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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Sciences,Literature,Humanities,History,Graduate Students,Graduate,European,Environment,Anthropology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260723T181511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T120000
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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:149541-21906655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260728T153948
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T120000
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SUMMARY:Community Service:Interfaith Service Opportunity: CASS Community Social Services Detroit
DESCRIPTION:Serve in Detroit with RSSL! \n\nCASS Community Social Services \n\nSaturday October 3\, 2026 | 12:00 - 5:00 PM \n\nBe part of something bigger than yourself! Join RSSL for an afternoon of meaningful service at CASS Community Social Services in Detroit. Work alongside community partners\, connect with fellow students\, and make a tangible impact while learning more about the people and organizations strengthening our community. \n\nTransportation is provided. \n\nRegistration is required. \n\nSpace is limited\, sign up today! \n\nhttps://myumi.ch/RQWrd
UID:149628-21906821@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149628
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Volunteer,Workshop,Activism,Community Engagement,Community Service,Culture,Detroit,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faith,Free,In Person,Health & Wellness,Social Justice,Social Impact,Religious,Networking,Multicultural,Leadership,Interfaith,Inclusion
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - CASS
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DTSTAMP:20260813T112122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RSSL Interfaith Service Opportunity: CASS
DESCRIPTION:Service Opportunity: Cass Community Social Services\nOctober 3\, 2026 | 12:00–5:00 PMJoin RSSL for an afternoon of service with Cass Community Social Services in Detroit. Together\, students will support an organization dedicated to meeting immediate needs while creating pathways toward long-term stability through food assistance\, affordable housing\, job training\, and community-building initiatives. This hands-on service experience invites students to put compassion into action\, deepen their understanding of social justice\, and build meaningful connections with one another while serving the broader Detroit community.Transportation will be provided from the University of Michigan\, making it easy for students to participate. Whether you're looking to give back\, meet new people\, or learn more about community engagement\, all are welcome to join us.
UID:149166-21906816@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149166
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:CASS Community Social Services
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DTSTAMP:20260609T181703
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T193000
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SUMMARY:Performance:Chamber Opera
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Voice & Opera performs a chamber opera TBA.
UID:148735-21904677@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148735
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theater,Storytelling,North Campus,Music,Free
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20260422T132602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Bedouine
DESCRIPTION:“humble folk-pop brilliance” –Rolling Stone\n\nAs a child\, if you’re lucky\, summer afternoons stretch out like a yawn\, pool waves are as warm and engulfing as a blanket\, the safety of your mother’s arms feels endless. On her new album\, Neon Summer Skin\, Bedouine\, the project of Azniv Korkejian\, explores this feeling of safety long before one can fully understand the concept. Written with vivid\, honest and intimate imagery after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia\, it tells the story of family and upbringing\, and mourns the end of her childhood. There is a singular resonance and newfound heft in this music previously unheard in Bedouine’s discography. \n\nBedouine is known for making gentle\, lilting folk songs that build fingerpicked guitar melodies into tsunamis of emotion. Her masterful songwriting and timeless melodies have earned her praise from publications like Pitchfork\, who said her music “boasts a surreal calm and lived in glow\,” and Rolling Stone\, who lauded her “humble folk-pop brilliance\,” plus an NPR Tiny Desk Concert\, and tours with the likes of Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty. \n\nAs personal as her songs have been\, they’ve often built upon universal experiences. The writing on Neon Summer Skin\, however\, is full of specific memories: a neon swim suit\, beads of water dripping down tangled hair\, the blood of a lamb\, often sacrificed at Syrian weddings\, oozing across the pavement. “It was the first time I had the inclination to write a record about one main subject which gave me a clarity and motivation I hadn't quite had before.” \n\nBedouine started working on the record after a trip to Saudi Arabia to visit her parents. She correctly assumed it would be her last one there because her family was retiring to Armenia. “For my 20s and much of my 30s\, I couldn’t sit still\,” she says. “I would pack my car and move to a new place. I was so curious about my own independence that it just didn't occur to me for the longest time to mourn the past. But after that trip\, I came home and was so devastated. I couldn't place the feeling immediately\, but as I started writing\, I realized I was processing that I wasn’t ready to stop being somebody’s kid. \n\nShe co-produced most of the songs with her longtime collaborator\, Gus Seyffert\, and wrote with the sweet pop melodies of Todd Rundgren\, Karen Carpenter\, and Carole King in mind. She also worked on a couple of tracks with producer Jonathan Rado with Michael and Brian D’Addario of the Lemon Twigs.  “It was important to me to try to approach some of the production of this record a little differently\, just to try something new\,” she says. The result is a fuller\, more playful sound\, at times grand and orchestral\, shimmery and surreal\, inflected with bits of psychedelia\, bossa nova\, and jazz.
UID:147617-21901364@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix,Ark
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
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