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DTSTAMP:20251015T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T110100
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 1): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:Phase 1 Opening Reception: September 18\, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-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:\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA '23) and Erin McKenna (MFA '20)Phase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA '20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA '20)Phase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA '20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA '21)\nPhase 1 Curatorial Statement\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Amelia Burns (entry pillar)Curated by CYNK Studios: Erin McKenna (courtyard pillar)\nArtists Amelia Burns and Erin McKenna reimagine the Division Street pillars through digital collages rooted in memory\, landscape and shared environments. Burns arranges fragments of her own photographs into airy compositions where these pictorial remnants become enshrined by the artist’s vision of the sacred. McKenna draws from the language of quilting\, organizing her photos of mushrooms\, moss and lichen into vibrant geometric patterns which echo Ohio textile traditions. Both artists\, Midwestern women attentive to the nuances of place\, weave personal imagery into collective meaning. Together\, their works create spaces of reverence and connection.\nAmelia Burns: GODSPROMISESRISINGHIGHGODSPROMISESRISINGHIGH contains fragments of photographs I have made over years in various locations in the United States. Each fragment holds personal meaning for me. The exalted pieces of environments float together and create a visual smorgasbord of symbols\, denoting a capitalist world\, filled with tender moments and connections\, where all objects are made holy.\nErin McKenna: Mushroom TrailMushroom Trail reimagines the Ohio Star quilt block through a collage of photographs of mushrooms\, lichen\, and moss gathered during walks in my Appalachian forest home. I created small blocks of repeating patterns to build texture and color. Inspired by the Barn Quilt Trail\, the work honors Ohio’s yard art traditions. Like other local expressions\, from chainsaw-carved bears to the front porch goose\, it fosters a shared sense of pride of place\, and community.\nArtist Statements/Bios\nAmelia BurnsThrough my travels across nearly every U.S. state\, I document not only the natural world but also its entanglement with human influence. My work speaks to the loneliness\, humor\, beauty\, pain\, and joy that coexist within these spaces. The landscapes I create—whether photographic or collage-based—are imbued with a visceral connection to the physical environments I’ve passed through. They are a reprocessing of the cultural detritus that surrounds me\, transforming fragments into vignettes that explore both the darkness and resilience of humanity.\nAt its core\, my work explores the underworld of human experience\, grappling with the visceral tension between authenticity and artifice in contemporary Americana. It reflects the disgusting horror of capitalism\, the mysticism of my Irish Catholic upbringing\, and the profound solitude that fuels my process. The resulting images are landscapes of seeking\, filled with the pain\, glory\, and quiet resistance of life.\nAmelia Burns is a photographer\, collage artist\, curator and educator exploring the cultural and physical landscapes of the U.S.\, capturing the nuances of shared environments. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2005 and later completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Website / Instagram\nErin McKenna Erin McKenna is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture. Her practice embraces humor\, playful misuse\, and celebration as strategies to dismantle stereotypes and complicate binaries of construction and embellishment. With a feminist lens\, she explores the space where necessity meets excess\, highlighting the subversive potential of both. Her sculptures often pair gritty building materials with tactile fabrics\, generating tension between utility and ornament. Growing up in a perpetually unfinished home—a place of sawdust\, chop saws\, and improvisation—instilled in her a respect for visible labor\, inventive problem-solving\, and imperfection. Her process follows personal rules:\nno hierarchy of materialssubvert expected usecomplicate binaries\, stereotypes and associationsmisuse\, misapplyallow for variable arrangementsrepeat\, reiterate\, reuseconsider the subversive possibilities of the excessive\, fantastic\, and necessaryalways let the labor be visible\nMcKenna earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art &amp\; Design in 2012 and later completed her MFA at Stamps School of Art &amp\; Design at the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to the forest she calls home in Southeastern Ohio\, where she serves as Exhibitions Director at The Dairy Barn Arts Center\, hunts for mushrooms with her toddler\, and makes quilts. Website / Instagram
UID:138031-21881248@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138031
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250922T153902
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Getting Started with Community-Engaged Research
DESCRIPTION:Community-engaged research is a valuable\, high impact methodology that can contribute to the University of Michigan’s mission of developing new academic knowledge while advancing the public good. Community-engaged research encompasses a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches\, but what this body of work shares is substantive involvement of community partners in creating\, translating\, and disseminating knowledge that strengthens the well-being of communities and broader society.\n\nThis workshop will introduce you to definitions\, spectrums\, and some frameworks of community-engaged research\, including examples from multiple disciplines\, with a particular eye to some particular issues that graduate students face. Participants will consider how to apply these workshop concepts to their own research\, and leave the workshop with tools to begin to approach this work ethically and equitably.\n\nThis is event is a collaboration with the Ginsberg Center and Rackham Graduate School and is open to all graduate students and post-docs.
