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SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAugust 24 - October 18\, 2026\nExhibition Reception: October 1\, 1-2:30 p.m.\n\nIn their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students \"develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.\" Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice. At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review and receive direct feedback from a panel of Stamps faculty members. \n\nInstalled throughout the Art & Architecture Building\, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students\, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. \n\nThe works in this year’s exhibition engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory\, identity\, materiality\, ecology\, technology\, labor\, social relationships\, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition\, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction\, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.\n\n–Sally Clegg\, Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator & Pedram Baldari\, Assistant Professor\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n<ul class=\"twocol\">\n\nNailah Aguilar\n\nAkylah Archer\n\nZachary Berenbaum\n\nSamantha Blaine\n\nLauren Boyce\n\nKas Brajkovic\n\nAnna Browne\n\nLilah Chow\n\nIsabella Cortes\n\nMagdalena Dimovski\n\nLeah Elliott\n\nAya Fadlelzebair\n\nM. Faurote\n\nClaire Fuller\n\nNoelle Gall\n\nLacy Galligan\n\nAbigail Garcia\n\nElise Goldberg\n\nAva Grace\n\nElla Graeb\n\nDeja Green\n\nGrace Hardy\n\nKore Hernández\n\nMikayla Holcomb\n\nReese Johnson\n\nOonagh Kossman\n\nKade Kuba\n\nAvelina Kusiak\n\nOliver Levans\n\nAlef Liu\n\nFiona Maier\n\nCaitlyn McConville\n\nTyler Meerschaert\n\nEve Mellis\n\nErica Meunier\n\nAlexis Minor\n\nCatherine Mitzel\n\nCharlotte Mullin\n\nAnupama Narayan\n\nMia Noel\n\nAva Paananen\n\nDominique Robinson\n\nSophie Scott\n\nVictoria Selektor\n\nSamridhi Sharma\n\nJanet Shasha\n\nSadie Smith\n\nGabriella Spagnuolo\n\nAva Sproull\n\nJesse Strohauer\n\nDavid Wang\n\nZimu Wang\n\nLily Whitcomb\n\nLexi Wu\n\nMelaniya Zazovskaya\n\n
UID:150015-21907845@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150015
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260807T081915
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Photo Exhibition. This is the Place
DESCRIPTION:There are nearly one million refugees currently living in Poland. While the vast majority arrived from Ukraine\, Poland has also welcomed forcibly displaced people from Central Asia\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. While refugees may be different\, they all search for a place that reminds them of home.\nIn *This Is The Place*\, a project supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)\, Anna Liminowicz asked refugees to show what\, in Poland\, reminds them of their home. These portraits and the personalized confessions her subjects handwrote in their native languages tell poignant stories about safety and hope.\nAnna Liminowicz is an award-winning photographer and reportage journalist based in Warsaw\, Poland. A frequent contributor to the *The New York Times*\, *The Guardian*\, *The Wall Street Journal*\, *The Washington Post*\, *El Pais*\, *Der Spiegel* and UNHCR\, Liminowicz divides her time  between assignments and long-term personal projects\, mainly focusing on social issues like identity and loss\, and what uplifts her subjects. She has covered the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Poland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion\, and received the 2022 Grand Press Photo Award for her project “Too Precious to Leave Behind”.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149978-21907722@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:russia,Ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547
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DTSTAMP:20260814T155307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit.
UID:150290-21908803@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260806T162236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky
DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky  portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration.  \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149975-21907486@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260819T172113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 National Postdoc Appreciation Week
DESCRIPTION:National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) 2026 is an annual event sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association. The week honors the research\, innovation\, and vital contributions of postdoctoral fellows. This year’s theme is celebrating 150 years of the U.S. postdoc position. 
