Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Events

October 22, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET

Student panelists tell their own stories

Investing in Ability

October 22, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

The Impact of Episodes: Lunch & Discuss will use profound television shows and visual media as a catalyst for discussion as it pertains to the School of Social Work and social work profession. This event features an episode from the hit television series HBO's Insecure. 

In this episode, Issa Dee struggles to find value in her position at a nonprofit organization while also seeking guidance for her financial struggles. Join the students of the DEI office as we unpack and discuss key elements of this episode and relate it back to the social work program. Click here to review the episode's trailer.

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*Lunch will be provided. Please include any dietary restrictions and/or accommodations in the RSVP form. 

October 22, 2018 - 8:00 AM to October 23, 2018 3:00 PM ET

This two-day symposium on refugee resettlement features keynote speakers U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (MI-12th District) and Mark Hetfield, President and CEO of HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). HIAS is the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees. School of Social Work presenters includes Associate Professor Sherrie Kossoudji and Assistant Professor Odessa Gonzalez Benson. Benson, received funding from the U-M Office of Research Faculty Grants and Awards to support this symposium.

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October 18, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET

Panelists: Victor Strecher, Ph.D., Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education and Director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; and Patricia F. Anderson, Emerging Technologies Informationist for the Health Sciences; with surprise special guests

Comics allow us to explain feelings and events in ways that bridge time and space and identity in unexpected ways. Comics can give us a way to tell stories we might not tell in other ways, or which might not be heard if we did. In this two part workshop, we’ll first hear from people about why and how comics worked for their stories, followed by a workshop activity for artists and storytellers to collaborate on telling stories about life with disabilities.

Investing in Ability Events

October 16, 2018 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET

Deej is DJ Savarese, a non-talking autistic man who was abandoned by his birth parents and remained uneducated until his adoptive parents helped him pursue an education. This film deals with Deej's transition to college life and the difficulties and growth that Deej pursues at Oberlin. He is a wordsmith who uses a machine to talk and he and his community know something you don't.

Investing in Ability Events

October 15, 2018 - 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET

Panelists: Christina Kline, Disability Coordinator, U-M Office for institutional Equity; Jack Bernard, U-M Associate General Counsel; Randi Johnson, U-M Housing Accommodations

Moderator: Jeff Edelstein

Do you know the difference between Emotional Support Animals and assistive animals? Do you know which animals can legally be kept in dorms or in rentals? Which animals can be taken into public spaces such as restaurants and stores? Our panel can provide the answers. 

Investing in Ability Events

October 13, 2018 - 3:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET

Disabled & Proud: Leading Change is an online conference for college students with disabilities, happening October 11-13, 2018. This is a conference for students by students with disabilities, focused on building up students as leaders for campus change to improve accessibility, inclusion, and the campus climate for people with disabilities. Students in any type of degree program, of any age, with any type of disability are welcome. Nondisabled student allies are also welcome to attend. A limited number of free registrations are available for interested students; please email [email protected] to inquire.

Investing in Ability Events 

October 12, 2018 - 3:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET

Disabled & Proud: Leading Change is an online conference for college students with disabilities, happening October 11-13, 2018. This is a conference for students by students with disabilities, focused on building up students as leaders for campus change to improve accessibility, inclusion, and the campus climate for people with disabilities. Students in any type of degree program, of any age, with any type of disability are welcome. Nondisabled student allies are also welcome to attend. A limited number of free registrations are available for interested students; please email [email protected] to inquire. 

Investing in Ability Events 

October 12, 2018 - 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET

UM Human Resources: Voices of the Staff and LSA: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Culture Office

Private screening of Me, the “Other”, a documentary film about a diverse group of students living in Washtenaw County in Southeast Michigan. “We set out to tell stories of prejudice, equality and diversity and discovered that ‘otherness’ is never one thing.” The film screening will be followed up by a conversation with cast, crew and a small Diversity Panel.

