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DTSTAMP:20260803T135300
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward
DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.
UID:149758-21907072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260820T165408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically  grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year.
UID:150658-21909796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260728T142037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
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:149620-21906795@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
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260916T104949
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Homecoming Welcome Friday
DESCRIPTION:U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are invited to join us on Ingalls Mall\, outside the Alumni Center\, for free coffee\, hot chocolate\, and a breakfast snack\, all served with a little extra Maize and Blue spirit.
UID:152257-21913445@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152257
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Appreciation,Faculty,food,free food,Homecoming,Staff
LOCATION:Alumni Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260902T164414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:IOE Alumni Merit Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering recognizes an alum who personifies the College of Engineering’s tradition of excellence. This year\, we are honoring Marcial Lapp\, B.S. ’05\, M.S.’07\, M.S.E.’09\, M.B.A.’12\, Ph.D. ’12.\n\nJoin us in person for the IOE Alumni Merit Presentation to celebrate outstanding achievements together!\n\nMarcial Lapp ​is ​the ​Vice ​President of Revenue Engineering ​at American Airlines\, ​where ​he ​leads the teams responsible for the systems\, data\, ​and ​business ​processes ​that ​power ​the ​airline's Commercial organization\, primarily ​Revenue Management.
UID:151428-21911585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms (3rd floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260917T104130
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:\"Toward Truly Autonomous Single Particle Cryo-EM Data Collection via Online Learning\"
DESCRIPTION:Research Investigator\,\nLife Sciences Institute\nMichael Cianfrocco Lab
UID:152346-21913573@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152346
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - LSI Library
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260904T114252
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:10-Week Accessibility Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Join the 10-Week Accessibility Challenge to learn more about accessibility basics\, best practices\, and U-M resources and tools available to help you with this work. This training program is open to all U-M staff\, faculty\, and students - no prior accessibility experience or knowledge is required. These live sessions dive deeper into the Challenge content and give participants a chance to get live support and ask questions with our digital accessibility staff. If you have any questions or concerns\, please reach out to accessibility-challenge@umich.edu.\n\nThe 10-Week Accessibility Challenge Live sessions take place on Fridays at 10:00 - 11:00am\, October 2 - December 4\, 2026.\n\nSign up for the challenge today: https://mailchi.mp/umich/10-week-accessibility-challenge\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 995 6855 7925
UID:150570-21909630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260819T103112
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:2026 ME Homecoming Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Before all the excitement at the ME Homecoming Open House\, join us for an alumni breakfast honoring our 2026 Alumni Merit Award recipient\, Laurie Transou! Enjoy a light breakfast and connect with members of the ME alumni community during this engaging discussion.\n\nSeats are limited\, be sure to RSVP in advance to reserve your spot!\n\nNote: Due to limited capacity\, this event is open only to ME faculty\, alumni\, and students at this time.
UID:150511-21909534@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Homecoming,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 1280 GG Brown (Blue Lounge)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260701T112608
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Bookworm #96-Author Conversation with Amy E. Hughes\, \"An Actor's Tale: Theater\, Culture\, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States\"
DESCRIPTION:Historian and author of \"An Actor's Tale: Theater\, Culture\, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States\,\" Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater.\n\nHughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence\, predominance\, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture\, both in the past and present. When historians focus only on performers and plays with artistic \"merit\,\" what communities\, perspectives\, and cultural trends remain invisible? Join us to think through these and other questions.\n\nThis episode is sponsored by Christina and Robbi Karas.\n\nThe Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.
UID:149189-21905947@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,book discussion,Book Talk,Books,Clements Bookworm,Discussion,Event,libraries,Library,Literature,Podcast,Talk,Virtual,William L Clements
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260916T102711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\; stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.
UID:150691-21909922@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,International,Language,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260922T182156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Mechanical Engineering Homecoming 2026
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Homecoming with Mechanical Engineering! Join us for a day of festivities on Friday\, October 16.Additional event and accessibility information will be posted soon.