UID:149939-21907417@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149939
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Common Room, lower level (basement)
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DTSTAMP:20260814T155149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ballad for Rodney
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the Humanities’ presentation of Cosmo Whyte’s* Ballad for Rodney* (2024) is organized as part of Whyte’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Stamps Gallery entitled *Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye*.\n\nThis “curtain painting” operates simultaneously as painting and sculpture\, inviting the viewer to physically engage with the surface\, passing through to another layer underneath. Named in reference to Rodney King\, the African American man who was a victim of police brutality in LA in 1991\, the kinetic artwork intends to bring into question the relationship between the body and the artwork. Through direct engagement with image and materiality\, it shifts one’s idea of an archive from a static memory to a lived embodied experience.\n\nAbout the artist\nCosmo Whyte (b. 1982\, St. Andrew\, Jamaica) is an interdisciplinary artist who employs drawing\, installation\, and sculpture to create conceptual work exploring interstitial subjectivity through an engagement with both intimate and public archives\, as well as Black spatiality and forms of resistance. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan. In 2022\, he joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as an assistant professor.\n\n\nWhyte’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at MOCA Georgia\, Atlanta\, GA\; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; The High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, GA\; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY\; Atlanta Contemporary\, Atlanta\, GA\; Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris\, France\; and the National Gallery of Jamaica\, Kingston\, Jamaica\, among others. His work is in public museum collections including the High Museum\, Atlanta\, GA\; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL\; International African American Museum\, Charlotte\, NC\; MOCA Georgia\, Atlanta\, GA\; National Gallery of Jamaica\; Pérez Art Museum Miami\, among others. Whyte lives and works between Montego Bay\, Jamaica and Los Angeles\, CA.
UID:150287-21908788@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150287
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
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DTSTAMP:20260601T094350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Geophilosophies (3): Cross-Cultural Thinking in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:In this era of global disorientation\, marked by unfolding ecological crises\, ongoing wars fueled by technological competition\, the idea of dialogical engagement and even more so the idea of cross-cultural thinking\, feels like a nostalgic dream. In the wake of the international order’s dismantling and the ruinous acceleration of techno-capitalism\, social discontent has been channeled into extreme nationalisms that promise a ‘homecoming’ at the expense of outsiders\, immigrants\, refugees. Adding to these woes\, intellectual efforts to challenge the ‘dogmatic images’ of thinking that have ruled by elevating particular epistemologies to the level of ‘global thought\,’ are being increasingly stymied by capitulant institutions. Yet\, it is precisely in such precarious times that cross-cultural thinking seems more necessary than ever\, not least as an antidote to the ongoing segregation of knowledges and thought-systems currently underway.\n    	\nThis conference is part of a series of events organized under the Geophilosophies initiative. As a project Geophilosophies not only calls attention to thought-systems that continue to be erased\, discredited\, or ignored by dominant cultures\, but more importantly\, encourages the kind of deep conceptual encounter between different traditions of thought with the capacity to effect real psychic\, social and ecological change. We define cross-cultural thinking as the kind of engagement that strives for maximum communication\, unlike the concept of ‘border crossing’ which we see as a vestige of nation-state sovereignty. Thus defined\, cross-cultural thinking is transversal and ecosophical by nature\, inasmuch as it strives for modes of thinking grounded in lived practices and experiences that effortlessly bring incompatible concepts and entities into new associations characterized by their mutual self-transformation. On this note\, we invite presentations that re-examine unexplored avenues in cross-cultural philosophical thinking\, aiming to repair fractured connections between self\, society and world amid today’s global turmoil. We are particularly interested in experimental methodologies that explore: (i) the nature of contact zones between concepts\, praxes\, and worldviews\; (ii) the co-imbrication of one’s subjectivity in cross-cultural encounters. We encourage risk-taking\, for example\, by resisting the kind of knowledge specializations that may prevent genuine engagement between differences and that work through two or more traditions of thought to create an ‘in-between’ idiom that is at home in its homelessness.\n \nPursued in collaboration with the Uberoi Foundation\, an organization that is dedicated to cross-cultural exchange and expanding awareness of diverse traditions\, this conference promises to break new ground in the development of ways of thinking that simultaneously draw upon ancient human wisdoms while also being informed by the urgency of the present global moment\, bringing a diasporic consciousness to a world seduced by the alluring false comfort of restrictive nationalisms.
