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:20260309T160050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Indigenous Studies Lecture Series with Gladys Tzul Tzul (Maya K’iché) DESCRIPTION:LECTURE\n March 12\, 4–5:30 PM\n Design and Transformation in Communal Politics\n \n WORKSHOP\n March 13\, 11:30 AM–1 PM\n The Design of a Celebratory World (conversation in Spanish)\n RSVP is required to attend. Reading materials will be emailed before the workshop. Register: https://myumi.ch/Pk4Jq\n\nGladys Tzul Tzul is a writer and essayist from the Paquí community of Totonicapán\, Guatemala. With a PhD in Sociology\, she is currently a visiting professor at FLACSO Ecuador. She is the author of two books\, *Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves para comprender su tensa relación* and *Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq'ena*\, as well as several articles translated into English\, French\, and German. In recognition of her work\, she received the 2018 Voltaire Prize from the University of Potsdam\, Germany. The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) also awarded her first place in 2017 for social science research in Central America. Her advocacy work includes serving as an expert witness in the investigation of Berta Cáceres's assassination in Honduras and coordinating the inquiry into the October 4 Massacre\, when the Guatemalan army violently suppressed an uprising of the 48 Indigenous communities of Totonicapán.\n\nCo-Sponsors for this event include the Program in Native American Studies\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the International Institute. UID:146356-21898951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Workshop,Area Studies,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Central America,Latin America,Lecture LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T135650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:American Institutions Group DESCRIPTION:The American Institutions Group (AIG) is a Rackham interdisciplinary workshop for faculty and graduate students that meets twice a month to discuss recent and forthcoming research on American political institutions (e.g. Congress\, the presidency\, state legislatures and executives\, the courts\, and the bureaucracy). Our key goals are to offer new and varied perspectives for graduate students to harness in their own dissertation work on American political institutions\; encourage conversations that breed new research ideas\; and spur innovative collaborations among our participants. AIG participants are scholars in political science\, public health\, social work\, public policy\, and economics interested in examinations of American political institutions from the perspective of these disciplines.\n\nFaculty Coordinators: Charles R. Shipan\, Christian Fong\n\nGraduate Coordinators: Karla Magaña & Carlos Galina UID:117445-21896043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Pre-Function Room 5769 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T104122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders DESCRIPTION:Colonial power does not simply disappear at independence. It mutates\, reappearing through contemporary institutions\, political discourses\, and racial hierarchies\, complicating any clean break between colonial and postcolonial eras. Ann Laura Stoler’s concept of duress captures this ongoing condition: colonial power persists as a lived\, material\, and affective force\, embedded in social life even when presumed to be over.\n\nRacialized and minoritized communities actively confront and reshape these postcolonial conditions. In France\, for example\, immigrant communities and descendants of colonial subjects engage in memory-work\, cultural production\, and political mobilization to challenge assimilationist ideologies\, securitized Islamophobia\, and exclusionary myths of national universalism. These interventions contest dominant narratives of belonging and insist on political futures that reckon with imperial histories rather than disavow them.\n\nJoin us for a panel that examines how postcolonial orders are inhabited\, contested\, and reimagined across diverse contexts.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:142519-21891068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Graduate Students,Humanities LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260318T093432 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation\, rejuvenation\, and meditation.\n\nRelaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions\, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org. UID:143758-21893938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Free,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T124220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Community Event DESCRIPTION:Join fellow members of the IOE community for some delicious treats in the Community Suite! UID:142667-21891278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite (IOE 1700) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260123T110427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kreativwerkstatt DESCRIPTION:Chat in German and express yourself creatively. Crafting\, coloring\, painting\, drawing\, knitting\, sewing\, crochet\, embroidery\, origami? You will combine speaking German\, any level welcome\, beginners included\, and creatively expressing yourself. You are encouraged to bring your own materials or (ongoing) projects\, but we will also provide some materials and prompts each week. Contact Laura Okkema (lokkema@umich.edu) or Iris Zapf-Garcia (iriszaga@umich.edu.) with questions. UID:144358-21895210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germany,Germanic Languages And Literatures,German Studies,German LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3117 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn the occasion of the 2026 NCECA conference in Detroit\, Stamps Gallery presents an exhibition of new and recent work by diverse intergenerational artists working in clay locally and nationally. Collectively\, these works preserve and evolve age-old artistic traditions from weaving\, mark-making\, and pottery as contemporary forms of resistance and resilience\; recovery and regeneration that draw on diasporic and ancestral knowledge of world-building and translation.\n\nFeaturing work by Maya Davis\, Adebunmi Gbadebo\, Nicole Marroquin\, Marie Woo\, and Hedy Yang. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra.\n\nDDD Project Space\, 2857 East Grand Blvd Suite 104\, Detroit MI\n\nExhibition Dates and Hours: March 13 – 28\, 2026\n\nFri.\, March 13 and 20: 12—6 p.m.\nSat.\, March 14 and 21: 12—5 p.m.\nTue—Wed\, March 24—25: 11 a.m.—5 p.m.\nThu.\, March 26: 12—7 p.m.\nFri.\, March 27: 12—9 p.m.\nSat.\, March 28: 12—5 p.m.\n\nExhibition Reception: Fri.\, March 27\, 5:30 — 9 p.m. UID:145539-21897491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260316T120328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Internship Scholarship Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Do you have questions about the LSA Internship Scholarship? Drop in during our virtual office hours! Whether you need help with your application or have any other questions\, we’re here to help. Pop into our Zoom session at a time that works for you. These drop-in style office hours are designed for students who have questions regarding the LSA Internship Scholarship Application or internship eligibility requirements.\n\nClick the link in the side bar for your timeslot today! Be sure to toggle to 1/9/2026.\nThe final deadline for the scholarship is April 15!\n\nCan't make it? Check out our other dates below: \nJanuary 23rd\nFebruary 6th\nFebruary 27th\nMarch 13th\nMarch 27th\nApril 10th UID:142414-21897462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Internship,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR