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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America”
DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:152024-21912697@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Tour,William L Clements
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20261026T230038
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
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SUMMARY:Other:Bike Repair Hours
DESCRIPTION:Does your bike need a tune-up? Need help fixing a flat or getting your gears to shift smoothly? \nCome to the FREE Wolverines on Wheels Bike Repair Hours on Wednesdays from 12-2pm.\n\nSign up for a 30-minute slot and your bike to the Duderstadt Fabrication Underground (B430-Lower Level) for peer-to-peer bike repair and maintenance. Our volunteers can help you diagnosis bike problems\, guide you through repairs\, and provide the tools & materials needed to get you back to riding. \nThis is NOT a drop-off service: ALL participants are expected to stay and participate in repairs to learn basic bike maintenance with the support of our volunteers. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave feeling more confident in your skills!\nOnly one bike per participant. You may sign up for multiple slots in a row but please be mindful of sharing the opportunity with other campus riders. Walk-ins are welcome but come secondary to sign-ups. \nIf you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our new program\, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu\nThe Duderstadt Fabrication Underground's Bike Repair rack is available for use during all operation hours (M-F 12-6p). WoW Volunteers will only be there at our dedicated support hours with additional materials (tire patches\, grease\, etc). \n\nSign up here! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150NuIqfiuUC3P9zkOWgWuzDOrVqXzEwPBMm19gOEM9Y/edit?gid=0#gid=0
UID:154131-21917236@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sustainability,Activism,Biking,Cycling,Education,Free,planet blue
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - B430- lower level
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DTSTAMP:20261102T141142
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:Curated 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:149541-21906642@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:20261113T170321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T132000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Rehabilitative Postsocialism\, Racialised Capital\, and Yearning for Crip Horizon
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her new book\, *Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Sex\, and Race in Eastern Europe*\, Kateřina Kolářová will argue that postsocialism is essential to understanding neoliberal cultural politics\, economic structures\, and state policies worldwide. She will show how disability\, sexuality\, and race—though often rendered invisible—have shaped the postsocialist consensus in the Czech Republic and more broadly.\n\nThe talk will focus on how discourses of “inadaptability” have contributed to racialized abandonment. Kolářová will examine how particular understandings of disability helped establish an ideal of rehabilitated\, white postsocialist citizenship. She will also consider the “neoliberalization of race” and the “racialization of neoliberalism” (Mahtani and Roberts) within the specific historical and political context of the Czech Republic and post socialist Eastern Europe. Specifically\, Kolářová will explore how portrayals of Roma people as “inadaptable (non)citizens” have been used to determine who belongs in shared public spaces and whose exposure to violence is treated as morally defensible. The talk will conclude by examining forms of resistance that open up alternative possibilities\, or “crip horizons.”\n\nKateřina Kolářová is associate professor of sociology at Charles University in Prague. Kolářová’s other recent work takes the feminist queer crip perspective to explore the bio-social dimensions of metabolism\, “crip guts\,” the relationship between human and non-human lives\, and how we coexist with microorganisms\, toxic chemicals\, and other \"unclean\" elements/entities. She is currently working on a monograph exploring HIV and human-viral coexistence (forthcoming in 2027). She is a passionate forager\, fermentation enthusiast\, and an avid chaos gardener.\n\nHer book *Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Sex\, and Race in Eastern Europe* (University of Michigan Press\, 2025) is available on \"Open Access.\" It was the winner of the 2019 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.\n\nOpen Access link to book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/xd07gw749\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:152176-21913179@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20261114T192113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T131500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ethics 101 (Virtual) - Expanded Sessions Beyond Ethics & Compliance Week
DESCRIPTION:Open to faculty\, staff\, and Michigan Medicine.\nEthics 101 is an introductory workshop designed to help U‑M employees navigate everyday situations where the “right next step” may not be obvious. Grounded in the university’s values and the realities of our work\, the session builds shared language for ethical decision-making\, offers practical tools for addressing uncertainty\, and clarifies when and where to seek guidance. Participants will work through brief\, relatable scenarios and leave with concrete strategies they can apply immediately. \nParticipants will be able to:\nUnderstand and apply UM’s definition of ethical conduct. \nRecognize common “ethical tension” situations in university settings (e.g.\, conflicts of interest\, gifts\, appropriate use of resources\, data stewardship\, respectful conduct).\nIdentify practical steps to take when an ethical issue arises.\nPractice using short scenarios to choose value-aligned responses and identify next best actions.