UID:148503-21904382@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,conference,Philosophy,Workshop
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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DTSTAMP:20260728T142037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Grand Vision
DESCRIPTION:Visiting artist Olayami Dabls is a storyteller\, curator\, educator\, and mentor. He is the founder of the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit. Through material culture\, Dabls presents commentary on the past\, present\, and future from African and African-American perspectives\, with the understanding that generations of African ancestors used visual materials to convey information about their identity as well as send messages for healing and protection. Dabls is a luminary\; for decades he has re-imagined what a museum space can be\, accessible to everyone\, free from the underpinnings of colonialism and the Western\, often white\, frame. *Grand Vision* includes a conceptual installation in the Gallery\, presenting Dabls’s own work in visual conversation with African beads and artifacts from Dabls’s Bead Museum collections. \n\nAdditionally\, Dabls’s iconic outdoor sculpture *Iron Teaching Rocks Table Manners* will be installed on the U-M campus grounds near UMMA\, at the intersection of State Street and South University from September 17- October 11\, 2026. The project’s range intends to more fully articulate the many facets of Dabls’ creative practice\, and the overlay of art\, history\, identity\, community\, and healing.
UID:149620-21906774@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149620
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Detroit,Exhibition,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260813T123058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Hub Donuts
DESCRIPTION:Do a thing\, get a donut! \n\nStop by the LSA Opportunity Hub for 5 Sweet Ways to Get Career-Ready\n\nReady to take the next step in your career journey but not sure where to start? Stop by the Navigation Desk in the LSA Building on Mondays\, Thursdays\, or Fridays for a free donut (while supplies last) and an easy win for your future! The LSA Opportunity Hub is here to help you move forward\, one sweet step at a time.\n\n \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n \n\nComplete one or more quick career action items and earn a donut!\n\n \n\nPick your action item:\n\n✅ Create or update your LSA Connect profile\n\n✅ Add our career course to your Canvas dashboard\n\n✅ Register for a Hub event OR coaching appointment\n\n✅ Snap a professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile\n\n✅ Nominate an LSA Faculty or Staff member as a Career Success Advocate\n\n \n\nEach action helps you build momentum in your career exploration journey. Whether you’re just getting started or already on your way\, we’ll help you take a meaningful (and delicious) next step.
UID:149492-21908419@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149492
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Information Session,Lsa Opportunity Hub
LOCATION:LSA Building - Lobby Nav Desk
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T133232
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T110000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Richard Siken
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters26\n\nRichard Siken is a poet and painter. His third collection of poems\, *I Do Know Some Things* (Copper Canyon\, 2025)\, was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. His other books are *War of the Foxes* (Copper Canyon\, 2015)\, a Lannan Literary Selection\, and *Crush* (Yale University Press\, 2005)\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize\, selected by Louise Glück\, the LAMBDA Literary Award for Gay Poetry\, and The Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award\, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Siken has received fellowships from Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restroom is available on the third floor\, Room 343T.\n\nASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). For Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) . All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:150527-21909562@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150527
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Literature,Poetry,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room, 3rd floor
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DTSTAMP:20260819T172119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Research Administrators' Network (RAN) Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Registration for the Research Administrators' Network (RAN) meetings\, which are held three times per year\, hosted by the RAAC Communications Subcommittee.
UID:128927-21907189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 (Dining Hall)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T104159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Heberle Award and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join the English Department for the 2026 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Award and Lecture with Professor Amanda Anderson of Brown University.\n\nSome of the most influential frameworks for understanding human thought -- in psychology\, in moral and political philosophy\, and in cognitive science -- have failed to recognize the quality\, form\, and significance of slow\, persistent ruminative processes oriented toward experiences of moral shock or disturbance. Such experiences include but are not limited to profound loss\, grief\, regret\, or injury\, including those fundamental assaults on dignity we might designate as status-injury. Drawing on examples from the literary tradition\, I demonstrate that rumination is a productive moral process and not merely a psychological symptom of oversensitivity or trauma endured. \n\nAmanda Anderson is Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities. Her research focuses on broad questions of intellectual history\, disciplinary formation\, and the relations among literature\, moral life\, and politics. Her books include Humanities Theory (Oxford University Press\, 2025\; with Simon During)\; Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (University of Chicago Press\, TRIOS series\, 2019\; with Rita Felski and Toril Moi)\, Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology (Oxford University Press\, Clarendon Lectures in English Literature\, 2018)\, Bleak Liberalism (University of Chicago Press\, 2016)\, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton University Press\, 2006)\, The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell University Press\, 1993). She is co-editor of George Eliot: A Companion (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press\, 2002). She leads the Cogut Institute’s Collaborative Humanities Initiative.
