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DTSTAMP:20260901T134245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T120000
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SUMMARY:Well-being:CommuniTEA
DESCRIPTION:Join students\, staff\, and faculty in the Sankofa Lounge for weekly CommuniTEA gatherings. Come to connect\, share experiences\, good vibes\, and unwind. Meet new friends\, play a card game\, or study and eat your lunch among community! Organizations and units are welcome to collaborate and share refreshments or cultural tea practices.
UID:150822-21910259@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150822
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Diversity,Free,Inclusion,MESA,Multicultural,Social Impact,Well-being
LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906601@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260915T164156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea
DESCRIPTION:Link to the official event poster: \nhttps://myumi.ch/kVdVV\n\nFor parking information\, please visit this link: https://www.dc.umich.edu/about-the-dc/maps-floor-plans-hours/#parking\n\nExhibition Opening Event: \n- When: Friday\, September 18\, 5 pm to 6 pm\n- Where: Duderstadt Center Gallery\n- Open to the public\n- Description: Please join us for the opening of this photo exhibition. The event will feature remarks by the organizers\, the exhibition curators\, one of the featured photojournalists\, and a former Peace Corps volunteer who has stood in solidarity with the people of Gwangju since 1980. Light refreshments are provided. \n\n*Exhibition Description*\nThis photo exhibition features 90 curated images from the UNESCO-inscribed May 18 Archives. Documenting the May 18–27\, 1980 democratization uprising in Gwangju\, South Korea\, the collection captures the shift from peaceful student protests to military violence and unified citizen resistance\, carried out under a complete blackout as civilians and photojournalists risked their lives to photograph atrocities and smuggle film past cordons. Beyond serving as historical artifacts\, these preserved visual truths offer a living blueprint for popular resilience against authoritarianism\, transforming local trauma into a universal defense of human rights. Displaying these records at Michigan bridges 1980 Gwangju with our present moment\, inviting viewers to engage past resistance in the ongoing effort to defend democracy today.\n\n*Exhibition Composition*\nThe exhibit will be composed of a visual narrative comprised of six chronological sections and two additional special sections:\n\n1. Protest (May 5–16\, 1980): \nFollowing the collapse of Park Chung-hee’s military dictatorship in October\, 1979\, Gwangju students and citizens held peaceful rallies for campus autonomy and the end of martial law. Photos from this era show orderly marches and hopeful faces\, capturing a society on the brink of change before the structural contradictions shifted toward state-led violence. \n\n2. Suppression (May 18–19\, 1980): \nA new junta government led by Chun Doo-hwan extended martial law to the entire country on May 17. Students at Chonnam National University protested against the new junta government’s decision. State violence escalated as paratroopers\, who were deployed to Gwangju\, engaged student protesters. Streets became scenes of brutal beatings and kidnappings. Beyond documenting victims\, the images on display in this section serve as primary historical evidence and legal proof of the military's methods and the sudden transformation of citizens into targets of control. \n\n3. Uprising (May 20–21\, 1980): \nThe movement shifted into a popular struggle. Vehicles lined up in Gwangju’s main thoroughfare\, Geumnam-ro. This massive vehicle parade symbolized the people becoming active subjects of resistance. The military was given the order to use live ammunition against civilians. In reaction\, the city became a space of voluntary mobilization and citizens emerged as historical political actors. \n\n4. Resistance (May 22–26\, 1980): \nWhile isolated and cut off from communications\, Gwangju established an autonomous system of self-governance. Photos in this section testify to the efforts made to establish a sense of order based on solidarity—sharing food and donating blood—rather than chaos. The formation of this \"Daedong (Great Unity) Community\" and the visual documentation thereof serve as foundations of democracy in South Korea. \n\n5. Massacre (May 27\, 1980): \nThe uprising was crushed by a dawn military operation. While the armed resistance ended\, the resulting photographs of the aftermath reveal the stark reality of the massacre. These images became the catalyst for future truth-seeking movements and the pursuit of historical justice in South Korea. \n\n6. Mourning: \nScenes of coffins\, portraits\, and silent vigils represent a collective ethical gaze. During this period\, mourning was more than a display of grief\; it was a communal act used to redefine the city’s identity and establish new moral standards for justice.