Careers in higher education have become increasingly complicated and demanding, leading many faculty and staff to take on additional responsibilities and, as a result, experience additional stress. For some, this leads to burnout and low morale, which has a ripple effect on staff and the students that we serve. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Margaret … Read more
ABOUT THE TALK—from the speaker: Too often our work in higher education institutions – including our diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice efforts – are driven by and driven to meet externally focused outcomes. We use benchmark data to measure up to aspirational peers. We devise strategic plans with goals informed by consultants and, sometimes, … Read more
– Emilia Yang, Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. She serves as the Director of “AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity” that explores participatory forms of art and design for remembering and demanding justice for the victims of state violence in her home country Nicaragua. – Luciana Chamorro, Nicaraguan feminist, … Read more
– Darius Bost – Jennifer Jones – Eshe Sherley – M Aziz – Casidy Campbell – SaraEllen Strongman – Sydney Tunstall – Mix Mann – Mara Johnson – Andrea Bolivar – LaVelle Ridley – Cassius Adair – Gabriel Johnson – Anna Almore – Adrian King D Hutchinson was a doctoral candidate in History that … Read more
– Angela Dillard – LaKisha Simmons – Ahya Simone D Hutchinson was a doctoral candidate in History that brought joy and intellectual community to every space across the University of Michigan campus. This conference seeks to not only channel the spirit of intellectual kinship D generously shared with us but to also create space … Read more
Embracing risk: Taking chances and cultivating your career identity The Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative (MWSC) is thrilled to host the next Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative Symposium on November 2 & 3, 2023 at the Michigan League, Ballroom. This year’s symposium will focus on “Embracing risk: Taking chances and cultivating your career identity.” The annual leadership conference … Read more
Embracing risk: Taking chances and cultivating your career identity The Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative (MWSC) is thrilled to host the next Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative Symposium on November 2 & 3, 2023 at the Michigan League, Ballroom. This year’s symposium will focus on “Embracing risk: Taking chances and cultivating your career identity.” The annual leadership conference is … Read more
Opening remarks by Yopie Prins Panel 1: Lands and Seas Adeli Block (University of Michigan), Shaken Homes, Shaken Souls: Toward an Amazigh Anthropology Matthew Fam (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Buried Waters: Land reclamation and hauntings in Singapore’s coasts Kai Ngu (University of Michigan), Monstrous Climate Entanglements and “Superstitious” Fear in Malaysian Borneo Katelin Mikos … Read more
Please join the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures for their annual MLK Junior Lecture delivered by Professor N. Michelle Murray. N. Michelle Murray’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Spanish literature and film. Her first book Home Away from Home Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture (UNC Press for North Carolina … Read more
Join the Union of Feminists Against the System (UNFAS), led by Stamps Assistant Professor Emilia Yang, Guatemalan Curator Maya Juracan, and Central American feminist artists, for a performance, reading, and info session about how you can get involved. This event is part of Professor Yang’s Transnational Feminist Portals Multi-Year project and the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, and … Read more
Nor Ismah (Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Islam at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Indonesia) Daniel Birchok (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Flint) RSVP: https://bit.ly/MWRFatwas Join University of Michigan visiting scholar from Indonesia Dr. Nor Ismah and the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) on January 24th, 2024 at 5:00 PM for … Read more
Keynote address by Dr. Luciana Chamorro Panel 5: Visual Decays Charlotte Jurgens (University of Michigan), Our Daisy Delsa Lopez (University of Michigan), [title pending] Leah Crosby (University of Michigan), The Undone, Do It: using choice-based storytelling to explore death and its aftermaths Janine Sun (University of Southern California), Death Games of the In-Between: Precarity and … Read more