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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T090000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Go Blue Career Jam: PhD CV Tips & Tricks with an AbbVie Recruiter
DESCRIPTION:Want to make your CV stand out in a competitive job market? Join an AbbVie Early Talent Recruiter for an informative session for PhD students packed with insider tips\, common pitfalls to avoid\, and practical strategies to strengthen your resume/CV. Whether you're applying for internships or full-time opportunities\, you'll leave with actionable advice and proven techniques to help showcase your experience and make a lasting impression on recruiters.\n\nInterested in learning more about AbbVie? Visit the event page.\n\nThis event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1995397/share_preview\n\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your 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:150438-21909451@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150438
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DTSTAMP:20260728T142037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
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:149620-21906772@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:20260824T113127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Responding to Mental Health Concerns in the Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:150785-21910174@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Communication,Stress Management,Well-being,Workshop
LOCATION:Palmer Commons
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DTSTAMP:20260902T133628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T090000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Welcome Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Kick-start your Wednesday with free coffee\, tea\, hot chocolate\, and a breakfast snack! Stop by the Alumni Center from 9 a.m.–noon on select Wednesdays during the fall and winter semesters. Bring your Mcard—and keep an eye out for Bagely\, the beloved bagel mascot! ☕🥯〽️
UID:151404-21911530@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151404
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Breakfast,food,free food
LOCATION:Alumni Center
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Academic Careers Series - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:This workshop series supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows preparing for academic careers. Through interactive sessions\, you will gain insights and strategies for navigating the academic job market\, securing a postdoctoral position\, and preparing application materials that highlight your research expertise and career potential. Each session combines presentations\, discussion\, and hands-on activities to equip you with practical tools for a successful transition into academia.Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this series\, participants will be able to:Understand the structure of the academic job market and how to prepare for each stage of the search.Identify strategies for exploring opportunities and applying for postdoctoral positions.Prepare strong academic CVs and cover letters that effectively communicate expertise and fit.Write a compelling research statement that highlights motivation\, significance\, and future directions.
UID:150244-21908461@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150244
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Taubman Health Sciences Library 2903
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T110000
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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:138033-21881333@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:20260921T172126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UMSI Academic Success & CDO: Time Management & Calendar Organization Webinar
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UID:151305-21911346@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151305
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172121
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T110000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Wolverine Village Residence Hall Community Tours
DESCRIPTION:Michigan Housing is excited to welcome members of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community for an opportunity to tour Wolverine Village.This year marks the most students to live on-campus within Michigan Housing in U-M history with the grand opening of Wolverine Village\, the university’s newest 2\,300 bed and 800+ seat dining hall residential community. Formerly known as the Central Campus Residential Development\, Wolverine Village is a new five-building residential community on U-M’s Central Campus and adjacent to the athletic campus.Daily tours will highlight Wolverine Village and its residence halls\, gathering spaces\, and community art.Wolverine Village tours are open to the public and registration is required. Tour capacity is limited while Wolverine Village residence halls are occupied by the U-M student community. Additional tour dates may be added if demand allows for it.\nFor tour questions\, please reach out to the Michigan Housing team at wolverinevillagetours@umich.edu.
UID:150340-21909045@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150340
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Wolverine Village
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DTSTAMP:20260619T105109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From Master’s to Doctorate: A Guide to Ph.D. and Other Doctoral Applications
DESCRIPTION:Are you a current Master’s student or recent alum considering a Ph.D. or another doctorate? Do you want to learn how to effectively present your research experience and academic potential to admissions committees? This workshop will guide you through the essential components of a successful doctoral application. We will review different types of doctoral programs\, typical application timelines\, application documents\, and additional factors to consider when looking for and applying for a doctoral program. We will also reflect on if a doctorate is the right choice for your career goals. You will have the opportunity to ask your questions and learn more about how to best utilize University Career Center and Rackham resources to get support for this academic transition. Whether you are just considering the idea of pursuing a doctoral degree or  you have already started preparing for it\, this session will provide the tools you need for a successful application. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available. \nBrought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.
