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DTSTAMP:20261019T155949
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Special Exhibition | Ancient Abstractions: Roman Visual Trends Beyond Naturalism
DESCRIPTION:The lifelike naturalistic bodies of Greek and Roman sculpture have been a source of wonder since the Renaissance. Indeed\, the Italian Renaissance artist Vasari identified the ancient world as the time “when sculpture rose to its greatest height.” But close likenesses of the natural world are not the only visual products of the ancient past. This exhibition traces alternative visual trends in the ancient Roman world that today would be considered examples of abstraction. It focuses on monuments and motifs long pushed to the margins of our accounts of ancient art. Oversize arrangements of interlocking shapes pulsate in bold block colors from tombs\, temples\, and homes\; stylized animals flicker into view\, only to collapse once more into bright geometric arrangements\; and artists adopt experimental shorthands for the depiction of space across media. Anticipating recent interests in color and form\, the visual trends of antiquity emerge as far more varied than has long been told.\n\n*Ancient Abstractions is on view from November 5\, 2026\, through February 28\, 2027\, during regular museum hours (Tuesday–Friday\, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM\, and Saturday–Sunday\, 11:00 AM–4:00 PM\; closed Mondays and university holidays.*
UID:153842-21916437@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,archaeology,art,Art History,collections,cultural heritage,Exhibition,Faculty,Free,history,Mediterranean,museum,Research,roman empire,visual arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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DTSTAMP:20261030T062115
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to Gems
DESCRIPTION:A one-hour workshop for LSA staff to learn how to create and use Gemini Gems.
UID:153854-21916565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153854
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:LSA 1168
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DTSTAMP:20261022T121932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T150000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Channeling Concern into Change — Learn\, Reflect\, Create\, Heal
DESCRIPTION:A choose-your-own-path\, station-based event inspired by recent events and broader conversations about sexual and gender-based misconduct. Through interactive stations\, participants can engage with the education\, support and prevention efforts already underway at U-M and also discover ways to contribute to a safer\, more supportive campus community.\n\nFree Food & Refreshments will be served!\n\nParticipants can:\n--Increase knowledge of sexual and gender-based misconduct on college campuses\n--Expand their awareness about the many different ways misconduct is addressed on campus\n--Engage in self-care activities\n--Participate in active creation of an educational tool\n--Come to a space if you're feeling angry or helpless or you’re asking\, “What can I do?”
UID:153695-21916194@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153695
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Sessions,Sexual Assault Awareness,Well-being
LOCATION:Michigan Union, Anderson Rooms ABCD
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DTSTAMP:20261012T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-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 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881358@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260908T110934
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pronouns 101
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Spectrum Center\, this is a 2-hour workshop on the basics of pronouns and their usage. Participants will have the chance to practice using different sets of pronouns and work on bystander intervention skills. If you would like to learn more about pronouns ahead of the session you may visit: https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/education-resources/about-pronouns\n\nDIALOGUE MICHIGAN\nThis event is part of Dialogue Michigan's 2026-2027 faculty and staff workshops. Learn more at https://myumi.ch/dialogue.
UID:151037-21910792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151037
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:dialogue,Faculty,Sessions,Staff
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DTSTAMP:20261026T085802
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Rethinking Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: In the Meeting Invite\nIn-Person: West Hall\, Room 411\n\nAbstract:\nSuperconducting nanowire single-photon detectors combine near-perfect efficiency\, exceptional timing precision\, and almost no false counts\, making them a key enabling technology for quantum information science. Yet two long-standing constraints limit their wider use: they must operate at liquid-helium temperatures\, and their design imposes a fundamental trade-off. A large active area captures more light\, while a small one offers higher speed\, lower noise\, and sharper timing. In this talk\, I will present two complementary approaches to easing these constraints. The first rethinks the material. Exfoliated van der Waals flakes of an iron-based superconductor produce a fast\, self-resetting photoresponse well above liquid-helium temperatures. I will discuss what it will take to achieve single-photon sensitivity. Because this approach leads to smaller detectors\, efficient light collection becomes even more important. The second approach rethinks optics. Cryogenic dielectric metasurfaces act as flat lenses\, allowing a small detector to collect light like a much larger one. They can also add new functions\, such as sorting photons by polarization onto neighboring detectors. Together\, these approaches point toward single-photon detectors that are warmer\, smaller\, and more capable\, with reduced size\, weight\, power\, cost\, and cooling demands. They could open new opportunities across quantum technologies\, photonics\, and sensing.\n\nBio:\nPankaj K. Jha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University\, with an affiliated appointment in Physics\, where he leads the Quantum Technology Laboratory. He received his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley and Caltech before joining Syracuse. His research integrates 2D materials\, metamaterials\, and superconducting devices to advance quantum photonic technologies\, focusing on next-generation single-photon detectors. His work has been highlighted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, the Kavli Foundation\, and the Moore Foundation. His honors include a 2023 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Program Fellowship and a 2023 Syracuse University Faculty Creative Activities and Research (FCAR) Grant. His research is supported by the NSF\, AFRL\, DARPA\, and Google.
UID:148612-21904526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148612
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Physics,Astronomy,Chemistry,Computer Science And Engineering,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Materials Science,Physics,Quantum,Quantum Computing,Quantum Science
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261026T144359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T124500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:After the Vote: Elections 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow University of Michigan students\, faculty\, and staff for lunch and conversation two days after the November 3 midterm elections. Whatever you're thinking after the results\, there's a seat for you here. This is a space to listen\, share\, and look ahead together. This is event is limited to the U-M community. \n\nGrab lunch in the Great Hall starting at 11:20 a.m.\, then head into Annenberg Auditorium for a conversation with peers. There will be a guided discussion with moments of open mic for you to weigh in\, and you'll leave with a sharper sense of what the results mean for policy and what to watch in the months ahead.
UID:154056-21917090@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,election,gerald r. ford school of public policy,In Person,Politics
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium
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