\n\n7. Special Section A: The Photographers\nThis special section highlights the domestic and international photographers who documented the uprising. This includes Korean journalists alongside US journalists Robin Moyer and Norman Thorpe\, French correspondents Patrick Chauvel and François Lochon\, and German cinematographer Jürgen Hinzpeter. Their images transcend simple reporting\, reflecting a moral commitment to record and a historical duty to ensure remembrance. Rather than viewing these photos solely as evidence\, the exhibition reinterprets them through a lens of photographic history—examining their context\, distribution\, and how they transformed raw records into social truth and collective memory.\n\n8. Special Section B: The Peace Corps: Americans Who Helped Gwangju\nWhen Gwangju was isolated under martial law in May 1980\, four American Peace Corps volunteers—Tim Warnberg\, David Lee Dolinger\, Judi Chamberlin\, and Paul Courtright—refused to leave\, choosing instead to assist the wounded\, aid foreign journalists\, and ultimately expose the truth to the world. Those pivotal ten days reshaped their lives into lifelong commitments to human rights\, inspiring decades of memoirs\, academic writings\, and testimonies. Through photographs\, video footage\, and personal records\, this section traces their journey from eyewitnesses to active defenders of human dignity\, inviting us to reflect on what it truly means to take a stand in the face of another’s suffering. \n\nTwo additional events programmed in conjunction with this photo exhibition\n1. Symposium: \n“For Thee and All the World to See: May 18 Gwangju and the Visual Tenacities of South Korean Democracy”\nhttps://myumi.ch/mVdVJ \n\n2. Third Thursday at the Library: \nDemocracy in Motion: The Advancement of Democracy in Korea and the Students at the Frontline\nhttps://myumi.ch/rwdwn \n\nContent Warning: This exhibition contains historical photographs documenting the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement\, including graphic depictions of violence\, state military suppression\, injuries\, and grief. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThis exhibit is co-sponsored by the May 18 Archives\, Center for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Department of Political Science\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, Donia Human Rights Center\, Asia Library\, and Duderstadt Center.\n\n*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.*
UID:150763-21910127@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Exhibition,History,Korea,Korean Studies
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center
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DTSTAMP:20260917T113653
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Speakers: Abbey Soule & Allie Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Abbey Soule from Weber lab\n\nTitle: Scaredy cat(erpillars): Bottom-up vs. top-down drivers of defense sequestration in Estigmene acrea\n\nDescription: Sequestration of plant chemicals is well-established as a defense mechanism used by herbivorous insects against their predators\, yet the drivers of variation in sequestered defenses remain poorly understood. Using the salt marsh caterpillar\, Estigmene acrea\, which sequesters pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from host plants for defense against predators\, we performed two experiments to assess the influence of (1) chemical diversity in caterpillar diet and (2) diversity of predator non-consumptive effects (NCEs) on sequestered defenses in adult moths. In this presentation\, I will discuss the differences in sequestered defenses resulting from our experiments\, analyzed using targeted ultra high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) and downstream calculation of PA abundance using methods I have developed in my dissertation work. We found that dietary chemical diversity did not impact PA sequestration\, but that predator NCE diversity significantly increased sequestered PA abundance through a selective effect imposed by particularly 'scary' predators. Together\, our combination of experimental treatments alongside analytical chemistry allowed us to investigate top-down and bottom-up trophic forces on sequestration patterns that have not previously been explored.\n\nSpeaker 2: Allie Fletcher from Weber lab\n\nTitle: Hear Today\, Gone Tomorrow: Ear Mites in Noctuoid Moths\n\nDescription: Moths and butterflies serve as hosts for a variety of parasites\, noteworthy among which are the Dicrocheles ear mites of noctuoid moths which complete their life cycle within the moths' thoracic ears. Throughout the mid-20th century\, Asher Treat’s work provided unprecedented insight into these mites' natural history and their prevalence in moths in Western Massachusetts. Building on this foundation\, we examined a broader geographic and taxonomic scope in order to approach questions about the co-evolution of these mites and their hosts\, including defensive adaptations in the moths. Using five large entomological collections\, we examined over 17\,700 moth specimens for ear mites and nearly doubled the known list of recorded host species: we add 76 new host species records of the single-ear mites D. phalaenodectes\, D. eothenes\, D. hippeoides\, and D. pelates\, of which 40 represent the Leucaniini and 30 in the most frequently infested genus Leucania\; and 32 new hosts of the double-ear mite D. scedastes (10 Leucaniini\, 4 Leucania). Further\, in several hundred Leucania linita\, we quantified wing and body wear and tested its relationship with mite presence. Mite infestation was strongly associated with specimen condition: the most worn individuals were more than four times as likely to harbor mites as pristine individuals.
