Events
The Bowman Center brings together scholars from across disciplines and institutions to speak on social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality.
Events
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.
January 30, 2023
