Data Curation (November 1, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114344 114344-21832762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 1, 2023
12;00 - 1:00 pm EDT

In person, room 1070 Institute for Social Research, and via Zoom.
The Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation.

Flexible Formal Privacy for Public Data Curation

Researchers rely extensively on public datasets disseminated by official statistics agencies, universities, non-governmental organizations, and other data curators. With the increasing availability of data and computing power comes increased threats to privacy, as published statistics can more easily be used to reconstruct sensitive personal data. Formal privacy (FP) methods, like differential privacy (DP), provably limit such information leakage by injecting carefully chosen randomized noise into published statistics. However, the way DP accounts for privacy degradation requires this noise be injected into every statistic dependent on the confidential dataset. This fails to reflect data curator needs, social, legal or ethical requirements, and complex dependency structures between public and confidential datasets. In this talk, I'll discuss statistical methodology that addresses these problems. We propose a FP framework with novel characterizations of disclosure risk when assessing collections of statistics wherein only some statistics are published with DP guarantees. We demonstrate FP properties maintained by our proposed framework, propose data release mechanisms which satisfy our proposed definition, and prove the optimality properties of downstream statistical estimators based on these mechanism outputs. For this talk, I'll discuss a few end-to-end data analysis examples in public health and surveys, showing how theoretical trade-offs between privacy, utility, and computation time manifest in practice when assessing disclosure risks and statistical utility. I'll conclude with a discussion on the implications of this work for survey researchers, focusing on opportunities to incorporate privacy by design in survey planning, experimental design, and other data collection operations.

Jeremy Seeman is a Michigan Data Science Fellow at the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and MPSDS. He recently graduated with his PhD in statistics from Penn State University. Jeremy's research focuses on statistical data privacy, quantitative methods in the social sciences, and social values in data governance. He is the recipient of the U.S Census Bureau Dissertation Fellowship and the ASA Pride Scholarship. Prior to joining Penn State, Jeremy completed his BS in Physics and MS in Statistics at the University of Chicago, where he was a research fellow at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:35:41 -0400 2023-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2023-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
DakhaBrakha (November 3, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109619 109619-21822413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world has become more attuned to the incredible bravery, resilience, and determination of the Ukrainian people. The folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha embraces and reflects the fundamental elements of sound and soul, creating a world of unexpected new music. The group’s name is original, outstanding, and authentic at the same time, meaning “give/take” in the old Ukrainian language and signaling the group’s unique brand of musical “ethno-chaos.”

Created in 2004 by an avant-garde theater director, their shows include scenic effects, traditional instrumentation, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range that creates an exuberant, transnational sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. “Musically, the whole experience is a riotous explosion of color and reinvention. The classic Eastern European folk base is there, with belting, complex, and hypnotic harmonies.” (Hackney Citizen, UK)

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Performance Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:23:15 -0400 2023-11-03T19:30:00-04:00 2023-11-03T21:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance DakhaBrakha
Breaking Barriers with Dance Movement Therapy: Kolkata Sanved's Journey of Healing Activism with Model Sampoornata (November 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112214 112214-21828605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/sohini-chakraborty-ph-d-2023-cew-mullin-welch-endowed-lecture

We are pleased to introduce Dr. Sohini Chakraborty to the U-M community on November 14 at 4:00pm when she joins us in person at the Michigan League, Hussey Room, to share her story and her work.

Dr. Sohini Chakraborty, a sociologist and dance activist, is the founder of Kolkata Sanved and was featured in the 2017 documentary Little Stones by filmmaker and former CEW+ Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist Sophia Kruz. Dr. Chakraborty’s decades-long pursuit of helping empower and reintegrate survivors of gender-based violence and at-risk children through the Sanpoornata approach to dance movement therapy by creating a grassroots network is the focus of her new book "Dance Movement Therapy and Psycho-social Rehabilitation: The Sampoornata Model".

Dr. Chakroborty was selected as the 2023 CEW+ Mullin Welch Endowed Lecture scholar because her life, scholarship, and activism show creativity, strength of character, and expansive vision. These qualities are shared with Elizabeth Mullin Welch for whom the lecture is named.

Dr. Sohini Chakraborty, an Ashoka fellow, sociologist, dance activist, and dance movement therapist, is the founder/director of Kolkata Sanved. A pioneer of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) in India and South Asia, she created a pool of DMT practitioners from the grassroots level, including survivors, and envisioned and created the Sampoornata Model. She is one of 100 global women leaders recognized by Vital Voices. Her writing has been published in more than 20 national and international journals and books. Sohini was instrumental in launching one of the country’s first Diploma DMT programmes in 2012 with the Center for Lifelong Learning, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has received multiple national and international awards for her innovation, leadership, outstanding achievement, and inspiration.

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Ann Arbor's family-owned independent bookshop Booksweet is offering 20% off Chakraborty's book, Dance Movement Therapy and Psycho-Social Rehabilitation: The Sampoornata Model, for all web orders placed by Monday, November 6 at 11:59 pm with the promo code CEW+.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:21:36 -0500 2023-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Sohini Chakraborty, sociologist and dance activist
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | A Discussion on Disability Justice, Human Rights, and the Politics of Space (November 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114550 114550-21833039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Moderator: Robert Adams, Associate Professor of Architecture at Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Director of University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies, Associate Professor of Art and Design at Stamps School of Art and Design.

This in-person event is free and open to the public but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you’ve registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/zwA6Z

Historically, disability studies is anchored to the humanities, which generates a tremendous volume of discourse on disability through activism and advocacy, creative practice, and justice-informed frameworks. However, within the academy and society at large, perceptions, perspectives, and approaches to disability are more volatile. Physicians tend to understand disability as a therapeutic object to be diagnosed, ameliorated, and cured. Engineers engage disability as a problem to be solved through technical means. Artists and designers work through disability to motivate a range of creative practices. Architects and urbanists leverage disability narratives around mobility and accessibility but often fail to accede to the demands of disabled people in terms of equity and inclusion in public life. Everyone appears well-intentioned but often intention becomes oppressive, pathologizing, and isolating. A civil understanding of human rights remains contested.This panel is convening as a form of repair across disciplinary divides; in order, hopefully, to foster greater connection and, perhaps empathy in the process of our collective work.

Crystal Lee is an assistant professor in computational media and design at MIT with a joint appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing and Comparative Media Studies / Writing. She works broadly on research related to ethical tech, social media, data visualization, and disability. This research has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the MIT Programs for Digital Humanities. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she co-leads the Ethical Tech Working Group, and a senior fellow at Mozilla. She graduated with high honors from Stanford University and completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is a queer, disabled, and East Asian advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer. They are the Director of Public Policy at the National Disability Institute, which works to advance economic opportunity and freedom for people with disabilities. Lydia is also the founding Executive Director of the Autistic People of Color Fund, which advocates for disability, racial, and economic justice with a focus on building generative economies and just transition while providing mutual aid, peer support, and community-funded reparations. They bring nearly 15 years of experience as a committed advocate, community organizer, and policy expert at the nexus of disability rights and disability justice. Lydia has spoken, facilitated, and consulted internationally and throughout the U.S. on a range of topics related to disability rights and disability justice, especially at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and has published in numerous scholarly and community publications. Their work addresses the deep interconnections between ableism and other forms of systemic discrimination, marginalization, and oppression, and has often focused on interpersonal, state, and corporate violence, deprivation, and exploitation targeting disabled people at the margins of the margins. Lydia holds a lecturer appointment in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, as well as serving as Self-Advocacy Discipline Coordinator for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Fellowship program at the Georgetown University Medical Center. They are also an adjunct professorial lecturer in American Studies in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. Lydia serves as Vice Chair and Past President of the Disability Rights Bar Association and Disability Justice Committee representative on the National Lawyers Guild board. They are currently creating Disability Justice Wisdom Tarot. Lydia was formerly Policy Counsel for Privacy & Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, focused on algorithmic discrimination and disability; and Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. They are a former member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, visiting faculty at Tufts University, and chairperson of the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council.

Eman Rimawi-Doster is a Black and Palestinian woman, born and raised in NYC. For 26 years, she’s been organizing around diversity, equity, and inclusion in disenfranchised communities, while using art, writing, fashion, creativity, and organizing to bring the conversation to the community. She learned about taking action and having integrity from her father. She has made it her life’s mission to change the things that need a push in a more inclusive direction. She is committed to educating people on the interconnectedness of disability within multiple communities.

Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C is Associate Staff Bioethicist at Cleveland Clinic with faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She has worked as a clinical ethicist for hospital systems since 2015, combining bedside consultation with policy development and ethics education. She received her PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University in 2017. Her research focuses on disability bioethics, psychiatric ethics, and the nature of vulnerability in clinical contexts. She regularly presents at national and international conferences and publishes in prominent bioethics journals. She co-authored Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition with Robert M. Veatch (Routledge, 2020). In 2020, she contributed to numerous projects and educational initiatives related to COVID-19, including those for her institution and national guidelines through the Hastings Center.

Robert Adams [MArch, SCI-Arc] is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, with faculty appointments in the Stamps School of Art & Design and Digital Studies Institute. Additionally, Robert directs the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies. Robert’s research focuses on the interplay between architecture and responsive environments, disability culture, and health infrastructure. His design work prototypes spatial strategies to de-stress the workplace by enhancing a sense of well-being, social connection, and mindfulness. Robert co-founded B.A.S.E. Beijing Architecture Studio Enterprise in 2005, and has extensive experience working in China where he consults with disability rights organizations, and collaborates with other artists and designers. Adams+Gilpin Design Studio was established in Los Angeles in 1996 with his partner Dawn Gilpin, who is also a faculty member in architecture at Taubman College. A+GDS is currently integrating LiDAR 3D scanning technology to document significant works of architecture, indigenous sites, and industrial landscapes in the United States and Mexico that make cultural artifacts accessible to a broader audience through immersive extended reality narratives. Robert identifies as disabled.

*This event is cosponsored by the Digital Accessible Futures (AF) Lab*.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:59:46 -0500 2023-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Panel | A Discussion on Disability Justice, Human Rights, and the Politics of Space
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 15, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Freedom House Detroit (November 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114942 114942-21833838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Interested in Human Rights? This is Freedom House.

Join the RC French program to learn more about how YOU can get involved.

Freedom House Detroit is a non-profit organization that supports and empowers refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection.

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Presentation Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:02:43 -0500 2023-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation A flyer describing Freedom House Detroit with linked hands in the background
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 16, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-16T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 17, 2023 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 7:30am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-17T07:30:00-05:00 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 18, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 18, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: A time to Celebrate or to Mourn? (November 30, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114737 114737-21833399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Discussion featuring Steven Ratner, Karima Bennoune, and Christopher Fariss, with a light reception to follow.

Discussion: 4:30-6:00pm
Reception: 6:00-6:30pm

This December will mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A response to the catastrophe of the Second World War, the UDHR still represents the most significant and transformative global commitment to human rights. The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the Declaration's legacy and the significant obstacles to achieving its promise. Three human rights professors from within the University will discuss the hopes of the framers, evidence of concrete results, and current developments that call into question the commitment of key global actors to the rights in the UDHR.

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

Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues, including state and corporate duties regarding foreign investment, territorial and ethnic-based disputes, civil and interstate armed conflict, and accountability for human rights violations. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues.

