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DTSTAMP:20260829T232150
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SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Party for Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join a wide variety of campus and community partners for a resource and engagement fair to help college students\, as well as faculty\, staff\, high school students\, and community members\, to reflect on our role in building local democracy\, to learn about local voting and civic engagement resources\, and to participate in a variety of activities designed to strengthen their civic muscles and create community.\n\nFood! Swag! Joy!
UID:148592-21904491@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148592
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Democracy And Civic Engagement,Voting
LOCATION:Regents Plaza
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DTSTAMP:20260811T120103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sixth Annual Luis Gomez Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Learning to Read from Mahāyāna Sūtras\n\nWhy read Mahāyāna sūtras? These seemingly fantastical\, overtly manipulative\, frankly baffling ancient texts might seem to have little to attract contemporary readers. I will argue\, however\, that they have much to teach us about the act of reading. Because they assume a sacrificial cosmology in which reading is a ritual for transforming self and world\, they help us to recognize and question the features of our own technologically informed cosmology of reading. In our time\, when reading is often reduced to information transfer or an optional leisure activity\, Mahāyāna sūtras show us how word-born worlds enter and alter our bodyminds. In the process\, they challenge us to rethink\, and experience\, literature differently. Learning to read Mahāyāna sūtras—and learning to read from Mahāyāna sūtras—demands that we recognize the ritual aspects of literature\, Buddhist and beyond.\n\nBiography\n\nNatalie Gummer is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and holds the Edwin F. Wilde\, Jr. Distinguished Service Chair at Beloit College\, where she also directs the Center for Integrative Learning. Her research examines textual and ritual practices in premodern Mahāyāna Buddhist literary cultures\, with particular interests in performance\, translation\, and the contemporary ethical possibilities of Buddhist literature. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
UID:150122-21908105@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150122
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Buddhism,Buddhist Philosophy,In Person,Lecture,Mahayana Buddhism,Philosophy
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room (3rd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260911T102122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T170000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Theme Communities (2026-2027) (Housing)
DESCRIPTION:Programming efforts of all Theme Communities and Events.
UID:151684-21911949@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151684
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Ambatana Lounge in South Quad, 600 East Madison Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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DTSTAMP:20260821T152828
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T173000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Holly Bass
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSince 1776\, Americans have used major anniversaries of the nation’s founding to celebrate\, debate\, revise\, and perform the story of the United States. For We Hold These Truths\, her new exhibition opening at UMMA in October 2026\, artist Holly Bass looks to three of those anniversary years—1876\, 1976\, and 2026 to explore how national ideals are staged in public\, preserved in private\, and passed down through generations. \n\nIn this talk\, Bass will discuss the ideas behind We Hold These Truths\, her process of transforming UMMA’s iconic Apse into an environment\, and the role art plays in helping communities consider these varied histories. Drawing from her practice across performance\, visual art\, theater\, writing\, and engagement\, Bass will offer a preview of the exhibition and explain how historic home museums inspired this new body of work.\n\nBass is the 2026 Roman J. Witt Artist In Residence and an award-winning artist and cultural worker based in Washington\, DC. Her work—held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery—frequently engages communities through workshops\, devised theater\, and participatory installations and explores themes of American history\, generational labor\, and liberation. \n\nBass has been recognized with awards for multiple art forms. She received a 2024 Washington Award for art and social justice. She is a 2022 MAP Fund recipient for theater\, a 2020 Live Feed Resident Artist at New York Live Arts for choreography and dance and a 2021–22 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. She performed at the 2022 Venice Biennale as part of Loophole of Retreat\, Simone Leigh’s special project for the U.S. Pavilion. She regularly contributes book reviews to the New York Times and was the first journalist to put the term “hip hop theater” into print in a 1999 article for American Theatre magazine. Bass directed an arts program for adjudicated teens in DC’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services from 2014 to 2019. From 2019 to 2025\, she served as national director of Turnaround Arts at the Kennedy Center\, a program that increases access to the arts in under-resourced elementary and middle schools. She studied modern dance under Viola Farber and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning her Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. In fall 2026\, Bass will also be a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the U-M Ford School of Public Policy.\n\nWe Hold These Truths opens at UMMA on October 3\, 2026. The exhibition and Bass’ Penny Stamps Speaker Series program are presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Residency Program and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.\n\nAbout the University of Michigan Roman J. Witt Residency\n\nThe Roman J. Witt Residency Program\, developed with the support of University of Michigan alumna Penny W. Stamps and named in honor of her father\, is an annual international competition that awards one residency per academic year to a visiting artist/designer who proposes to develop a new work in collaboration with University of Michigan students and faculty.\n\nLead support for the exhibition is provided by the Benedek Endowment Fund for the Humanities\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment Fund\, and Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nPresented in partnership with the U-M Museum of Art\, with support from U.S. at 250\, U-M Ford School of Public Policy\, and the U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment. \n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:150475-21909498@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150475
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260903T140501
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cake and Ice Cream: Creating a Sense of Belonging at U-M Student Banquets in the Early 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Dorm dinners and late night snacks with friends and roommates have been a major part of the college experience for generations of students. At U-M this has been true since its founding\, and in the early 1900s the most memorable meals were formal banquets hosted by student organizations. Join us and Professor Lisa Young to learn about these banquets and how they created a sense of belonging for Michigan’s community that lasted long after graduation.\n\nLisa Young is the Volney H. Jones Collegiate Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Long interested in the history of food systems in human society\, she has worked on archaeological digs in the southwestern United States and researched extensively on the history of food at U-M. She attended Michigan as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.\n\nRefreshments will be provided\, and anyone is welcome to attend this free talk. Registration is recommended for in-person attendance\, and we're glad to welcome anyone who wishes to attend virtually.\n\nThe Making Michigan series is co-sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.
UID:151526-21911687@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151526
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,free,history,Museum,museums,Student Life,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260728T102023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T180000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Interview Essentials: Achieve Interview Success
DESCRIPTION:Step into your interviews with confidence! In this session we’ll cover how to effectively prepare for interviews\, with a focus on behavioral questions and proven strategies to help you stand out. Learn what to expect\, how to frame your experiences and tips on how to leave a lasting impression.\n\nPro Tip! Interview success comes from preparation – Don’t try and wing it!\n\nThis is a College of Engineering event. Registration in Career Forge is encouraged.
UID:149605-21906755@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260911T060440
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T180000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:First General Body Meeting 
DESCRIPTION:Join us in BSB 1010 on Thursday 9/17! Find out what we've got planned for the year and get to know the SACNAS community.
UID:151940-21912489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151940
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Biological Science Building Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260814T110629
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How AI Might Make And Break America's Justice System
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nMost Americans facing a legal problem\, whether an eviction\, a custody dispute\, or a debt collection suit\, navigate it alone. In three out of four civil cases in state courts\, at least one side has no lawyer\, and the judges and lawyers inside the system are burning out. We will never hire enough lawyers to close this gap.\n\nEnter artificial intelligence. AI tools can now explain legal concepts in plain language\, draft documents\, and guide people through procedures that once required years of training. But the same technology fabricates case citations\, offers no confidentiality\, and could flood overwhelmed courts with new filings\, deepening the very crisis it promises to solve.\n\nDrawing on their work leading Michigan Law's AI Law and Policy Clinic\, where students build and test AI tools with real courts and legal aid organizations\, Bridgette Carr and Vivek Sankaran explore what AI can genuinely fix in the justice system and what it might break.
UID:150258-21908480@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Ai Literacy,Artificial Intelligence,Community Engagement,Community Members,Genai,Law,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Rackham,Talk
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