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DTSTAMP:20260916T140227
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T100000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Thesis Defense: Gabriel Ponte
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Gabriel Ponte's PhD defense titled \"Computational Advancements for Discrete Optimal Design using Convex Optimization.\"\nChair: Jon Lee\nLocation: IOE 2869 + Zoom  https://umich.zoom.us/j/91209056334?jst=2
UID:152311-21913512@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152311
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Room 2869
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DTSTAMP:20260826T103756
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Heberle Award and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join the English Department for the 2026 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Award and Lecture with Professor Amanda Anderson of Brown University:\n\nSome of the most influential frameworks for understanding human thought -- in psychology\, in moral and political philosophy\, and in cognitive science -- have failed to recognize the quality\, form\, and significance of slow\, persistent ruminative processes oriented toward experiences of moral shock or disturbance. Such experiences include but are not limited to profound loss\, grief\, regret\, or injury\, including those fundamental assaults on dignity we might designate as status-injury. Drawing on examples from the literary tradition\, I demonstrate that rumination is a productive moral process and not merely a psychological symptom of oversensitivity or trauma endured. \n\nAbout the speaker:\nAmanda Anderson joined the Brown faculty in 2012 as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English. She served as Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities from 2015-2026. Her research focuses on broad questions of intellectual history\, disciplinary formation\, and the relations among literature\, moral life\, and politics. She served as host of the podcast Meeting Street from 2020-2023. \n\nHer books include Rumination in Life and Literature: A Vindication (forthcoming University of Chicago Press\, 2027)\, Humanities Theory (with Simon During\, Oxford\, 2025)\, Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Study (with Rita Felski and Toril Moi\, Chicago\, 2019)\, Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) (Oxford\, 2018)\, Bleak Liberalism (Chicago\, 2016)\, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton\, 2006)\, The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton\, 2001)\, and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell\, 1993).  She is co-editor of George Eliot: A Companion (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton\, 2002). \n\nFrom 2008-2014\, she served as the director of the School of Criticism and Theory\, an interdisciplinary summer institute hosted by Cornell University. She serves on the boards of the School of Criticism and Theory (as a Honorary Senior Fellow) and the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Prior to joining the Brown faculty\, she was Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University.
UID:148160-21903171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
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DTSTAMP:20260918T052136
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Symposium
DESCRIPTION:You're invited to the 2026 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Symposium! This symposium features interdisciplinary feminist scholarship from the 2026 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars fellows. The Community of Scholars is a two-month summer fellowship and the only feminist dissertation-writing workshop at the University of Michigan. It supports graduate students enrolled in any Rackham program on the Ann Arbor campus who are conducting scholarly or creative work related to women\, gender\, or sexuality.Community of Scholars participates in a weekly seminar throughout May and June. Faculty in the Women’s & Gender Studies Department facilitate these sessions\, which emphasize peer review and cross-disciplinary exchange. Facilitators offer mentorship\, individualized feedback\, and guidance on writing from a feminist perspective.The fellows reconvene for the annual Community of Scholars Symposium to share the product of their summer’s work with each other and a broader audience. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152217
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Lane Hall (2239, Second Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260918T052110
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T140000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Northwood (2026-2027) (Housing)
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149207
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:U-M Campus Farms at the Matthei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor MI 48105
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DTSTAMP:20260914T121717
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SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Piano Master Class with Sean Chen
