Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Hopwood Awards contest deadline for Fall 2021 graduates (December 12, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89204 89204-21661118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 12, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Students graduating at the end of the Fall 2021 term should submit their entries for all Hopwood Award contests by December 12. The contest deadline for all other students is noon Eastern time on January 12, 2022.

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Other Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:50:08 -0500 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-12T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other Books by Hopwood winners on a Hopwood Room wing chair
Submissions Deadline for Hopwood Writing Awards (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84777 84777-21624934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The submissions deadline for all writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program is precisely noon, Eastern Time on January 12, 2022 except for students graduating in Fall 2021, who should submit by December 12, 2021. No late entries will be accepted. Online submissions only. Contests are open to University of Michigan graduate and undergraduate students at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses enrolled for a minimum of six (undergraduate) or three (graduate) credits. There is no fee to enter. See https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood for contest descriptions, submission instructions, and other details.

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Other Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:38:39 -0500 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other Image of the Hopwood Room round table and bookcase
What to Expect in Pandemic Year Three: A Business and Economic Perspective (January 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90190 90190-21668634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Since the pandemic emerged in early 2020, the global economy and the way we do business has fundamentally changed. We have seen huge disruptions to supply chains around the world, vast disparities in health outcomes among different populations, work and education models shifted to remote and hybrid environments, and the highest levels of inflation in recent times. As we enter the third year of the pandemic, join University of Michigan experts Gabe Ehrlich, Samantha Keppler, Sarah Miller, and Nirupama Rao to hear about what we can expect from business and the economy in 2022. They will dive into topics related to education, healthcare, supply chain, and employment and inflation issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:20:13 -0500 2022-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion What to Expect in Pandemic Year Three: A Business and Economic Perspective
Howard R. Marsh Lecture (March 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92386 92386-21690692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Communication and Media

In the aftermath of a tragedy, journalists leave. The event transitioned from news to normality. The trauma lingers and sediments among survivors and citizens. The silence we, journalists, inflict is a type of violence that neglects communities that suffer. The news’ chain production normalizes the trauma. Let’s discuss a proposal to stop the cycle.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:55:54 -0500 2022-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
Anne Applebaum, “Democracy in Crisis: The Twilight of Democracy” (April 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92678 92678-21694337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

All in-person attendees will be required to complete the ResponsiBlue screening before entering the building, and to adhere to the University of Michigan mask policy throughout the event. Registration is required to attend.
https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/anne-applebaum-democracy-crisis-twilight-democracy

The event will also be livestreamed for those who choose not to attend in-person. The livestream will appear on the Ford School event page the day of the event, registration optional.

Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist and commentator on geo-politics, Anne Applebaum examines the challenges and opportunities of global political and economic change through the lenses of world history and the contemporary political landscape. Anne Applebaum delivers the keynote lecture of the Spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series, in conversation with Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr.

For bios and more information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/anne-applebaum-democracy-crisis-twilight-democracy

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-sponsored by Democracy & Debate, Wallace House, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:37:33 -0400 2022-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Anne Applebaum
2022 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Reception (April 6, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84754 84754-21624874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Annual Hopwood Awards Ceremony includes the 2022 Hopwood Lecture by Jia Tolentino. Following the ceremony, Black Stone Bookstore will sell copies of Tolentino's essay collection, Trick Mirror and Jia will sign books. Free and open to the public. This event will also be live-streamed. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:40:59 -0400 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
Wallace House Presents the Eisendrath Symposium with Elena Milashina, Simon Ostrovsky and Ronald Suny (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94399 94399-21737298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

While the Russian invasion of Ukraine swiftly united NATO and western nations in condemning Putin, enacting sanctions and supplying defense weapons, there are growing cries for the U.S. and its NATO allies to do more militarily. Join Knight-Wallace journalists who have reported extensively from the region and a U-M policy expert as they examine Putin’s suppression of a free press, the call for direct military support, and the geopolitical, economic and humanitarian consequences of the growing conflict.

Elena Milashina is an award-winning senior investigative reporter for Novaya Gazeta, the acclaimed independent Russian news organization that recently ceased publication in response to threats of closure and imprisonment from the Putin regime. Simon Ostrovsky is a video journalist and filmmaker who reports for PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. Ronald Suny is a professor of history and political science at U-M and a senior researcher at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wallace House Director, Lynette Clemetson, will lead this discussion.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:10:37 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wallace House Center for Journalists Conference / Symposium (L to R) Elena Milashina, Simon Ostrovsky and Ronald Suny
Local Live(s): Stories about Desire and the Pursuit of Change (July 14, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95915 95915-21791431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Radio

Local Live(s) is an event that brings together journalists and locals for a night of entertainment and conversation. It’s a national storytelling event that features journalists sharing the behind-the-scenes stories of their news stories. Think of it as a podcast, but live and on stage. The theme of this Local Live(s) event is “Desire: stories about hidden motives, impossible odds and the pursuit of change”.

Michigan Radio journalists will share stories behind their reporting, inviting the audience into a world they’ve only observed from the outside. The result is an entertaining, captivating event that helps demystify the reporting process while bringing communities and newsrooms into a shared space.