UID:149015-21905322@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149015
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual on Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20260921T123252
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T113000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:From Master’s to Doctorate: A Guide to PhD and Other Doctoral Applications
DESCRIPTION:Are you a current Master’s student or recent alum considering a PhD or another doctorate? Do you want to learn how to effectively present your research experience and academic potential to admissions committees? This workshop will guide you through the essential components of a successful doctoral application. We will review different types of doctoral programs\, typical application timelines\, application documents\, and additional factors to consider when looking for and applying for a doctoralprogram. We will also reflect on if a doctorate is the right choice for your career goals. You will have the opportunity to ask your questions and learn more about how to best utilize University Career Center and Rackham resources to get support for this academic transition. Whether you are just considering the idea of pursuing a doctoral degree or you have already started preparing for it\, this session will provide the tools you need fora successful application.This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available. Brought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School. Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/110416 #UCC
UID:149036-21905343@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149036
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America”
DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:152024-21912641@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
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\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906602@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:20260915T094520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum 2026-2027
DESCRIPTION:Faculty members of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies discuss their projects\, research\, and publications to share their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nFall 2026 Schedule:\n\nSeptember 23: Jonathan A. Gómez\, Assistant Professor of Music\, Department of Musicology\n\n“Theorizing Black Musical Tribute Work”\n\n“In this talk\, I present the beginnings of what I am theorizing as ‘Black musical tribute work\,’ a musical process of paying tribute to a Black musician\, living or deceased\, through musical performance. I engage specifically with the play of similarity and difference in covering the works of the artist to whom tribute is paid\, especially the semiotic capacities of such musical activity. I look to the 2005 album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross as a case study.”\n\nJonathan A. Gómez is a musicologist studying Black American musics of the 20th and 21st centuries\, particularly popular musics. His work is situated at the intersection of music studies and Black studies\, with interests in music analysis and semiotics via linguistic anthropology. He is also a jazz saxophonist\, and can be heard on pianist Roberto Magris’ album Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery (2017)\, as well as on several tracks of Geo Trio’s We Made an Album! (2019). Gómez holds a Ph.D. in music with a secondary field in African and African American studies from Harvard University\, an M.A. in musicology from Michigan State University\, and a B.M. in studio music and jazz from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Prior to U-M\, Gómez taught in USC’s Thornton School of Music.\n\nOctober 21: Justine Davis\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of Political Science \n\nNovember 18: Martin Murray\, Adjunct Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Professor of Urban and Regional Planning\, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
UID:151690-21911968@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151690
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,African Language,African Studies
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701
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DTSTAMP:20260910T144023
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum with Jonathan A. Gomez \, Assistant Professor of Music\, Department of Musicology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n\n\nIn this talk\, I present the beginnings of what I am theorizing as “Black musical tribute work\,” a musical process of paying tribute to a Black musician\, living or deceased\, through musical performance. To accomplish this task\, I engage specifically with the play of similarity and difference in covering the works of the artist to whom tribute is paid\, especially the semiotic capacities of such musical activity. Here\, I build on my previous work on \"musical qualia of Blackness” (Gómez 2024) and musical metapragmatics of Blackness (Gómez 2026) to consider how attention to what linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein calls ethnometapragmatic indexicality and “indexical order” (Silverstein 2003)\, facilitates the musical process Black musicians paying tribute to one another through musical sound and practice. Finally\, I argue that such tributes enable a kind of “metapragmatics of presence” (Nakassis 2017) for Black musicians and listeners.\n\n \n\nTo demonstrate this method\, I look to the 2005 album\, So Amazing: An All-star Tribute to Luther Vandross\, as a case study. Vandross’s position as an understudied yet widely-beloved figure in Black musical history makes him\, and the tribute work done for him\, an ideal place to begin thinking through this process.  While Vandross is my chosen example here\, my hope is that this method will prove useful to a far wider range of artists\, time periods\, and genres in Black American musical history.
UID:151923-21912424@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151923
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,Music
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)
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DTSTAMP:20260915T164156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea
DESCRIPTION:Link to the official event poster: \nhttps://myumi.ch/kVdVV\n\nFor parking information\, please visit this link: https://www.dc.umich.edu/about-the-dc/maps-floor-plans-hours/#parking\n\nExhibition Opening Event: \n- When: Friday\, September 18\, 5 pm to 6 pm\n- Where: Duderstadt Center Gallery\n- Open to the public\n- Description: Please join us for the opening of this photo exhibition. The event will feature remarks by the organizers\, the exhibition curators\, one of the featured photojournalists\, and a former Peace Corps volunteer who has stood in solidarity with the people of Gwangju since 1980. Light refreshments are provided. \n\n*Exhibition Description*\nThis photo exhibition features 90 curated images from the UNESCO-inscribed May 18 Archives. Documenting the May 18–27\, 1980 democratization uprising in Gwangju\, South Korea\, the collection captures the shift from peaceful student protests to military violence and unified citizen resistance\, carried out under a complete blackout as civilians and photojournalists risked their lives to photograph atrocities and smuggle film past cordons. Beyond serving as historical artifacts\, these preserved visual truths offer a living blueprint for popular resilience against authoritarianism\, transforming local trauma into a universal defense of human rights. Displaying these records at Michigan bridges 1980 Gwangju with our present moment\, inviting viewers to engage past resistance in the ongoing effort to defend democracy today.\n\n*Exhibition Composition*\nThe exhibit will be composed of a visual narrative comprised of six chronological sections and two additional special sections:\n\n1. Protest (May 5–16\, 1980): \nFollowing the collapse of Park Chung-hee’s military dictatorship in October\, 1979\, Gwangju students and citizens held peaceful rallies for campus autonomy and the end of martial law. Photos from this era show orderly marches and hopeful faces\, capturing a society on the brink of change before the structural contradictions shifted toward state-led violence. \n\n2. Suppression (May 18–19\, 1980): \nA new junta government led by Chun Doo-hwan extended martial law to the entire country on May 17. Students at Chonnam National University protested against the new junta government’s decision. State violence escalated as paratroopers\, who were deployed to Gwangju\, engaged student protesters. Streets became scenes of brutal beatings and kidnappings. Beyond documenting victims\, the images on display in this section serve as primary historical evidence and legal proof of the military's methods and the sudden transformation of citizens into targets of control. \n\n3. Uprising (May 20–21\, 1980): \nThe movement shifted into a popular struggle. Vehicles lined up in Gwangju’s main thoroughfare\, Geumnam-ro. This massive vehicle parade symbolized the people becoming active subjects of resistance. The military was given the order to use live ammunition against civilians. In reaction\, the city became a space of voluntary mobilization and citizens emerged as historical political actors. \n\n4. Resistance (May 22–26\, 1980): \nWhile isolated and cut off from communications\, Gwangju established an autonomous system of self-governance. Photos in this section testify to the efforts made to establish a sense of order based on solidarity—sharing food and donating blood—rather than chaos. The formation of this \"Daedong (Great Unity) Community\" and the visual documentation thereof serve as foundations of democracy in South Korea. \n\n5. Massacre (May 27\, 1980): \nThe uprising was crushed by a dawn military operation. While the armed resistance ended\, the resulting photographs of the aftermath reveal the stark reality of the massacre. These images became the catalyst for future truth-seeking movements and the pursuit of historical justice in South Korea. \n\n6. Mourning: \nScenes of coffins\, portraits\, and silent vigils represent a collective ethical gaze. During this period\, mourning was more than a display of grief\; it was a communal act used to redefine the city’s identity and establish new moral standards for justice.\n\n7. Special Section A: The Photographers\nThis special section highlights the domestic and international photographers who documented the uprising. This includes Korean journalists alongside US journalists Robin Moyer and Norman Thorpe\, French correspondents Patrick Chauvel and François Lochon\, and German cinematographer Jürgen Hinzpeter. Their images transcend simple reporting\, reflecting a moral commitment to record and a historical duty to ensure remembrance. Rather than viewing these photos solely as evidence\, the exhibition reinterprets them through a lens of photographic history—examining their context\, distribution\, and how they transformed raw records into social truth and collective memory.\n\n8. Special Section B: The Peace Corps: Americans Who Helped Gwangju\nWhen Gwangju was isolated under martial law in May 1980\, four American Peace Corps volunteers—Tim Warnberg\, David Lee Dolinger\, Judi Chamberlin\, and Paul Courtright—refused to leave\, choosing instead to assist the wounded\, aid foreign journalists\, and ultimately expose the truth to the world. Those pivotal ten days reshaped their lives into lifelong commitments to human rights\, inspiring decades of memoirs\, academic writings\, and testimonies. Through photographs\, video footage\, and personal records\, this section traces their journey from eyewitnesses to active defenders of human dignity\, inviting us to reflect on what it truly means to take a stand in the face of another’s suffering. \n\nTwo additional events programmed in conjunction with this photo exhibition\n1. Symposium: \n“For Thee and All the World to See: May 18 Gwangju and the Visual Tenacities of South Korean Democracy”\nhttps://myumi.ch/mVdVJ \n\n2. Third Thursday at the Library: \nDemocracy in Motion: The Advancement of Democracy in Korea and the Students at the Frontline\nhttps://myumi.ch/rwdwn \n\nContent Warning: This exhibition contains historical photographs documenting the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement\, including graphic depictions of violence\, state military suppression\, injuries\, and grief. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThis exhibit is co-sponsored by the May 18 Archives\, Center for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Department of Political Science\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, Donia Human Rights Center\, Asia Library\, and Duderstadt Center.\n\n*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.*
UID:150763-21910128@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Exhibition,History,Korea,Korean Studies
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DISCO Network Presents - Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire\, Chinamaxxing\, & the “American Century of Humiliation”
DESCRIPTION:We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART captioning services will be provided for the panel conversation. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.
