Panel discussions will examine University policies and protocols for helping distressed students, and also identify key sources of data on student mental health which can be used to help determine appropriate programs and services. Registration for students and physicians in training is free. For all others the fee is $99. The March 20 session is from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Dates: March 19, 2007 - March 20, 2007, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

SPRING BREAK BREAKFAST

A Health and Wellness Activity

Get your studying off to the right start and stop by Rackham for breakfast
at the Spring Break kickoff. We will be offering a variety of foods to
help keep you going. Breakfast is FREE and open to all graduate and
professional school students, but please register below to help us order
enough food and beverages.

Pre-registration required at
https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

Monday, February 25, 8:00 am - 10:30 am, 4th floor, Rackham Building

SCOR invites you to it's 18th Annual Conference on Feb 15th and 16th at the Rackham Building. The conference theme, "Decision Time: Lifting Smokescreens, Dropping Knowledge," is compelling and provocative as it aims to substantively address and re-envision election issues and political and social discourse vitally important for our communities both locally and nationally.



The conference kicks off with a faculty panel discussion on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and continues on Saturday with research presentations and a keynote address. An emphasis on linking scholarly discourse with "real talk" and speaking to matters relevant to the state of Michigan, the nation and the world will entice a broad and diverse range of people to attend and participate.



The keynote address will be given by Frank Wu, Dean of the Law School at Wayne State University, on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre.



The conference is free. Meals include a **full** breakfast (and all the fixin's) on Saturday morning and lunch. For meals, participants must pre-register by Monday, Feb 11th so caterers have accurate counts.



To register please go to: https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/scor_confreg.php

Wednesday, February 28
Spring Break Breakfast
8:30 am - 11:00 am
Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, Rackham Building

Take a moment from your studying to enjoy a relaxing breakfast with your friends. We will be offering a variety of foods to help keep you going.

Breakfast is free and open to all graduate and professional school students, but please register online at:

http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

to help us order enough food and beverages.

If you have any questions, please contact nplosky@umich.edu or 647-2640

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

MICHIGAN ALUMNI CITIZENSHIP SYMPOSIUM
profiles in citizenship: new ways of thinking and doing
through March 9

Who: Students, Faculty, Staff and beyond!!
What: Difficult Dialogue Conference
When: March 23rd 9am to 3pm
Where: Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union !
**Registration and check-in will begin at 8:30 ! Breakfast and Lunch included!

**Graduate Student Appreciation Day**
Thursday, April 5

Schedule of Events

8:30 - 10:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, Rackham Graduate School

Tuesday, March 4

8:30-10 am, 3752 School of Social Work Building


Kim Berman, UJ; Janie Paul, UM; Mark Creekmore, UM, Jane Hassinger, UM;
Michael Spencer, UM

In this working session, panelists and participants will address how
students and faculty from UM School of Social Work and School of Public
Policy might develop international research in general and participatory
action research (PAR) in particular with peer schools in South Africa.
Breakfast will be provided. Reservations required by March 3--please email
Ziehyun Huh at ziehyun@umich.edu.

April 4

Breakfast: 8:30 – 11 AM

Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, Rackham Graduate School

Pre-registration required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

Arts of Citizenship breakfast!

March 23 with LSA Dean Terry McDonald.
Time: 9-10:30 a.m.
Location: 2239 Lane Hall (corner of State and Washington Sts.)

Terrence McDonald, LSA Dean and Professor of History, "Problems and Possibilities of Community-Based Learning and Engaged Scholarship: A Dean's Perspective"

How should a research university value public scholarship? What defines "public scholarship," which has an academic value, as opposed to "community participation," which is part of being an active citizen but doesn't constitute legitimate scholarship?

Arts of Citizenship has invited Terrence McDonald, LSA Dean and Professor of History, to discuss questions of scholarship, legitimacy and the public good with faculty, staff, and students invested in community partnerships and democratic engagement through the art and humanities. All are invited to be part of this conversation.

Be part of a long tradition of grassroots social change.

