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Transgender Awareness Week Keynote Speaker - Kavi Ade
November 18, 2019 - 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM ET
The Spectrum Center invites this year's Transgender Awareness Week Keynote, Kavi Ade. Kavi Ade is a black trans queer speaker, arts educator, and nationally recognized poet of Afro and Indigenous Caribbean descent. Speaking on race, gender, sexuality, mental health, domestic violence, and sexual assault, Kavi's work grapples with being set at the throne of violence, and exploring the ways in which a body can learn to survive. Using art as resistance, they create transformative dialogue that aims to combat supremacist powers, and heal communities that have been harmed. Kavi has given poetry readings and keynote speeches, led workshops, and spoken on panels in numerous cities and communities, including over 100 colleges and universities, domestically and internationally. Kavi received the leeway foundation's transformation of work that honors "women and trans* artists and cultural producers who create art for social change, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work."
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CASC x STAMPS: Art & Social Justice
November 19, 2019 - 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM ET
Join the Community Action and Social Change (CASC) Minor to learn about the importance of social justice in Art & Design. This event provides you with an opportunity to network with current and prospective CASC students in the STAMPS School of Art & Design and is hosted by CASC-STAMP students, Sara Kenward and Sophia Schwartz.
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Have Funding Will Travel: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and More for International Internships and Research
November 19, 2019 - 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM ET
Have Funding Will Travel is an opportunity to explore a variety of funding options for overseas internships and research opportunities, for both undergraduate and graduate/professional students. Representatives of several U-M funding offices will provide information, and you will be able to meet with them individually. This is a crucial opportunity to explore awards will lead to international travel, careers, and more. Everyone is welcome, but undergraduate juniors and first-year masters students are especially encouraged!
This session will begin with an introductory panel presentation, after which you may rotate throughout the room for answers tailored to the questions you have.
Food will be provided! Come take a well-deserved study break and think about where your education can take you.
This event is sponsored by the International Institute
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SSW Book Club
November 20, 2019 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
The SSW Book Club will discuss Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
You are welcome to join us, whether or not you have attended before, and whether or not you have finished the book.
All members of the SSW community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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New Leaders in African-Centered Social Work presents Professor Osvaldo "Ozzie" Rivera and RicanStruction
November 20, 2019 - 5:00 PM ET
Join us as we explore the connection of African-Hispanic roots in American History by Detroit based ensemble RicanStruction
The performance troupe of director Osvaldo “Ozzie” Rivera, dancers Celia Benvenutti, Sheila Royster as well as percussionists Chinelo Amen Ra, and Enrique Hernandez, will utilize a performance/lecture approach that transforms us on an Afro Puerto Rican musical journey through the Spanish Speaking Caribbean highlighting the significance of African-Hispanic presence. This historical perspective illuminates how three primary cultural and racial "currents" (African, Spanish & Native American) influence present-day Latin American music and culture.
A significant component of the presentation features a participatory segment where the audience can participate in the Afro Puerto Rican community-building tradition of Bomba. (*Bomba’s origins are rooted in the island's history of African enslavement)
Refreshments will be served, please RSVP.
Sponsored by the New Leaders in African-Centered Social Work and The School of Social Work
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MSW Prospective Student Webinar
November 21, 2019 - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
This online session will provide the opportunity to learn more about the University of Michigan School of Social Work MSW program. Topics covered will include: Curriculum Options, Dual Degree Programs, Application Process, Financial Aid, and more.
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Why We Should Care About Mental Health: The Interface between Mental Health and Interdisciplinary Treatment
November 21, 2019 - 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM ET
An evening conversation with Aundreah Walenski '17 MSW to learn about the most prevalent mental health disorders, their treatments, why we should care about mental health, how it affects our work, and what we can do about it in everyday practice.
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Poetry (& More) with Kay Ulanday Barrett
November 21, 2019 - 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM ET
The Spectrum Center, Council for Disability Concerns, and School of Social Work DEI Office are very excited to host multi-talented brown trans disabled artist, Kay Ulanday Barrett this November. Kay is a poet, performer, and educator whose work has been supported and published by organizations including the UN Global LGBTQ+ Summit, the Asian American Literary Review, and Race Forward. Join us in hosting them during Trans Awareness Week to hear about their work, both in reading and in their experience creating it. Event navigation details: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav. More Trans Awareness Week events: http://bit.ly/TransAwareness19
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Decolonizing Spirituality & Indigenous Health Practices
November 22, 2019 - 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM ET
The purpose of this event is to bring awareness to how the medical system - of which many social workers are now apart - has vilified Black and Indigenous spiritual practices and the impacts this has on these communities. If we plan to be competent social workers, we must have a clear understanding of how history impacts the present. We must also arm ourselves with information past our individual belief systems and get comfortable with asking people about their spiritual practices nonjudgmentally.
This event will explore how all of our various belief systems and spiritual practices intersect and will use the model from the Intercultural Development Inventory to discuss how to be adaptable social workers rather than more monocultural in how we treat the people whom we serve. There will be speakers competent in a variety of traditions and practices and there will also be time for open dialogue. -
DEI Impact Awards Ceremony
November 25, 2019 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET
Come celebrate with the School of Social Work’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for a ceremony to honor the award winners and nominees for the DEI Impact Awards, recognizing individuals or groups in the School who have made significant contributions to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion in the School of Social Work and/or in the community.
The recipients of the 2019 Impact Awards are:Students: Sharon Almonte and Dominique Crump
Clinical Assistant Professor: Justin Hodge
Joint PhD Program Coordinator: Todd Huynh
Undoing Racism Workgroup: Lisa Fedina, Lorraine Gutiérrez, Daicia Price, Richard Tolman
Lunch will be provided.