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DTSTAMP:20260120T163718
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans  \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future.
UID:143388-21893049@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:history,Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition
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DTSTAMP:20260408T212044
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OXFORD HOUSES 2025-2026
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UID:135676-21899489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135676
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Community Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260327T160331
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Threads of Heritage: Syrian Textiles as Living History
DESCRIPTION:View \"Threads of Heritage: Syrian Textiles as Living History\,\" a cultural exhibit exploring the artistry\, symbolism\, and regional diversity of traditional Syrian garments. Featuring handcrafted pieces from cities such as Hama\, Aleppo\, Homs\, and Saraqib\, the exhibit highlights textile practices that reflect identity\, memory\, and cultural continuity. Many of these traditions are increasingly at risk of disappearing\, making preservation efforts especially urgent. \n\nThis exhibit\, on display in the rotunda of the Clark Library\, follows a live presentation held on March 30 and offers you an opportunity to engage with Syrian textile heritage as both an artistic and historical narrative.
UID:147155-21900458@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260223T141911
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial
DESCRIPTION:The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit\, America at 250: Reflections on the Bicentennial.\n\nThe exhibit explores how President Ford joined Americans across the country in commemorating the Bicentennial. Highlighting some of the nationwide celebrations in 1976 and public gifts given to President Ford\, the exhibit asks visitors to reflect on our own Semiquincentennial commemorations.\n\nThe exhibit\, located in the Library's lobby\, will be free to visitors and will be available until December 3\, 2026.
UID:145837-21897915@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145837
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:President Gerald Ford,History,Bicentennial,American History,American Bicentennial
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Lobby
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DTSTAMP:20260331T153740
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Midwest's Genesis: A Rare Look at the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
DESCRIPTION:A special display at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library will feature the Northwest Ordinance of 1787\, on loan from the NARA\, and on display in Michigan for the first time. Drafted by the Confederation Congress at the same time as the Constitution\, the Ordinance outlined a framework for government in the northwest territory\, defined the rights guaranteed in that territory\, and created a process for admitting new states to the United States. The display offers a rare opportunity to view a document that helped shape the ideals and values of the young nation.
UID:147304-21900672@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147304
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Northwest Ordinance,American History,michigan history
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260331T155054
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:15th Annual International Graduate Student Workshop in Armenian Studies.    Armenians Apart: Connections\, Disconnections\, and Tensions in Premodern and Modern Diasporas
DESCRIPTION:Center for Armenian Studies\, University of Michigan\nApril 10-11\, 2026\n\nWebinar ID\n969 6198 7579\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/96961987579\n\nDiaspora studies tend to emphasize a set of loosely shared commonalities across space and time. This international graduate student workshop leans the other direction\, and instead asks: what can aspects of life that are not easily shared across a broader space teach us about the formation and maintenance of “diasporas\,” premodern or modern? \n\nCollectively\, this workshop seeks to explore tensions and overlooked connections across the Armenian diaspora\, as well as to envision fresh possibilities for writing local history against a broader geographic\, cultural\, or historical backdrop. How might medieval and modern diasporic peoples envision belonging (or not belonging) to something larger from the vantage point of local history? How does being local shape conceptions of other peoples\, including one’s own people\, in other places? What overlooked networks of connection also run through diasporas\, linking Armenians to something else\, such as other peoples\, empires\, trade routes\, linguistic communities\, or cross-cultural forms of art? \n\nIn short: what might being apart\, in whatever sense\, do? And where does apartness end\, and togetherness begin again? \n\nIn asking these questions\, Armenians Apart seeks to consider the linkages\, possibilities\, and drawbacks in thinking about “diaspora” as a cohort\, bringing the modern globe and the premodern world\, defined by connections that do not always translate to our contemporary moment\, into productive dialogue. Although this conference is centered in Armenian Studies\, it draws together cognate fields and case studies\, particularly those that raise fresh questions or propose theoretical interventions that resonate with the themes of the workshop.