Please join the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) for the Women in Big Data at Michigan symposium. This day-long symposium will highlight women data science researchers at U-M, provide resources and support for women pursuing careers in data science, a poster session, lunch time round table discussions, a faculty panel, and ample time for … Read more
Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and … Read more
Suzi Analogue, producer, vocalist, designer Resonance is an annual symposium that celebrates women and non-binary artists in music technology hosted by the Department of Performing Arts Technology. Resonance receives generous support from the Sally Fleming Masterclass fund, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the EXCEL Lab, and the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion office … Read more
Reyna Ortiz is a Trans Resource Navigator in Chicago working directly with the Trans/GNC community. As an activist and educator since 2000, she is committed to connecting trans women and youth to housing, medical and legal services, helping them to thrive. She will share her knowledge and experiences as a Latinx trans woman who works … Read more
Anna Baltzer, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Huwaida Arraf, Civil Rights Attorney and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement Lorde cancelled her show in Israel in protest. So did the Pixies, Elvis Costello, Roger Waters, and Santana. More than one 100 artists and musicians have joined the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement in solidarity with … Read more
The iconic Juliana Huxtable is an American artist, writer, performer, and musician. Exploring the intersections of race, gender, queerness, technology, and identity, Huxtable uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media. Huxtable references her own body and history as a transgender African … Read more
Dr. Carolyn Dunn, Playwright and Poet Centered in the Mvskoke Creek spirit world that inhabits Joy Harjo’s play “Wings of the Night Sky, Wings of the Morning Light,” scholar, poet and playwright Dr. Carolyn Dunn will lecture on the aesthetics of Native and Indigenous Theater. This talk will examine how Indigenous artists must be able to … Read more
Join artist Nastassja Swift to celebrate the official opening of her solo exhibition, she was here, once, in the Lane Hall Gallery. This reception is presented in collaboration with the Narrating Black Girls’ Lives Conference. Book sales and signing with keynote speaker, Dr. Saidiya Hartman will also take place during this reception. Book sales provided by Bookbound. about the exhibition: The mobility … Read more
Irena Klepfisz, author, academic, activist, and professor, Barnard College. It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– — Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence” Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an … Read more
Dr. Carolyn Dunn, scholar, poet, and playwright. Scholar, poet and playwright Dr. Carolyn Dunn will lecture on the aesthetics of Native and Indigenous Theater. Dunn was born in Southern California and is of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Cajun, French Creole, and Tunica-Biloxi descent. She earned a BA from Humboldt State University, an MA from UCLA, and … Read more
Heather Booth, activist, feminist, and political strategist. Alicia Svigals, violinist and composer. Jewish Feminisms/American Visions will bring an array of pioneering and contemporary feminist activists to Ann Arbor to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism. During this symposium, activists from the 1960s through today will explore the significance … Read more
Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange artists will be in residence at the University of Michigan campus from February 16-23, 2019, culminating in two performances of the new play by Carolyn Dunn, Three Sisters. The Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange uses theater to activate networks with Native communities in the Great Lakes region. The group is a consortium of people … Read more