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Other Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:23:02 -0400 2022-07-14T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-14T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Radio Other Local Live(s) Ann Arbor
The Hovey Lecture with Scott Tong, host of NPR's "Here and Now" (September 15, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96578 96578-21793118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Mike & Mary Wallace House
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Wallace House Presents the Graham Hovey Lecture with Scott Tong

In 2013, longtime China correspondent Scott Tong came to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships to research China’s on-again, off-again ties with the global community and how it connected with his family. The resulting book, “A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World,” examines nationalism and globalization through the stories of five generations of Tongs. China’s openness to the western world delivered great benefits to them yet came at a devasting human price during Mao’s communist rule. In the end, this openness made it possible for Tong to become an American journalist covering China.

Today, Beijing’s increasingly antagonistic relations with Washington and many advanced economies present a great risk to its economy and high-tech development.

Now a co-host of NPR’s "Here and Now," Tong returns to Wallace House to discuss Beijing’s increasing authoritarianism and international aggression and what it signals for its future and that of globalization.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:52:21 -0400 2022-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Mike & Mary Wallace House Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Scott Tong, host of NPR's "Here & Now"
WCEE Lecture. Investigative Journalists and the Documentation of War Crimes (September 21, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97369 97369-21794481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Professor Janine di Giovanni will draw on her experiences as a war correspondent, author, and educator to highlight the challenges of human rights violations and other abuses against civilian populations in conflict areas. She has reported widely on war and its aftermath for nearly thirty years in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa, and has investigated human rights abuses on four continents.

Di Giovanni will give particular emphasis to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, highlighting similarities and differences from other wars she has witnessed first-hand, and underscoring the degree to which the war crimes being committed there are consistent with Putin’s playbook for Chechnya and Syria. Currently co-director and founder of “The Reckoning Project,’ Professor di Giovanni will speak to the progress her organization and others like it are managing to achieve in documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time, amid devastating violence and terror.

Janine di Giovanni has worked for over 35 years as a human rights reporter and investigator in conflict zones in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East. She is a senior fellow at Yale University, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Non-Fiction, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest prize for non-fiction, the Blake Dodd, for her lifetime body of work. In 2016, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award for her distinguished work tracking war criminals most recently in Syria and Iraq, with a focus on ISIS. Di Giovanni is also the author of nine books. including The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria which is a collection of war testimonies translated into 30 languages. She has made numerous documentaries and is a frequent analyst on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the BBC. Di Giovanni is the recipient of nearly a dozen journalistic awards, including two Amnesty International Awards, and the National Magazine Award, for her work in human rights and war reporting.

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://myumi.ch/XVM23

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:01:29 -0400 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Janine di Giovanni, founder and director, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies
Alum Connection with Harlene Ellin: How an LSA Degree unlocked endless career possibilities (November 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100138 100138-21799256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Harlene Ellin identified her enthusiasm for communications early in her career and by activating her network of connections, she quickly found opportunities, both full-time and gigs, in a number of industries including freelance writing for the Chicago Tribune and Times, working as an interior designer, and leading communications strategy for the Women’s March Chicago and CARPLS Legal Aide. In each industry, Harlene used the skills she learned as an LSA student to align her career with causes she cared about and move the needle on issues of importance to her. From journalism to nonprofits to legal, Harlene highlights the flexibility that an LSA degree can offer, and is now coming back to campus to share her hard-earned wisdom and life lessons with current LSA students.

About Harlene:

After graduating with B.A. in English and Political Science from U-M, Harlene pursued a law degree as planned. She quickly learned that life doesn’t follow a linear path, but often includes unexpected twists and turns. After dropping out of law school, Harlene’s shifted her focus, or what she calls career “corkscrews”, to earn a M.A. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and working as an award-winning news and feature writer for a variety of major news outlets. She also has held various communications-related positions — from public relations assistant to communications director — in both the private and non-profit sectors.

A lifelong lover of art, architecture and design, Harlene returned to school yet again. This time she earned a degree in interior design from Harrington School of Design, while raising her three children. She went on to work for several years as a residential interior designer in the Chicago area. Most recently, Harlene has been highly engaged in political activism, using her varied skill set to advance progressive causes such as abortion access, women’s rights and gun reform.

You should attend this session if you are:
- A U-M undergraduate LSA student
- Interested in journalism, writing, communications, nonprofit work, or interior design
- Exploring multiple career aspirations and interests

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Make a connection with a successful LSA alum ready to support you
- Get ideas for how to build a career when your path is not traditional
- Learn how to build your networking skills

RSVP NOW to be part of the conversation.

The Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is in a wheelchair-accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby. To request other accommodations please contact Sairah Husain at sairah@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:35:21 -0400 2022-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Harlene Ellin
Hopwood Awards Submissions Virtual Workshop (November 15, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101042 101042-21800721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery and 2022 Hopwood winners Abigail McFee and Jessica Kwon will explain contest guidelines, offer submissions advice, and answer your questions about the 2023 Hopwood Awards Contests open to U-M graduate and undergraduate students.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:40:39 -0400 2022-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Whimsical drawing of people and laptops