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:20250806T113339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fauré Piano Quartets DESCRIPTION:The 23/24 season featured a recital debut by violinist James Ehnes\, who captivated Rackham Auditorium with his insightful commentary and expressive playing. Now Ehnes is joined by pianist Inon Barnatan\, violist Jonathan Vinocour\, and cellist Raphael Bell for a program of Fauré’s two piano quartets. Gabriel Fauré’s youthful first piano quartet\, full of intoxicating melodies\, is paired with his strikingly individual\, impassioned second quartet. Among his best-known chamber works\, Fauré’s piano quartets are exquisitely crafted and ideal vehicles for these four superb artists and musical soulmates.\n\n“The wondrous James Ehnes [is] a thinker of the violin as well as a supreme virtuoso of the instrument…an artist of the first order.” (The Daily Telegraph) Inon Barnatan is admired for his “superior playing\, in which penetrating musicianship\, compelling interpretive insight\, and elegant pianism achieve near perfect equilibrium.” (BBC Music) UID:137168-21879839@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137168 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical,classical music,piano,UMS,university musical society,Violin LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T181619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Choir DESCRIPTION:Matthew Abernathy\, conductor\n\n*Mid-Winter Songs*\, Morton Lauridsen \n*Hodie Christus Natus Est*\, Giovanni Gabrieli\n*Cantate Domino*\, Claudio Monteverdi\n*His Eye is on the Sparrow*\, Zanaida Robles\n*Tchaka*\, Sydney Guillaume \n*Hear My Prayer*\, Moses Hogan UID:135441-21876833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135441 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T104519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:19700101T000000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AI Hackathon Registration Deadline DESCRIPTION:Prove to future employers you know AI.\nWalk away with a portfolio-ready project that solves a real-world problem.\n\nTake on the role of the business lead or the engineering lead and build and pitch your agentic solution in the first 24 Hour AI Hackathon between the Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering!\n\nThis competition is open to:\nCollege of Engineering students\nComputer Science Majors\nU-M Entrepreneurship Minor students\nU-M Ross School of Business Minor students\nRoss School of Business students UID:144499-21895428@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Business,Center For Entrepreneurship,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Genai,Generative Ai,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,technology,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T000133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Southern Collegiate Offshore Regatta DESCRIPTION:Keelboat regatta in Charleston\, SC UID:143666-21893624@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:College of Charleston CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T072053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A&A Shop Orientation DESCRIPTION:In order to access the Art & Architecture Shop\, users must complete BOTH Orientation AND Proficiency Training. The A&A Shop Orientation covers basic information about the Shop (hours\, policies\, storage\, equipment\, etc.) as well as an overview of safety rules and concepts to help you navigate the space safely and effectively. Please note that it does NOT give you access to use the machinery--all users must receive Proficiency Training on each piece of equipment before use. Access: The Shop is available to students\, staff\, and faculty from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning for work on class projects and research only. Potential users from other academic disciplines must be receiving credit for a class taught by a faculty member from the Art or Architecture schools. Learn more on the A&A Shop site here.  UID:111822-21895081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/111822 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Art & Architecture Shop, 2000 Bonisteel Room 1251 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T163718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future. UID:143388-21892993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260203T160925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CLIFF 2026 - 30th Anniversary Event DESCRIPTION:Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF) has been a cornerstone of the Department of Comparative Literature since 1996. Dedicated to interdisciplinarity and intellectual vigor\, our graduate student-organized conference embodies the values that form the basis of Comparative Literature. In previous years\, CLIFF’s conference-wide themes have inspired graduate students from disciplines across the University—as well as scholars from universities across the country and independent scholars—to share and discuss their work. For the 30th anniversary of CLIFF\, we are dedicated to honoring this long history of the conference while opening possibilities for its future. Our event will feature an opening speech by Comparative Literature Professor Will Stroebel\; three panels organized and presented by graduate students\; and a closing roundtable from organizers and alumni reflecting on CLIFF's past\, present\, and future.