Campus News & Events
Connect to Community Portal
When trying to find community service opportunities, don't forget about the Ginsberg Center's Connect to Community portal. The Connect to Community website provides students with an easy platform to search hundreds of ways to get involved within Washtenaw County. The Ginsberg Center empowers students by connecting them with engagement opportunities in
the community, along with the support of faculty. Check out the listings, join us, and engage with your community.
Learn more.
Global Scholars Program (GSP)
GSP is an interdisciplinary academic living learning community that brings together international and U.S. sophomores, juniors, and seniors to engage in social justice education on a global level. Students of all academic concentrations, backgrounds, and levels of intercultural experience are encouraged to apply. Deadline is December 7. Learn more and apply.
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
The Ford School and the Science, Technology and Public Policy program will host a discussion on the intersectionality of technology and social justice. In her book
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Albany SUNY Virginia Eubanks will be discussing the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
When: Thursday, December 6, 4-5:20PM
Where: 1120 Weill Hall, Ford School
Celebrating the Scholarship of Evelyn Alsultany
Join the Arab and Muslim American Studies to discuss and celebrate the significant contributions of one of the foremost scholars of Arab and Muslim American Studies. Reception to follow the panel discussion.
When: Thursday, December 6, 4-6 PM
Where:1014 Tisch Hall
U-M Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) Art Auction
PCAP invites you to an art auction that will help finance
The 24th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The auction will feature donated artwork by incarcerated artists, PCAP curators, University of Michigan faculty and community artists. Admission is free.
When: Saturday, December 8, 6:30-9PM
Where: Hussey Room, Michigan League
U-M Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) Secular Wingding
Join PCAP in celebrating the past semester by hearing from speaker Heather Ann Thompson, answering questions about getting involved, and playing games.
RSVP.
When: Wednesday, December 12, 6-8PM
Where: 1405 East Quad
Undoing Racism Workshops
The School of Social Work will be holding several opportunities for students to attend workshops to
dismantle structures of racism on campus and in our society. The training is based on the premise that racism has been systematically constructed and that it can be undone when people understand where it comes from, how it functions, why it is perpetuated, and what can be done to dismantle it. RSVP..
When: Wednesday, December 12 + Thursday, December 13, 9-5PM
Where: Educational Conference Center
James Boggs at 100: A Legacy and Lineage of Radical Social Change in Detroit
To mark what would be James Boggs 100th birthday, the the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit revisits his writings and activism, exploring the ways his and Grace's efforts to bring about revolutionary change continue through a powerful lineage of thought and activism in contemporary community work in Detroit.
Learn more.
When: Monday, February 18, 7-8PM
Where: Literari Book Store, 124 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
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