BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Detroit
TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20070311T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20071104T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260915T164156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T180000
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:150763-21910134@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
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260824T185907
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Disability Inclusive Emergency Planning Strategies for the U-M Community
DESCRIPTION:This webinar provides a practical overview of emergency planning strategies that support the safety\, accessibility\, and autonomy of people with disabilities across University of Michigan workplaces. Participants will explore key considerations for preparing before\, during\, and after a range of emergency situations\, with an emphasis on strengthening coordinated response and reducing barriers when emergencies occur.\n\nThe session will address legal and institutional responsibilities\, common accessibility challenges in emergency contexts\, and practical steps departments and employees can take to improve preparedness. Topics will include needs assessments\, individualized emergency evacuation plans\, training\, and inclusive emergency drills.\n\nParticipants will leave with a clearer understanding of their role in advancing proactive\, disability-inclusive emergency preparedness and helping create safer\, more accessible workplace environments across the university.\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu.
UID:150463-21909478@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150463
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Disability,Inclusion,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260922T120602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Phylogenomics of Psidium (Myrtaceae): What this approach tells us about the guava genus
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - In this seminar\, I will present the findings from my PhD research on the guava genus\, highlighting how my work clarifies relationships between species and its implications for future studies in the genus and also Neotropical Myrtaceae. I also plan to present a brief preview of the research I will be developing with the Vasconcelos lab.
UID:152642-21914329@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152642
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eeb,Environment,environmental,evolutionary biology,Research,Science,scientists,seminar,Talk,Workshop
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260805T110018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis and Protein Conformational Diseases- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar presented by Dr. Jeffrey Brodsky\, University of Pittsburgh
UID:149901-21907350@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149901
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,biolgical chemistry,biological,biological chemistry,biological science,biology,Biosciences
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 5330
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260817T101111
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course
DESCRIPTION:Delve into the world of learning analytics with this session designed to enhance your teaching and learning strategies. We’ll start with the basics\, defining learning analytics and how it can inform educational practice. Explore readily available tools like Canvas New Analytics\, MiVideo Analytics\, and My Learning Analytics (MyLA- more info below) that offer actionable insights about engagement and performance for you and your students. Finally\, preview the self-paced Stepping Stones learning analytics course available to continue your learning.\n\nMy Learning Analytics (MyLA) is a dashboard that provides students with information about their engagement with course materials and resources\, assignments\, and grades in a Canvas course.\n\nWorkshop Outline:\n\n-Defining Learning Analytics\n-Canvas New Analytics\, MiVideo Analytics\, and My Learning Analytics (MyLA)\n-Why use MyLA in your Canvas course?\n-Preview the self-paced Stepping Stones learning analytics course
UID:101751-21908381@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/101751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Canvas,Faculty,information and technology,Learning Analytics,Myla,Teaching And Learning,technology,Training,workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260831T105927
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Sea as Medium in Early Modern Chinese Fiction
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Kile demonstrates how we might better understand Chinese early modernity through environment and experience\, categories that also open up possibilities of geographical comparison. He analyzes how the sea novels *Sanbao taijian xiyang ji* (*Record of the Sanbao Eunuch in the Western Seas*\, pub. 1597)\, *Haiyou ji* 海遊記 (*Record of a Sea Journey*\, pub. ca. early nineteenth century)\, and *Xiyi meng Xiyi meng Haiguo chunqiu* 希夷夢 海國春秋 (*A Dream of the Master of Infinitesimal Subtlety\, or A Chronicle of the Sea Kingdom*) describe travel by sea – for example\, into a luoji 落漈 (whirlpool)\, or across a ruanshui yang 軟水洋 (“soft water” sea)  – and how this fictional practice details and elaborates the perceived and imagined qualities of water. Lu Xun famously described Ming and Qing novels that abounded with super-mobile human characters as “supernatural” fiction (shenmo xiaoshuo 神魔小說). Dr. Kile departs from this foundational paradigm to look more precisely: what terms do these novels use for moving through air\, and how did that relate to water travel? The depths of the seas and the heights of the skies did not function as media for actually existing humans in the early modern period\, but in the fiction of the time\, humans could travel through the sea\, both across its surfaces and through its depths\, as well as through the sky in all its vastness.\n\nSE Kile is a scholar of early modern Chinese literature and cultural history\, focusing on the intersections of multimedia practice across a broad range of cultural objects\, from poetry to props\, from novels to gardens. An associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan\, Kile’s first book\, *Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media* (Columbia\, 2023)\, theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through Li Yu's cultural production across the areas of playwriting\, fiction writing\, garden and architectural design\, theater direction\, and body modification. His current book project argues for the relevance of the “early modern” to the study of China\, exploring how novelists synthesized scientific\, religious\, and vernacular knowledge about the world.\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:150163-21908308@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150163
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese history,Chinese Studies,Literature
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260803T090705
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T130000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Owning Your Voice: The Delicate Dance of Confident & Authentic Communication That Earns the Room
DESCRIPTION:Even the most brilliant ideas can fall flat if they aren’t delivered with conviction. True impact doesn’t just come from what you say — it comes from the delicate balance of confidence\, passion\, and authenticity behind how you say it.\n\nIn this webinar\, Dr. Barbara Lash\, a 20-year TV broadcast journalist\, media coach\, and doctoral researcher\, will explore how to step into your power and own your narrative. Drawing on her extensive experience coaching professional athletes\, celebrities\, and corporate executives\, Dr. Lash will use actionable guidance and live demonstrations to show you how ideas can be shaped into words that inform\, persuade\, and move people.\n\nWhether you are stepping onto a stage\, leading a boardroom\, or looking to elevate your everyday influence\, you will learn some of the leadership communication strategies high-profile leaders use to command a room and create buy-in through authenticity.\n\nBy the end of this webinar\, you will be able to:\n\nTap into your authentic voice to naturally build trust and credibility with your audience.\nDevelop grounded confidence to navigate nerves and establish a steady\, engaging presence.\nChannel your genuine passion so your core message truly connects with listeners.\nAdapt your communication for different scenarios while remaining true to your personal brand.
UID:149742-21907049@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149742
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,dialogue,Free,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR