Event Types
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
A Night of Insect Encounters: Films by Catherine Chalmers
Humanities Film Series featuring artist Catherine Chalmers
Insect Encounters brings together two distinct bodies of video artwork by artist and filmmaker Catherine Chalmers: the American...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Better Writing, Less Waste
Journalist and Writer Edward Humes
In his book Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World, journalist Edward Humes employs engaging investigative...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Bark Beetles & Bagels
A Guided Exhibition Tour of Catherine Chalmers: Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
Start your morning with bagels and a curator-guided tour of Catherine Chalmers: Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire exhibition in the...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Left, Right, and Off the Shelf: The Politics of Book Banning
A High Stakes Culture Series Event
The urge to remove books from libraries and schools is not new in the United States, but the urge to suppress access to certain kinds of...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Shifting Roots: Hair is the Garden We Wear
Tzu Poré in conversation with Kahn Santori Davison
Detroit barber and artist Tzu Poré talks with writer Kahn Santori Davison about Poré's project Shifting Roots. The project fuses...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
The Crafty Birdmen of Poa Mecca
A Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close event with Nachiket Chanchani
With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute...
Shifting Roots: Hair is the Garden We Wear
Tzu Poré in conversation with Kahn Santori Davison
Detroit barber and artist Tzu Poré talks with writer Kahn Santori Davison about Poré's project Shifting Roots. The project fuses...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire
An exhibition by Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers’s debut Michigan exhibition Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire delves into the dramas unfolding in...
Fabricating Law: Materialities and Criminal Courts in Colonial Indonesia
A Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close event with Sanne Ravensbergen
With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute...
Close to Home: A Conversation on the Experiences of Migrant Farmworkers
In conjunction with the exhibition Best Used By, a roundtable discussion with social epidemiologist Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, artist...
Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez
This workshop is presented in partnership by the gallery at the Institute for the Humanities, the U-M Library, and the Arts Initiative....
Collapsed Walls
Humanities Film Series featuring a film by Moroccan auteur Hakim Belabbes
From Moroccan auteur Hakim Belabbes, this haunting memory piece takes place in a small Moroccan town, where residents go through cycles of...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Narsiso Martinez
Field Work, Art, and Labor in America
Narsiso Martinez is a visual artist whose drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations center the lives and labor of farmworkers in...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Regions of the Mind: 19th-Century Travel Writing and Neurodiversity
A Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close event with Ittai Orr
With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
Best Used By
An Exhibition by Narsiso Martinez
Narsiso Martinez’s art practice, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker, honors the people performing the essential labor...
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The Institute for the Humanities is a center for innovative, collaborative study in the humanities and arts. Each year we provide fellowships for Michigan faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars who work on interdisciplinary projects. We also offer a wide array of public and scholarly events, including weekly talks, public lectures, conferences, art exhibits, and performances.