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DTSTAMP:20250917T090255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Existing Differently: A Regional Training in Visionary Organizing for the Great Lakes Region
DESCRIPTION:College students are faced with a serious set of problems. They have to navigate an unpredictable economy\, an ever-evolving relationship with technology\, a changing climate\, and weakening social ties. Solving these problems requires skills that empower them to become leaders who can make their material needs for survival and their nonmaterial needs for well-being equally important. \n\nTo support student leadership development\, Visionary Organizing Lab and Student Life Sustainability at the University of Michigan are partnering to host the Great Lakes Regional Training in Visionary Organizing—a 4.5-day immersive experience in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. This training is open to undergraduate students from midwestern universities who are curious about social change or already engaged in addressing social and community challenges.\n\nFrom November 12-16\, students will be engaged in experiential learning about the components of Visionary Organizing\, leadership\, imagination building\, and relationship building. We will eat meals communally and nights can be spent however you prefer. All learning will be workshop based and through large and small group discussions will put students' personal experiences in conversation with larger historical and structural factors. The tentative schedule is:\n\nWednesday\, November 12\n2pm - 5pm | Arrival\, hotel & conference check-ins\, and orientation\n5pm - 7pm | Community dinner & introductions\n\nThursday\, November 13 \n9am-12pm | Connecting to and Trusting Our Inner Wisdom Workshop\n1pm - 4pm | Locating Ourselves in Systems and History Workshop\n5pm - 7pm | Dinner and community-building activities\n\nFriday\, November 14\n9am-12pm | Recognizing and Nurturing Interdependence / Imagining New Possibilities Workshop\n1pm - 2:30pm | Affirming Dignity Workshop\n2:30pm - 5pm | Tour of VOL-informed sustainability projects at University of Michigan\n6pm - 8pm | Dinner and community-building activities\n\nSaturday\, November 15\n9am-12pm | Experimenting with Transformation workshop and group work\n1pm - 4pm | Experimenting with Transformation workshop and group work\n5pm - 7pm | Dinner and community-building activities\n\nSunday\, November 16\n9am-11am | Optional individual/team work time\n11am - 1pm | Students present visions & community-based projects\n1pm - 3pm | Students commit to next steps\n3pm - 4pm | Wrap up & departure\n\nNote: Breakfast and lunch will be provided every day.\n\nApplication required! Visit link to apply.
UID:139464-21885571@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139464
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Community,Environment,Free,Student Org,Sustainability,Well-being
LOCATION:South Quad - Ambatana Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20251105T175156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T170000
SUMMARY:Other:Gender-Affirming Clothing Closet
DESCRIPTION:Shop for what makes you feel great (for free!) as we turn Spectrum Center into a gender-affirming clothing closet. At this special limited-time event\, check out a collection of clothing donated from within the U-M community and take home what you want! There'll be a variety of clothing and accessories\, and private space to try on clothing. This event is open to all U-M students\, faculty\, and staff.\n\nDONATE CLOTHING\nDrop-off donations will be accepted at Spectrum Center weekdays from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm—as well as from 5:00-8:00 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays—through November 10. To prepare the best experience\, no donations can be accepted the day of the event. \n\nWe're looking for:\n- Lightly used\, clean clothing (with no damage\, profanity\, or slurs)—especially clothing of larger sizes\; \n- Accessories\;\n- Essential needs\, including new hygiene items\; new cosmetics\; undergarments in original packaging\; and clean\, gently-used gc2b chest binders.\n\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events
UID:136329-21878506@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136329
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:LGBT,Professional Development,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center (3020)
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DTSTAMP:20251105T091751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Histories of Slavery\, Freedom & the Law
DESCRIPTION:This conference brings together historians who study legal and social processes that shaped enslavement and struggles for freedom and citizenship rights within and beyond the Americas. Panelists will present their own research and reflections on ways in which their work engages the scholarship of Rebecca Scott\, with whom they studied. Senior historians who have collaborated with Professor Scott at various points in their careers serve as discussants\, keynote speaker\, and chairs of the panels. The conference showcases the broad-ranging historical scholarship that originated in collaborative projects at the University of Michigan and in conjunction with the mentorship of Professor Scott\, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law\, emerita\, and her U-M colleagues.\n\nThis conference will be held in Ann Arbor\, in conjunction with the UM Law School’s co-hosting of the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History\, which takes place in Detroit in the days that follow (ASLH 2025 is held November 14-15).\n\nProgram:\n\nWednesday\, November 12\n100 Hutchins Hall\n4:00-5:30 Keynote address featuring Ada Ferrer (Princeton University)\n\nThursday\, November 13\n1014 Tisch Hall\n9:00-9:10: Welcome\n9:10-10:30: Panel 1: Dynamics of Emancipation \nChair: Malick Ghachem (Professor\, MIT)\nPanelist 1: Adriana Chira (Associate Professor\, Emory University\, Atlanta\, Ga.)\nPanelist 2: Ana Maria Silva (Assistant Professor\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\nPanelist 3: Tamara Walker (Associate Professor\, Barnard College\, New York\, N.Y.)\nCommentators: Aims McGuinness (Associate Professor\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n\n10:45-12:15: Panel 2: Degrees of Freedom in Postemancipation Societies \nChair: Neil Foley (Professor\, Southern Methodist University\, Dallas\, Tex.)\nPanelist 1: Jarrett Drake (Assistant Professor\, Stony Brook University)\nPanelist 2: Daniel Varela Corredor (Doctoral candidate\, University of Michigan (History and Anthropology)\, Ann Arbor)\nPanelist 3: Edgardo Pérez Morales (Professor\, National University of Colombia\, Medellin)\nCommentator: John Soluri (Professor\, Carnegie Mellon University\, Pittsburgh\, Pa.)\n\n1:45-3:15: Panel 3: Getting the Documents to Speak\nChair: Jean Hébrard (Emeritus\, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, Paris France)\nPanelist 1: Andrew Walker (Assistant Professor\, University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill)\nPanelist 2: Ángela Pérez-Villa (Assistant Professor\, Western Michigan University\, Kalamazoo\, Mich.)\nPanelist 3:  Edward Murphy (Associate Professor\, Michigan State University\, East Lansing)\nCommentator: Laurent Dubois (Professor\, University of Virginia\, Charlottesville)\n\n3:30-4:45: Panel 4: Peremptory Enslavement/Fragile Freedom\nChair: Thavolia Glymph (Professor\, Duke University\, Durham\, N.C.)\nPanelist 1: Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub (Post-doctoral Fellow\, Emory University)\nPanelist 2: Pedro Cantisano (Assistant Professor\, Law\, Insper Institute of Education and Research\, São Paulo\, Brazil)\nCommentator: Lara Putnam (Professor\, University of Pittsburgh\, Pa.)\n\n4:45-5:00 Closing remarks\, Sam Erman (Professor\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor)\, Sueann Caulfield (Professor\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor)