UID:148160-21903171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
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DTSTAMP:20260818T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotic Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive-responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881335@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260818T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n
UID:149541-21906604@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T172105
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Designing Your Life for Master’s Students In-Person Miniseries
DESCRIPTION:What is a well-designed life? How do you find a career where you can thrive? Inspired by Stanford’s Designing Your Life curriculum\, this interactive\, four-week\, in-person series will teach master’s students principles for designing a fulfilling career. Participants must commit to attending all four sessions. The series includes brief homework assignments\, in-class discussions\, and out-of-class application activities. Space is limited\; participation will be capped at 30. This workshop is designed for master’s students. All sessions will take place in the Rackham Building. Lunch will be provided.Registration closes at 9:00 am on September 1. \nPlease note that your registration status will be marked as pending until all the steps (displayed below) are completed.Registration steps:Thoroughly check the dates to ensure you are available for each session in this workshop series. There are a total of four sessions in this series\, and participants are required to attend all four sessions.All sessions will be selected automatically when you register. Please do not deselect any sessions.Once you have submitted your registration\, you will receive a registration confirmation message to your email. At this time\, your registration status will be set as \"PENDING.\"Once your registration is confirmed by Rackham\, your status will change to “REGISTERED”.If you have any questions about this process\, please contact Kirsten Elling (kelling@umich.edu) or Maggie Gardner (maggieev@umich.edu).
UID:149912-21907365@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149912
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:West Conference Room, 4th Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260622T092756
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T123000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe session involves 3 simple steps:\n\nBreathing\nRelaxation\nMeditation\n\nDeep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself  by listening to your heart’s voice. This is the art of Heartfulness Meditation. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.
UID:143758-21893966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260818T154611
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Winter 2027/Early Admission Fall 2027
DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington (MIW) is a full-semester program in Washington\, D.C.\, open to U-M students from all majors. Students complete a full-time internship during the day and take U-M courses in the evening. MIW provides support with the internship search\, application materials\, interviews\, housing\, and the transition to living and working in D.C.
UID:150465-21909480@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150465
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,AEM Featured,Applications,Business,Career,Community Service,Deadlines,Department Of Political Science,Diversity,first-generation,Free,Human Rights,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Law,Leadership,Majors,Multicultural,Networking,Political Science,Politics,Pre-Law,Professional Development,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Public Policy,Recruiting,Scholarship,Scholarships,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260709T105017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T124500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:T.REX
DESCRIPTION:With stunning CGI visuals and the latest research from leading paleontologists\, the film offers audiences a fresh perspective on the GOAT (Greatest Of All Tyrants): Tyrannosaurus rex. Anchored by the true story of the young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime when they spotted a large fossilized leg bone on a walk on public lands in North Dakota\, T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig\, with cutting edge computer graphics that bring the iconic T. rex to life—from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill\, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.
UID:136347-21907961@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136347
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium &amp; Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260817T104530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Opportunity Hub Pop-Up Coaching
DESCRIPTION:Pop Up Coaching at the LSA Opportunity Hub presents a low stakes opportunity for students to stop by our office\, grab some popcorn\, and engage in a brief 10-15 minute career coaching conversation with one of our career coaches\, in addition to learning about our other services and offerings!\n\nPop Up Coaching is held on select Fridays during the Fall and Winter semesters in the LSA Building from 1-3 PM-- No appointment necessary!\n\nThe Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor as well\, and places to sit or stand during the event. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu  or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.