Ratner came to the Law School in 2004 from the University of Texas School of Law. A member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1998 to 2008, he began his legal career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US State Department.

In 1998–1999, the United Nations (UN) secretary-general appointed him to a three-person group of experts to consider options for bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice. And in 2010–2011, he was a member of the UN's three-person Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, which advised the secretary-general on human rights violations related to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. Since 2022, he has been a commissioner on the UN Human Rights Council's three-person International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.

Ratner also worked in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and at the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in The Hague. From 2009 to 2021, he was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. He also is a counsellor of the American Society of International Law and a member of the American Law Institute. He has served as an expert on international investment law in various arbitrations and established. At the Law School, he directs the Geneva International Fellows Program.

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Karima Bennoune
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Karima Bennoune, '94, is the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She specializes in public international law and international human rights law, including issues related to culture, extremism and terrorism, and women’s human rights.

Bennoune served as the UN special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015 to 2021. She also was appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, which concerned intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites in Mali. In September 2023, she addressed the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

Since 2018, she has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), and in 2021 she also joined the editorial team of AJIL Unbound, the journal’s electronic publication. A former legal adviser for Amnesty International, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world.

From 2012 to 2022, Bennoune served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, becoming the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law and a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Previously, she taught at the Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where she was professor of law and the Arthur L. Dickson Scholar. She received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.

Her courses have included International Law; International Protection of Human Rights; Terrorism and International Law; The Impact of 9/11 on International Law; Transnational Law; Women’s Human Rights; Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights Law; the United Nations Human Rights Practicum; and a course called Law and the Arab Spring, which drew from her fieldwork in North Africa. When Bennoune first taught at the University of Michigan Law School in 2001, she won the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in teaching.

Her book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, received the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. Released by W.W. Norton & Company in August 2013 and in paperback in 2014, the book addresses the work of many people of Muslim heritage against extremism and terrorism. The related field research took her to numerous countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Pakistan, and Russia. The TED talk based on the book, “When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism,” has received more than 1.5 million views.

Bennoune’s academic publications have appeared in many leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the European Journal of International Law. They have been widely cited, including on Slate and in the Nation magazine, the Dallas Morning News, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as by the UN Special Rapporteurs on violence against women and on protecting human rights while countering terrorism.

Her article, “Terror/Torture,” was designated one of the top 10 global security law review articles of 2008 by Oxford University Press. Her topical writing has been published by the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Open Democracy, and Reuters.

Making frequent media appearances, Bennoune has spoken on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360,” CNN International, MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Fox Business News, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Service, BBC Radio, CBC-Radio, HuffPost Live, Radio France Internationale, and the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. She has been interviewed by many publications, including Charlie Hebdo, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, and the International Herald Tribune.

In 2007, Bennoune became the first Arab-American to win the Derrick Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law. In 2017, she was named one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Currently, she sits on the Scholar Advisory Board of Muslims for Progressive Values.

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Christopher J. Fariss
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Christopher Fariss is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. In June 2013, he graduated with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego. His core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. He uses computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods and research design. These methodological tools, essential for analyzing data at massive scale, open up new insights into the micro-foundations of state repression and the politics of measurement.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:49:24 -0500 2023-11-30T16:30:00-05:00 2023-11-30T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Panel | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: A time to Celebrate or to Mourn?
*Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution* Workshop with Marlene L. Daut (January 23, 2024 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117270 117270-21839081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

We will be discussing Professor Daut's new book, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). The event will be on Tuesday, January 23, from 11:30AM to 1:00PM in the 4th Floor Commons of the Modern Languages Building.

Awakening the Ashes is available online at https://myumi.ch/n7MXm

Participants are encouraged to read the Introduction and Part II of the book.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:35:30 -0500 2024-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2024-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop / Seminar *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution* Workshop with Marlene L. Daut
Dinner for Democracy: Medicaid Expansion (January 23, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116289 116289-21836568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:48:44 -0500 2024-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2024-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 25, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116881 116881-21838140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 6:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please join us to learn about the Michigan in Washington program and how it can help you achieve your career goals. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96067832605

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Meeting Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:15:10 -0500 2024-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 2024-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
Dinner for Democracy: Campaign Finance (January 31, 2024 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116290 116290-21836569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:49:08 -0500 2024-01-31T07:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
Heat & Health: Co-Producing Solutions for Passive Cooling in Self-Built Housing (February 2, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117085 117085-21838620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Climate change is already having dramatic effects on human health and well-being. How are we adapting to these new realities and mitigating health risks for the world’s most vulnerable communities? Join us for the third seminar of the series: Climate Vulnerability & Health — How are we Responding?

In this talk, Dr. Pimentel Walker and Dr. Junghans will explore innovative housing solutions for climate resilience in self-built settlements in São Paulo, Brazil and Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Register: https://myumi.ch/Qqy5E


Full description:
Heat is a growing health risk aggravated by expanding urbanization, an increase in high-temperature extremes, and demographic changes. Communities living in precarious settlements are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme heat. Although building techniques to improve indoor thermal comfort can be an adaptation option, we lack design research tailored to the realities of self-built homes. Design research for passive cooling frequently stems from building standards in the Global North. In the Global South, these strategies target middle-class buildings, with higher-end formal construction built by design professionals and engineers.