\n\nDAY ONE:\nWeiser Hall 555\n\n8:20: INTRODUCTIONS and Welcome: Kathryn Babayan\, Armen Abkarian\, Michael Pifer \n\n8:30-10:00: Panel 1: Misaligned Diasporas & Uneven Categories of Belonging\n∙ Arakel Minassian: Uneven Histories: Zaven Biberian at the Center of 20th Century Armenian Literary History\n∙ Lusine Tanajyan: Fragility of Armenian Belonging in Encounters between “Old” and “New” Diasporas: The Case of Armenians of Greece\n∙ Haley Zovickian: ‘We're Not Like Them’: Race\, Ottoman Legacies\, and Armenian Americans\nChair and Respondent: Anoush Suni\, University of Michigan\n\n10:00-10:10: Break\n\n10:10-11:45: KEYNOTE: Professor Devi Mays: “Diasporization and the Shaping of the Modern Sephardi World” \nAbstract: Diaspora is\, in the formulation of historian Matthias Lehmann\, “something that happens rather than something that is.” This talk explores the ways in which Ottoman and post-Ottoman Sephardi Jewish migrants maintained a transnational diaspora through networks of exchange\, communication\, and movement\, even in the face of increasingly restrictive migration and documentary regimes in the wake of World War I. By paying attention to the level of individuals-- who married whom\, conducted business with whom\, contracted business with\, and sued whom-- I explore how Sephardi Jews operated within a series of overlapping diasporas that intersected at key moments with others of Ottoman or Jewish backgrounds and diverged at others. These migrants often drew on similar tactics to sustain diasporic networks-- hypermobility\, multilinguality\, transnational connections\, strong familial ties\, patronage networks\, and engagement with extralegal practices. This allows us to see in sharp relief the active forging of a twentieth-century Sephardi diaspora\, similar in broad strokes to other Ottoman diasporic communities\, but whose details emphasize the resourcefulness of migrants who quickly learned how their specificities of religion\, language\, or citizenship could become a pretext for inclusion or exclusion.\n\n12:00-1:30: LUNCH\n\n1:30-3:00: Panel 2: Boundaries of Rule\, Script\, and Desire: Reimagining the Premodern Armenian Diaspora\n∙ Armen Abkarian: Between Knights and Nakharars: Armenian Kingship and Mobility in Medieval Cilicia\n∙ Greta Gasparyan: Artistic Transformations and Diasporic Identity in the Manuscript Tradition of New Julfa\n∙ Nicholas Crummey: “If Only he Wasn’t Armenian! Alas! Alas!”: Sexual Desire and Ethnic Difference in Two Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Homoerotic Poems\n\nChair and Respondent: Kathryn Babayan\, University of Michigan\n\nDAY TWO: Weiser Hall 1010 \n\n9:00 - 10:30: Panel 3: From Columns to Capital: Armenian Diaspora Formation through Newspapers\, Moneylenders\, and Migrant Labor\, 19th-20th Centuries\n∙ Kristina Baghdasaryan: Networks of Apartness: Tiflis Armenians and the Western Armenian Questions\, 1905-1920s\n∙ Alina Zaripova: Between Diaspora and Homeland: The Armenian (Trans)National Press at the End of the 19th Century (1880s-1900s)\n∙ Başak Yağmur Karaca: Commercial Buildings as Sites of Armenian Mobility and Diaspora Formation in the Late Ottoman Istanbul\n\nChair and Respondent: Vahe Sahakyan\, University of Michigan\, Dearborn\n\n10:30-10:40: BREAK\n\n10:40- 12:10: Panel 4: Negotiating Displacement and Digital Memory: On Community Archives and Activism\n∙ Gegham Mughnetsyan: Connections to the Soviet Union: Personal Histories of Armenian Displaced Persons of World War II\n∙ Jonathan Hollis: Listening to Armenian Baku: History and Memory in Digital Diaspora\n∙ Lance Levenson: “This is Our Shushi.” Jerusalem’s Armenian Youth Reimagining Diasporic Belonging in the “Cow’s Garden” Parking Lot\n\nChair and Respondent: Sossie Kasbarian\, University of Chicago\n\nLUNCH \n\n1:30-2:30 Final Reflections with Prof. Khachig Tölölyan\n\nCosponsor: National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\n\n*Accommodation: If 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.    Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:143416-21893109@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143416
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Symposium,Workshop,Armenian Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 & 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260408T212048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Artificial Intelligence Short Course with Xiaowu Dai\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, April 10 for a hands-on short course hosted by Xiaowu Dai\, PhD\, an assistant professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA).\nDr. Dai’s research focuses on the intersection of economics and machine learning\, integrating game theory with online learning and developing predictive models for economic applications and large language model contexts. Dr. Dai is also interested in statistical machine learning\, particularly dynamical models\, multimodal learning\, and kernel-based methods\, with applications in neuroimaging\, diabetes\, and kidney exchange.\nTITLE:\nGame-Theoretic Perspectives and Uncertainty Quantification of Large Language ModelsLarge Language Models (LLMs) are prone to inconsistencies and hallucinations. I will review training-free\, game-theoretic frameworks for aligning LLMs\, and then introduce the Peer Elicitation Games (PEG) mechanism\, which involves a generator and multiple discriminators instantiated from distinct base models. The discriminators interact in a peer evaluation setting\, where rewards are computed using a determinant-based mutual information score that provably incentivizes truthful reporting without requiring ground-truth labels. I will discuss the connection between this game-theoretic analysis and online learning with no-regret guarantees\, as well as last-iterate convergence to a truthful Nash equilibrium\, ensuring that the policies used by agents converge to stable and truthful behavior over time. I will also discuss topics related to uncertainty quantification for machine learning models and LLMs\, including prediction-powered conditional inference\, retrieval-augmented inference\, and in-context learning.\n\n\n
UID:147271-21900618@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147271
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:1690 SPH I
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DTSTAMP:20260224T144541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T100000
SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics/Stretch\, Strength & Balance/Zumba
DESCRIPTION:Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing every Monday-Friday from 9-10am. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults\, however\, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free\, but please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are supported strictly through donations. No registration is necessary\, simply attend when it fits your schedule.
