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DTSTAMP:20261002T180347
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
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SUMMARY:Other:34th Annual Women in Leadership Conference
DESCRIPTION:PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE\nMichigan Business Women at Ross presents the 34th Annual Women in Leadership Conference (WiLC)!\n​Join us for the 2026 WiLC at Michigan Ross on Friday\, October 9\, 2026\, for a day of bold ideas\, candid conversations\, and meaningful connection.\n​This year’s theme\, Answer the Call\, challenges us to move beyond the traditional leadership playbook and create space for the conversations that shape women’s lives and careers. From career and family to financial independence\, appearance bias\, relationship status\, and coalition building across identities and backgrounds\, WiLC will explore what it truly means to define leadership on your own terms.\n​Through dynamic speakers and conversations spanning finance\, beauty\, fashion\, sports\, media\, and beyond\, you’ll hear from women who are challenging expectations\, shaping industries\, and creating new paths forward.\n​Come to be inspired. Stay for the conversations. Leave ready to answer your call.
UID:152247-21913430@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152247
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Blau Colloquium
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DTSTAMP:20260818T121511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS
DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan.  Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work.  \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space.  In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience.
UID:150411-21909362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Humanities,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Diversity,Detroit,Culture,ArtsRx,ArtsEngine,Art,Alumni,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260911T104038
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Photo Exhibition. This is the Place
DESCRIPTION:There are nearly one million refugees currently living in Poland. While the vast majority arrived from Ukraine\, Poland has also welcomed forcibly displaced people from Central Asia\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. While refugees may be different\, they all search for a place that reminds them of home.\nIn *This Is The Place*\, a project supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)\, Anna Liminowicz asked refugees to show what\, in Poland\, reminds them of their home. These portraits and the personalized confessions her subjects handwrote in their native languages tell poignant stories about safety and hope.\nAnna Liminowicz is an award-winning photographer and reportage journalist based in Warsaw\, Poland. A frequent contributor to the *The New York Times*\, *The Guardian*\, *The Wall Street Journal*\, *The Washington Post*\, *El Pais*\, *Der Spiegel* and UNHCR\, Liminowicz divides her time  between assignments and long-term personal projects\, mainly focusing on social issues like identity and loss\, and what uplifts her subjects. She has covered the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Poland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion\, and received the 2022 Grand Press Photo Award for her project “Too Precious to Leave Behind”.\n\nIf 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:149978-21907736@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ukraine,russia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547
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DTSTAMP:20260826T132935
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm.
UID:150276-21908514@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Disability,Comics,Accessibility
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260814T155307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit.
UID:150290-21908817@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Maps,Library,Free
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260818T114238
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum.  She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower.  It’s just itself.  Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art.  It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate.   It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.”
UID:150406-21909198@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Women's Studies,Visual Arts,North Campus,Middle East Studies,Free,Exhibition,Diversity,Detroit,ArtsRx,Art,Arab Heritage Month
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level
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DTSTAMP:20260810T111903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Place as Method\, Theory\, and Responsibility: Rethinking Scientific Inquiry for Complex Social Issues
DESCRIPTION:October 8-9\, 2026 | Institute for Social Research\nRegister to attend at https://myumi.ch/X8V6A \n\nThe challenge: New data and approaches to study complexity in the social world has often been without a concurrent focus on the foundations of scientific inquiry\, including complex thinking\, broad causal thinking\, attention to epistemic lens\, and integrating multiple disciplinary approaches. Further\, the academic research model\, with its resource-segregated networks\, discipline-specific training\, and short-term productivity metrics\, contributes to a fragmented and potentially misleading understanding of the social world. In the second annual ISR Symposium on Complexity in the Social World\, we will use ‘place’ as the case study to facilitate discussions on rigorous social science in the public interest. \n\nUsing research on place as the case study\, discussion topics will include:\n- Complex thinking about the social world\n- The contribution of the humanities the study of the social world\n- Epistemic lens and research transparency\n- Theories\, frameworks\, and the limits of traditional causal inference\n- The draw and danger of cool new data \n- Addressing the challenges of the academic model of science\n\nPresentations on the science of place will include:\n- The relational nature of place in population social inequalities\n- The role of history in shaping place\n- The racialization of place\; the spatialization of race\n- Place as a neutral and rational driver of social inequalities\n- Approaches to testing (causal) ideas around place\n\nThe Institute for Social Research will provide 35 travel awards for early career scholars who are building a career around the interdisciplinary science of place. These awards are intended to reduce financial barriers for those who are not currently affiliated with the University of Michigan. The awards are designed to broaden participation\, support scholarly development\, and expand the network of scholars engaged with the symposium themes. Travel awards will cover coach class airfare\, symposium hotel\, and ground airport transportation. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis\, from July 1\, 2026 until September 4\, 2026. Details and application at https://myumi.ch/DWGnj\n\nRegistration will be available on this site soon.
UID:147845-21902039@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147845
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research
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