UID:150338-21909030@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Career,Lsa Opportunity Hub
LOCATION:LSA Building - Hub Space First Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T123219
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T140000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1988541Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab. We will discuss and educate you on…- Design and format- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Student or Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promoteyour full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA#UCC
UID:150026-21907879@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150026
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260810T124116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T134500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
UID:141325-21907946@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium &amp; Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260714T133752
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Accessibility Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:Got questions about digital accessibility\, Title II compliance\, or how to make digital content accessible? \n\n-Come to virtual drop-in office hours!\n-Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month\n-1:30 - 3:00pm \n-Zoom Meeting ID 935 9909 5960\n-Digital accessibility experts available to help you\n\nOpen to everyone from all U-M campuses (Ann Arbor\, Dearborn\, Flint\, Michigan Medicine).\n\nCan’t make it to Office Hours but have a question? Contact us (https://accessibility.umich.edu/contact-services)!\n\nIf you need accommodations to participate in office hours\, let us know by emailing ADAcoordinator@umich.edu.
UID:132601-21903950@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132601
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Faculty,Graduate Students,Office Hours,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T172116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027
DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.
UID:149176-21905896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:2210ABC (Union, 2nd Floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20241006T141632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T144500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tales of the Maya Skies
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science\, cosmology and myth. This beautifully illustrated story takes us back in time to the jungles of Mexico to discover how Maya scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy\, architecture\, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices\, solar eclipses\, weather patterns and planetary movements.
UID:124089-21907973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124089
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Science,Space
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium &amp; Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260803T105819
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Combinatorics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:TBD
UID:149752-21907056@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149752
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T124118
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: Coming fall 2026!\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MATTHEW HULL\nMatthew Hull is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nexus of signification\, technology\, and institutions. His book\, “Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan\,” winner of the 2019 J.I. Staley Prize from the School of Advanced Research\, examines governance as a semiotic and material practice. He has worked on urban planning in 1960s India and police communication systems and lotteries in contemporary India. He is currently writing a book on how early modern corporations shaped democratic governance and continue to structure contemporary political life.
UID:148332-21903934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260810T124116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T154500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
UID:141325-21907949@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium &amp; Dome Theater
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260812T103351
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!
DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us!  Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p
UID:138091-21908260@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie&#039;s Cafe
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260810T204718
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Title TBA
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  TBA\n\nContact:  Zhiyan Ding
UID:148875-21905037@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260819T172116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027
DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.
UID:149176-21905897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Wolverine (Union, 3rd Floor)
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260818T115750
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T190000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Camille Ann Brewer Exhibition: Exhibition Title: Diagrams of Memory: Interwoven Ontology
DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan.  Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work.  \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space.  In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience.
UID:150408-21909263@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150408
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Humanities,Reception,Visual Arts
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260818T112354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T190000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Lila Kadaj Exhibition Tic Tic
DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum.  She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.
UID:150405-21909174@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150405
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260729T181628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Music as Medicine: Training Pianists for Healthcare Settings
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Piano hosts a guest lecture by Todd Van Kekerix\, Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at the University of Houston and Artist-in-Residence\, Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital.\n\n*What does it take to bring music to the bedside - and do it well?*\n \nDrawing on his work at Houston Methodist Hospital\, Todd Van Kekerix explores the artistic\, interpersonal\, and practical skills pianists need to serve effectively in healthcare settings. Patient stories\, video examples\, feedback\, and outcomes data make the work concrete while revealing what is rewarding\, surprising\, and challenging at the bedside. \n\nThe session considers repertoire flexibility\, lead-sheet realization\, on-the-spot arranging\, emotional presence\, and bedside manner\, along with the practical realities of identifying hospital partners\, understanding Artist-in-Residence structures\, preparing for patient interactions\, and navigating liability and logistics. \n\nA live request-and-response demonstration will show how musical decisions are made in real time\, followed by discussion of how these capacities can be cultivated through studio class\, pedagogy coursework\, and community engagement. The lecture concludes by asking how a broader definition of the pianist might reshape training and professional opportunity. 
