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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Spilling the beans and brewing excitement: Coffee and tea around the world
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to explore materials highlighting traditions\, objects\, and spaces related to cultivation and consumption of coffee and tea across Africa\, South and Southeast Asia\, Latin America and Europe. We'll also feature a selection of materials documenting their social and environmental impact in regions represented in our collections. \n\nCoffee and tea have conquered and connected the world. They have become deeply embedded in social customs and rituals\, stimulated intellectual discussions\, and inspired artistic work as well as fueled both travel and global trade. \n\nJoin us for Third Thursdays at the Library\, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections.\n\nWhile you’re here\, pick up a passport and collect a stamp from each of the Third Thursday Open Houses — the Clark Library\, International Studies\, and the Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
UID:142356-21890740@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142356
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International,Library,Free
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - International Studies Reading Room (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20251205T145400
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T160000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Sword and Scroll: Three Centuries of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese literary genre of wuxia 武俠 (martial arts fiction) poses an enduring challenge for translators\, as no single English term captures the essence of the xiake 俠客 — the Chinese martial arts hero. The xiake is defined less by extraordinary physical power and more by a commitment to justice and individual freedom\, often prioritizing moral action over societal law and hierarchy. Rooted in ancient texts\, the moral codes and martial skills of the xiake have fascinated generations of readers. The genre remains the most widely read form of popular literature and has inspired contemporary Kung Fu films and xiuxian 修仙 (cultivation) novels.\n\nThis Third Thursday\, join the Asia Library staff to explore three centuries of the rich wuxia tradition\, from its flourishing in the mid-Qing dynasty to the 21st century. On display are representative literary works—both translations and Chinese originals—tracing the development of the genre\, alongside academic scholarship on its historical context\, narrative aesthetics\, and cultural impact. We would also like to share the legacy of these stories through adapted films\, DVDs\, and comic works that capture the collective memories of wuxia across generations of readers.\n\nThird Thursdays at the Library is a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here\, pick up a passport and collect a stamp from each of this month's Third Thursday locations — Asia Library\, Clark Library\, International Studies\, and the Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
UID:142426-21890942@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142426
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Asia Library, 4th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20251208T141455
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T160000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The History of Psychedelics and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the Michigan Psychedelic Center's 2026 Seminar Series: Psychedelics — From Cells to Society. Learn more about the series at https://michiganpsychedelic.med.umich.edu/education-events/. \n\nAbout the Talk:\nPsychedelic drugs now serve as instrumental tools in modern neuroscience for understanding the neural correlates and causes of consciousness. Often underappreciated is the vital role that psychedelics played in shaping the fundamental discoveries of monoamine neurotransmission during the mid-twentieth century. The profound psychoactive effects of mescaline and LSD sparked a paradigm shift in thinking that ultimately led to an evolution in our understanding of the biochemical basis of behavior and etiology of mental illness. \n\nThis talk will provide a historical exploration of the powerful influence that psychedelics had on prominent researchers whose work on monoamine neurotransmission revolutionized the way we think about the role of neurochemistry in behavior. In parallel\, we will examine the often-interwoven influence that psychedelics had on psychiatric researchers\, whose search for a psychedelic-like endogenous psychotogen in mental disorders like schizophrenia refocused the field from psychoanalytic explanations to explosive advances in psychopharmacology.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nNick Denomme\, PhD\, is a postdoctoral scholar studying the effects of psychedelics on cortical synaptic plasticity and dendritic integration with Drs. Robert Malenka and Boris Heifets at Stanford University. He received a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Michigan and has had a lifelong interest in psychoactive substances as powerful tools to understand how the brain generates the mind.
UID:142481-21891002@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142481
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience,Webcast,Medicine
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251210T172120
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T193000
SUMMARY:Other:Third Thursday | Late Night at the Kelsey!
DESCRIPTION:The Kelsey Museum is open late! On the third Thursday of each month\, the Kelsey will be open from 4:00 to 7:30 PM. Come check out the galleries after work\, after school\, or after dinner downtown.\n\nThe Kelsey is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:142123-21891162@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ancient Middle East,Museum,Free,Archaeology,Ancient Rome,Ancient Mesopotamia,Ancient Greece,Ancient Egypt
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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DTSTAMP:20260108T133209
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T163000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra (1938-40)
DESCRIPTION:David Goldfarb\, independent scholar and host of \"Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature\,\" a YouTube program sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York\, will give a talk coinciding with the Martin Luther King memorial holiday\, entitled \"Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra (1938-40).\" This is a strange and fascinating story. The talk will take place in the Modern Languages Building\, Room 3308\, from 4:30 to 6:00 PM.\n\n\nAbout the Talk\nComposer William Grant Still published an essay in 1939\, “A Negro Symphony Orchestra\,” imagining the possibilities that could be opened by having an all-Black orchestra of national stature that would be an inspiration to Black youth “and to America as a whole\,” and would introduce new energy into classical music by involving musicians skilled in jazz. His dream was consonant with the ideas of W.E.B. DuBois\, who in “The Souls of Black Folk\,” argued that classical music played an essential political role in the “uplift” of the race\, and nineteenth-century educator James Monroe Trotter\, who saw classical music as a means of demonstrating the right of African Americans to participate in American democracy as “full-fledged citizens.”\nThere had been a number of African American orchestras by that time\, but just such an ensemble with international ambitions had formed in Harlem in 1938 and incorporated officially as “The Negro Symphony Orchestra\,” curiously under the baton of conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter (1881-1949)\, who found himself in New York after fleeing Nazi Germany. Waghalter came from a Warsaw family of Jewish musicians\, klezmorim who played weddings and circuses. He had smuggled himself illegally into Germany as a teenager to study classical music and rose to prominence as the director of the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin from 1912-23. He also served as a visiting conductor for major institutions from the National Opera in Riga to the New York State Symphony. In New York he joined forces with leading figures in the Harlem Renaissance including James Weldon Johnson\, Judge James S. Watson\, orchestra manager Leviticus Lyon and conductor A. Jack Thomas to form “The Negro Symphony Orchestra.” Waghalter composed a choral work with lyrics by Judge Watson called “America\, Our Shining Light\,” addressing themes of bigotry\, racism\, anti-immigrant sentiment\, and the hope of America. When the orchestra collapsed after the outbreak of World War II\, Waghalter was working on a composition specifically for this orchestra\, called the “New World Suite.” This presentation will discuss what archives at Yale and in New York reveal about the orchestra and Waghalter’s collaboration with it.\n\nAbout David A. Goldfarb\nDavid A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory\, and a literary translator from Polish to English. He produces and hosts the monthly video series “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature\,” supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York\, now entering its sixth year\, and is a writer for a documentary film about Polish-Jewish composer Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra in Harlem. His main current translation project is Agata Tuszyńska’s “The Black Handbag” and he has a residency from the Polish Book Institute to work on Tuszyńska’s novel about Bruno Schulz’s fiancée\, Józefina Szelińska\, in Warsaw this summer. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013\, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute in New York\, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College\, Columbia University.\nHe holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published articles on Bruno Schulz\, Zbigniew Herbert\, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz\, Mikhail Lermontov\, and East European cinema in such journals as “East European Politics and Societies\,” “Indiana Slavic Studies\,” “Philosophy and Literature\,” “Prooftexts\,” “The Polish Review\,” “Slavic and East European Performance\,” and “Jewish Quarterly\,” and he has published book chapters on Jozef Wittlin\, Witold Gombrowicz\, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He has written the introduction and notes for Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and “Other Stories” and Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” for the Barnes and Noble Classics series\, and for the Penguin Classics edition of “The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories” by Bruno Schulz.
UID:143496-21893293@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143496
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Culture,Music History,Slavic
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308
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