New faculty member Saleh Ahmed (Sociology) will present his research on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

The Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) hires advanced PhD students as instructors to teach online, asynchronous WGS core courses each summer, including:

• WS 201: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (two sections: summer I and summer II)
• WS 202: Introduction to Contemporary Feminisms and Gender Theories
• WS 301: Sexual Violence Against Women and Children
• WS 304: LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies
• WS 403: Women and Change in Developing Countries

These courses are offered in online and asynchronous modality only.

Visit our website to learn more and apply.

Speaker: Marissa Knaak, MSU Department of History

In "The Limits of Prosperity: Women's work and class in the department store," MSU History professor Marissa Knaak looks at early department stores in Britain and Germany to discuss the intersections of work and class. By interpreting the department store as an industrialized workplace, she considers how sales assistants, particularly women, wielded different knowledges to solidify their class standing. 

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.

The Center for Gender in Global Context invites you to attend our upcoming virtual ethics panel on "Seeking Ethics Review and IRB Approval Abroad." In this panel discussion, presenters will outline when, why, and examples of how you should apply for IRB through an institution outside the US. The event brings together four panelists with extensive experience in ethics review boards at MSU, Nigeria, and Kenya:

Rebecca Gore, Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Manager, MSU

Kimberly Hess, Institutional Review Board Administrator, MSU

Dr. Ike Iyioke, Proposal Coordinator, Global IDEAS, MSU and author of An African Research Ethics Reader

Dr. Amos Njuguna, Deputy Vice Chancellor, United States International University (USIU) - Africa

This panel is open to anyone, including faculty, staff, and students who are just interested in global research as well as those who have years of experience. 

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Date: Friday, February 14

Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)

Location: Zoom Webinar

Meeting Link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/99522031619

More details to come!

Calling all undergraduate and graduate students: submit your writing, research, or advocacy efforts to win $300! GenCen's Paper and Activism Awards recognize students who have written papers or participated in other advocacy work relating to women, gender, and social justice.

Learn more and apply on our website.

Stay tuned for more information!

Speaker: Mia Michael, Department of History, Wayne State University

Taking Boston, MA as a case study, Mia Michael unearths how supposedly "unorganizable" domestic workers and their allies blazed a trail towards systemic reform of household employment while influencing and exemplifying the broader revival of organized labor into the twenty-first century. 

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.

Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne) will deliver the 4th annual Malcolm & Ann Kerr Muslim Studies Community Lecture, a presentation on “Colonial Moralscapes: The Production of Humiliation and the Struggle for Dignity.”

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.

Space is limited, so we encourage you to register in advance for this free symposium. You may register for individual events or the entire program.

View the full symposium program here.

Register to attend in person. This symposium will be held at both the MSU Broad Art Museum and the MSU Libraries. 

Register to attend virtually. Please note that all panels will use the same Zoom link, which you will receive upon registering.

Classes over 25 students are invited to join the panels via Zoom.

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. The symposium was inspired by themes in the exhibition Nabil Kanso: Echoes of War, on view at the MSU Broad Art Museum from Feb. 15–Jun. 29, 2025. The exhibition Entangled Solidarities, on view at the MSU Libraries from Feb. 7–May 30, 2025, also explores similar themes.

This symposium is a partnership between the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU Broad Art Museum), the MSU Muslim Studies Program, and the Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA), in collaboration with MSU Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, MSU Center for Gender in a Global Context, The Nabil Kanso Estate, and the Arab American National Museum.

Aesthetics of Solidarity has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Additional support for this convening is provided by the MSU Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, MSU Humanities & Arts Research Program (HARP), the MSU Dr. Delia Koo Faculty Endowment, MSU Diversity Research Network Launch Awards Program, MSU Muslim Studies Program, MSU Asian Studies Center, University of Michigan Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC), MSU College of Arts & Letters Ad-Hoc Funding Request, MSU Libraries, and MSU Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.