UID:139710-21885934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139710
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rgs-events,Sessions,Rgs Events
LOCATION:Common Room, Garden Level (Basement)
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DTSTAMP:20251002T142353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:By Means of a Pencil
DESCRIPTION:October 9 – November 5\, 2025\nOpening Reception October 9\, 5:00-8:00 pm\nClosing Reception: November 2\, 2:00-5:00 pm\n\nThe U-M Duderstadt Center Gallery presents By Means of a Pencil a solo exhibition by artist and Stamps School of Art & Design LEO Lecturer I Nathan Byrne.\n\nBy Means of a Pencil brings together a body of work centered around the quirky and enigmatic Swiss author Robert Walser. In this exhibition poetic gestures and nods to Walser are able to flourish as visual forms and objects. The work comprises spontaneous and excessively durational works of drawing\, collage\, and sculpture.\n\nFor years\, I have been intrigued by the author Robert Walser’s  mark making which he referred to as his “pencil method” where he would sketch out stories in a radically miniaturized script on diminutive paper fragments. Walser’s pencil method began when he was experiencing severe writer’s cramp and: “hideously and frightfully hated his pen.” He goes on in a letter written in 1927 describing the freeing nature of this process: “I suffered a real breakdown in my hand on account of the pen\, a sort of cramp from whose clutches I slowly\, laboriously freed myself by means of the pencil.”\n\nJust as it was with Walser “by means of a pencil” I was able  to make peace with drawing by radically altering the process by which I approached the act itself. Eventually\, this became processes like my transcription drawings\, in which I write out an entire novel as a form of mark making.\n\nWhile this exhibition mines the Walser archive and the spirit of this author\, this work is just as much about me and my immersion in this “world of Walser.” It is about my own engagement with relationships between language and mark making\, language and sculpture\, language and longing.\n\nThis project was made possible by the generous support of Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.\n\nPoster design by Sky Christoph.\n\nHours: 12 – 6 pm\, Tues. – Fri. & Sun.\n\nLocation: 2281 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109
UID:140228-21886778@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140228
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Arts Initiative,Exhibition,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery 1019
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DTSTAMP:20251029T112057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CMW: Relieving Stress & Burnout
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lunch workshop and wellness group where we will learn strategies to cope with stress and burnout. This FREE in-person educational wellness group is for students only and will include an interactive presentation facilitated by staff from the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and is a collaborative service with U-M Engineering's C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center.\nRegistration is not required for in-person wellness groups\, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees.