UID:145904-21898056@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145904
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Fitness
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260330T130009
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Student Dissertation Defense - Dynamics of body form evolution in lizards and snakes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Covariation among traits underlies the evolution of most phenotypes in nature. The non-independence of trait values is obvious from two common observations: 1) traits function modularly within body plans to create interacting units\, and 2) traits show evolutionary conservatism across closely related taxa\, varying far more in size than in shape along allometric lines. However\, different mechanisms generating covariance can produce the same patterns of trait distribution across species\, so the relative impact of evolutionary\, developmental\, or genetic constraints versus adaptive evolution in phenotypic change is critical for understanding the morphological diversity we observe in the world around us. In this dissertation\, I explored how the evolutionary relationships between traits have shifted across different phylogenetic scales\, with a focus on limb reduction and body elongation as major body plan changes in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). Squamates have evolved limb-reduced\, elongate body plans an estimated 26-50 independent times\, making them a powerful system to test hypotheses about trait evolution. First\, I investigated how the multivariate evolutionary process\, as described by the evolutionary variance-covariance matrix\, shifts between and within two clades of scincid lizard. I found that although the two clades had similar covariance matrices\, a genus of Australian lizards (Ctenotus) had a distinct evolutionary covariance structure\, indicating that these evolutionary relationships can change at relatively short timescales. Next\, I tested how limb reduction influences evolutionary integration within and between the limb girdles in lizards. I found that it decreased evolutionary integration\, supporting the hypothesis that reduction and loss of function results in more independent evolution of traits. I suggested that developmental integration may mediate this reduction in evolutionary integration. Finally\, I collected a large dataset of vertebral counts across lizards and snakes to test the relationship between body size and vertebral number (termed pleomerism). I found that non-elongate clades had no pleomerism and although most elongate clades showed pleomerism\, several elongate clades upset the predicted pattern of coupling between body size and vertebral number. This result showed that well-established patterns do not necessarily apply in all groups and that clade heterogeneity must be considered in studies of trait evolution in large groups. Taken together\, my dissertation demonstrates how evolutionary relationships between traits can shift at relatively short timescales as well as between clades and how integrating both function and development is vital for understanding patterns of phenotypic evolution.  \n\n Advisors: Alison Davis Rabosky and Dan Rabosky
UID:147223-21900542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147223
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology & Biology,Dissertation,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Bsbsigns,Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb,Graduate Students
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260210T131912
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flyways
DESCRIPTION:Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani explores themes of migration\, political exile\, queerness\, and environmental crisis through the wildly imaginative and intricate scenarios she first stages in her studio. The tableaus—which often include live animals\, props\, even her parents—are then photographed\, documenting the artist’s process. Each photograph becomes a part of Soleimani’s rich visual storytelling.      \n\n*Flyways *presents a series of new photographs that include images evocative of her family’s history and migration story in juxtaposition with images of injured birds that are representative of Soleimani’s work as a wildlife rehabilitator. (In 2018\, Soleimani founded Congress of Birds\, a wild bird rehabilitation center in Rhode Island.) The change in her practice to include bird rescue results in a revolutionary body of work steeped in passion and articulated in a completely original visual language. Learn more at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/sheida-soleimani.html.
UID:142798-21891627@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Birding,Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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