This pilot project conducted an ethnographic account of auto-construction practices and constraints in two informal and precarious settlements in São Paulo, Brazil, and Bucaramanga, Colombia. The computational simulations identified interventions that theoretically improve occupant thermal comfort by increasing air velocity and lowering indoor temperatures, ultimately reducing heat stress. Our collaborative research in Burkina Faso has already implemented interventions, and it is in the assessment stage. However, are all identified passive cooling strategies equally feasible and responsive to community expectations? Working with community members and their advocacy networks, we plan to co-develop passive cooling strategies that are desirable and achievable, amplifying the voices of low-income residents in the policy agendas for climate and housing justice.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:23:13 -0500 2024-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Livestream / Virtual A blue graphic advertising an upcoming lecture hosted by the Center of Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan titled Heat & Health: Co-Producing Solutions for Passive Cooling in Self-Built Housing.
Dinner for Democracy: Climate Change and Wealth Inequality (February 7, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116291 116291-21836570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:49:32 -0500 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
Michigan in Washington Information Session (February 8, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116881 116881-21838141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please join us to learn about the Michigan in Washington program and how it can help you achieve your career goals. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96067832605

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Meeting Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:15:10 -0500 2024-02-08T18:30:00-05:00 2024-02-08T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
Dinner for Democracy: The Importance of Primaries (February 13, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116292 116292-21836571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:50:00 -0500 2024-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
The Innocents featuring Allen Otte and John Lane (February 14, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116702 116702-21837824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Wednesday, February 14
7:00pm
Keene Theater, East Quad
701 E. University Ave.
Free and open to the public
*Light reception to follow post-performance discussion*


A post-performance discussion will follow with The Innocents (Allen Otte and John Lane), David Moran, Clinical Professor of Law and co-founder of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, and Richard Phillips, a client of the Michigan Innocence Clinic who was exonerated in 2018 & 2022 after serving 45 years in prison.

The Innocents is social justice advocacy through performance art. The work is an effort to delve deeply into the most current issues surrounding the core subject of wrongful imprisonment and exoneration, as well as a commitment to connect with the communities in which it is performed. The duo has embraced their role as advocates through the realization that their work cuts to the emotional core of the human experience surrounding these issues.

Using a variety of found-object and home-made instruments, electronic soundscapes, and spoken texts, performer-composers John Lane and Allen Otte have devised a one-hour dramatic soundscape comprised of at least seventeen individual tableaus which endeavor to explore various aspects of the issues surrounding wrongful imprisonment and exoneration in the American criminal justice system: mistaken identity, incarceration, injustice, politics, psychology, and resilience.

The texts spoken in the work are derived from a variety of sources: various historic prison diaries/poetry, interrogation transcripts, Google autocomplete, Thomas Jefferson, Jax (a female prisoner in the Oklahoma State Prison system), Mark Godsey (former NY prosecutor, author of Blind Injustice), captured Chicago police scan chatter, among many other sources. In an effort to make their work relevant, each major performance has originally crafted tableaus (texts and or music) that directly resonate with the local communities in which the duo is performing.

Allen Otte came to the University of Cincinnati in 1977 with the Blackearth Percussion Group and in 1979 founded the world-renowned ensemble, Percussion Group Cincinnati. Otte has regularly taught, given master classes, and presented his own creative work—solo and collaborative—throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

John Lane is an artist whose creative work and collaborations extend through percussion to poetry/spoken word and theater. As a performer, he has appeared on stages throughout the Americas, Australia, and Japan. He is currently Professor of Percussion at Sam Houston State University. Together they have performed The Innocents throughout the United States, including at The MLK Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, the International Innocence Network Conference, the Global Center for Democracy and Journalism at Sam Houston State University, the Woody Guthrie Center, and numerous schools and universities.
https://www.the-innocents.com

Presented by the Center for World Performance Studies with support from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Prison Creative Arts Project.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at cwps.information@umich.edu or call 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:50:28 -0500 2024-02-14T19:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T20:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance The Innocents
Wit(h)nessing Aids (February 19, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115711 115711-21835412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Speaker: Julián Gutiérrez Albilla, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at University of Souther California. His interests include Spanish and Latin American Cinema, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Memory. Among his books are Aesthetics, Ethics, and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2017) and Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, this talk will reflect on Bracha L. Ettinger´s matrixial psychoanalysis´ explicit and implicit contribution to feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies by focusing on the representation and creation of affective relationships and border spaces of co-emergence and co-affection, thus creating and allegorizing trans-subjective encounters between artistic practices and spectators. This talk will present some of the aesthetic, ethical, and political implications underpinning Ettingerian psychoanalysis by emphasizing the dialogue and the productive tensions between Ettinger’s theoretical propositions and one of her most important interlocutors, namely Lacan. On the other hand, this paper focuses on finitude, mourning, and trans-subjectivity to offer a historical and theoretical account of how Spanish and Latin American visual artists and filmmakers have reflected, responded to, or remembered the AIDS epidemic since the 1980s. Drawing on Ettinger’s matrixial psychoanalysis, my talk conceives queer art and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s as a trans-subjective encounter between the spectator and the traces of individual and collective trauma that moves us beyond our individual and finite limits of ego, identity, and body. Emphasizing the transformative aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of this kind of trans-subjective mourning, my paper uses Ettinger’s term “wit(h)ness”—that is, bearing witness to and with the other—to describe how Spanish and Latin American queer artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and ‘90s used their art and cinema to engage audiences in a trans-subjective processing of the traumas associated with the loss, illness, and mortality exposed by the AIDS virus, while simultaneously gesturing towards an aesthetic, ethical, and political transformation in the way that individuals relate to each other.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:11:50 -0500 2024-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Wit(h)nessing Aids Poster
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture | The Role of an Activist Artist, Playwright/Librettist, in Post-Genocide Cambodia and in Human Rights (March 4, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115924 115924-21835828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register at: https://myumi.ch/EPqMM

Moderator: Dr. Nachiket Chanchani, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art.

