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DTSTAMP:20251215T163232
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Terence Swafford Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases a decade of artist Terry Swafford’s work in Detroit\, marking the culmination of years spent composing scenes from the untamed edges of urban communities. These paintings serve as a visual record of Detroit’s transformation\, capturing humanity’s impact on the environment alongside nature’s persistent efforts to reclaim these spaces. As the city continues to change\, many of these depicted scenes are vanishing\, no longer visible in the landscape today. The significance of this documentation goes beyond mere nostalgia\; it invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic interplay between urban development and ecological restoration\, prompting a deeper understanding of how cities evolve while retaining traces of their history.\n\nSwafford’s paintings are created on location and in one session. The natural conditions\, including light\, shadow\, and atmosphere\, change dramatically from hour to hour and day to day\, forcing the artist to respond quickly and decisively. This approach\, born of a direct engagement with the subject and the fleeting nature of the scene\, along with his wet-on-wet technique\, keeps the work fresh and immediate. By immersing himself in the environment\, Swafford captures the diverse textures and vibrant colors that characterize Detroit’s landscape\, imbuing his work with a sense of urgency and spontaneity. Each brushstroke conveys a commitment not only to visual accuracy but also to emotional resonance\, as he strives to encapsulate the spirit of a place that is both loved and contested.\n\nIn addition to these works\, the artist constantly sketches ideas both for paintings and for designing projects in his business. These sketches serve as visual language\, helping him clarify and refine his concepts before bringing them to life. They become a means to communicate ideas to clients and his crew and become an extension of his voice—an academic exercise rooted in artistic practice that fosters collaboration and innovation. The act of sketching also reflects his evolving relationship with the city\, as each drawing encapsulates fleeting moments of inspiration drawn directly from his surroundings. This duality of function—creating art for exhibition and conceptualizing designs for projects—demonstrates Swafford’s versatility and adaptability as an artist.\n\nSwafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design\, and while at RISD\, he was part of the European Honors Program. His education not only honed his technical skills but also broadened his artistic perspective through exposure to varied artistic traditions. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago\, Kansas City\, and New York State. Each exhibition serves as a testament to his commitment to his craft and his ability to engage diverse audiences\, offering them an opportunity to explore the complex narratives woven into each landscape.
UID:142768-21891429@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,ArtsEngine,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260108T095119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T110000
SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde
DESCRIPTION:German Lecturer\, Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu)\, brings German chocolate to snack on and games to play (e.g. Tabu)\, all while chatting in German.
UID:143465-21893230@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143465
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:European,Games,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany,Humanities,Language
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3110
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DTSTAMP:20260413T110751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T180000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Symposium on Judaism and Film
DESCRIPTION:This symposium celebrates the forthcoming 38-chapter volume The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Film edited by Olga Gershenson. This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the flourishing interdisciplinary field\, while challenging the geographic and conceptual boundaries of Jewish cinema. For too long\, the field has circled around a narrow set of places and stories\, about immigration\, assimilation\, antisemitism\, and the Holocaust. This Handbook proposes a broader\, more capacious understanding of Jewish film—one that moves past the assumption that Jewishness on screen must be mimetic\, historical\, or tied to the US\, Europe\, and Israel. Highlighting new research on Jews on and off screen in India\, Ethiopia\, Turkey\, Mexico\, the Arab world\, and beyond\, the contributions show how Jewishness operates as a global interpretive mode rather than a fixed set of themes. This expanded lens reveals how Jewish frames of thinking\, cultural practices\, and historical experiences structure filmmaking and spectatorship across wildly diverse geographies and contexts. The result challenges old stereotypes and opens up a bigger\, more complex world of Jewish film.\n\nThis symposium is an experimental and experiential format. Instead of formal presentations\, we will have three kinds of sessions: Salons\, Classrooms\, and Screenings.\n\nSUNDAY\, APRIL 19\nMichigan League\, Koessler Room (3rd Floor)\n10:00 - 10:30 AM		Welcome\n10:30-11:15 AM		Session 1: Judaism in Hollywood Biblical Epics\n11:30 AM - 12:30 PM 	Session 2: Jews in Indian Cinemas\n12:30 - 2:15 PM		Lunch Break\n2:15 - 3:00 PM		Session 3: Reading Jewish Films as Jewish Texts \n3:15 - 4:15 PM		Session 4: Disability films and the Aftermath of the Holocaust\n4:30 - 5:15 PM		Session 5: Pedagogy\, Judaism\, and Film\n\n\nMONDAY\, APRIL 20\nMichigan Union\, Wolverine Room (3rd Floor)\n10:00 - 10:45 AM		Session 6: Fashion and Whiteness in American Jewish Immigration Films\n11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Session 7: Judaism on Screen: from “Off the Derech” to Haredi \n12:15 - 2:00 PM		Lunch Break \n2:00 - 2:45 PM		Session 8: Erwin Leiser’s Holocaust Documentary \"Mein Kampf\" (1960)\n3:00 - 4:00 PM		Session 9: Jewish Film Festivals\n4:15 - 5:00 PM		Session 10: Jewishness in Post-Stalinist Soviet Cinema and TV\n\nRackham Graduate School\, Amphitheater (4th Floor)\n6:30 - 8:30 PM	        Film Screening: \"Sabbath Queen\" (2024\, dir. Sandi Simcha DuBowski\, USA\, 105 min)\n8:30 - 9:00 PM		Session 11: Post-screening Discussion\n\nThis feature documentary follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel\, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul\, a pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins Amichai as he reinvents religion and ritual\, challenges patriarchy and supremacy\, champions interfaith love\, and stands up for peace and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine.\nTrailer\n\n\nTUESDAY\, APRIL 21\nMichigan League\, Koessler Room (3rd Floor)\n10:00 - 10:45 AM		Session 12: Ethiopian Jews on Screens\n11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Session 13: Jews in Arab Cinemas\n12:15 - 2:00 PM		Lunch Break\n2:00 - 2:45 PM		Session 14: Transnational Dybbuks\n3:00 - 4:00 PM		Session 15:  Jewish British Cinema\n4:15 - 5:00 PM                Session 16: Jewish-Muslim Relations in Film\n		\nRackham Graduate School\, Amphitheater (4th Floor)\n6:30 - 8:30 PM		Film Screening:  \"My One and Only\" (2025\, dir. David Tauber\, Israel\, 104 min.)\n8:30 - 9:00 PM		Session 16: Post-screening Discussion\n\nWeeks after giving birth to her first child\, a young ultra-Orthodox woman arrives at her rabbi's wife's home\, claiming her husband has been replaced. He looks identical\, but she insists he's a double. Does she need psychiatric care\, or is her husband a demon? This mystery drama can be read as a nuanced exploration of how people change in relationships or as a new instance of Israeli horror productions.\n\n\nCo-Sponsors: \nDepartment of Film\, Television\, and Media\nAnn Arbor Jewish Film Festival\nCenter for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\nEisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\nGlobal Islamic Studies Center
UID:143267-21892606@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Film,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Jewish Studies,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room
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DTSTAMP:20260112T100344
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T115000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday\, April 21
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UID:143698-21893660@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143698
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 AC
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DTSTAMP:20260407T181712
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T120000
SUMMARY:Performance:Hymn Festival: Community Hymn-Sing
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Hymn-Playing class from the Organ Department will offer a hymn festival as the culmination of the course. Students will demonstrate skills they have learned throughout the semester in this community hymn-sing. The festival will also show off the mighty Schoenstein organ in the sanctuary. Music packets will be distributed to attendees so they can join in singing these festive hymns.
UID:147516-21901170@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147516
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260306T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tangent: The 2026 IP Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAll Stamps seniors who are enrolled in the year-long Integrative Project course participate in the IP Exhibition held each spring\, which is the culmination of their thesis work. The senior studio spaces in the Stamps Art & Architecture Building are transformed into exhibition space\, with 4D work featured in a group screening and reel\, and selected projects displayed in the A&A Street Gallery.\n\nExhibition Dates: April 20 – May 2\, 2026\nArt & Architecture Building\, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd\nOpen Monday through Saturday\, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.\n\nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 24\, 1-8 p.m.\n\nFilm/Video Screenings will take place in the Art & Architecture Auditorium from 4-5:30 p.m. on Friday\, April 24 and Friday\, May 1.
UID:143795-21894026@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260402T083817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T123000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Lunch & Learn with LSA and Dr. Kathryn Schertz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lunch-and-learn seminar exploring the research on nature’s influence on how we think and feel. A U-M post-doc with the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory will share her research background and current projects that focus on the physical environment and how it influences our feelings and thoughts. Projects include a wayfinding app for the greenest and safest walks (instead of the fastest)\, studies conducted in the Nichols Arboretum looking at how spending time in nature can improve attention and change people’s mood\, and an ongoing collaboration with Matthaei Botanical Garden and Nichols Arboretum using reflection journals to better understand the experience of visitors to those spaces.
UID:147343-21900852@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mindfulness,Nature,planet blue,Sustainability
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
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DTSTAMP:20260413T092642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Why Are Some Recoveries Weak and Others Strong?
DESCRIPTION:Why were the recoveries from the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions weak relative to other postwar recessions? Leveraging heterogeneous exposure to the national business cycle across U.S. States\, we estimate the trajectory of more exposed U.S. States relative to less exposed U.S. States. For the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions we estimate that more exposed States experienced a stronger boom-bust cycle and for the other postwar recessions we estimate a deeper V-shaped recession in more exposed States. Our estimates support theories that these recessions are caused by different shocks. In a quantitative model matched to our cross-sectional estimates\, boom-bust cycles persistently depress the natural rate of interest R∗ in the recovery\, whereas R∗ is elevated following V-shaped recessions
UID:143303-21892658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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