The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center hosts its annual art show! Local, regional, and student artists have been asked to express themselves on issues of sexual violence, sexism, gender, and empowerment. The exhibit will begin with an opening night and reception on Friday and remain up until Wednesday.

We invite you to browse panels about the scripts of ancient Egypt, indigenous languages of Central and South America, languages of Southeast Asia, and more – including the English language and language used in graffiti and comics.

This exhibit highlights the possibilities for exploration and discovery within the library’s collections, which are impressive on many levels. The sheer number of materials, including more than 8.5 million volumes in locations all over campus, and access to millions of digital books, journals and images, makes it one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The collection encompasses ancient documents written on papyrus, electronic journals reporting on the latest advances in science and medicine, and materials from nearly every period, culture, and way of thought in between.

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

April is poetry month, and at the University of Michigan poetry is abundant. This year, U-M Library celebrates the range and diversity of the local scene with three special events designed to appeal to poetry lovers of all sorts, especially the pizza-eating sort. Please join us for readings, free pizza, and the thrill of poetry month raffle? Enjoy poetry readings from Linda Gregerson, Laura Kasischke, Van Jordan, Benjamin Paloff, and Cody Walker.

Whether you worry too much about school, relationships, or anything else, these sessions are designed to help you manage your stress and anxiety.

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan offers three fellowships in the areas of architectural research and instruction. Each of the fellowships includes teaching related to the candidate's area of interest, resources for the development of work, possibilities to interface with scholars and researchers in the wider university context, and the opportunity to share the outcome of the fellowship with the College. Fellows spend one year in residence and teach three classes in addition to pursuing their fellowship interests.

William Muschenheim Fellowship: James Macgillivray Film to Wit: A Menagerie

The slow death of the medium of film calls for a drawn-out moment of reflection. What was film? By the same token, what were its constituent spaces?

The generalist might see “filmic space” as the fruits of the kinship of Eisenstein and Le Corbusier, both of them walking in parallax around the precincts of the Acropolis. Le Corbusier moves with the smoothness of the architectural promenade, Eisenstein sees collision in the succession of architectural images. Other figures exist in the pantheon of film, but must be drawn out.

This work does not generalize but lays out a handful of these examples as in a cabinet of curiosities. Spheres, pyramids, tapestries, lattices and prisms among others, all are latent in what is now the “last machine,” the film.

Walter B. Sanders Fellow: Etienne Turpin Stainlessness

Stainlessness recuperates the tradition of the architectural ‘capriccio’ as a means to emphasize the history of labor movements in North America and to make legible the physical semblance of these movements in cities including Sudbury, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Detroit. While processes of urbanization have all but erased these struggles from our cities and left only ambivalent monuments to mark the past, the narrative of Stainlessness and its contemporary ‘capriccios’ assert the centrality of labor as a force capable of transforming the nature of cities, the culture of America, and the geologic deep-time marked by the Anthropocene.

Willard A. Oberdick Fellow: Kyle Reynolds Symptomatic: Indexical Techniques for a Revitalized Cincinnati

Stemming from an interest in the way in which architecture presents itself to the public, this project investigates a renewed potential of indexical techniques of design at three scales: the city, the building, and the detail. Previous uses of the index have focused on its ability to trace processes or historical contexts but almost exclusively produced work that looked backward and referred to existing conditions. Symptomatic posits that indexical techniques can be projective in their deployment. They can collapse time and space between a sign and its referent and in many cases can reverse that order entirely. The symptomatic index is not a return to a legibility of sign nor is it advocating for an autonomous formal agenda. Its potential is in its ability to produce new atmospheres and alter stagnant contexts with techniques that range from extensive ephemeral figuration to intensive building construction.

Participants will learn more about presenting their story to potential employers through resumes and interviews.

This Workshop is only for current members of Alpha Chi Omega.