Other:IOE x IPE Semester Abroad Advising
2025-04-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Detroit) | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G690
The IOE and IPE Peer Advisors will be available in the basement of IOE to answer questions about semester abroad programs, classes, and application process.
Feel free to stop by anytime Friday 4/4 from 11 AM - 12 PM in the IOE basement and bring your questions!

Exhibition:stop-loss
2025-04-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
stop-loss, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition,​ is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 22— April 12, 2025. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Hannah Buchanan, Sam Griffith, Andy Maticorena Kajie, Laura Mackie, Okyoung Noh, Charlie Reynolds, and Darren Spirk.
Join us to celebrate the work of MFA graduate students at the Opening Reception on March 21 from 6 — 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served and artists will be present.

Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins
2025-04-04 11:02 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home, placemaking, labor, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.
Artist’s bio:
Michelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting, bead weaving, embroidery, jewelry, transparent film installations, painting, ceramics, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story, re-make, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx, Chicanx, Mexican, and Texican peoples.

Recently, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania), Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas, TX).

Meeting:Lingering in the Wound: Sadism and Confusion as Aesthetic Practice
2025-04-04 11:30 - 13:00 | Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
Lecture: April 3, 4pm - 6pm
Workshop: April 4, 11:30pm - 1pm

Contrasting the logic that wounds only produce suffering and that, therefore, the proper approach to trauma is the reparative, Saketopoulou draws our attention to the concept of traumatophilia, which conditions a differently textured relation to injury. In this talk, she turns to art that lingers in the wound not in order to address/heal the injury but to graze against it, even to risk re-opening it in the interembodied space of the theatre. Such art is not after healing or repair: it risks, rather, an exposure to traumatic intensities that cannot be captured through anamnesis, intensities that have a fugitive relationship to being grasped or understood, and which, importantly, exert a sadistic force on the artist and the audience. That such sadism is also tender is not a contradiction, but the very condition of a kind of sadism we might think of as aesthetic. Drawing on the first part of the Cadela Força trilogy by Carolina Bianchi and the art collective Cara de Cavalo, Saketopoulou explores how wound and aesthetics meet through an ethical form of sadistic practice conjugated not through clarity, understanding, or catharsis but through the courting of confusion.

Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in New York City. She completed her analytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she also teaches. Her published work addresses issues around trauma, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) and co-author with Ann Pellegrini of Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation 2023).

Thank you to our co-sponsors:
Institute for the Humanities, UMOR, and LSA DEI Office

Livestream / Virtual:Dear Colleagues: Diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives are legally defensible and here is how higher education should respond.
2025-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Recent Executive Orders and the Department of Education’s “Dear Colleague” letter have introduced new legal considerations for higher education institutions committed to fostering diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environments. What are the actual legal obligations stemming from these federal actions — and how should institutions interpret and respond to them?

Join our discussion with legal and policy experts to unpack the legal context of these directives. This session will provide guidance for the higher education community on how to understand the legal scope and limits of federal directives, navigate potential risks, and uphold academic freedom and institutional autonomy with evolving legal parameters.

Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Towards a Decolonial Methodology
2025-04-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Inspired by Serhii Plokhii’s work in deconstructing imperial Russian historical narratives, this workshop questions to what extent state-centered approaches have bound the historical imagination of our various fields and defined the topics that count as significant. Via utilizing ulterior archives, including: the publications of Iranian student activists in 1970s’ France, novels of famous Kyrgyz authors, folk songs connected to plantation labor, and imagined conversations with SS commanders – our four speakers each seek to “decolonize” hegemonic narratives, and, in so doing, create decolonial methodologies for research.

Panelists:

Chandrica Barua (Graduate Student, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan)
Azhar Dyussekenova (Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)
Keanu M. Heydari (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Sara Ruiz (Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)
Sikandar Kumar (Postdoctoral Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
