Events
The Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion events page features DEI happenings across the campus community and are primarily for current MSU students, staff and faculty. Please submit your DEI events using the link below.
23rd annual William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom an American Odyssey
Thursday, February 2, 2023 5:00 PM - Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00 PM at Wharton Center for Performing Arts Pasant Theatre
Speaker: Marley Dias founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks in 2015.
23rd annual William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom an American Odyssey
Thursday, February 9, 2023 5:00 PM - Thursday, February 9, 2023 7:00 PM at Wharton Center for Performing Arts Pasant Theatre
Presenter: Dr. Angela Davis
MSU Women of Color Community 4th Annual Conference
Friday, February 10, 2023 9:00 AM - Friday, February 10, 2023 4:30 PM at Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Theme: Work Life Balance
Sankofa Session 1: Civil Rights, Education, and Social Justice Then and Now
Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:00 PM - Saturday, February 11, 2023 1:30 PM at Virtual
Presented with East Tennessee State University
SAVE THE DATE: The Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards Ceremony
Monday, February 13, 2023 4:00 PM - Monday, February 13, 2023 6:00 PM at Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Big Ten C room
Join the campus community in recognition of the exceptional and innovative contributions of students, staff and faculty in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in teaching, research, programming, service, community outreach and organizational change. Stay tuned for an official invitation in December.
Douglass Day
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 11:00 AM - Tuesday, February 14, 2023 1:00 PM at The Donald L. and Edna P. Castle Board Room, 3rd Floor, Room 343, College of Law Building
Please join in the inaugural participation in the national Black History Month Douglass Day Program. Featuring the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
Confident Women Series: Emotional Intelligence as a Foundation to DEI Work
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:00 PM - Wednesday, February 15, 2023 2:00 PM at Zoom
Shelly Davis Boyd from Integrare Collaborative will be presenting.
Sankofa 2023 Session II: Emerging Trends in Urban and Campus Policing
Saturday, February 18, 2023 11:30 AM - Saturday, February 18, 2023 2:30 PM at MSU College of Human Medicine: Flint Area Medical Education, (msuFAME) Room #CHM FL 132 & Virtual
K-12 Outreach Black History Month Sankofa Project 2023
James Madison College Black History Month Symposium
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 6:00 PM - Wednesday, February 22, 2023 8:30 PM at Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium
Featuring 2021 National Book Award Winner Jason Mott
The 16th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference
Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:00 AM - Friday, February 24, 2023 12:00 AM at International Center
Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled "Measuring Muslim Publics Curves, Columns, Spheres and Squares."
23rd annual William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom an American Odyssey
Thursday, February 23, 2023 5:00 PM - Thursday, February 23, 2023 7:00 PM at Kellogg Center & Conference Centre Auditorium
Presenter: Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Thursday, February 23, 2023 7:00 PM - Thursday, February 23, 2023 8:30 PM at Club Spartan, 3rd Floor, Case Hall
Presented by: Dr. Sasha Senderovich
Sankofa 2023 Session III: Cents and Sensibility: The Racial Opportunity Costs of Education Since Brown v. Board of Education BOOK TALK
Saturday, February 25, 2023 12:00 PM - Saturday, February 25, 2023 1:30 PM at Virtual
K-12 Outreach Black History Month Sankofa Project 2023.
15th Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference
Friday, March 10, 2023 8:00 AM - Saturday, March 11, 2023 5:00 PM at MSU and online
Call for Abstracts submission deadline is December 1, 2022. Honoring Legacies, Reflecting on Progress, and Envisioning New Horizons.
MSU César Chávez & Dolores Huerta Commemorative Celebration
Friday, March 31, 2023 at MSU campus
Michigan State University is celebrating its 13th Commemorative Celebration on Friday, March 31st, 2023, honoring the legacies of local and national community leaders and organizers with a special lunch on campus for MSU students, faculty, staff and local community leaders. The public is welcome. This event recognizes the brave leaders that created change and impact for farmworkers and Latinx communities, their history, challenges and progress in America. This year’s theme is, Recordando y Progresando Raices; Remembering and Progressing our Roots.
2023 International Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 3:30 PM - Wednesday, April 5, 2023 5:00 PM at MSUFCU Club in Spartan Stadium
Each year, International Studies and Programs presents a series of distinguished awards to recognize individuals who are solving the world's greatest problems, making the world a better place, internationalizing the student experience, and advancing knowledge and transforming lives around the world.