October 12, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

UM Human Resources: Voices of the Staff and LSA: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Culture Office

Private screening of Me, the “Other”, a documentary film about a diverse group of students living in Washtenaw County in Southeast Michigan. “We set out to tell stories of prejudice, equality and diversity and discovered that ‘otherness’ is never one thing.” The film screening will be followed up by a conversation with cast, crew and a small Diversity Panel.

October 12, 2018 - 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events include speakers, demonstrations, films, and the presentation of the James T. Neubacher Award. 

The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact [email protected]  at least one week in advance.

Investing in Ability Events

October 11, 2018 - 3:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET

Disabled & Proud: Leading Change is an online conference for college students with disabilities, happening October 11-13, 2018. This is a conference for students by students with disabilities, focused on building up students as leaders for campus change to improve accessibility, inclusion, and the campus climate for people with disabilities. Students in any type of degree program, of any age, with any type of disability are welcome. Nondisabled student allies are also welcome to attend. A limited number of free registrations are available for interested students; please email [email protected] to inquire. 

Investing in Ability Events 

October 10, 2018 - 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM ET

Student Life

A student-driven design thinking session for campus climate initiatives.

October 10, 2018 - 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET

Panel: Petra Kuppers, Shanna Kattari, Evan James Copeland 

Moderator: Patricia F. Anderson 

This panel will explore the question of being human through the facets of LGBTQ and disability, discovering threads of meaning in our lives, and how the intersections of our experiences can inform and lend new meaning to our multifaceted identities. The discussion will range from acceptance to microaggression, from making space for personal expression to the role of scholarly enquiry and activity in building awareness and acceptance.

Investing in Ability Events 

October 8, 2018 - 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM ET

Human Resources

Engage with university leaders in a panel discussion on fulfilling our shared responsibility to ensure a safe, equitable and respectful community.

October 8, 2018 - 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET

LSA - National Center for Institutional Diversity, Academic Innovation, and Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Leaders from different sectors discuss partnerships with higher education to inform and implement social change. President Mark S. Schlissel will share remarks on the intersection between two Presidential initiatives: Public Engagement & Impact and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

DEI Summit Events

October 8, 2018 - 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET

Jennifer Brea's Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is 28, working on her PhD at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it's "all in her head," she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. 

Investing in Ability Events

October 8, 2018 - 9:00 AM to October 12, 2018 5:00 PM ET

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit will give campus community members the opportunity to learn about the work completed during the past year on both universitywide and unit-based plans to improve diversity, equity and inclusion.

October 5, 2018 - 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET

Presenters: Tiffany Braley, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor, Medical School, Department of Neurology, Daniel Clauw, MD – Director of Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Professor, Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine (Rheumatology), and Department of Psychiatry, Ann Kratz, PhD - Assistant Professor, Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ace Anbender, sports blogger and individual with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Moderator: Donna Omichinski

.Investing in Ability Events

October 4, 2018 - 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM ET

Keynote speaker: Karin Muraszko, M.D., Julian T. Hoff Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact [email protected]  at least one week in advance.

Investing in Ability Events

October 4, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Eduardo Marques, a professor from the University of Azores, Portugal is visiting U-M SSW during the first week of October with two of his students. He is working with Dr. Mieko Yoshihama on a PhotoVoice project about social inclusion and exclution. On Thursday, October 4, Dr. Yoshihama invites Eduardo, Dr. Odessa Ganzalez-Benson from SSW, and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker - an assistant professor from Urban and Regional Planning to join a panel discussion about global inclusion and exclusion. After the panel discussion, there will be a mini-PhotoVoice Presentation from the CrossAtlantic Action Research Team.

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This event is presented by the Global Social Work Student Association and the CrossAtlantic Action Research.

September 23, 2018 - 5:00 PM ET

 Come enjoy food, friendship and dancing with the LatinX Social Work Coalition and the Trotter Multicultural Center in celebration of LatinX Heritage Month.

September 21, 2018 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Join us for our next Book Club meeting, to discuss The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

Learn more about the book from the book website and trailer.

Learn more about the SSW Book Club.

All members of the SSW community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.