\n\nCLIFF 2026 Program\n\nFriday\, February 13\, 2026\nLocation: Rackham Assembly Hall\, 4th floor\n\n8:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast\n\n9:00 am - 10:00 am Opening speech by Dr. Will Stroebel (Modern Greek & Comparative Literature) \n “Comparative Literature at the Borderscape” \n\n10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break\n\n10:15 am - 11:45 am Panel 1: Historicism\, New and Used\n Organizers: James Kiselik & Srimati Ghosal\n Respondent: Dr. Will Stroebel \nPresenters:\nOğuz Kayır (Film\, Television\, and Media)\, “Historicizing Otherwise: A Feminist Archive in Contemporary Turkish Art”\nDibyangee Saha (English)\, “The Spatial Turn in Print Archives: Reading IPTA’s Unity from a Distance”\nSrimati Ghosal (Comparative Literature)\, “Aesthetics of Audacity\, Aesthetics of Advertisement: Encountering the Tricontinental in American Archives”\nJames Kiselik (English)\, “Usufructuary Historicism”\n\n11:45 am - 12:45 pm Lunch\n\n12:45 pm - 2:15 pm Panel 2: Media as Mediation\n Organizers: Nathan Omprasadham & Sanjana Ramanathan\n Respondent: Dr. Toni Bushner (Digital Studies Institute)\nPresenters:\nAlexa Kelly (English)\, “‘Are We All In Your Story\, Alan?’: Fictionality\, Ludic Form\, and Alan Wake II”\nDora Gao (History)\, “‘Tomorrow Comes’: Learning to Grieve through Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”\nMaryam Khan (English)\, “‘Rot as Memory’: Obsolescence and the Afterlives of Early Net Art”\nNathan Omprasadham (English) & Sanjana Ramanathan (Comparative Literature)\, “‘Tasting Fragments’: the Materiality of Language Loss in Venba”\n\n2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Coffee Break\n\n2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Panel 3: Within/Beyond the Boundaries of Caribbean Studies\n Organizers: Jeremy M. Santiago-Rojas & Amanda M. La O Cartaya\n Respondent: Dr. Supriya Nair (English)\nPresenters:\nAmanda M. La O Cartaya (Comparative Literature)\, “Beneath Structures of Power: Analyzing Jose Marti’s Work Through the Social Suffering Framework”\nJeremy M. Santiago-Rojas (Comparative Literature)\, “Tracing Filipino-Boricua Relations in the Archive”\nJodi Berry (English & Education)\, “Managing Imaginations: Female Castaway Narratives and Educational Exports”\nAnaridia Molina (English)\, “Digital Imaginaries Within and Beyond the Boundaries of Caribbean Literature: In the Same Boats & Visualizing Caribbean Literature”\n\n4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Coffee Break\n\n4:15 pm to 5:45 pm Roundtable with former CLIFF organizers\n\n6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Reception dinner UID:143586-21893426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143586 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Comparative Literature,Discussion,Faculty,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Humanities LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th floor Assembly Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T123005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:LACS Exhibition. Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador DESCRIPTION:*Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador*\nCurator: Ryan B. Morrison | Curatorial Assistant: Isabella H. de Lemos\n\nFebruary 2-26\, 2026\, International Institute Gallery\, 547 Weiser Hall\n\n*Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador* traces one of the largest repatriation efforts of Afro-Brazilian art to date. Led by the Detroit-based nonprofit Con/Vida: Popular Arts of the Americas\, the initiative is returning more than 750 works of Afro-Brazilian popular art to Salvador\, Bahia\, where they will enter the collection of the National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (MUNCAB). Built over three decades through sustained relationships with artists\, families\, and workshops across Northeastern Brazil\, the collection reflects the creative ingenuity\, community memory\, and diasporic traditions that define Afro-Brazilian popular art.\n\nThis exhibition highlights selected works from the broader repatriation effort\, recognizing the artists and cultural stewards in Brazil and Michigan who made this historic return possible. Featured are woodcut prints by João Francisco Borges\, Nilo dos Santos\, Givanildo Francisco da Silva\, and José Miguel da Silva\, alongside examples of *literatura de cordel*—popular printed booklets that combine social commentary\, folklore\, poetry\, and song.\n\nFurther reading and details are available in Portuguese and English at https://myumi.ch/61G23.\n\nPresented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Institute for the Humanities UID:143613-21893507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Afro-brazilian Studies,Area Studies,Art,brazil,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR