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DTSTAMP:20251216T100358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tukilile Vaa
DESCRIPTION:Kaloki Nyamai is a multidisciplinary artist based in Nairobi. His practice explores Kenya's histories and collective memory\, blending Kamba traditions with contemporary narratives. Using acrylic paint\, rope\, photo transfers\, and stitched yarn\, his free-hanging immersive works blur the boundaries between painting\, sculpture\, and installation. For his U-M project\, Nyamai will present one large unstretched piece and two framed paintings at the Institute for the Humanities\, as well as a second free-hanging work at the U-M Museum of Art.\n\nThe physicality of his complex constructions inspire wonder in the viewer. The works are vast in scale\, embedded with stories\, where past and future merge both poetically and conceptually. In each composition\, the artist proposes a powerful alternative to the flatness of singular narratives of Kenyan history and identity presented as the definitive postcolonial account. He likens the formal act of stitching to symbolically unifying a wounded or fractured community.\n\nNyamai founded the Kamene Cultural & Research Center in Nairobi\, a creative and collaborative hub dedicated to the preservation\, promotion\, and innovation of African cultural practices.\n\nAbout the artist:\nKaloki Nyamai (*1985 in Kitui\, Kenya) is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation\, painting\, and sculpture based in Nairobi. From an early age\, his mother introduced him to painting and taught him to draw\, fostering an ever-lasting interest in art throughout his life. He often finds inspiration in his grandmother’s stories of the Kamba people\, a Bantu ethnic group of eastern Kenya. Using materials like acrylic paint\, sisal rope\, photo transfers\, and stitched yarn\, Nyamai’s free-hanging pieces evoke the healing of historical wounds and a collective yearning for renewal. His works blur the boundaries between painting\, sculpture\, and installation\, creating cohesive\, immersive experiences where past\, present\, and future converge poetically.\n\nNyamai studied Interior Design at the Buruburu Institute Of Fine Arts (BIFA) and then pursued painting after working in other creative fields. His large-scale paintings and mixed-media installations intricately explore historical narratives\, examining their resonance in the present. Nyamai has shown his work across the globe in solo exhibitions at the Norval Foundation\, Cape Town (2024)\; James Cohan Gallery\, New York (2024)\; Galerie Barbara Thumm\, Berlin (2023 and 2022)\; SEPTIEME Gallery\, Paris (2019)\, and other venues. In 2023\, he featured part of his series Dining in Chaos in the “Unlimited” section at Art Basel in Basel. He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials\, most recently at the Sharjah Biennial 16\, Sharjah (2025)\; The Völklinger Hütte\, Völklingen (2024)\; the Kenyan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale\, Venice (2022)\; and the Dakar Biennale (2022). His works are part of numerous private and institutional collections around the world\, such as the Dallas Art Museum\, the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art\, and the Arthur Primas Museum.
UID:142791-21891561@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142791
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260128T212428
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T163000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:GISC Conference. Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions
DESCRIPTION:Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions\nFebruary 6-7\, 2026\nCahoots\, 206 E Huron St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\nVisit https://myumi.ch/9p8xx for full conference details.\n\nThe Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference\, organized jointly by Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and Associate Professor\, and Christiane Gruber\, Professor in the Department of the History of Art and founder of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online\, will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on February 6-7\, 2026. A dozen scholars and practitioners of global Islamic art and narratives will examine Islam’s relationship to the natural world over the centuries and consider how Islamic thought and Muslim traditions offer alternative solutions to today’s ecological challenges.\n   \n   We study and leverage the intersections of ecology and spirituality by drawing on the deep knowledge of diverse fields\, including art history\, Islamic philosophy and theology\, Muslim cultural studies\, literary studies\, architecture\, and community activism in locales from the Ottoman Empire to Iran\, Pakistan\, Saudi Arabia\, Nigeria\, and Trinidad. Our aim is to identify what historical and contemporary Islamic perspectives on nature offer to unfolding global conversations about the earth and our shared and symbiotic human\, animal\, and plant futures\, thus building sustainable futures and potentially interrupting the Anthropocene.\n   \n   Featuring the work of:\n   Christiane Gruber | University of Michigan\, Organizer\n   Aliyah Khan | University of Michigan\, Organizer\n   Omolade Adunbi | University of Michigan\n   Katherine Bartsch | University of Adelaide\, Australia\n   Patricia Blessing | Stanford University\n   Gohar Dashti | Visual Artist\n   Anna M. Gade | University of Wisconsin\, Madison\n   Sune Haugbølle | Roskilde University\, Denmark\n   Charlotte Maury | Louvre Museum\, Paris\n   Mohamed Amer Meziane | Brown University\n   Amanda Phillips | University of Virginia\n   Elizabeth Rauh | The American University in Cairo\n   Saleema Waraich | Skidmore College\n\n*Friday\, February 6\, 2026: Past and Present*\n\nWelcome (9:30AM-10AM): Christiane Gruber and Aliyah Khan \n\nMorning Panel 1 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Collecting\, Draining\, and Drowning in Water\nPatricia Blessing\, “Indoor\, Outdoor\, and in Between: Water in Ottoman Mosques”\nElizabeth Rauh\, “Draining Eden: The Ecocide of the Iraqi Wetlands”\nAliyah Khan\, “Muharram in the Caribbean: Drowned Model Tombs and the Oceanic Return to Karbala”\nModerator: Charlotte Karem Albrecht\, Director\, Arab and Muslim American Studies Program\n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM)  \n\nAfternoon Panel 2 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Plant Vitalities\nAmanda Phillips\, “Perfection in Bloom: Ottoman Writing About Flowers\, 1650-1750 CE”\nChristiane Gruber\, “God's Greenhouses: Agricultural Mosques and Phyto-Aesthetics in Rural Anatolia”\nCharlotte Maury\, “Visual Representations of the Vital Force of Plants in Islamic Art and its Relation to Animality”\nModerator: Paroma Chatterjee\, Chair\, Department of the History of Art \n\n*Saturday\, February 7\, 2026: Futurities*\n\nMorning Panel 3 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Green Futures\nSaleema Waraich\, “From the ‘City of Gardens’ to ‘Smog Capital of