The role of activist artists (broadly conceived to include theater actors and librettists) in bearing witness, nurturing empathy, and peacebuilding in post-genocide Cambodia where severe human rights violations and other grievous injustices are rampant. The talk is in conjunction with Museum Exhibition: Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition following the event.

CATHERINE FILLOUX is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s new play “How to Eat an Orange” was commissioned by INTAR and is premiering at La MaMa in New York City. Her new musical “Welcome to the Big Dipper” (composer Jimmy Roberts, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”) premieres Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York City; it is a National Alliance for Musical Theatre finalist and received a workshop at the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY (Hunter Foster, AD). Catherine’s new play “White Savior” was nominated for The Venturous Play List. Her plays have been produced nationally, internationally and have been widely anthologized and written about. Filloux is the librettist for four produced operas: “Orlando” (composer Olga Neuwirth) is the first opera by a woman composer-librettist team in the history of the Vienna State Opera and is the 2022 Grawemeyer Award winner. Catherine has traveled for her plays to conflict-zones including Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq,
Morocco, and to Sudan and South Sudan on an overseas reading tour with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.

Filloux’s plays include: her livestream web drama “turning your body into a compass” at CultureHub, NYC; “whatdoesfreemean?” at Nora’s Playhouse, NYC; “Kidnap Road”, La MaMa, NYC; “Selma ‘65”, NYC and U.S. tour; “Luz”, La MaMa and Looking for Lilith in Louisville, KY. “Dog and Wolf” (59E59 Theaters/Watson Arts, NYC and “Dog and Wolf” Community Outreach Project.); “Killing the Boss” (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC); “Lemkin’s House” (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia); “The Beauty Inside” (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia; also translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Rabat, Morocco; and produced in Iraq, in Kurdish by ArtRole.) “Eyes of the Heart” (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC); “Silence of God” (Contemporary American Theater Festival [CATF], WV); “Mary and Myra” (CATF and Todd Mountain Theater, NY); “Arthur’s War” (commissioned by Theatreworks/ USA, NYC); “Photographs From S-21”, a short play produced throughout the world; “Escuela del Mundo” (commissioned by The Ohio State University, Columbus and Ohio tour.)

Other opera productions: “New Arrivals” (Houston Grand Opera, composer John Glover); “Where Elephants Weep” (Chenla Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, composer Him Sophy) broadcast on Cambodian national television and Broadway on Demand; “The Floating Box” (Asia Society, NYC, composer Jason Kao Hwang) an Opera News Critic’s Choice and released by New World Records. Filloux is the librettist for the new operas “Blued Trees” (producer Aviva Rahmani; composer Julia Schwartz) and Thresh’s “L’Orient” (composer Kamala Sankaram; choreographer Preeti Vasudevan.)

Filloux was invited to Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Henry Smith Artist in Residence Programme with The Derry Playhouse and served as a Juror for Sarajevo’s MES International Theater Festival in Bosnia. She developed the Oral History Project “A Circle of Grace” with the Cambodian Women's Group at St. Rita’s Refugee Center in Bronx, NY. Filloux was Playwright Facilitator for the International Playwright Retreat at La MaMa Umbria in Italy and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She received her French Baccalaureate in Philosophy with Honors in Toulon, France, and her M.F.A. at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, NYC. Catherine is featured in the documentary film “Acting Together on the World Stage" and is the co-founder/co-director of Theatre Without Borders. www.catherinefilloux.com

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:30:07 -0500 2024-03-04T17:30:00-05:00 2024-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Lecture | The Role of an Activist Artist, Playwright/Librettist, in Post-Genocide Cambodia and in Human Rights
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
DAAS Africa Workshop:“The Long 1948: Human Rights, Humanity, and the Pacification of Madagascar” (March 12, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119737 119737-21843514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join Zoom Meeting https://umich.zoom.us/j/98323365425

Overview
Oumar Ba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. His primary areas of research focus on law, violence, race, humanity, and world order(s) in global politics. He is the author of States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge, 2020). His writings have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, PS: Political Science & Politics, Journal of Narrative Politics, African Studies Review , Africa Today, Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, among others. His opinions have been featured in a number of media outlets including Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, and BBC.

Research Focus
Oumar Ba is currently working on two major projects. The first one, titled Crimes, Against Humanity: Governing Global Justice is a genealogy of the international criminal justice system within the liberal order, highlighting its racialized hierarchy of humanity and explaining its current crisis. It also proposes a decentering of The Hague, through an exploration of worldmaking projects and visions for and alternatives to the current international order, from Global South perspectives.

The second project is titled (Re)Centering Decolonization as Ontology and Sifting through the Archives of Liberation. It seeks to (re)center the ontological grounding of decolonization not only as political processes but as praxis grounded in theories of humanism and the universal. To do so, it sifts through the archives of liberation, as articulated by Global South voices at the forefront of the decolonization struggle at the UN General Assembly and other international fora. Ultimately, it contends that decolonization, as theorized and articulated by these voices, is a continued generative site of theory and praxis built around a humanistic ethos of the universal.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:08:36 -0500 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 12, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 12, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
The Next Frontier is Your Mind: Neurotechnologies, Human Rights, and the Battle for Your Brain (March 13, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117173 117173-21838776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/rr36r

Emerging technologies are evolving at an astonishing pace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of neurotechnology, which refers to devices capable of recording, interpreting, or altering brain activity. Neurotechnology has long been used in scientific settings, pioneering both brain research and medical breakthroughs; in recent years, neurotechnology has allowed patients with paralysis to regain the ability to communicate, and helped blind people reclaim partial vision. Recently, neurotechnology has expanded beyond medical settings into the consumer world, with a host of products entering the market that allow consumers and companies to access intimate brain data. Among others, these products include brain training kits, sleep aids, devices that track levels of focus, and toy helicopters that consumers fly using concentration. This brings great promise of innovation and development, but also pressing concerns, particularly given privacy risks, rapid advances in the capacity to decode brain scans using generative AI, and the possibility of mental interference.

In this lecture, international human rights lawyer Jared Genser will discuss the unique human rights challenges posed by neurotechnologies. Speaking as co-founder and General Counsel of the Neurorights Foundation, Genser will examine the ways in which neurotechnology has the potential to change what it means to be human. In particular, he will discuss how the loss of mental privacy and the risk of mental manipulation present challenges that were previously unimagined and which demand immediate action. He will explore the implications of neurotechnology on existing legal, ethical, and regulatory regimes, pulling directly from his experience advising the United Nations, industry partners, and governments around the world. As a way forward, Genser will introduce the notion of “neurorights”, which involves further interpreting existing human rights law to safeguard the right to mental integrity, the right to mental agency, the right to mental privacy, the right to fair access to mental augmentation, and the right to protection from algorithmic bias. The neurorights movement, he will argue, is necessary to prevent against the misuse and abuse of neurotechnology before it’s too late.

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Jared Genser has been an international human rights lawyer for more than two decades. He is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm, Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States, and outside General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation. Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners worldwide, he has served as pro bono counsel to five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including three Laureates who won their Prize while imprisoned — Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma, 2006-2010), Liu Xiaobo (China, 2010-2017), and Ales Bialiatski (Belarus, 2023-Present) — as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel.

Genser was previously a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Michigan Law School, across which he taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council seven times.

In addition, he was an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University from 2014-2016, a Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy from 2006-2007, and earlier in his career was named by the National Law Journal as one of “40 Under 40: Washington’s Rising Stars.” Genser’s other past clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed. Over his career, he has also advised multilateral institutions, governments, companies, foundations, and civil society organizations on ensuring their work was consistent with international human rights, labor rights, and environmental rights standards. Coming from his experience freeing his first client as a law student, in 2001 he founded Freedom Now, a non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Genser holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.

He is author of *The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice* (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In addition, he is co-editor of *The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights* (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and *The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times* (Oxford University Press, 2011). His forthcoming book is a co-edited volume with former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein entitled *The Oxford Handbook on the UN Human Rights System* (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Genser was previously selected as one of three winners of the Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize from among 2,165 nominees from 135 countries. He has received the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award, Liberty in North Korea’s Freedom Fighter Award, and the Charles Bronfman Prize. Genser is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (2008). He is a member of the D.C. Bar, Maryland Bar, and is a solicitor of England and Wales. Married with two children, Genser is an avid ice hockey player, a sport he took up in college.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:43:44 -0500 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Lecture / Discussion Jared Genser, Managing Director of Perseus Strategies
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 14, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 14, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Forests, Global Change, and Children's Health (March 15, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119387 119387-21842659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

The health benefits of nature are attracting increasing popular and scientific attention, but specific impacts of global change on human well-being remain poorly quantified and difficult to predict. In this talk, Dr. Ricketts will describe ongoing efforts to estimate health impacts of land-use change in developing countries, using a unique dataset including 800,000 children in more than 40 countries.

To date, his research has revealed that nearby forest cover and protected areas improve several dimensions of children’s health, including water-borne disease, stunting, diet diversity, and malaria. In all cases, the impact of nature on health outcomes is stronger for more vulnerable populations. These and other studies can help to identify when and where nature conservation can constitute an investment in public health and social justice.

This event is co-sponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability, the International Institute, the Office of Global Public Health, and the Institute for Global Change Biology.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:18:15 -0500 2024-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Livestream / Virtual Forests, Global Change, and Children's Health. Taylor Ricketts.
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 19, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 20, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Barriers Beyond Roe (March 20, 2024 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120096 120096-21844047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Barriers Beyond Roe" is an interdisciplinary workshop tackling the obstacles abortion providers encounter within the built environment. Join Lori A. Brown, Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University School of Architecture, and Dr. Sarah Wallet, Chief Medical Operating Officer for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, as we unite across disciplines to drive meaningful change. Let's collaborate, exchange ideas, and take action together to make a tangible impact.

Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Time: 10:30am - 2:00pm
Location: StudioStudio, 1946 Packard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Link for registration: https://www.dogoodwork.org/barriersbeyondroe
Format: Interdisciplinary workshop (spots limited) + panel (hybrid/open to public)

Please note: Registration is required for both segments. The workshop operates on a first-come, first-served basis. In the event of reaching maximum capacity, you will receive a link to join the panel virtually.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:55:16 -0400 2024-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 2024-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Barriers Beyond Roe poster
Barriers Beyond Roe (March 20, 2024 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120096 120096-21844048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Barriers Beyond Roe" is an interdisciplinary workshop tackling the obstacles abortion providers encounter within the built environment. Join Lori A. Brown, Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University School of Architecture, and Dr. Sarah Wallet, Chief Medical Operating Officer for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, as we unite across disciplines to drive meaningful change. Let's collaborate, exchange ideas, and take action together to make a tangible impact.

Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Time: 10:30am - 2:00pm
Location: StudioStudio, 1946 Packard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Link for registration: https://www.dogoodwork.org/barriersbeyondroe
Format: Interdisciplinary workshop (spots limited) + panel (hybrid/open to public)

Please note: Registration is required for both segments. The workshop operates on a first-come, first-served basis. In the event of reaching maximum capacity, you will receive a link to join the panel virtually.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:55:16 -0400 2024-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 2024-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Barriers Beyond Roe poster
Dinner for Democracy: Abortion (March 20, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118972 118972-21841986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Join us for an informational presentation and discussion about voting access. Free dinner will be provided.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:41:59 -0500 2024-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Presentation TUT Logo
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Lori Brown Lecture (March 21, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117075 117075-21841290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK
The talk will discuss the various ways Lori has responded to pressing issues of our time. Lori will present an overview of key aspects of ongoing research, advocacy, and activism that have focused on topics from immigration and the border, equity within the built environment, to reproductive justice. All provide various opportunities to intersect with law, policy, and the built environment.

Lecture: Everywhere You Look, Thursday 3/21 6:00-7:30pm in the Art & Architecture Building
Workshop: Barriers Beyond Roe, Wednesday 3/20 10:30am-2:00pm at StudioStudio, 1946 Packard St.

ABOUT LORI BROWN
Lori Brown’s creative practice examines the relationships between architecture and social justice with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. She is the author of Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals, the editor of Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture and the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020 co-edited with Dr. Karen Burns. She is the co-founder and leads ArchiteXX, a gender equity in architecture organization in New York City. Brown is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a 2021 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices recipient. She is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture Syracuse University and a registered architect in New York state.

The on-campus activities will be preceded by a workshop and panel discussion co-led by Lori Brown, Distinguished Faculty, Syracuse School of Architecture, and Sarah Wallett, Chief Medical Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Michigan, on Wednesday, March 20th, from 10:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. This interdisciplinary workshop will include experts and students from health care, policy, social work, and the built environment. The event is co-hosted by the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning and Do Good Work. Anyone interested is encouraged to apply to participate (spots are limited) or register for the panel discussion (hybrid). Lunch will be provided.

Do Good Work will share outcomes and invite students to engage with a portion of the workshop materials in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons on Thursday, March 21st, from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. for anyone unable to attend the full workshop. Lunchtime refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:13:53 -0400 2024-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lori Brown event header with co-sponsors listed
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
The Art of Relational Advocacy (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118623 118623-21841305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join the Prison Creative Arts Project and A Brighter Way for an Art of Relational Advocacy Collaborative Conference and community networking fair.
This is an opportunity for cross-departmental dialogue, learning, growth, and collaborations in the fields of "justice"-involved advocacy. Effective systems-change advocacy requires the development of authentic relationships to engage in productive conversations with the communities we support, allies, detractors, decision-makers, and the public. Our goal is to answer the questions of how to effectively partner with others in order to maximize the impact of advocacy work.
The community networking fair is comprised of different system-impacted advocacy organizations with unique mission focus.
Whether you're practicing in the field or new to the work, the Art of Relational Advocacy Collaborative Conference offers the space to hold open and honest community conversations.

*REGISTER USING LINK - Limited seats available for panel discussion*

Speakers Include:
Ashley Carter - Michigan Justice Fund
Jose Burgos - Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Adam Grant - A Brighter Way
Belinda Dulin - The Dispute Resolution Center
Kyle Kaminski - Michigan Department of Corrections

Moderated by: Jessica Henry - Nation Outside

Schedule: Friday, March 22nd - North Campus, The Duderstadt Center

10:00 am - 7:00 pm *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons*
Duderstadt Center Gallery

10:00 am - 3:00 pm Community Networking Fair
Connector Hall

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - MAIN EVENT: Panel Discussion
Chesebrough Auditorium & Lobby

*Free accessible shuttle service available the day of the event from 9:30 AM-4:00 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the event from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*
*Parking: We recommend the visitor parking lot (2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109) behind the Art and Architecture building. The parking lot entrance is on Fuller.*

This event is in conjunction with the *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons*
Co-sponsored by: Prison Creative Arts Project, A Brighter Way, U-M Residential College, Carceral State Project, U-M Ginsberg Center, U-M LSA DEI Office, U-M School of Social Work, U-M Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Eastern Michigan's College in Prison Program.

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:50:11 -0400 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Conference / Symposium Jamal Biggs, The Demise of Liberty, 2023
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Public Exhibit Tour & Write To The Artists (March 23, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116611 116611-21837638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Come and experience the wide variety of artwork that is happening behind bars through a guided tour by one of the Prison Creative Arts Project's curators.

Hear the rich conversations that happened with the artists during this year's selection trips.

This year, you also have the opportunity to find a piece (or two, or three...) and PCAP will support you in writing a letter to the artist(s)!

We’re warning you though... it is going to be powerful!

Finally, you are invited to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends!

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Tours Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:43:29 -0500 2024-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Tours Two gallery attendees looking at artwork from the Annual Exhibition
Artists' Talk: Painting the Scene Inside (March 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115062 115062-21834001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as an artist in prison in this informal panel discussion, moderated by an exhibit curator.

The performance is FREE and open to the public.
*Free accessible shuttle service available the day of the event from 10:30 AM-5:00 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the event from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

This panel will be followed by a special gathering for families of PCAP artists and writers, Linkage Community members, and PCAP Associates.

In conjunction with the *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons*

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:59:15 -0500 2024-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Artist, Kirk Fitchett, talking with students about creating artwork
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 24, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Launch Party (March 24, 2024 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115064 115064-21834002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2024 1:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from the 16th edition of the *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing*, read by family and friends of contributing authors. Books will be for sale following the reading.

PCAP’s *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing* seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers —writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

The performance is FREE and open to the public.
*Free accessible shuttle service available the day of the event from 10:30 AM-5:00 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the event from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

Presented with support from U-M Department of English Language and Literature, and the Michigan Humanities Council.

In conjunction with the *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* March 19-April 2, 2024

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Performance Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:21:12 -0500 2024-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 2024-03-24T14:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Family member reading loved one's creative writing, 2022
With Love, From Inside (March 24, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116604 116604-21837626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*"With Love, From Inside"* is an original play crafted by independent study theatre students and formerly incarcerated performers participating in the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). This production grew out of the students’ sadness that so many people in the free world will never get to know the extraordinary individuals who live inside the walls. This play vividly recounts stories that incarcerated PCAP participants wanted to share with audiences outside prisons.