Highlander Center Workshops
March 16 – 17, 2007
Trotter Multicultural Center, 1443 Washtenaw Avenue
Training and meals are free.
Register on-line at www.umich.edu/~mserve

What is the Highlander Center?
www.highlandercenter.org
The Highlander Center is a residential popular education and research
organization that has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community
organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing
social, environmental and economic problems. The founding principle and
guiding philosophy of Highlander is that the answers to the problems
facing society lie in the experiences of ordinary people. Those
experiences, so often belittled and denigrated in our society, are the
keys to grassroots power.

Generations of activists have come to Highlander to learn, teach, and
prepare to participate in struggles for justice. Highlander has played
important roles in many major political movements, including the
Southern labor movements of the 1930s, the Civil Rights Movement of the
1940s-60s, and the Appalachian people's movements of the 1970s-80s.
Currently, the Highlander Center is involved in organizing around
immigration, economic, and LBGT issues, among many others. They also
support training for youth activists and space to build multi-racial,
multicultural, and intergenerational alliances that meet to develop
strategies and ideas across race, age and gender.

Highlander Center is coming to campus for half and full day workshops
that will bring students, faculty and staff together to:
• Build multicultural coalitions around a specific issue and
across issues
• Learn about an organization and process that helps communities
work for social justice • Develop your knowledge and skills to
work for change in your community

Highlander Center Activities
Registration and meals during trainings are free. All trainings will
take place at the Trotter Multicultural Center

Friday, March 16 Half-day sessions, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. or 2:00
p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Join a diverse group of participants to address how you take action on
specific issues in your community. Topics could include: What’s next
after Prop 2: working for racial justice, environmental justice and
many other topics.

Saturday, March 17
Full day Training, 9 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Participate in a full-day workshop based on popular education that will
bring participants together to look at creating democratic spaces,
organizing for long-term efforts, and building alliances that can work
for social justice.

To get involved:
Registration is on-line at www.umich.edu/~mserve. You may attend both
the half and full day event and register either as an individual or
with a group. All events are free.

Please contact Rachel Wells at rbwells@umich.edu or Mary Beth Damm at
damm@umich.edu or 647-7465 with questions.

More information about the Highlander Center is on-line at
www.highlandercenter.org or through Myles Horton’s autobiography, The
Long Haul.

This event is sponsored by the Ginsberg Center, a Division of Student
Affairs, in partnership with the LSA Citizenship Theme Year, School for
Natural Resources and the Environment, Department of Urban Planning, ,
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of History,
Department of Sociology, Program in American Culture Michigan Community
Scholars Program, Residential College, School of Social Work, Women’s
Studies Program, Students Organizing for Labor Equality (SOLE), Prison
Creative Arts Project (PCAP), Inter-cooperative Council (ICC), and the
Graduate Employees Organization.

Note: The 9 am time is a guess! The time is still listed as TBD on their website as of this posting. Keep an eye on the website.

UMEC Pancake Breakfast
Location: Chrysler Auditorium
Time: TBD
Description: UMEC is serving pancakes for breakfast.

Interviews with the Elephant: Interfaith Dialogue on Service Learning and Religious Ethics


Are you concerned about social justice issues? Do you often find discussion around religion challenging? Do wonder how others feel spiritually connected to serving others?

The Ginsberg Center for Community and Service Learning invites EVERYONE to join us who are interested in discussions of faith and social justice to join in a series of round table discussions to explore the connections of religion and experiences of service and social justice! Come Friday March 23rd to this all day Difficult Dialogue Conference that will offer innovative and interactive interfaith dialogue opportunities!


Who: Students, Faculty, Staff and beyond!!
What: Difficult Dialogue Conference
When: March 23rd 9am to 3pm
Where: Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union !
**Registration and check-in will begin at 8:30 ! Breakfast and Lunch included!


If you are interested or have further questions, please contact Lisa McLaughlin at lmclaug@umich.edu or Claire Street at clairest@umich.edu for more information.

Honors Paper Conference (Sat, March 17th, 9am-1pm, at the Perlman Honors Commons)

Come for a scintillating discussion on what it means to be human!

Four papers submitted by Honors students Kathleen Bachynski, Katherine Cost, Katie Feary, and Patrick Julius will be presented discussing the topic from philosophical, ethnosocial, literary, and scientific viewpoints.

Keynote speech will be given by Prof. Stephen Darwall, Director of the Honors Program

A continental breakfast and dessert will be provided at this event.