the World’: Ecological Dystopias and Imaginaries in Lahore\, Pakistan”\nMohamed Amer Meziane\, “Who Makes the Anthropocene: Islam\, Ecology\, and the Environmental History of *Orientalism”*\nGohar Dashti\, “Geometries of Belonging: A New Look at Nature Through an Eastern Perspective”\nModerator: Aseman Talebi\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of the History of Art \n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM)\n\nAfternoon Panel 4 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Oil and Desert Ecologies\nOmolade Adunbi\, “The Art of Oil Resistance in the Niger Delta”\nKatherine Bartsch\, “Ephemeral Mosques: Mapping a Network of Faith in Australia’s Unforgiving Desert Interior”\nSune Haugbølle\, “Neom/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia”\nModerator: Sena Duran\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of American Culture \n\nBreak (3:30PM-3:45PM)\n\nClosing Remarks (3:45PM-4:30PM): Anna Gade\n\nTo read about the papers being presented\, speaker bios\, & to register to attend\, please visit: https://myumi.ch/9p8xx   \n   The Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference is free and open to all University of Michigan students\, faculty\, staff\, and the public. All sessions will be held at the Cahoots Ann Arbor Event Space\, 206 E. Huron St.\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan 48104.\n   \n   This conference is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Department of the History of Art\, and cosponsored by: the Institute for the Humanities\, the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, the Department of American Culture\, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program\, the Program in the Environment\, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and the Islamophobia Working Group.\n   \n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
UID:144462-21895388@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144462
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african diaspora,African Studies,Arab And Muslim American Studies,Area Studies,Art,Art History,Arts of Islam,Global Islamic Studies,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250731T161854
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Committee Workshop (FACULTY): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
DESCRIPTION:Developed by the MORE Committee\, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles\, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then\, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs\, goals\, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans\, 83 percent find those plans useful. Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.
UID:136862-21879247@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
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DTSTAMP:20250801T100140
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Committee Workshop (STUDENT): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
DESCRIPTION:Developed by the MORE Committee\, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles\, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then\, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs\, goals\, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans\, 83 percent find those plans useful. Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/2r6kn.
UID:136863-21879253@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260105T093408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T110000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\, stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Julie Harrell at (harrelju@umich.edu).
UID:143170-21892361@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143170
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,Intercultural,International,Language,Languages,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20260129T125956
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Ann Lee\, Professor\, Department of Statistics & Data Science\, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Scientific inference often involves inferring internal key parameters that determine the outcome of a complex physical phenomenon. The data themselves may come in the form of a labeled set that implicitly encodes the likelihood function\; for example\, in the form of (i) pairs of parameters and observable data according to a mechanistic (simulator) model\, or as (ii) observed data and parameters 'measured' with high precision via an auxiliary experiment. We refer to inference in both intractable likelihood settings as \"Likelihood-Free Inference'\" (LFI). The application of neural density estimators and generative models to scientific LFI settings is becoming increasingly widespread. However\, high-posterior density (HPD) regions derived from these density estimators do not necessarily have a high probability of including the true parameter of interest\, even if the posterior is well-estimated and the labeled data have the same distribution as the target distribution. Furthermore\, if the prior distribution is poorly specified\, then the HPD regions could severely undercover and/or be biased\, thereby leading to misleading scientific conclusions. In this talk\, I will present new LFI methodology and algorithms for leveraging neural density estimators to produce confidence regions that have (i) nominal frequentist coverage for any value of the (unknown) parameter\, even with just one observation (sample size n=1)\, and (ii) smaller average area (yielding higher constraining power) if the prior is well-specified. I will illustrate our methods on examples from astronomy and high-energy physics\, and discuss where we stand and what challenges still remain.
UID:143585-21893425@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143585
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20250821T100218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T120000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Write with ME!
DESCRIPTION:Working on an abstract? Polishing up your resume? Writing a paper or dissertation?\n\nJoin us for our new Mechanical Engineering Department writing group\, “Write with ME!”\n\nAll ME undergrads\, grads\, postdocs\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join us for any of their writing needs.\n\nCommunity & support\nConnect with peers\, share your writing\, exchange feedback\, and brainstorm solutions to writing challenges.\n\nAccountability & consistency\nSharpen your writing skills and develop positive\, consistent writing routines. Learn from other members of the ME department!\n\nFood & flexibility\nNo need to attend every week! Drop in at any time\, and leave at any time. Light snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be available.\n\nWeekly on Fridays\, starting September 12\n2636 G.G.B\n10 am – 12 pm
UID:137880-21880967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Writing
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2636
CONTACT:
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