UID:150259-21908484@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150259
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20261016T153914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Exploring Gemini Notebook for Education
DESCRIPTION:Discover the power of Gemini Notebook\, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents\, Gemini Notebook transforms your lesson plans\, lecture notes\, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses entirely in your sources\, it becomes your most trusted research partner.\n\nRecent Updates & Key Takeaways Include:\n-Active Learning Tools: Instantly generate flashcards and customized quizzes from your uploaded sources to enhance recall and test mastery.\n-Learning Guide Mode: Use the new \"Learning Guide\" to receive personalized tutoring\, breaking down complex concepts step-by-step with probing\, open-ended questions that encourage deeper critical thinking.\n-Enhanced Reporting: Go beyond standard summaries by generating upgraded reports in custom formats\, including Blog Posts\, Glossary of Terms\, FAQs\, and Quizzes.\n-Multiformat Audio and Video Overviews: Transform your documents into engaging \"podcasts\"\, perfect for on-the-go learning and diverse perspective-taking. Explore the new Video Overview to create a dynamic presentation based on your sources.\n-Source Versatility: Upload a wide range of source materials\, including PDFs\, Google Docs/Slides\, and even web links\, for comprehensive information synthesis.\n\nWorkshop Outline:\n-Introduction to Gemini Notebook\n--Understanding Gemini Notebook as an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant.\n--Overview of how it utilizes only your uploaded documents for information synthesis and provides citations.\n-Practical Applications and New Features:\n--Demonstration of uploading diverse source materials.\n--Generating Flashcards and Quizzes for study and review.\n--Utilizing the Learning Guide for in-depth conceptual mastery.\n--Creating customized reports\, Audio Overviews\, and Video Overviews in new formats.\n-Accelerating Knowledge Sharing:\n--Examples of generating lesson plans\, discussion questions\, and study guides.\n--Q&A on Gemini Notebook features and usage.\n-Privacy and Terms of Service:\n--Overview of the ITS AI Services Privacy Notice and Terms of Service (emphasizing data is not used to train the AI).\n-Wrap-up and Resources
UID:140774-21916339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140774
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Google,Academic Technology At Michigan,Artificial Intelligence,Genai,Generative Ai,Notebooklm
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261107T084418
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar |  Long-range interaction between extremal black holes in two derivative effective theories of gravity
DESCRIPTION:In two derivative theories of gravity\, the long-range force between a generic extremal black hole and its identical copy vanishes. On the other hand\, if extremal black holes are supersymmetric\, then the long-range force (and short-range as well) between any two such black holes vanishes. This brings up the interesting question of what happens to the long-range force between two extremal black holes when they are generically non-supersymmetric? In this talk\, we will develop a framework for two derivative theories of gravity coupled to scalars and gauge fields which will generically allow us to estimate the long-range force between two non-identical black holes without knowing their explicit metrics. We shall discuss this framework first in the context of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory in 4D with a single arbitrary coupling constant (called \"a'')\, and extend this discussion to higher dimensions. We shall see that the long-range force shows a universal feature: the force vanishes for the supersymmetric coupling (a=1)\, it remains repulsive if the coupling is tuned to be greater than the supersymmetric coupling (a>1)\, and it becomes attractive if the coupling becomes less than the supersymmetric coupling (a<1). We shall then add axions to the discussion and show how the universality of the long-range force becomes more murky. Finally we shall develop an understanding of the long-range force using the interaction energy picture within the initial value formulation of gravity\, owing to Brill and Lindquist.
UID:151289-21911322@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151289
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:brown bag,Science,Physics,Lecture,Brown Bag Seminar,Talk
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
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