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DTSTAMP:20260604T105741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T161500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Responding to Federal Retreat: Reimagining Environmental & Energy Law in the Great Lakes Region
DESCRIPTION:The conference “Responding to Federal Retreat: Reimagining Environmental and Energy Law in the Great Lakes Region” will convene students\, professors\, lawyers\, government representatives\, and industry leaders to reflect on the latest developments in environmental and energy law in response to the withdrawal of federal regulation and enforcement. The conference\, which is free and open to the public\, will focus on pressing issues in the Great Lakes region\, with an emphasis on opportunities for state\, local\, and tribal governments to advance environmental protection and energy goals and mandates. \n\nSee a complete schedule at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BXO6vm_UJ-r2VGXF9uWeejDQ4T7SsGuEWYWErakPA70/edit?usp=sharing\n\nRSVP at: https://forms.gle/VPPKsQx39QWaujXs9.
UID:148576-21904465@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148576
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,conference,Ecology,Economics,Education,Energy,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Environment,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Law,Life Science,Natural Sciences,Nature,Outdoors,Politics,Pre-Law,Prospective Graduate Students,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Science,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Sustainability
LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1225
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DTSTAMP:20260915T161734
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibit: Hands on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Jim Cogswell: Hands on Fire\n\n**August 31 to October 9\, 2026**\n**Public Reception: Friday\, September 18\, 4:30 to 6:30 pm**\n\nJim Cogswell’s Hands on Fire is a solo exhibition of mixed media drawings at the Residential College Gallery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The exhibition features sixty works on paper completed between 2024 and 2026.\n\nThis body of work responds to Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis’ cinematic adaptations of three tragedies by Euripides dealing with the Trojan War and its aftermath: Electra (1962)\, The Trojan Women (1971)\, and Iphigenia (1977). The work is in close conversation with Vinyl Euripides (2022)\, Cogswell’s adhesive vinyl installation on three floors of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens\, Greece\, which also responded to the cinematic trilogy. By following Cacoyannis’ adaptations\, Cogswell builds on a cross-cultural history of restaging these tragedies to examine the human suffering caused by war\, imperial overreach\, and abuse of power\; and the dehumanizing consequences of revenge as a course of justice.\n\nWithin each drawing multiple scenes from the three narratives are overlaid within single frames\, suggesting the unseen entanglements that bind these ancient stories into such a persistent vision of our human position.\n\nThe grid of paintings encircling the gallery proposes a linear narrative but delivers instead a sequence that loops and turns on itself\, a stuck frame that stutters until bursting in flames. The grid also evokes the net that is a central feature of the series--the web of fate and circumstance that governs each of our lives\, that determines who we are and what is possible for us at any given moment in history.\n\nThe drawings are also characterized by a repeated motif of hands as consuming flames. Hands have unlimited expressive and narrative potential. They testify to the centrality of making in the development of human cognition. They are reminders of the constructed world and the laborers responsible for bringing it into being. We use hands as a form of communication to shape and express our inner states. Hands teach us to feel and to reason\, to count and to indicate. They give us agency\, as creators but also as destroyers. They give form to our willingness to act in the world\, in greed or compassion.\n\n---\n\n**This exhibition is made possible with funding from the Stamps School of Art & Design and the University of Michigan Office of Research.**\n\nFrom the Artist\n\nI am grateful to the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classical Studies\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan\, for their ongoing support for my research and the dissemination of this project.
UID:152223-21913390@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152223
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,art and design,Art History,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Classical Studies,Exhibition,free,History,Visual Arts
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260915T123553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm.
UID:152203-21913249@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260803T143529
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T130000
SUMMARY:Tours:Dabls in Detroit Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Olayami Dabls for a guided tour of the MBAD African Bead Museum\, a one-of-a-kind cultural destination that reimagines what a museum can be. Featuring an art gallery\, bead shop\, buildings transformed into canvases\, and two city blocks of immersive outdoor installations\, the museum invites visitors into a vibrant artistic landscape. As you explore with the artist\, you'll examine how traditional perspectives on African and European art shape what we see\, how we assign value\, and how we interpret works of art—offering a thought-provoking experience that challenges assumptions and sparks new ways of seeing. Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/2j346. \n\nPresented in conjunction with Olayami Dabls' exhibition *Grand Vision*\, on view in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery Sept. 22 - Oct. 28. More info at https://myumi.ch/gk1zd.
UID:149771-21907168@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149771
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,american culture,Detroit,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260925T192139
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dabls In Detroit Tour
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 2\, 2026\, the Institute for the Humanities is sponsoring a free chartered bus trip and guided tour of the Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit. Founder and artist Olayami Dabls will lead an exclusive tour of the museum\, outdoor campus installations\, and a nearby community mural at Grand River and West Warren Avenue. The visit offers students an engaging experience with African diasporic art\, history\, storytelling\, and public art. The bus will leave 202 S. Thayer St. at 9 AM and return at 1 PM. 
UID:151423-21911577@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151423
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Lobby of South Thayer Building
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DTSTAMP:20260820T165408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically  grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year.
UID:150658-21909782@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260728T142037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Grand Vision
DESCRIPTION:Visiting artist Olayami Dabls is a storyteller\, curator\, educator\, and mentor. He is the founder of the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit. Through material culture\, Dabls presents commentary on the past\, present\, and future from African and African-American perspectives\, with the understanding that generations of African ancestors used visual materials to convey information about their identity as well as send messages for healing and protection. Dabls is a luminary\; for decades he has re-imagined what a museum space can be\, accessible to everyone\, free from the underpinnings of colonialism and the Western\, often white\, frame. *Grand Vision* includes a conceptual installation in the Gallery\, presenting Dabls’s own work in visual conversation with African beads and artifacts from Dabls’s Bead Museum collections. \n\nAdditionally\, Dabls’s iconic outdoor sculpture *Iron Teaching Rocks Table Manners* will be installed on the U-M campus grounds near UMMA\, at the intersection of State Street and South University from September 17- October 11\, 2026. The project’s range intends to more fully articulate the many facets of Dabls’ creative practice\, and the overlay of art\, history\, identity\, community\, and healing.
UID:149620-21906781@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149620
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Detroit,Exhibition,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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