Wednesday, 06 Nov 2024
Bridging Borders: Career Journeys at Bayer, From Germany to the USA
Dr. Anita Kuepper and Dr. Lucas McKinnon will share their career experiences at Bayer Global. This lecture will provide info about international opportunities in the crop sciences and more generally about German-American industry partnerships.
Monday, 11 Nov 2024
No Fashion Without Disability: Embracing Disability as Knowledge and Access as an Aesthetic
There has been a rise in clothing and accessories designed for disabled people under the moniker of adaptive fashion. Accompanied by increased representations of disabled models in fashion media and the introduction of disabled mannequins in fashion exhibitions, adaptive fashion is often celebrated as evidence of the industry's commitment to diversity. However, my lecture challenges this assumed inclusivity strategy. I propose a new...
Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024
Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
For the past several yearsâ€"and during the summer Olympicsâ€"the issue of trans athletes’ participation in sports has never been far from the headlines. State legislatures, sports’ governing bodies, celebrities, and political leaders have all gotten involvedâ€"particularly when the topic is about who can compete in girls’ and women’s sports. This panel will discuss the current issues about trans athletes participating in...
Friday, 15 Nov 2024
Lecture: Glad Tidings to the Strangers
with Shaykh Oosman Mustoofa, an instructor at the Miftaah Institute, Warren, Michigan.
Monday, 18 Nov 2024
Native American Cuisine, Foods, and the Way of Life
Chef Freddie Bitsoie (bit-sue-ee) will discuss the cultural progression of foods in the western hemisphere, and how native foods of the western hemisphere have been claimed, misused, appropriated and overlooked for centuries. Chef Bitsoie will discuss how these foods survived through migration, colonization, and cuisine culture. Initially pursuing cultural anthropology at the University of New Mexico, a conversation...