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Jan 27
Queering the Workplace: A Career Panel for LGBTQ+ Grad Students
3:00pm, Off Campus Location
LGBTQ+ graduate students often struggle with queer visibility and representation in their departments, which proves to be a barrier in being able to find mentors and access professional academic and industry advice. This virtual panel will help current LGBTQ+ students imagine their professional lives beyond their university course work. A wide range of LGBTQ+ alumni and staff members, who are working in industry, will share their success stories and take questions from the audience. After the panel, individual panelists will lead small round table discussions with the participants in break out sessions for professional skill-building through guided conversation about industry and a more intimate opportunity for Q&A. Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Qe2dZ. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.
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Jan 29
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
2:00pm, Hill Auditorium
The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and EXIGENCE bring together top Black and Latinx professional musicians from around the country to present an inspiring concert of works by BIPOC composers. Sphinx’s vocal ensemble, EXIGENCE, joins the ensemble for several pieces, including Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a powerful multi-movement choral work that was premiered by the U-M Glee Club in 2016 and memorializes the last words spoken by seven African-American men killed by police or other authority figures.
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Jan 29
Malaysian Cultural Night 2023
6:00pm, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
For the past decade, the Michigan Malaysian Students’ Association (MiMSA) comes together for Malaysian Cultural Night (MCN): an all-encompassing play and exhibition that underlines the issue of racism, differences in religious values, social identity, and social issues in Malaysia. MCN encapsulates the perceptions that we have of our homeland into a night’s worth of unique cultural experiences, like showcasing multiple traditional dances from different ethnicities in Malaysia. Welcoming all ages with a free-of-charge admission to the event, we present Rojak. Rojak Malaysian Cultural Night (2023) tells the story of a marriage-to-be. He’s from East Malaysia. She’s from West Malaysia. Her mother doesn’t approve. How could a distance so short prove to be so daunting for their respective cultures and religions, yet fortified through love? Rojak is a story of how they overcome her mother’s cultural prejudices and come to embody Malaysia’s rich history of multiculturalism.
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Jan 30
Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research and Scholarship at U-M
1:00pm, Michigan League
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (ARC/NCID), and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) invite faculty and postdoctoral fellows to a two-day, in-person symposium exploring anti-racism research and scholarship at the University of Michigan (U-M). In March 2021, a campus wide focus on anti-racism research and scholarship was galvanized through the development of the Anti-Racism Collaborative (ARC) at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) — as part of the provost’s anti-racism initiatives — and the launch of the two-year Anti-Racism Grants program by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) in partnership with NCID.. The complementary and shared goals between these two efforts include fostering innovative and interdisciplinary research that promotes racial justice and racial equity, supporting a community of anti-racism scholars, and amplifying the anti-racism research expertise among U-M faculty and researchers. WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE FACULTY SYMPOSIUM? The Faculty Symposium on Anti-Racism Research & Scholarship at U-M is a convening of faculty and postdoctoral fellows who seek to challenge systemic racism through their research and scholarship, want to be in community with faculty addressing systemic racism from intersectional perspectives or other disciplinary fields of study, and/or want to engage in dialogue around institutional supports for faculty who engage in anti-racism research and scholarship. For more information, visit the event webpage or contact anti-racism-symposium@umich.edu.
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Jan 30
2023 Wallenberg Symposium: Equity in Architectural Education Consortium
3:00pm, Off Campus Location
Mentorship is wonderful, rewarding, life-changing, transformative, effective, gratifying, substantive, and beneficial. It is also challenging, time-consuming, expensive, fragmented, hard to measure, and elusive. Mentoring experiences are all unique, and grounded in the impetus to share and to connect. As a mentor or a mentee, once you’ve had a taste of mentorship, you want more. On January 30, 2023, join panelists from the Equity in Architectural Education Consortium (EAEC), who will be in conversation about mentorship in the discipline, the profession, and its future in architecture and its related fields. Over the course of three separate panels, the discussion will share experiences and recommendations on: how mentoring provides a strong start to your education and career; where mentorship can establish new relationships and surprising paths for your professional development; ways mentorship boosts your capacity to judge your own advancement and excellence. Join us in this effort to better understand where we agree, where we disagree, and where we can find areas for collective action. This year’s discussion is grateful to honor the legacy and impact of Taubman College alumnus, Raoul Wallenberg, remembered and honored for his courageous humanitarian acts in World War II Hungary. Panelists and guest moderator: Akima Brackeen (Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT) Andrew Chin (Interim Dean, School of Architecture and Engineering, Florida A&M University, FAMU) Edmund Graham (Associate Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity; University of Michigan, NCID UM) Bradford Grant (Interim Chair, Howard University, HU) Coleman Jordan (Thesis Director and Assistant Professor, Morgan State University, MSU) Isaac Mangual-Martínez (Thesis Coordinator and Visiting Instructor, Virginia Tech) Stephanie Pilat (Director of the Division of Architecture, University of Oklahoma) David Rifkind (Director of the School of Architecture, University of Florida) Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle (Professor, Hampton University) Elisa Silva (Associate Professor, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and Department of Architecture, Florida International University, FIU) The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.
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Jan 31
DEI @ LSA: Celebrate & Inform the Future of DEI in LSA
2:00pm, Michigan Union
As we conclude DEI 1.0 and plan for DEI 2.0, we invite all LSA students, faculty, and staff to join us! Celebrate Recognize the collective work around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @ LSA, while enjoying food, grabbing swag, and entering giveaways. Listen Featuring keynote speakers from our community members on their DEI work. Share Provide your input on the next five years of DEI @ LSA at interactive stations. Opening remarks will be provided by Anne Curzan, LSA Dean, and Isis Settles, Associate Dean for DEI.