Sponsored by Honors Peer Mentors

Learn how can make a difference by being a mentor to a recently released prisoner.

SATURDAY, 3/31/2007
9AM UNTIL 1PM
PART 2 OF 2 - MPRI VOLUNTEER MENTOR/COACH TRAINING

ST. JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
IN THE AUDITORIUM
5305 ELLIOTT DR
ANN ARBOR, MI 48108

FOR A DETAILED MAP GO TO: http://www.sjmercyhealth.org/blank.cfm?id=969

WE WILL COVER TOPICS SUCH AS "WHY BECOME A MENTOR?", "20 WAYS TO BE A GREAT MENTOR, COMMUNICATION, SETTING BOUNDARIES, BRAINSTORMING AND ROLE-PLAYING, DEVELOPING SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED.

CONTACT INFORMATION: WASHTENAWMPRI@GMAIL.COM
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 734-327-9717
OR PATTY AT 734-276-4687

WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH YOU. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING EITHER ONE OR BOTH OF THESE SESSIONS.
--
Patricia Lickfeldt
Workforce Development Coordinator
Washtenaw MPRI

Friday, March 7, 9-4pm, in 1644 SSWB/International Institute

LACS will be hosting the day-long Race, Religion & Empire: The Aiton Conference in Latin American History, which will consist of a morning panel with Caribbeanists and an afternoon panel with Andeanists. Invited panelists include John Garrigus (History, University of Texas at Arlington), Irene Silverblatt (Cultural Anthropology and History, Duke University), Kenneth Mills (History, University of Toronto), Peter Gose (Anthropology, Carleton University), Alejandro de la Fuente (History, University of Pittsburgh), and Francisco Scarano (History, University of Wisconsin.) Richard Turits (History and CAAS, University of Michigan) and Bruce Mannheim (Anthropology, University of Michigan) will be chairing the panels.



Continental Breakfast - 9:00-9:30am

Caribbean Perspectives Panel- 9:30am-12:00 noon

Lunch - 12:00-1:30pm

Andean Perspectives Panel- 1:30-4:00pm



All are welcome - please RSVP when possible to misantos@umich.edu by March 3 in order to better plan the event. *We have set up a Coursetools website for this conference – all who have confirmed attendance should have access to it already. If not, please email misantos@umich.edu, or if you are from outside the University of Michigan, and would like to access the site, please visit https://ctools.umich.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/1091327577219-1420518 and follow the instructions to set up a friend account.



This event has also been co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Anthropology, African and African-American Studies, the International Institute, and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. This conference is also part of the International Institute’s Religious Claims and Crossings Series.

Arts of Citizenship Friday Breakfast



Friday, October 31st, 9 – 10:30 a.m., 3512 Haven Hall (American Culture conference room)





Mphapho Hlasane, better known as Ra, is a MFA candidate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. As a visiting University of Michigan Moody fellow, Ra will speak about his use of visual arts, specifically the combination of photovoice, mapping and mural making, as effective strategies to catalyze action and lead to social and economic change. Through a case study with Kutloano, a Phumani Paper craft enterprise in Welkom, Ra is engaged in a participatory action research project that will develop replicable tools and models for grassroots and community organizations to address their markets and other social needs. Ra's scholarship is also influenced by his hip hop inspired activism in inner-city Johannesburg. In partnership with innacitycommunity and Cape Town based writer/ academic Bettina Malcomess, Ra co-founded keleketla!library, a children's library, creative arts space and platform for community publications, music, radio, film and performance. Ra will include in his discussion, how arts activism informs and shapes his public scholarship.



Please rsvp: kamilahh@umich.edu

Keynote Event (WITH Luncheon): Gaming, Social Software and Mobility: Ubiquitous Computing for Teaching
5/7/2007
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Video Studio, Duderstadt Center


Register at:

https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=1620

Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) will be in Angell Hall from 10 to 4, tabling to publicize for their coalition meeting next Monday. F-Word will be there too with white ribbons, candy, and condoms for their non-violence campaign.

February 16 - ROUND-TABLE

"Visualizing Black Culture and History"

Nathan Connolly, University of Michigan

Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan

Kelly Quinn, University of Michigan

Deborah Willis, New York University

**Note that this session is 10:00am-12:00noon