The Inclusive History Project is hosting its annual summit April 4, inviting members of the university community to participate in sessions exploring histories of inclusion and exclusion at the University of Michigan.
“Now that the IHP is nearing the end of its second year of activity, we have research progress to report, findings from projects we have funded to share and a large body of faculty, staff, students and community members who are working together to tell a more comprehensive and more compelling history of the university,” said IHP co-chair Elizabeth R. Cole.
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“The summit offers a critical opportunity to share the range and ambition of the IHP’s ongoing work and engage more people across and beyond our campuses in it.”
Cole is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; professor of psychology, of women’s and gender studies, and of Afroamerican and African studies in LSA; and director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity.
The summit will take place at the Fairlane Center North Building at UM-Dearborn. Programming will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with an afterparty to follow. Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be served.
The summit is free and open to all to attend, with registration requested.
The summit will open with a panel that discusses approaches to reparative action. The panel discussion will be moderated by IHP co-chair Earl Lewis and is co-presented by the Center for Social Solutions.
Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy; professor of history, and of Afroamerican and African studies in LSA; professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; and director of the Center for Social Solutions.
The panel will feature experts in justice, policy and advocacy who will discuss how to address past harms and prevent their recurrence. The conversation will consider key topics such as accountability frameworks, community-driven reparative policies and actions and implementation challenges.
Lightning talks throughout the day will provide brief updates from a range of IHP initiatives across the university’s campuses, including projects supported by the IHP Research & Engagement Fund and the IHP Teaching Fund. Speakers will include faculty, staff and students who are leading these projects.
The summit will also feature a hands-on archiving workshop for students, community members and others who are interested in learning how to preserve personal and collective histories, a video booth where people can share their stories of U-M and an exhibition highlighting an ongoing digitization project at UM-Dearborn that is preserving and expanding access to the campus’s student publications.
The day will conclude with a screening of “Uncovering: The History of the Black Student Union,” a short documentary directed and produced by UM-Dearborn student Sydney McKinney-Williams that traces the origins and evolution of the Black Student Union at the Dearborn campus.
McKinney-Williams received a mini grant from the IHP Research & Engagement Fund to support this project and is a member of the project’s Student Advisory Committee.