*"With Love, From Inside”* blurs the boundaries between incarcerated and free people, exploring the shared joys and struggles that all of us face. The play furthers the continuum of PCAP’s weekly workshops for incarcerated theatre makers, in which university volunteers carry stories and life experiences from the free world into prisons. In this production, the performers do the reverse and bring the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and struggles of incarcerated people to free world audiences. In doing so, the performers widen the sphere of influence that incarcerated change makers have on the minds and hearts of others.

The performance is FREE and open to the public.
*Free accessible shuttle service available the day of the performance from 10:30 AM-5:00 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the performance from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

In conjunction with the *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* March 19-April 2, 2024

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Performance Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:21:48 -0500 2024-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Amanda DeBlauwe, I Mail My Love to You, 2020
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 25, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Climate Vulnerability and Health Symposium (March 25, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119771 119771-21843553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Climate change is already having dramatic effects on human health and well-being. How are we adapting to these new realities and mitigating health risks for the world’s most vulnerable communities? And, what is the role of universities in addressing this crisis?

The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan invites you to our first-ever Climate Vulnerability and Health Symposium, an all-campus event showcasing the university's diverse and talented researchers who are forging the path toward global health equity. Whether you’re a student, faculty, health professional, or community member with an interest in the intersection of climate and global health, your presence is valued in shaping the discourse on health equity. The event is free and open to the public. This event is hosted in collaboration with the Schools of Nursing, Public Health, and Environment and Sustainability.

Event Program:

Faculty Lightning Talks (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
Ignite your curiosity with our faculty lightning talks, featuring a lineup of distinguished University of Michigan experts who will present their cutting-edge research in powerful, bite-sized presentations:

- Jennifer Head, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Marie O’Neill, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and - - - - - Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Paige Fischer, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
- Arun Agrawal, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
- Nancy Love, Professor of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Expert Panel Discussion (4:15 PM - 5:15 PM)
Climate Vulnerability and Health: How Should Universities Be Responding?

Following the lightning talks is a not-to-be-missed panel discussion exploring a critical question: “How should leading universities be responding to the climate crisis?” Esteemed panel members include:

- Julio Frenk MD, MPH, PhD, President, University of Miami, Former Minister of Health, Mexico
- Richard Adanu, MB.ChB, MPH, Rector, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor, University of Ghana
- James W. Curran, MD, MPH, Dean Emeritus, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Helena Legido-Quigley, PhD, George Institute UK
- Srinath Reddy, MD, DM, MSc, Public Health Foundation of India
- Nelson Sewankambo, MBChB, MSc, M.MED, FAAS, FRCP, LLD (HC), Makerere University
- Vera Songwe, PhD, Brookings Institution
- Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, MD, MSc, Former Minister of Health, Ethiopia
- Jonathan "Peck" Overpeck, Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan


Walking Reception (5:15 PM - 6:00 PM)
Conclude the day with a walking reception, where you can engage with innovative student researchers showcasing their research, learn about various student organizations, and enjoy a selection of light food offerings. This will be a perfect opportunity to discuss insights from the talks, exchange ideas with peers and thought leaders, and forge new collaborations in the pursuit of global health equity.

The event is free and open to the public. Whether you’re a student, faculty, health professional, or community member with an interest in the future of global health, your presence is valued in shaping the discourse on health equity.

Please RSVP to ensure your spot at this stimulating exchange of knowledge and ideas that promises to influence the actions we all take in addressing global health challenges.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:27:27 -0500 2024-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Global Health Equity Conference / Symposium Climate Vulnerability and Health Symposium hosted by the Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 26, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 27, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 28, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 30, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 31, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 1, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Documentary Screening: The Cost of Inheritance (April 4, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120274 120274-21844497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Register now for a special screening of The Cost of Inheritance at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on April 4th.

The one-hour PBS documentary explores the complex issue of reparations in the United States. Through personal narratives, community inquiries, and scholarly insights, it aims to inspire an understanding of the scope and rationale of the reparations debate.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on reparations and a light reception.

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:08:32 -0400 2024-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Film Screening The Cost of Inheritance
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights in Nicaragua: From Dictatorship to Hope (April 10, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115925 115925-21835829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Panelists:

Tamara Dávila Rivas, Human Rights Fellow at the ARCUS Center for Social Justice and Leadership, Kalamazoo College

Dora María Téllez, Visiting Professor, Richard E. Greenleaf Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Ana Margarita Vijil, Central American Leadership Initiative Fellow at the Aspen Global Leadership Network and Senior Fellow at George Washington University Global Women's Institute

Moderator: Luciana Chamorro, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

In 2018, the Nicaraguan government brutally suppressed nationwide protests, inaugurating an ongoing undeclared state of exception in the country. Since then, constitutional rights have been suspended, and one in eight citizens has fled the country. Join us for a conversation about the current human rights crisis in Nicaragua with three prominent social leaders and human rights defenders. All three were held in solitary confinement for two years and stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality for opposing the consolidation of a new dictatorship in Nicaragua. Through their organizing while in exile, they continue to foster hope in a non-authoritarian future.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:35:57 -0400 2024-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-10T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights in Nicaragua: From Dictatorship to Hope
Interreligious Solidarity in the Struggle Against Apartheid: The Role of the Muslim Community (April 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120276 120276-21844501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please join us for a lecture on role of South African Muslims in the anti-Apartheid struggle with Dr. Abdul Rashied Omar.
Learn more about our speaker here: https://keough.nd.edu/people/rashied-omar/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:31:53 -0400 2024-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster