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DTSTAMP:20260818T121511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS
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:150411-21909416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260814T151348
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that all comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for the blind and visually impaired\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person known to have published their Ph.D. dissertation in comics format (UNFLATTENING).\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm.
UID:150276-21908568@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260814T155307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T230000
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:150290-21908871@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
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260818T114238
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition
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.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower.  It’s just itself.  Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art.  It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate.   It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.”
UID:150406-21909252@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260806T162236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
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:149975-21907554@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T162337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T100000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Community Event
DESCRIPTION:Join the IOE students\, faculty and staff as we gather around food and friends.
UID:148456-21909642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite (IOE 1700)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260803T124814
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River
DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"*
UID:149763-21907151@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260820T052054
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCRS Workshop D
DESCRIPTION:RCRS D: EthicsPlease arrive 10 minutes prior to start time. If you arrive late for any reason\, you will not be admitted. Similarly\, if you leave early\, you will not receive credit for your attendance.**Bring your Mcard.** Your card will be swiped through a card reader to record your attendance at the end of the workshop. If you don't have your card swiped\, you will have to attend another session of this workshop.If you cannot attend this workshop\, please drop your registration as soon as possible so that a waitlisted student may be able to attend.**Please note: Masco Commons\, including the kitchen and lounge areas\, are for faculty use only.
UID:147552-21901255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147552
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Johnson Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCelebrate the students of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Senior Studio in their final year of study. \n\nAt Stamps\, BA Senior Studio (ARTDES 401) is offered for BA students in their final year of study. The BA Senior Studio Exhibition offers these students the opportunity to build on the particular characteristics of the BA degree\, and focus on creating and exhibiting a culminating\, self-directed project. Students work independently or collaboratively to define a project plan with goals\, benchmarks\, and a timeline. \n\nIn the BA Senior Studio Exhibition\, students and instructors work collaboratively to produce a fully self-directed show from start to finish. This new Stamps tradition emphasizes studio work\, as well as the skills and practices associated with producing professional exhibitions.\n
UID:150348-21909066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T181517
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
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 Robotics 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:138033-21881373@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260820T052101
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AI Show and Tell
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UID:142293-21890427@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142293
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260818T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
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:149541-21906652@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:20260817T141210
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T130000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Learn to Meditate in 3 days
DESCRIPTION:Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation\, rejuvenation\, and inner connect in just three session.\n\nMeditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout\, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60\,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration\, heightened awareness\, and presence in the moment\, allowing a shift from thinking to feeling. Meditation also leads to a deeper state of relaxation\, regulating the stress response and promoting numerous health benefits.\n\nThe session will be guided by a trainer via Zoom meeting for all 3 days from noon to 1 p.m. All U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join at no cost. No prior experience with meditation is required.\n\nEvent Details\n*When: Every month for 3 days (attending all 3 sessions is recommended)*\n\nThe session is Remote over Zoom and upon registration you will have the Zoom MeetingId and Passcode\nSee Related Links for registration\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by Information Technology and Services (ITS) Teaching & Learning\, and is provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.\n\nJoin the MCommunity group for email updates – Meditation for wellness
UID:128708-21909111@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128708
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260729T130108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T124500
SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/htrYM6lXQH28gjySTQaKIw\n\nJoin us on Wednesdays from 12:15 – 12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows.\n\nMindful meditation is a contemplative practice that\, over time\, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective\, navigate the demands of daily life\, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness\, open and directed attention\, non-judgment\, and self-compassion. CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction\, support\, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly\, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome!