UID:149983-21907762@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149983
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20260914T165019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Pictured Rocks Fall Break
DESCRIPTION:Pictured Rocks Fall Break is a five-day expedition from October 16–20\, 2026.  to one of Michigan's most breathtaking landscapes during the peak of fall color.\n\nThroughout the long weekend\, you'll hike through colorful autumn forests\, discover hidden coves\, and take in sweeping views from cliffs rising nearly 200 feet above the crystal-clear waters of Lake Superior. Register by October 6\, 2026 to secure your spot! Cost: $755\n\nThis expedition offers two ways to experience Pictured Rocks. Approximately 8–10 participants will backpack a section of the lakeshore trail\, carrying everything needed for several days in the backcountry while camping at remote sites. \n\nThe remaining participants will establish a comfortable tent basecamp\, explore the region through day hikes and scenic destinations\, and support the backpacking team with transportation and logistics. \n\nThe program takes place October 16–20\, 2026. Participants will spend four nights tent camping throughout Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore before returning to the Adventure Leadership Resource Center located on Central Campus during the evening on Tuesday\, October 20.\nThe program includes transportation\, meals during the expedition\, campsite reservations\, all group camping equipment\, and the opportunity to borrow personal camping gear — including a backpack\, sleeping bag\, sleeping pad\, and headlamp — at no additional cost. Personal clothing and toiletries are not included.
UID:152142-21913134@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152142
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Leadership,Nature,outdoor adventures,Outdoors,recreation,Well-being,Wellness
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260917T123032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Teach for Democracy: Deliberative Pedagogy in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How can instructors across the disciplines support the public mission of higher education? Join us for a conversation exploring deliberative pedagogy\, a teaching approach designed to prepare and motivate students to collaborate across differences on the pressing issues facing our democracy. Drawing on cases from Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement (2017)—co-edited by recent Promoting Democracy Teaching Series speaker Dr. Nicholas Longo—we will consider practical strategies for designing learning experiences that help students navigate complex challenges through dialogue\, deliberation\, and equitable decision-making. \n\nThis session is part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series\, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center with support from UM’s Democracy & Civic Empowerment Initiative.\n\nOpen to UM faculty\, graduate students/GSIs\, and post-docs. If you are UM staff with instructional responsibilities who would like to register\, please reach out to teachdemocracy@umich.edu \n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111891
UID:149790-21907187@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Teaching,Workshop
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
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:138033-21881347@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:20260917T151354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913659@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/payravdehqonov
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260817T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamps Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us for an innovative exhibition and installation organized by the Stamps School’s Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC) and composed of work by Stamps students. The SEC aims to create new and exciting opportunities for undergrads to develop their skills in exhibition-making and installations.
UID:150344-21909053@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260922T103914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan explores how campus and community debated the issues that tore the country apart\, how students and alums joined the fight\, and how the University’s public mission began to conflict with its elite aspirations. Based on collections at the Bentley Historical Library.\n\nDeveloped by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory and featuring the work of its student docents\, “Fill the Ranks” includes historic artifacts\, digital animations\, and interactive elements spanning two floors.\n\nOn display September 25\, 2026-July 2\, 2027 at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, 1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109.\n\nView the exhibit during the Observatory’s open hours: Thursdays 12-5 pm\, Fridays 12-11 pm\, Saturdays 12-5 pm.\n\n“Fill the Ranks”: The Civil War and the University of Michigan is supported in part by the Inclusive History Project. To learn more\, please visit inclusivehistory.umich.edu. Additional support provided by the University of Michigan’s U.S. at 250 initiative.
UID:152626-21914200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152626
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,American History,American Politics,archives,bentley historical library,bentley library,civil rights,Civil War,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Humanities,Museum,museums,Politics,Social Sciences,Storytelling,Student Life,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T160000
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:152024-21912664@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:20260818T094816
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Silos: An Inter-Institutional Framework for Understanding Poverty and Advancing Social Change
DESCRIPTION:Kess Ballentine is an assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Social Work and a research affiliate with Labor@Wayne\, Detroit PEER\, and the Center for Gender and Sexuality. Drawing on professional experience in child welfare\, labor organizing\, and social services\, her community-engaged research examines how labor policy and working conditions shape the well-being of low-wage workers and their families. Her work on job quality\, unionization\, and workplace policy has informed municipal policy in Detroit\, been featured in national media\, and been published in leading journals\, including Health Affairs and Social Services Review.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SW503). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions\, or you can watch the livestream on YouTube.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by U-M's Center for Innovation in Detroit.
UID:150395-21909162@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150395
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Detroit,Poverty
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B780
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260922T121523
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
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:149541-21906619@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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