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Oct 1
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: Dealing with Scarcity in the Hospital
11:30am, Off Campus Location
OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community. *Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly. https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events
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Oct 2
Bouchet Honor Society Information Session
10:00am, Off Campus Location
This session will outline the benefits of joining the Bouchet Honor Society. It will also offer advice and best practices for completing the application for Bouchet. Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/88PVe. 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 (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
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Oct 2
Healing Identity Based Trauma
12:00pm, Off Campus Location
Many discussions under the umbrella of diversity, equity, and inclusion focus on what we can do moving forward, without holding sufficient space to deal with the wounds and potential trauma that inequality, oppression, and marginalization can cause. In the belief that healing is a form of social justice, this session focuses on strategies individuals and communities can use to heal from identity-based trauma. This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance. Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/4pNXo. 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 (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
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Oct 6
The Microaggression Session
1:00pm, Off Campus Location
This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible. Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences. In this session, participants will: - Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic - Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions - Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace - Validate experiences with microaggressions - Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient Audience: This session is open to all LSA Staff. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here: https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html
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Oct 6
Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality
4:00pm, Off Campus Location
In Undermining Racial Justice, Matthew Johnson (Texas Tech University) contends that over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. Focusing on the University of Michigan, Johnson argues that U-M leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide. Join the author for a discussion of Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality. Angela Dillard (University of Michigan) will serve as interlocutor. Matthew Johnson is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow working on a book about the impact of urban campus police forces on Black communities and students. Angela Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College. She specializes in American and African American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics—on both the Left and the Right sides of the political spectrum—and maintains an active interest in urban studies. Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a90DMOeVRZy18VWjsPyc_A This event is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
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Oct 7
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy
12:00pm, Off Campus Location
Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have. Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates: - Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4 - Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10 - Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16
