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For the 23rd year in a row, Northern Michigan University will present its annual Sonderegger Symposium on campus. Sponsored by a donation from the Sonderegger family, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center and Center for U.P. Studies, the symposium will take place on Friday, November 10 from 8 a.m. to 5 pm. Sessions will be held in the Northern Center ballrooms and a lunch will be provided. Admission is free and open to the public.

You can view the schedule of the presentations and the event here.

The theme of this year’s symposium is “Perspectives on 1820 and Beyond.” All of the sessions will be related to the Beaumier Center’s current exhibit, “Claiming Michigan: the 1820 Expedition of Lewis Cass.” The sessions will not only discuss the expedition and the peoples involved in the journey but also look at the long-term impacts of the expedition on the formation of the State of Michigan and the United States. 

This year’s keynote address will be given by Bryan Newland, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. Newland is a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe), where he recently completed his tenure as Tribal President. Prior to that, Bryan served as Chief Judge of the Bay Mills Tribal Court. From 2009 to 2012, he served as a Counselor and Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Indian Affairs. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and the Michigan State University College of Law. 

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The Forest Service is hosting an in-person recruitment event for Wildland Firefighter positions. Come learn about the fire crews, their duties, and positions. Our goal is to match local candidates with local positions. Wildland Firefighter positions will be posted on USAJOBS.gov. 

In addition to Wildland Fire positions, other job opportunities include: 
•Engineering 
•Student Trainee Engineering / Architecture 
•Forestry / Timber / Silviculture 
•Administrative Support 
•Reality Specialist 

There will be specialists available to speak to some of these other job opportunities as well as Wildland Fire. For additional info visit: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r9/jobs

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Please attend the McNair Research Symposium. These research projects started at the beginning of the Summer 2023 semester and vary in design and project lengths. Many of these research projects are ongoing and involve cross-departmental support. Come support our scholars!

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Endia Beal’s Artistic Introspective Workshop offers an innovative, engaging, and relatable approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) training. Her two-hour sessions are designed around the fundamental idea that diversity enhances creativity and leads to unfettered discoveries. Sign-up is required. Space is limited.

Prerequisite - To attend the workshop, participants must also attend Beal’s Keynote Talk on Monday, October 16, 2023, at 6:30 pm.

Please sign up via the link below. 

This program was made possible by a Michigan Art and Culture Council grant.

Once the workshop reaches 35 people, you will be added to a waitlist.

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This year marks the 56th Annual Fall Semester Job Fair!  This is an opportunity for employers to share information about a wide range of career possibilities with NMU students. Employers are also welcome to recruit for full-time or part-time positions, internships, and summer staff.  There is no cost for students or alumni to attend this fair.  

Remember to dress for success and have your resume ready!

Win a prize!  Students/alumni who register in Handshake and also check in at the job fair will be placed into a drawing.  Ten winners will be selected and notified the day after the fair. 

There will be an opportunity to get a professional headshot taken at the fair! 

Click here for information on preparing for in-person fairs.  Please contact NMU Career Services if you have any questions. 

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NMU participates in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) every two years including a topical set of questions on inclusiveness and engagement with diversity.  NMU's Institutional Effectiveness team will present on how this information is used and share findings from the most recent data collection cycle.

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From factory work to sex work, activism to organizing; butches and femmes have done it all. As a community, we must learn from our history and we simply cannot do that without delving first into butch/femme identities across the gender spectrum. In this session, we will discuss the coevolution of butch and femme identity and community, the backlash against and erasure of these identities, and the resilience of the communities in the present day.

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David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is the author of the award-winning crime thriller novel Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020). The novel was a national bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a Best Book of the year by NPR, Amazon Best Book of 2020/Best Mystery and Thriller of the year, and Best Book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian, and other magazines. Weiden was named by the New York Times as one of “the most critically acclaimed young novelists working now.” Winter Counts was called a “once-in-a-generation thriller” by the Los Angeles Times, a “worthy addition to the burgeoning canon of indigenous literature” by Library Journal, and one of the “best crime novels of all time” by Parade magazine. Winter Counts was also selected as CrimeReads Best Noir Fiction, Best Debut, and Notable Selection for Best Crime Novel.

Weiden has short stories appearing or forthcoming in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022, Denver Noir, Midnight Hour, This Time for Sure, Never Whistle at Night, and The Perfect Crime. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Shenandoah, and Writer’s Digest. He’s the series editor of Native Edge, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press specializing in Indigenous literature. Weiden received the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee, and Tin House.

Weiden received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s professor of Native American studies and Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver and serves on the faculty of the Cedar Crest Pan-European MFA Program and also the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University.

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A Relational Approach to the Environmental Humanities

How can literature and other forms of culture impact ecological systems? This talk will present a relational approach to the environmental humanities that seeks to reshape our environmental relationships by tracing the wider systemic effects of various forms of cultural engagement. It will illustrate this approach by describing how nineteenth-century environmental authors like William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir became associated with specific landscapes in ways that shaped the modern significance of nature and the emergence and development of the environmental movement.

Scott Hess is Professor of English and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College. He currently serves as Conference Chair on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Sustainability Hub for Innovation and Environment (SHINE)

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We're thrilled to announced that Poetry without Border has been rescheduled and will now be included with the UNITED Conference! Join us for a fun evening of poetry to celebrate the linguistic diversity of NMU! Northern students, faculty, and community members will present poems in languages other than English. (English translations will be included.) 

Any questions? Please contact Dr. Anna Zimmer at anzimmer@nmu.edu.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures and International Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences.