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Year of Global Engagement

Year of Global Engagement

The Year of Global Engagement features events, programs, and opportunities aimed at inspiring the U-M community to explore avenues for international learning, both here on campus and around the globe.

As we consider how we can deepen and increase the impact of our work in the Year of Global Engagement, we must approach our collective international engagement work with curiosity, an open mind, and a desire to learn from our partners, their culture, their practices and, most importantly, their values.

Valeria Bertacco, Vice Provost for Engaged Learning

Strategic Initiatives

The Global Engagement Strategic Plan, launched in Autumn 2023 by the Vice Provost for Engaged Learning, aims to increase and diversify student participation in international experiences through four strategic initiatives:

Upcoming Campus Events & Programs

Get involved in the Year of Global Engagement through these internationally-focused campus events and programs.

Past Campus Events & Programs

Date: 10/01/2024DEI@UMSI Community Conversation: Diverse Perspectives on Elections

Date: 10/01/2024DEI@UMSI Community Conversation: Diverse Perspectives on Elections

Date: 10/01/2024PICS International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A

Date: 10/03/2024PICS Career Event: Conversation with Hardy Vieux

Date: 10/04/2024Program for International and Comparative Studies

Date: 10/08/2024Center for Emerging Democracies Roundtable on “Unequal Democracies”

Date: 10/08/2024Meet the Diplomat in Residence 

Date: 10/08/2024CGIS Study Abroad Fair

Date: 10/09/2024Global Scholars Program Application

Date: 10/09/2024African International Student Experiences: A Dialogue with Filmmaker, Arthur Musah 

Date: 10/09/2024“Brief Tender Light” Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker 

Date: 10/19/2024Global Citizenship in Practice; Global Citizenship in an Age of Democratic Peril 

Date: 10/21/2024WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Verses from a Nation in Transition. Ukraine in Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj

Date: 10/22/2024Miracolo a Milano Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus

Date: 10/22/2024First-Generation Education Abroad Scholarship 

Date: 10/22/2024Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk on “Democracy in Darkness”

Date: 10/23/2024Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Readings by Marianna Kiyanovska, moderated by Alex Averbuch

Date: 10/29/2024Liminal Beings, Machine Learning, Health, and Women’s Electoral Participation

Date: 10/31/202431st Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival

Date: 11/01/2024Religiosity, Subalterns, and Mathematical Learning Outcomes

Date: 11/03/2024ELECTION Double Film Feature: “First Vote” and “Chosen”

Date: 11/04/2024Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Migration and Narration

Date: 11/05/2024Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture. “They Vowed Never to Return:” Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and Abandoned Ottomans

Date: 11/07/2024Making “MENA”: Histories of the “Middle East,” Race, and the US Census

Date: 11/11/2024WCEE Roundtable. Europe’s Polarized Political Landscape: Discussion on European Elections

Date: 11/13/2024Donia Human Rights Center Panel Discussion | Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: International Perspectives

Date: 11/18/2024Sudan: In The Eyes of the Storm

Date: 11/18/2024Trans and Nonbinary Passport Clinic

Date: 11/18/2024Ross International Fair

Date: 11/19/2024I Vitelloni Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus

Date: 11/20/20242024 U-M Global Photo Showcase

Date: 11/20/2024CREES Noon Lecture. Political Anxieties in the Caucasus: the Georgian National Narrative Between War and Peace

Date: 11/21/2024Needs of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Context of Contemporary Political Processes and Social Modernization Trends

Date: 11/22/2024Global Health & Development Career Panel

Date: 12/04/2024CREES Noon Lecture. All Art is a Political Statement 

Date: 12/10/2024Summer Study Abroad Apps Now Open