Events Calendar
—updated August 28, 2008
Note: To add your U-M diversity-related events to this site, contact: DiversityMatters@umich.edu.
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On-going Events
- June 14 through September 7, 2008
Paul Outerbridge: Color Photography from Mexico and California, the 1950s
UMMA Off/Site Exhibition
More information - June 2 - October 3, 2008
Exhibit at the Great Hall of the William L. Clements Library
The Old Girl Network: charity cookbooks and the empowerment of women
Hours: Monday-Friday, 1:00-4:45 PM, or by appointment
Curated by Jan Longone
Lecture, September 21, 2008 (see below). - School Year 2007 - 2008
LSA Theme Year: ChinaNow
WEB: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/chinanow/index.asp - CCS 2007 Photography Competition Exhibit - China: Traditions New and Old
TIME: N/A
LOCATION: School of Social Work Building, First Floor Gallery Space
WEB: http://www.ii.umich.edu/ccs/
SPONSOR: Center for Chinese Studies
Center for Chinese Studies; An LSA Theme Year: China Now event.
September 4, 2008 — Thursday
- Black and Latina/o Queer Arts in the Bronx: A lunchtime conversation with Arthur Avilés and Charles Rice-González
TIME: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: Haven Hall 3512, 505 S. State St (facing the Diag), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
SPONSORS: U-M Latina/o Studies Program and the Department of Dance
More information
September 14, 2008 — Sunday
- "Taste of Culture" Welcome Week Event
COST: Free cultural foods, free raffle, free giveaways. Open to the public!
TIME: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Trotter Multicultural Center, 1443 Washtenaw Ave (off South University)
SPONSORS: Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs/Trotter Multicultural Center
September 15, 2008 — Monday
- HURRICANE Season, "Climbing PoeTree"
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, theater, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the "unnatural disasters" disenfranchised communities.
TIME: 8:00 PM
LOCATION: Trotter Multicultural Center, 1443 Washtenaw Ave (off South University), 734-763-9044
MORE INFORMATION: Email kvk@umich.edu
September 17, 2008 - Wednesday
- AD/HD Awareness Presentation: "My Journey with AD/HD and Spinal Cord Injury" by Daniel Heumann, nationally requested motivational speaker and Leadership Board Member of The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
TIME: Noon
LOCATION: Michigan Union, Pendleton Room
COST: This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments Included!
More information
SPONSORS: the University of Michigan: Office of Services for Students with Disabilities; Rackham Graduate School, School of Information; Programs for Educational Opportunity, School of Education; Law School; and Neuropsychology Section, Department of Psychiatry.
September 21, 2008 &mdash: Sunday
- Lecture by Curator Jan Longone: Sunday, September 21st, 2:30-5:00
Building will open at 2:30 for viewing; lecture will begin at 3:00; reception to follow
The Old Girl Network: charity cookbooks and the empowerment of women
Exhibit at the Great Hall of the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan June 2 - October 3, 2008
HOURS: Monday-Friday, 1:00-4:45 PM, or by appointment
For further information please call 734-764-2347 or email jblong@umich.edu
September 25, 2008
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Leveraging Diversity Symposium
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: School of Public Health
CO-SPONSORS: School of Public Health and National Center for Institutional Diversity
(See also September 26th)
September 26, 2008
- Leveraging Diversity Symposium
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: TBD
CO-SPONSORS: School of Public Health and National Center for Institutional Diversity
(See also September 25th)
October 29, 2008
- Wallenburg Ceremony & Lecture: Nobel Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be awarded the 18th University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman. After the medal presentation, Tutu will give the Wallenberg Lecture.
TIME: 7:30 PM
LOCATION: Hill Auditorium
COST: This event is free and open to the public.
More information
ARTICLE: South Africa's Tutu to visit U-M campus, receive medal, July 14, 2008
March 28 & 29, 2009
- Dance for Mother Earth PowWow
LOCATION: Crisler Arena
Additional details to come
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