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DTSTAMP:20260807T113218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T103000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Comparative Literature PhD Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about our PhD program\, degree requirements\, and the admissions process.\n\nVirtual via Zoom (link provided upon Registration)\n\nTo learn more about the program\, visit our department website or reach out to our Student Services Coordinator at complit.student.services@umich.edu.\n\nCan't make it? This session will be recorded and posted directly to our department website after the event. No registration will be required to view the recording.
UID:149990-21907790@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149990
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Admissions,Comparative Literature,Graduate School,Prospective Graduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260912T112127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UM Comparative Literature PhD Admissions Information Session (2026)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about our PhD program and the application process.  \n\nFind more about the program and our admissions process on our website or contact our Student Services Coordinator (complit.student.services@umich.edu).  Note: this session will be recorded and posted to the department's website following the event. 
UID:149968-21907453@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149968
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
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:138033-21881331@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:20260912T060345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T123000
SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Marketing: Education Session #2
DESCRIPTION:Coffee Chat Round Robin and Odysseys: Join the MMC for Ed Session 2\, where we'll practice coffee chats and introduce odysseys and elevator intros.
UID:151184-21911043@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151184
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:R2210
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DTSTAMP:20260903T122333
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ginsberg Reads Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Come cultivate your creativity with the 2nd installation of Ginsberg Reads Book Club\, hosted by Jessica A.S. Letaw\, our Community Leader in Residence! \n\nLast year\, we focused on imagination\, and we know working for a better world requires creativity\, too. We will gather to reflect\, imagine and dream together in an expansive conversation about what it takes to make room for creativity in a culture of busyness and scarcity.  September book: Pleasure Activism\n\nOpen to all\, with special focus on U-M staff.\nBring your own lunch: light snacks & drinks will be provided.
UID:151134-21910910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151134
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty And Staff,In Person,Free,Discussion
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20260911T131259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America”
DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:152024-21912636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:William L Clements,Tour,Library,libraries,In Person,history,Exhibition,Exhibit,Event,Americana,american history,american culture
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20260912T060007
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T140000
SUMMARY:Other:15's Match vs. Bowling Green State University
DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby take on BGSU at home
UID:148060-21902896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148060
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Mitchell Field
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260918T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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