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DTSTAMP:20261001T160941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy
DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women's anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. Instead\, the exhibit offers evidence of joy\, reminders of possibility\, and a visual legacy for generations to come. \n \nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae's belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers. They create space for BIPOC families to see themselves represented with dignity and to witness the full range of birth experiences. Lashae's photographs also create a tangible record that can support conversations around quality of medical care\, respectful treatment\, and patient rights. The exhibit empowers women to prioritize and advocate for their birth experiences while also encouraging perinatal health professionals and birthworkers to center the humanity\, dignity\, and individual experiences of patients and families. \n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer whose work has been published in Everyday Birth Magazine\, an international publication. The physical exhibit is accompanied by a virtual component that encourages audiences to engage with each mother's birth story.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan. \n\nBlack Birth Joy\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM
UID:153178-21915294@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,advocacy,african and african american studies,american culture,anthropology,Art,artists and curators
LOCATION:Lane Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260915T123553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm.
UID:152203-21913266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20261009T091422
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T100000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Diana Velazquez Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Lake sediments act as archives of environmental change\, preserving geochemical signals that can be linked to local and global shifts in biogeochemical cycling throughout Earth’s history. Additionally\, with approximately half as much organic carbon buried in lakes globally as in the world’s oceans\, lake sediments are critical carbon reservoirs. However\, prolonged lake stratification due to increasingly warming climate conditions\, is resulting in extended periods of low-oxygen\, hypoxic\, conditions in lakes. Because hypoxic lake conditions favor oxygen-free microbial metabolisms\, they can alter the mechanisms controlling sedimentary carbon sequestration. While anthropogenic influences on freshwater environments are profound\, they represent only the most recent shifts in water column oxygenation. Earth’s history is marked by fluctuating oxygen conditions\, transitioning from an anoxic atmosphere to an oxygenated one since 2.45 billion years ago. To understand modern shifts in carbon cycling and to better understand environmental change recorded in ancient lake sediments\, it is imperative to trace lake organic matter sources\, sinks\, and burial mechanisms. Given that organic matter can be broken down and reworked during its transport and burial to sediments\, this dissertation investigates how we can reliably capture original source signals and reconstruct ancient lake conditions.\n\nBecause our ability to reliably reconstruct past aquatic environments is determined by whether or not sediments faithfully record original source signals\, Chapter 2 examines methodological approaches for the collection of organic matter in freshwaters. In this chapter\, I use laboratory experiments to test how effectively chemical treatments preserve the original geochemical signatures of organic matter from a freshwater pond. Recommendations for the use of chemical treatments depend on the desired measurements and the length of the storage period. Notably\, I find that freshwater organic matter retains its original geochemical signatures in the absence of chemical treatment over short periods which offers a low-toxicity and cost-effective alternative to methods commonly used to preserve marine material.\n\nIn Chapter 3\, I apply methods from the previous chapter to identify organic matter sources and preservation processes in a modern hypoxic environment\, Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. I integrate bulk and compound-specific geochemical approaches to understand sedimentary organic matter large scale and molecular-level transformations. I find that bulk measurements are often complicated by seasonal variability and microbial decomposition. Compound-specific approaches\, however\, resolve original source signals that can be valuable when analyzing sedimentary records of ancient lake systems.  \n\nUltimately\, I expand my understanding of organic matter preservation from a single low-oxygen site to lakes\, globally in Chapter 4. By compiling lake sedimentary geochemical data from lakes worldwide and their water column oxygen conditions\, I establish geochemical patterns related to oxygen. I use modern lake sedimentary patterns to trace the evolution of nitrogen microbial metabolisms that evolved from Earth’s oxygenation throughout the past 3.2 billion years. Beyond tracking changes in oxygen\, lake sediments also provide insight into the chemistry of ancient lake waters.\n\nCollectively\, the work in this dissertation emphasizes lake sediments as natural recorders of local and global environmental transformations\, particularly related to shifts in Earth’s oxygenation. This dissertation adds to the refinement of methodological approaches needed to reliably trace organic matter source-to-sink dynamics under a changing climate.
UID:153496-21915927@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153496
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540
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DTSTAMP:20260928T151759
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T170000
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.\n\n *Image: \"Untitled\,\" Jade Saren\, Creative Growth Art Center*
UID:149758-21907075@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Humanities,Disability Studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
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DTSTAMP:20260928T153704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T200000
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:150658-21909799@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Free,Culinary History
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
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