DESCRIPTION:Guest artist Sean Chen (University of Missouri Kansas City) will give a master class to talented piano students from the University of Michigan School of Music\, Theatre and Dance. Free and open to the public.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nA “thoughtful musician well beyond his years” (*The Republic*)\, pianist SEAN CHEN shares his “alluring\, colorfully shaded renditions” (*New York Times*) and “genuinely sensitive” (*LA Times*) playing with audiences around the world in solo and chamber recitals\, concerto performances\, and masterclasses\, after having won the 2013 American Piano Awards\, placing third at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition\, and being named a 2015 Annenberg Fellow. Mr. Chen is the Jack Strandberg/Missouri Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory.\n\nMr. Chen has performed with many prominent orchestras\, including the Fort Worth\, Indianapolis\, Kansas City\, San Diego\, Knoxville\, Hartford\, Louisiana Philharmonic\, Milwaukee\, North Carolina\, Pasadena\, Phoenix\, Santa Fe\, and New West Symphony Orchestras\, as well as the Chamber Orchestras of Philadelphia\, Indianapolis\, and South Bay. He has collaborated with such esteemed conductors as Leonard Slatkin\, Michael Stern\, Gerard Schwarz\, Nicholas McGegan\, Miguel Harth-Bedoya\, Marcelo Lehninger\, and James Judd. Solo recitals have brought him to major venues worldwide\, including Jordan Hall in Boston\, Subculture in New York City\, the American Art Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington\, D.C.\, the National Concert Hall in Taipei\, Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, and the Salle Cortot in Paris.\n\nMr. Chen has served on the juries of notable piano competitions\, including PianoArts\, American Piano Awards\, Cliburn Junior\, Thailand International Piano Competition\, West Virginia International Piano Competition\, Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists\, and Steinway competitions around the country. Given his natural inclination for teaching and approachable personality\, Mr. Chen is particularly in demand for residencies that combine performances with master classes\, school concerts\, and artist conversations\, which have brought him to such institutions as the Cleveland Institute of Music\, Indiana University\, University of British Columbia\, University of Houston Moores School\, Spotlight Awards at the Los Angeles Music Center\, Young Artist World Piano Festival\, and several Music Teachers’ Associations throughout the country.\n\nMr. Chen has been featured in both live and recorded performances on WQXR (New York)\, WFMT (Chicago)\, WGBH (Boston)\, WFYI (Indianapolis)\, KCUR (Kansas City)\, KPR (Kansas)\, NPR’s *From the Top*\, and American Public Media’s *Performance Today*. Additional media coverage includes a profile featured on the cover of Clavier Companion in May 2015\, recognition as “One to Watch” by *International Piano Magazine* in March 2014\, and inclusion in WFMT’s “30 Under 30.” He is the host of the innovative new show *Sounds Like with Sean Chen* on Classical KC.\n\nHis CD releases include the 2021 all-Ravel digital album on the Steinway & Sons label\, featuring *Sonatine* and *Le Tombeau de Couperin*\; *La Valse*\, another solo recording on the Steinway label\, featuring Mr. Chen's own arrangement of *La Valse* and hailed for “penetrating artistic intellect” (*Audiophile Audition*)\; a live recording from the Cliburn Competition released by harmonia mundi\, praised for his “ravishing tone and cogently contoured lines” (*Gramophone*)\; an album of Michael Williams’s solo piano works on the Parma label\; and an album of Flute\, Oboe\, and Piano repertoire titled *KaleidosCoping* with colleagues Michael Gordon and Celeste Johnson. Mr. Chen has also contributed to the catalog of Steinway’s new Spirio system.\n\nA multifaceted musician\, Mr. Chen also transcribes\, composes\, and improvises. He recently premiered his own *Daydream No. 2 - Flight* at the Singapore International Piano Festival. *Daydream No. 1 - Steps* (2021)\, was commissioned as a gift for the retirement of American Piano Award's former President/CEO. His other transcriptions\, including Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata No. 3 for two pianos\, commissioned by 88Squared duo\, and such orchestral works as Ravel’s *La Valse*\, Dukas's *L'apprenti sorcier*\, Mozart’s Overture to *The Marriage of Figaro*\, and the Adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2\, have been received with glowing acclaim and enthusiasm. Mr. Chen's encore improvisations are lauded as “genuinely brilliant” (*Dallas Morning News*). An advocate of new music\, Mr. Chen has also collaborated with several composers and performed their works\, including Lisa Bielawa\, Jennifer Higdon\, Michael Williams\, Nicco Athens\, Michael Gilbertson\, and Reinaldo Moya.\n\nBorn in Florida\, Mr. Chen grew up in the Los Angeles area of Oak Park\, California. His impressive achievements before college include the NFAA ARTSweek\, Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight\, and 2006 Presidential Scholars awards. These honors combined with diligent schoolwork facilitated offers of acceptance by MIT\, Harvard\, and the Juilliard School. Choosing to study music\, Mr. Chen earned his Bachelor and Master of Music from Juilliard\, meanwhile garnering several awards\, most notably the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He received his Artist Diploma in 2014 at the Yale School of Music as a George W. Miles Fellow. His teachers include Hung-Kuan Chen\, Edward Francis\, Jerome Lowenthal\, and Matti Raekallio.\n\nMr. Chen resides in the suburbs of Kansas City with his wife\, Betty\, a violinist in the Kansas City Symphony\, and their daughters Ella and Maeve. When not at the piano\, Mr. Chen enjoys tinkering with computers\, and exploring math\, science\, and programming. Mr. Chen is a Steinway Artist and is managed worldwide by Cadenza Artists.
UID:152113-21913003@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152113
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T110000
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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:138033-21881335@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:20260917T151354
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SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913656@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/payravdehqonov
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