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 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.
February 10, 2023
Initially a hashtag, but now a global movement, #BlackLivesMatter emerged as a response to the 2013 acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murder. With the mission to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes, the global network is expansive, affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folx, as well as Black peoples' humanity.
Find our NCID Events on Happening @ Michigan
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Apr
1
Paranoid Patriotism Redux: The Radical Right and the Nation
The 2025 The Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series, delivered by Robin D.G. Kelley
Palmer Commons @ 4:00pm -
Apr
3
2025 ARC Graduate Research Showcase
@ 10:00am -
Apr
4
Inclusive History Project Summit 2025
Off Campus Location @ 9:00am -
Apr
4
Dear Colleagues: Diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives are legally defensible and here is how higher education should respond.
Moderator: Matthew Countryman; Panelists: Liliana Garces, Samuel Bagenstos
Off Campus Location @ 12:00pm