UID:152348-21913575@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152348
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,eeb,Environment,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology,Graduate Students,Research,Science,scientists,seminar,Talk,Workshop
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260918T082120
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T124500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore the MSI - Fall 2027 Admission Cycle
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the field of information and where a Master of Science in Information (MSI) degree can lead? This session offers a broad introduction to the University of Michigan School of Information and the MSI experience. We’ll explore what an information degree is\, who comes to UMSI\, the program’s structure and student experience\, and the career pathways pursued by alumni. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions and consider whether UMSI could be a place where your interests and goals can grow.Students who attend a live session will receive an application fee waiver following the presentation.\nThis session is designed as a general program overview rather than an application workshop. For in-depth guidance on the application process\, prospective students are encouraged to attend an Apply to MSI session.All listed Explore the MSI sessions feature the same presentation and are offered at different times for your convenience\, so you only need to attend one.
UID:150584-21909674@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260803T090237
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T130000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Is Grad School a Good Move for My Career?
DESCRIPTION:Considering graduate school\, a professional degree\, or a career-changing certification? Before making a major investment of time and money\, join this webinar to learn how to make a confident\, informed choice by breaking down the real costs\, career outcomes\, and return on investment of continuing your education.\n\nWe will explore:\n\nTuition costs and earning potential\nEmployer tuition assistance and funding options\nAlternatives such as industry certifications and upskilling programs\nStrategies for evaluating long-term career value and alignment with your goals\nWhether you’re advancing in your field\, pivoting careers\, or planning your next move\, this session will help you assess which educational path offers the strongest value for your future.
UID:149741-21907048@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149741
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Livestream,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260910T085626
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Art in Warring States China (5th-3rd Century BC): Thinking Like a Designer
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/e7gRJ\n\nNew developments in the lacquer and silk workshops posed significant challenges to other medium\, causing a complete change of aesthetic during the Warring States period (5th-3rd century BC). Moreover\, because fine examples of lacquer and silk have actually survived from that time\, we can see what other materials copied from them. But the only reason we can recognize borrowings is that each material has a character of its own. The lecture will explore this two-sided phenomenon—the individual character of each workshop tradition and the exchanges between workshops—by looking at inlaid bronzes\, mirrors\, jades\, lacquers\, and silks\, using the problem of designing for a circular space as a case study to infer the thinking of designers working in each medium.\n\nWang Haicheng is Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor of Chinese art at the University of Washington\, Seattle. His research interest focuses on the comparative study of the art and archaeology of early China.  Recent publications include *Art and Artistic Thinking in Ancient China* (co-authored with Robert Bagley\, 2025) and a chapter on ancient states and the rise of writing in *The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology & Language* (2025).\n\n*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.*
UID:150160-21908305@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese history,Chinese Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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