UID:109796-21906867@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109796
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Caregivers,first-generation,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Health & Wellness,Mindfulness,Nontraditional Students,Self-care,Student Parents,Students With Children,Support,transfer students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Welcome to Michigan,Well-being,Wellness,women,women's health,Work-life Balance,Zoom
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260816T221514
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | ‘Vernacular Sovereignty’ Without a State: Kurdish Studies\, Decolonial Thought\, and the Making of Online Kurdistan
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to imagine a nation without a state? This talk draws on my broader research in Kurdish studies to examine how Kurdish political life has repeatedly been organized around forms of authority and belonging that do not depend on\, or wait for\, a state. Taking my recent article \"The Making of Online Kurdistan\,\" co-authored with Barış Öktem\, as its empirical center\, the talk asks how Kurdish Generation Z constructs national belonging through digital platforms — building a transnational field of community through hashtags\, online seminars\, and digitally organized movements\, even as this same infrastructure exposes Kurdish youth to surveillance and repression across borders. I situate this case within a longer arc of my work on Kurdish politics and within a decolonial reading of Kurdish studies more broadly. Rather than offering a general theory of sovereignty\, the talk uses the Kurdish case to think through a live and unresolved question in the study of stateless nations: what forms can political authority\, legitimacy\, and collective imagination take when territorial statehood is foreclosed\, and what is gained and lost when that struggle moves online.\n\nMashuq Kurt is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway\, University of London. His work sits at the intersection of Middle Eastern studies and the sociology of migration and diaspora\, examining how Kurds and other marginalised communities construct political authority and belonging outside the institutions of the nation-state. He is the author of *Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism\, Violence and the State* (Pluto Press\, 2017)\, co-editor of the *South Atlantic Quarterly Special Issue: Decolonizing Kurdish Studies *(2024) and the *Contemporary Islam Special Issue: Islam\, Critique and the Canon* (2024)\, and has published in journals including *Current Anthropology*\, *Journal of Middle East Women's Studies*\, and *Social Research: An International Quarterly*. His recent article \"The Making of Online Kurdistan\" (*Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies*\, 2026)\, co-authored with Barış Öktem\, examines how Kurdish Generation Z constructs national belonging through digital platforms. He was a Marie Curie Global Fellow at the London School of Economics and Yale University\, has held visiting positions at Stanford and Sciences Po CERI. A regular contributor to public and policy debates\, he has organised panels and given talks at the UK Parliament\, Chatham House\, and RUSI\, and his commentary has appeared in Foreign Policy\, Le Monde\, and The New Arab\, among others. He is also an award-winning filmmaker: his documentary *The Seven Doors *received the Jean Rouch Award from the American Anthropological Association's Society for Visual Anthropology in 2020.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pgV2y\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. Contact: warsansa@umich.edu
UID:150314-21909005@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150314
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,cmenas,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,Lecture
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260806T102043
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T150000
SUMMARY:Other:Pre-Health Pop-Up Advising
DESCRIPTION:LSA Newnan Pre-Health Advising comes to YOU! Bring your questions about your pre-health journey and chat with a Pre-Health Advisor on a first-come\, first-served basis. Advisors are looking forward to talking with you!
UID:149956-21907434@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149956
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Advising,Newnan,Newnan Academic Advising,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,Newnan Pre-health,Pre-Health,Pre-professional,slc
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - Science Learning Center Main Branch: 1720 Chemistry Building
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DTSTAMP:20260820T052110
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM: Pre-Health Pop-Up Advising
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UID:149982-21907909@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149982
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Science Learning Center - 1720 Chemistry Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260806T100528
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday\, December 2
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UID:149954-21907427@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260727T104513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:149576-21906718@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149576
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260811T161811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T183000
SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: the FIRST FREESTORE in September is on Friday\, Sept 4th from 1-3p. All other FreeStore's are on the first Wednesday of each month from 4:30-6:30p.
UID:136782-21879112@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136782
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Campus Resources,Community,Community Engagement,Environment,Free,Freestore,In Person,planet blue,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260527T152240
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T183000
SUMMARY:Other:FreeStore by Planet Blue Student Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience at the Planet Blue Student Leader’s FreeStore. This monthly event is your chance to find new-to-you clothing and household goods while reducing consumer waste and encouraging reuse. Help us build a more sustainable campus community. Everything is free!
UID:148421-21904234@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148421
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,In Person,Shopping,Store,Student Org,Sustainability,Thrift
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260609T181700
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T183000
SUMMARY:Performance:Voice & Opera Studio Recital
DESCRIPTION:Students from the Department of Voice & Opera perform a recital.
UID:148731-21904673@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148731
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260820T052117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T190000
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:149176-21907032@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Boulevard Room (Pierpont, 1st floor)
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T121520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Panel Discussion: Artist-Run Spaces
DESCRIPTION:\n\nNathan Byrne\, Sally Clegg\, and Abhishek Narula join fellow founding directors of local DIY galleries for a panel discussion and Q&A on the importance of community-led project spaces. Attendees will come away with knowledge of contemporary art and design venues across southeast Michigan\, and practical guidance for launching their own initiatives to create opportunities for themselves and others.\n\nLearn more about the project spaces run by Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula in this article: Creative Ecosystems\, Reimagined.\n
UID:150349-21909077@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150349
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260820T052117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T213000
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:149176-21907033@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Boulevard Room (Pierpont, 1st floor)
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260609T181701
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T220000
SUMMARY:Performance:Campus Orchestra String Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:The Campus String Ensemble is comprised of non-music major students\, faculty members\, staff\, and alumni of the University of Michigan.\n\nThe Campus Orchestras are conducted by Graduate Student Conductors at the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. Some of the past Campus Orchestras conductors are now assistant conductors or music directors in professional orchestras around the country.
UID:148732-21904674@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148732
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
CONTACT:
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