UID:149357-21906270@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Digital Studies Institute Lab (G325 Mason Hall)
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DTSTAMP:20260814T103932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Exploring Gemini Notebook for Education
DESCRIPTION:Discover the power of Gemini Notebook\, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents\, Gemini Notebook transforms your lesson plans\, lecture notes\, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses entirely in your sources\, it becomes your most trusted research partner.\n\nRecent Updates & Key Takeaways Include:\n-Active Learning Tools: Instantly generate flashcards and customized quizzes from your uploaded sources to enhance recall and test mastery.\n-Learning Guide Mode: Use the new \"Learning Guide\" to receive personalized tutoring\, breaking down complex concepts step-by-step with probing\, open-ended questions that encourage deeper critical thinking.\n-Enhanced Reporting: Go beyond standard summaries by generating upgraded reports in custom formats\, including Blog Posts\, Glossary of Terms\, FAQs\, and Quizzes.\n-Multiformat Audio and Video Overviews: Transform your documents into engaging \"podcasts\"\, perfect for on-the-go learning and diverse perspective-taking. Explore the new Video Overview to create a dynamic presentation based on your sources.\n-Source Versatility: Upload a wide range of source materials\, including PDFs\, Google Docs/Slides\, and even web links\, for comprehensive information synthesis.\n\nWorkshop Outline:\n-Introduction to Gemini Notebook\n--Understanding Gemini Notebook as an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant.\n--Overview of how it utilizes only your uploaded documents for information synthesis and provides citations.\n-Practical Applications and New Features:\n--Demonstration of uploading diverse source materials.\n--Generating Flashcards and Quizzes for study and review.\n--Utilizing the Learning Guide for in-depth conceptual mastery.\n--Creating customized reports\, Audio Overviews\, and Video Overviews in new formats.\n-Accelerating Knowledge Sharing:\n--Examples of generating lesson plans\, discussion questions\, and study guides.\n--Q&A on Gemini Notebook features and usage.\n-Privacy and Terms of Service:\n--Overview of the ITS AI Services Privacy Notice and Terms of Service (emphasizing data is not used to train the AI).\n-Wrap-up and Resources
UID:140774-21908363@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140774
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Artificial Intelligence,Genai,Generative Ai,Google,Notebooklm
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260921T131131
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Math Biology Seminar & Working Group: Parameter Identifiability and Inference in Models of Human Physiology
DESCRIPTION:How do we expose the underlying dynamics of the human body when direct measurement is difficult? From the fragile lungs of extremely preterm infants to the complex processes of the human brain\, clinical data is often noisy\, indirect\, and difficult to interpret. This talk explores how integrating mechanistic mathematical modeling with data-driven statistical inference can bridge the gap between raw biological signals and patient-specific clinical decision making. Specifically\, this talk will briefly explore mechanistic and data-driven approaches to two case studies: i) the suppressed respiratory system of the preterm infant and ii) Parkinsonian spiking dynamics in macaque basal ganglia. Computational approaches such as these are increasingly implemented to understand human pathophysiology\, but corresponding models depend on reliable estimation of model parameters from available data\, which raises two challenges in model identification: parameter identifiability and parameter sensitivity\, both of which determine whether parameter estimation is even feasible in a given model. By tackling these challenges with robust mathematical frameworks for model analysis\, we can explore resulting models for behavioral interactions between model components\, which would otherwise be impossible in a physical setting. This talk will briefly explore distinct approaches to estimating patient- specific parameter values while addressing these challenges in both mathematical (respiratory study) and statistical (Parkinsonian study) modeling frameworks.
UID:152417-21913707@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152417
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biophysics,Data Science,Dynamics,Mathematical Biology,Mathematical Modeling
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1570
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DTSTAMP:20260728T111105
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Productivity and Stress
DESCRIPTION:Feeling overwhelmed by college? Join the Productivity and Stress wellness group to learn realistic ways to manage stress and improve your productivity. This FREE in-person educational wellness group is for students only and will include an interactive presentation facilitated by staff from the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and is a collaborative service with U-M Engineering's C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center.\n\nRegistration is not required for in-person wellness groups\, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees. You can register using the link. Learn more at campusmindworks.org
UID:149351-21906264@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149351
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Campus Mind Works,Food,Free,Free Food,Health & Wellness,In Person,Mental Health,North Campus,Productivity,Stress,Undergraduate,Well-being,Wellness,Workshop
LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265
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DTSTAMP:20260717T094205
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Selecting Accessible Third-Party Products
DESCRIPTION:Third-party software\, platforms\, and digital services play an essential role in how we work\, teach\, learn\, and engage with the public. When these tools are not accessible\, however\, they can create significant barriers for students\, faculty\, staff\, and community members. University units share responsibility for choosing accessible products that support equitable access to our programs\, services\, and activities.     \n\nThis session will provide practical strategies for evaluating and procuring accessible third-party products throughout the full purchasing lifecycle—from the earliest stages of product selection and review\, through contract execution\, implementation\, and ongoing vendor management. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to build accessibility into procurement decisions and support more inclusive digital experiences across the university.\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu.
UID:149393-21906344@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149393
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Procurement,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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