UID:136097-21877846@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136097
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Law,Pre-Law,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20251118T140117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:ICE in the Heartland: Community Impacts of Worksite Immigration Raids
DESCRIPTION:ICE in the Heartland showcases a multifaceted project that gathers and disseminates the stories of communities impacted by immigration worksite raids with the aim of bringing underrepresented narratives to news media\, classroom\, and public discourse. This project comprises qualitative public health research conducted in impacted communities and visual arts generated from the research outcomes. Research teams of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Michigan\, led by Professor William Lopez\, and the University of Iowa\, led by Professor Nicole Novak\, collaborated with a range of community members and organizers at sites of six large-scale immigration worksite raids that occurred in 2018 in Iowa\, Nebraska\, Ohio\, Tennessee\, and Texas. The researchers visited these sites\, spoke to advocates\, detainees\, their families\, and other community members. In conversation with the seventy-seven interviews\, artists Dalia Harris and Carolina Jones Ortiz generated ten images that comprise ICE in the Heartland. On display with the artworks are community member testimonies\, analysis on the public health detriments to immigration worksite raids and deportation\, insights to the artists’ methods\, and the curricular materials used in public outreach programs. \n\nHosted and sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies\, U-M.
UID:139065-21884776@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139065
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,advocacy,Art,Education,Exhibition,free,Human Rights,immigration,Inequality,institute for research on women and gender,irwg,public health,research,social inequality,social justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Lane Hall Exhibit Space--First Floor
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DTSTAMP:20251113T082045
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:In-person Arabic Placement test_November 13\, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm)
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test is approximately three hours in length\, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed on paper and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed on Canvas site\, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion\, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: a. Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the language requirement.b. Students who are not able to write in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) do not need to take the placement test and they will be advised to enroll in Arabic 101.\nWhere can I view my results?a. Placement results are posted within 7 business days after the test.b. You will not be notified of your score automatically. c. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.\nImportant information about the test* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in\, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* Students who are currently taking an Arabic course will not be allowed to take the placement test. * Students who took or are currently enrolled in an Arabic course are not eligible to take the Arabic placement test. They should register for the next course level.* The test assesses students’ proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)\, NOT colloquial Arabic.  * If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge\, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before\, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM\, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level\, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement. * Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in\, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101\, 201\, 401\, 501 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester\, and Arabic 102\, 202\, 402\, 504\, 511 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 & 102\, combined) AND Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202\, combined) are offered in the Spring-Summer terms.\nUM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan\, Syria\, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to developing the four language skills of formal Arabic (fuSHa). \nIf you have questions regarding the placement test\, please contact the program director at\, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu.\n
UID:141526-21888973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141526
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:1500 North Quad 105 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Language Resource Center) (MAC Lab)
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DTSTAMP:20250806T172347
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding (2013–2025)
DESCRIPTION:Explore the art of judging books by their covers! This exhibit highlights a selection of rare books from the University of Michigan's collections\, each of them representing binding topics featured in \"Suave Mechanicals\,\" the acclaimed nine-volume series dedicated to the study of the art and history of bookbinding.  \n\nSpanning from 2013 to 2025\, \"Suave Mechanicals\" contains 85 essays\, 27 of which examine the same type of binding as the artifacts on display. Edited by Julia Miller and published by Cathleen A. Baker of The Legacy Press\, the series was conceived as a platform for fresh\, in-depth scholarship on bookbinding\, from its earliest origins to contemporary practice.  \n\nContributors include first-time authors and established experts — bookbinders\, conservators\, librarians\, curators\, catalogers\, book artists\, collectors\, and historians — offering a vibrant array of voices and insights into the craftsmanship\, culture\, and enduring fascination of bookbinding.\n\nJoin us for Coffee with the Curator on October 1\, 10am-12pm.
UID:137103-21879615@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137103
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
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