UID:149665-21906918@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149665
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Scholarship,Social Impact,Talk
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260819T172049
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T225000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Transdisciplinary Fellows (2026-2027) (Housing)
DESCRIPTION:
UID:149272-21906099@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149272
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Comerica Park (2100 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260814T153608
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T210000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Telescope Observing
DESCRIPTION:Every Friday night. All are invited to drop in to use the Observatory’s 1857 Fitz telescope and other modern instruments. Exhibits are also open regardless of viewing conditions. \n\nLast visitors admitted 30 minutes prior to closing. 9–11 p.m.\, 1398 E. Ann at Observatory. \n\nFree\, no registration required. (734) 763–2230\, detroitobservatory.umich.edu.
UID:150285-21908584@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,free,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260803T121538
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260529T010000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Volleyball vs Penn State
DESCRIPTION:Volleyball vs Penn State
UID:148466-21904339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148466
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T121533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260803T190000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Volleyball vs Penn State
DESCRIPTION:Volleyball vs Penn State
UID:149800-21907198@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149800
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260814T153046
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T230000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Full Moon Festival
DESCRIPTION:For many cultures across East Asia\, family and friends come together for the mid-autumn Full Moon with festivities\, delicious food\, and good company. The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, U-M Astronomy\, the Nam Center for Korean Studies\, and the Center Japanese Studies invite you to the Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory for a celebration of the Mid-Autumn Full Moon. \n\nThis drop-in program includes activities in the observatory classroom\, exploration of the historic observatory\, and telescope viewing of the Moon! Families are welcome! Free and open to the public.
UID:150281-21908578@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150281
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,free,Humanities,Japanese Studies,Korean Studies,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Storytelling
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260706T183528
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Joe Pug & Willie Watson
DESCRIPTION:A singer-songwriter known for his lyrical acumen and plaintive harmonica style\, Joe Pug dropped out of college and moved to Chicago where he worked as a carpenter before breaking into the city’s music scene. Since 2008 he has released a string of critically-acclaimed albums and toured heavily in the U.S. and abroad. Paste Magazine wrote of his music: “Unless your surname is Dylan\, Waits\, Ritter or Prine\, you could face-palm yourself to death trying to pen songs half as inspired.\" Additionally\, he is the creator and host of the popular podcast The Working Songwriter.\n\nSoon before Willie Watson turned 18\, he met God in an apple orchard. Or at the very least\, he met there a man named Ruby Love\, the older friend of a high-school buddy who had an enormous Martin guitar and a seemingly bigger understanding of the American folk songbook. Watson was existentially thirsty: A high-school dropout from upstate New York’s Finger Lakes\, he was fast on his way to his first heartbreak and in a first band that didn’t take itself seriously enough. But that night in an apple orchard that had always seemed magical\, at a graduation party for one of his bandmates and best friends\, Watson and Love sang a few of those old songs together—“Worried Man Blues” and “Tennessee Waltz.” It was the first time Watson had cried while singing\, the first time he had made the connection between making music and making sense of his life. He never saw Ruby Love again\, but within months of that foundational 1997 rendezvous\, he met the musicians with whom he’d soon start Old Crow Medicine Show. Call it revelation\, fate\, resurrection\, whatever you will\; for Watson\, more than a quarter-century later\, it was a duet with the divine.
UID:149051-21905362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149051
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T180102
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:SAS Public Open House
DESCRIPTION:Open houses are free\, inclusive opportunities to learn about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house\, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Guests can view astronomical objects through the 8-inch telescopes and the 0.4m telescope (weather permitting)\, watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics\, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation. No special registrations or reservations are required\, these events are entirely free to students and members of the public alike. \nThe Angell Hall Observatory is located on the roof of Angell Hall. Take the elevator to the 5th floor to find the door to the roof down the hall.\nThe Angell Hall Planetarium is located on the third floor of Angell Hall\, in room 3118.
UID:149610-21906761@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149610
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Angell Hall
CONTACT:
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