Showing events on January 16, 2017
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Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance - University Symposia - No Regular Classes
January 16, 2017
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U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium
January 16, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:30am
The University community is especially pleased to welcome Golden Globe nominee Issa Rae, writer, producer, and star of the hit HBO series Insecure, and Amy Goodman, award winning investigative journalist, author, syndicated columnist, and host of Democracy Now!, as speakers for the keynote memorial lecture. This year’s keynote event will focus on a sit-down discussion between Amy Goodman and Issa Rae.
Learn more about the U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.
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27th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. Health Sciences Program
January 16, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
“The Liberian Ebola Epidemic: Sounds of War and Sounds of Change”
A Lecture by Dr. Mosoka Fallah, PhD, MA, MPH
Reception with light refreshments to follow
Shuttle service will be available from Hill auditorium at 11:30 and 11:50
Live streaming available: connect.umms.med.umich.edu/mlk_symposium
Sponsored by the following U-M units: School of Dentistry, School of Kinesiology, Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, Michigan Medicine (Human Resources, OHEI, Service Excellence), School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, School of Social Work
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School of Social Work MLK Event: Organizing for Change: Social Work Strategies and Tactics
January 16, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
2017 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium Event
This interactive event will focus on effective social work organizing skills. The session will showcase specific social work organizing strategies and tactics such as base building, generating and using power, taking purposeful action, designing speeches, organizing speak outs, teach-ins and protests etc. Activists will describe several key organizing strategies followed by small group teach-ins where these skills can be practiced. Our focus is on ways to effectively organize in the fight for social justice today.
Refreshments will be served