UID:140959-21887878@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140959
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20251023T082118
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T132000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. The Una Runs Through It: A Bosnian City Mobilizes Around its River
DESCRIPTION:Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans\, which gave rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparalleled across Europe. As part of these processes\, a dam was planned to be built on the Una River which runs through the Bosnian city of Bihać. This alarmed the city’s residents\, culminating in a protest in 2015. Azra Hromadžić will address this protest and explore how the threat of dam construction transformed the seemingly apolitical love of the river into a powerful political force around which thousands of people mobilized: riverine citizenship.\n   \n   Her talk is based on interviews with stakeholders\, archival research\, and over ten years of ethnographic investigations. The analysis focuses on the tension between ecological sustainability efforts in favor of renewable energy on the one hand\, and citizens’ historically-shaped\, deeply-felt love for the river\, on the other. Hromadžić will examine how the language and promises of green transition often mask the forces of capitalist accumulation that drive this change — whether in the form of building hydroelectric dams or promoting eco-tourism — and thus set in motion another cycle of environmental degradation\, social dispossession\, and economic exploitation.\n   \n   Azra Hromadžić is Professor of Anthropology and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University. She has research interests in the anthropology of international policy in the context of state-making in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her first book\, *Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina* (University of Pennsylvania Press)\, is an ethnographic investigation of the internationally directed postwar intervention policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the response of local people\, especially youth\, to these policy efforts. Several years ago\, Hromadžić initiated a new project that ethnographically researches aging\, care\, and social services in the context of postwar and postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. She co-edited (with Monika Palmberger) a volume titled *Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration* (Berghahn Books 2018). In 2017\, she began a new research project on riverine citizenship\, war ecologies\, environmental degradation\, social dispossession\, and economic exploitation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her newest book\, titled *Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River*\, was published in 2024 with the Central European University Press.\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:137820-21880807@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137820
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20251015T141939
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:For All Ages Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:In the 19th century\, new ideas about childhood and education\, along with advances in printing like chromolithography\, made it possible to mass-produce games and toys. These were not only fun to play with but also taught practical skills and moral lessons. Learn about familiar and unique toys and board games throughout American history in the William L. Clements Library’s new exhibit\, “For All Ages” on view weekdays from 12-4 pm between October 3-January 5.\n\nEven though the objects are behind glass\, the co-curators have created an interactive way to explore the display. Visit the exhibit to participate in a scavenger hunt and win a prize!
UID:138977-21884415@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138977
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Fun,american history,Exhibit,In Person,Games,libraries,Library
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20251027T114348
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T170000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Free Sexual Health Resource Tabling
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the LSA Student Government's SMRP X Health table to get free sexual health resources\, including free Plan B\, condoms\, drink testing strips\, pregnancy tests\, keychain alarms\, car window breakers\, and more! Located in the Diag from 12pm-5pm on Wednesday\, October 29th.
UID:141018-21887975@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141018
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Well-being,Community,diag,Free,Health,Health & Wellness,lsa student government
LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus
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DTSTAMP:20251021T120431
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | AdS3 Quantum Gravity and Finite N Chiral Primaries
DESCRIPTION:String theory on AdS3 x S3 x M4 provides a well-studied realization of AdS3/CFT2 holography\, but its non-perturbative structure at finite N ~ 1/G_N is largely unknown. A long-standing puzzle concerns the stringy exclusion principle: what bulk mechanism can reproduce the boundary expectation that the chiral primary Hilbert space of the symmetric orbifold contains only a finite number of states at finite N?\n\nIn this talk\, we present a bulk prescription for computing the finite N spectrum of chiral primary states in symmetric orbifolds of T4 or K3. We show that the integer spectrum at any N is reproduced exactly by summing over one-loop supersymmetric partition functions of the IIB theory on (AdS3 x S3)/Z_k x M4 orbifolds and their spectral flows. Using the worldsheet in the tensionless limit\, we verify that the terms appearing in our proposal coincide with the supersymmetric partition functions of these orbifold geometries. These partition functions contribute with alternating signs due to BPS modes with negative conformal dimensions and charges in twisted sectors. The resulting alternating sum collapses via large cancellations to the finite N polynomials observed in symmetric orbifold CFTs\, providing a bulk explanation of the stringy exclusion principle. We identify different Stokes sectors where different infinite subsets of these geometries contribute to the path integral\, and propose a classification as functions of the chemical potentials.
UID:139048-21884681@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139048
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Brown Bag Seminar,brown bag,Physics,Science
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
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