I’d be happy to give extra credit to anyone who attends these events and writes a reflection about them.




Cosponsored MLK Event
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

Thursday, January 18
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
(Room 100)

Andrea J. Ritchie
Researcher in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Drawing from her recent book, Andrea Ritchie examines how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, Ritchie documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.

This event is part of the university's annual MLK Symposium. Presented with the Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies.


Cosponsored Event
The Other America: Still Separate.
Still Unequal.

Friday, January 19
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Michigan Union
(First Floor, Kuenzel Room)

REGISTRATION

This interdisciplinary, day-long event will focus on racial inequality as it manifests in relation to the lived experiences of Black Americans. Throughout the day, panelists will discuss the criminal justice system and state violence against Black people, economic inequality and immobility, inequities in healthcare and education, and issues pertaining to race and the environment. The event is free, open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the College of LSA, Poverty Solutions, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, Political Scientists of Color, Rackham Graduate School, School of Public Health, and Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and History. 


IRWG Event
Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism

Tuesday, January 23
3:10 PM
Lane Hall
(Room 2239)

Jeffrey R. Dudas
Associate Professor of Political Science, Affiliate Faculty of American Studies, University of Connecticut

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?

In his new book, Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism (Stanford University Press, 2017), Jeffrey R. Dudas, pursues these questions through a cultural study of three iconic conservative figures: National Review editor William F. Buckley, Jr., President Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Examining their papers, writings, and rhetoric, Dudas identifies what he terms a "paternal rights discourse"—the arguments about fatherhood and rights that permeate their personal lives and political visions.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of Women's Studies, and History Department. 


Cosponsored MLK Event
Trans Health Activism in Detroit: Moving Forward Together

Friday, January 26
2:10 PM
Michigan League
(2nd Floor, Vandenberg Room)

PANELISTS

Amara Marley

Brandi Smith

Lance Hicks, MSW

Tyffanie Walton, EIS

Moderator: Maureen D. Connolly, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Henry Ford Health System

Detroit transgender and gender nonconforming communities are leading a movement to demand safety, opportunity, and access to health and wellness services.  This panel will discuss the work being done as part of that movement at the Ruth Ellis Center, a youth social services agency that serves LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness and residential instability.  Speakers will include leaders from the Ruth Ellis community, as well as members of the medical and behavioral health teams.

This event is part of the university's annual MLK Symposium. Co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies, Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic at Mott Children’s Hospital, the Spectrum Center, the Center for the Education of Women, and the College of Pharmacy.