Events
The NCID brings together scholars from across disciplines and institutions to speak on social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality.
Events
May 9, 2023
Public discussions of Asian American media representation are often overdetermined by narratives of the racial injury of Hollywood stereotypes, or what Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins called “controlling images.”
May 4, 2023
In David Oh’s presentation “Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution,” he makes a theoretical argument for “whitewashing” as an erasure of difference that centers and makes visible White subjectivity.
April 10, 2023
The landscape of affirmative action in higher education has evolved, with an imminent Supreme Court decision drawing renewed attention. Regardless of legal outcomes, institutions must proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. This panel discussion provides socio-historical context and insights from leaders navigating state-level affirmative action bans.
March 23, 2023
We find ourselves living in another year of ever-intensifying anti-LGBTQIA2+ violence. But, as Audre Lorde said to the 1989 graduates of Oberlin College, “... I do have hope.
March 21, 2023
Scholars are navigating changing spaces embedded in a system that can be slow and resistant to an evolving digital world. They are receiving competing messages about how and when to develop a digital brand and engage on social media.
March 17, 2023
Please join us for an opportunity to meet selected grantees of the 2022 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants. Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School, Center for Racial Justice (CRJ), and the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the NCID...
February 23, 2023
Please join the U-M Library, LSA Technology Services, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity for a webinar symposium featuring the recipients of the Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative mini-grants.
February 22, 2023
In this virtual panel and discussion, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (Michigan State University) and Ryan James Kernan (Rutgers University) will share their groundbreaking research on the literary and cultural translation of Blackness before engaging in a discussion moderated by Aaron Coleman, U-M’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies.