Events
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- Date:
- Thursday, 10 Apr 2025
- Time:
- All day
- Location:
- Virtual
- Department:
- Muslim Studies Program

Aesthetics of Solidarity:
Arab American and Arab/SWANA Diaspora Artists in the US, 1948 - Present
April 10-11, 2025
How do Arab American and Arab diaspora artists in the United States use their artistic practice to show solidarity with those facing socio-political injustices in the US and around the world? Join the MSU Broad Art Museum, the MSU Muslim Studies Program, and the Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA) to learn more about solidarity and Arab American art histories at this symposium featuring presentations by artists, art historians, and scholars from around the world.
"Aesthetics of Solidarity" is the 2025 Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA) conference and the 18th annual Muslim Studies Program Faculty Symposium.
- Date:
- Friday, 11 Apr 2025
- Time:
- All day
- Location:
- Virtual
- Department:
- Muslim Studies Program

Aesthetics of Solidarity:
Arab American and Arab/SWANA Diaspora Artists in the US, 1948 - Present
April 10-11, 2025
How do Arab American and Arab diaspora artists in the United States use their artistic practice to show solidarity with those facing socio-political injustices in the US and around the world? Join the MSU Broad Art Museum, the MSU Muslim Studies Program, and the Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA) to learn more about solidarity and Arab American art histories at this symposium featuring presentations by artists, art historians, and scholars from around the world.
"Aesthetics of Solidarity" is the 2025 Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA) conference and the 18th annual Muslim Studies Program Faculty Symposium.
- Date:
- Monday, 21 Apr 2025
- Time:
- 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
- Location:
- MSU Library Green Room, 4th floor; https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137
- Department:
- Center for Gender in Global Context

Speaker: Samantha Smith, MSU Department of History
For many years, dancers and showgirls had union contracts with the American Guild of Variety of Artists (AGVA). Then in 1980, a full cast of dancers and performers with the "Casino de Paris" fought for unionized representation at the Dunes Hotel and Casino. What happened to the AGVA in Vegas, and what does the organization of dancers and showgirls tell us about labor issues in the postwar period?
All presentations take place in the Green Room, 4th floor, MSU Library from 12:00pm - 1:15pm ET, and are available as an online webinar at https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137. The password is odwodl.
Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives
"Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives" is a joint project that focuses on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture. The richness and diversity of workers' experiences and workers culture is explored and presented through an ongoing series of exhibits, lectures, and presentations; writing and research projects; reunions; and demonstrations and discussions.
The program was established in 1992 and is coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum and the Labor Education Program in the College of Social Science's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
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