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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 New Chairs and Directors Orientations
DESCRIPTION:The graduate school offers a series of meetings designed to orient faculty members who have recently taken on the role of chairing a department/program or directing the graduate program in their department/program. These sessions\, hosted by Rackham associate deans\, focus on various aspects of your role. We provide opportunities to discuss and learn how you can partner with Rackham and what Rackham resources you can rely on while carrying out the work of your role.
UID:135804-21877287@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135804
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School, East Conference Room, 4th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260120T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, taking place at Stamps Gallery from January 30-February 21\, 2026. The opening reception will take place on January 30 from 6-8 p.m.\n\nA highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are: \n\n\n\nEncourage the creation of high-quality\, innovative art and design work.\n\nTeach students how to navigate juried exhibitions.\n\nPromote participation in Stamps’ vibrant cultural community.\nJurors\n\nCarlos Diaz is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and a Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Photography Department (1995-2000) at the College for Creative Studies\, Detroit\, MI where he taught for 37 years. Diaz received a BFA from College for Creative Studies in 1980 and an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1983.\n\nPatricia Villalobos Echeverría (Nicaragua/USA)\, Professor of Art at Western Michigan University\, engages a transdisciplinary practice encompassing printmaking\, photography\, video\, installation\, and participatory frameworks to interrogate migration\, displacement\, and transformation. Exhibited internationally\, she holds a Doctor of Arts (Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design)\, MFA\, and BFA\, with residencies including MacDowell and Ox-Bow.\n\n\n\nJessica Levy is the Co-Founder of Hourglass Advisory\, a New York-based art advisory firm specializing in curated collections for contemporary spaces. She holds an MFA from NYU and a BFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, and serves on the Stamps School’s Dean’s Advisory Council. Levy’s background spans media including ceramics\, fibers\, and industrial design. \nTimeline\n\n\n\nExhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: January 30\, 6-8pm\n\nWalkthrough with the Artists & Designers: January 31\, 2-4pm\n\nExhibition Dates: January 30-February 21\, 2026\n\nFor more information\, contact sclegg@umich.edu.
UID:139627-21885811@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139627
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260211T102201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000
SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000)
DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu.
UID:144249-21894999@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Pre-Law,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Medicine,Networking,Nursing,Personal Development,pharmacy,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Health Professions,Professional Development,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Sociology,Staff,Storytelling,Sustainability,Teaching,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Graduate Students,Graduate School,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate,Free,Faculty,Detroit,Community Engagement,Civic Engagement,History
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260511T181505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through November 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-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 12 - November 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21881288@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260129T080906
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2026 Winter Job & Internship Fair: Virtual in Handshake
DESCRIPTION:About the event\n\nThe University Career Center is excited to host the  \nWinter Job & Internship Fair Virtual In Handshake \nFebruary 5th\n12pm-3pm\n\n    • Sign-up for Virtual 1:1 sessions & Group Sessions runs Jan. 26 (9am)-Feb 5th (3pm)\n\n .................................................\n\nHow the Virtual Fair works\n\nOrganizations create:\n- 1:1 sessions and/or Group Sessions (informal visits with organizations)\n- 1:1 sessions are 10 minutes long\n- Group sessions are 30 minutes long with up to 50 participants\n\nStudents:\n- Reserve (schedule) 1:1 meetings and/or group sessions\nJanuary 26th(9am) - February 5th (3pm)\n\nBefore the Fair\n- Complete your Handshake Profile (under your initials in upper right corner)\n- Set your Profile to \"Community\" in \"Settings & Privacy\" (under your initials in upper right corner)\n- Upload current resume\n\nSign-up for Sessions January 26th (9am) - February 5th (3pm)\n- In \"Events\" select \"Winter Job & Internship Fair: Virtual\"\n- Review participating organizations in \"Available Sessions\"\n- Click the organization(s) you are interested in to reserve 1:1 or group sessions\n- For Group Sessions: select \"confirm\" to sign up\n- For 1:1 Sessions: select a time that works for you and then \"confirm\" to sign up (red dots indicate sessions that conflict with sessions you have already scheduled)\n\nDay of the Fair\n- Login to Handshake and navigate to 2026 Winter Job & Internship Fair: Virtual\n- Click on the \"Your Sessions\" tab\n- Click on \"Launch Video\" to join the session. You can join up to 5 minutes early.\n- Questions? Please reach out to our events manager\, Michael Benedetto at michbene@umich.edu!\n\nAccommodation\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.\n\nVirtual Fair Resources From Handshake\n- Video: Locating and Registering for Virtual Fairs\n- Article: Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair\n\nAs you consider opportunities offered at career fairs:  External organizations are not programs and activities of the University of Michigan and are included only because they may be of interest to members of the University community. Inclusion of any organization does not indicate University sponsorship or endorsement of that organization.\n\n#UCC
UID:141847-21889522@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141847
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20260116T181645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:BFA Theatre & Drama Design & Production Portfolio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Take a peek behind the scenes of the plays\, musicals\, dance concerts\, and operas at the University of Michigan. Explore the work of the Theatre & Drama department’s undergraduate stage managers\, designers\, and technicians.\n\nOpening Reception: January 23\, 2026\, 4:30 to 5:30 pm\n\nOpen January 27 – February 6\, 2026\nGallery Hours:\nTues – Fri\, Noon to 6:00 pm\nSunday\, Noon to 6:00 pm\n(Closed Saturday & Monday)
UID:144065-21894604@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144065
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research,North Campus,Free,Art,Theater
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20251210T144626
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/xwAZ5\n   \n   Sound is fundamental to most definitions of poetry\, a mode of expression often distinguished by the combined emphasis it places upon both sound and sense. But what about poetry written in a language by those who do not speak it? Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Sinographosphere\, composers of Sinitic poetry in early modern Japan were keenly attentive to prosodic rules\, tonality\, rhyme\, and other features conventionally associated with aurality. Yet such aspects of a poem were usually inaudible in the dominant form of oral performance practiced in Japan at the time: interpretive recitation aloud by *kundoku.* This talk examines the diverse ways in which early modern Japanese theorists and practitioners of Sinitic poetry grappled with this central issue.\n   \n   Matthew Fraleigh is an associate professor of East Asian literature and culture at Brandeis University. He is also currently the Center for Japanese Studies Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. Professor Fraleigh is broadly interested in Sino-Japanese cultural exchange from antiquity through the modern period and is now completing a book that examines how Japanese poets from the 17th through the 19th centuries conceptualized classical Chinese poetry.\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:142546-21891139@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142546
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Japanese Studies,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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