Showing events starting from October 10, 2024 up to October 30, 2024
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Social Justice Changemaker Lecture
October 17, 2024 - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM ET
Join us for a discussion with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine. Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, and the National Magazine Award three times.
The Social Justice Changemaker Lecture was established by a generous gift from Dr. Neil C. Hawkins and Annmarie F. Hawkins and the Hawkins Family. This annual lecture focuses on important global social justice issues including race and nationality, immigration and refugees, income inequality, gender identity and sexual orientation, education, health, and mental and physical disabilities. The Lecture aims to bring prominent social justice experts and advocates from multiple disciplines, including social sciences, science, humanities, the arts, and the professions, to the University of Michigan Campus.
Event Schedule9:30 AM: Registration Opens
10 - 11:30 AM: Lecture
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Community Conversation: Communicating Across Political Differences
October 17, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
With the US elections less than a month away, we invite you to a Community Conversation around Communicating Across Political Differences at Work and Home on October 17, 2024 at noon.
Political differences can create tension in our relationships both at work and home. Let’s come together to discuss how we can navigate these tensions constructively and in ways that align with our values.
This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community. To aid the conversation, space will be limited. (We know it's coming up soon, so if you miss it, don't fear! If there is a lot of interest in this topic, we can hold another session soon.)
About the format. With these smaller Community Conversations, our hope is to explore restorative dialogue and build community, creating a space where we are all teachers and learners. We will draw heavily on practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice.
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SSW Meeting - Promotion and Tenure Committee
October 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Visit the SSW meeting calendar for full schedule information.
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Access Audit Training with Detroit Disability Power
October 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
This training is required if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power during the general elections.
A virtual option will also occur on 10/23, 6-7:30 pm.
All access audit volunteers: if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power (DDP) during the general elections, this training is required. Advocacy Director of DDP, Eric Welsby, will be conducting a training in Room 1636 on 10/18, from 12 pm-2 pm, on conducting access audits and information on serving as an election observer. Lunch will be provided. Post-training, information will be shared with attendees on precinct locations, assigned partners, and precinct site assignments. A virtual training will also be provided on October 23rd, from 6-7:30 pm. Please check the SSW events calendar for more information.
Transportation is required to conduct access audits. Volunteers will conduct access audits either at ballot drop boxes prior to the election (but after attending this training), during the 9 days of early voting from 10/26 to 11/3, or on elections day, November 5th, 2024. To receive field credit for engaging in this opportunity, you must receive approval from your field faculty instructor.
Please reach out to [email protected] and [email protected] if you have any questions.
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CommuniTea with Justin Hodge
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Please join us for our October CommuniTea with Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Justin Hodge! Hodge co-leads the Policy & Political Social Work Pathway, directs the Online Certificate in Political Social Work, and was elected to the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners in November 2020. He focuses on addressing local inequities and promoting economic opportunity and serves in state and national roles to expand social workers' participation in policy, while also bridging clinical and macro social work for students.
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Half-Baked Research (Wholly Baked Pizza)
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
The Associate Dean of Research is hosting a Half-Baked Brown Bag for Faculty and Doctoral Students to share their early-stage ideas with peers for feedback. Please join Elizabeth Evans (ISR Research Faculty and recent SSW Lecturer) and Sunghyun Hong (doctoral student) (15 min each) followed by a 30 min discussion (each). Pizza and drinks provided. Space for up to 20 attendees!
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For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
October 21, 2024 - 6:00 PM ET
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Intimate Partner Violence Lecture with Ally Zenda
October 22, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET
Join us for a special presentation on intimate partner violence with Ally Zenda, Domestic Violence Legal Outreach Coordinator with the Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
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Community Conversation: The Environmental Justice Movement
October 22, 2024 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation about the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice is an urgent issue that impacts us all. We encourage participants to explore their connection to environmental justice in both their personal and professional lives, reflecting on how inequalities affect communities and how we can advocate for a more sustainable and just future.
This is a time for open dialogue – to express feelings, raise concerns, and find support as a community.
About the FormatWith these smaller Community Conversations, our goal is to create a restorative space where we can share experiences and learn from one another. The discussion will be guided by practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice. We look forward to seeing you there!
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DDP Access Audit Virtual Training
October 23, 2024 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET
This training is required if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power during the general elections.
All access audit volunteers: if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power (DDP) during the general elections, this training is required. This training will be conducted by DDP's Advocacy Director, Eric Welsby, via zoom on 10/23, from 6 pm-7:30 pm. Needed information regarding the access audits and serving as an election observer will be provided. Another training for access audits is occurring at the school on 10/18, 12-2 pm. Students only have to attend one of these trainings.
Volunteers will conduct access audits either at ballot drop boxes prior to the election (but after attending this training), during the 9 days of early voting from 10/26 to 11/3, or on elections day, November 5th, 2024.
To receive field credit for engaging in this opportunity, you must receive approval from your field faculty instructor.
Please reach out to [email protected] and [email protected] if you have any questions about the access audits.
Please contact Ayesha Ghazi Edwin, [email protected], for questions about this training.