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DTSTAMP:20260916T133800
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T183000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Va' Pensiero: Storie ambulanti (Walking Stories) by Dagmawi Yimer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Va' Pensiero: Storie ambulanti (Walking Stories) (2013)\, followed by a conversation and Q&A with Ethiopian-Italian filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer.\n\nA leading voice in migrant cinema in Italy\, Yimer is also a co-founder of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti\, a collective project dedicated to documenting migration from the perspectives of migrants and preserving their stories as part of Italy's contemporary cultural memory.\n\nVa' Pensiero follows the lives of Senegalese street vendors in Italy while examining anti-Black racism\, migration\, labor\, and everyday forms of exclusion. Beginning with the aftermath of the 2011 racist attack in Florence that killed two Senegalese men\, the film explores how migrant communities negotiate belonging within contemporary Italian society. Through multilingual testimony—including Italian\, Wolof\, and French—and observational documentary practice\, Va' Pensiero challenges conventional narratives of migration by foregrounding the voices and lived experiences of migrants themselves.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a conversation with Yimer about the making of Va' Pensiero\, documentary filmmaking as a form of witnessing and political storytelling\, and the representation of migration and Black life in contemporary Italy.\n\nThe event is part of “Migration\, Memory\, and the Politics of Witnessing: A Residency with Filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer\,” October 7–9\, 2026. For more information please write to gricco@umich.edu and amberbal@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150240
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cinema,Film Screening,Immigration,Q And A,Romance Language
LOCATION:North Quad - North Quad Space 2435
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DTSTAMP:20261002T172127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T190000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:West Quad (2026-2027) (Housing)
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151036
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Ross School of Business Main Room (R0420)
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DTSTAMP:20260925T140833
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE & Shine with industry alumni
DESCRIPTION:WISE and Shine offers an informal opportunity to ask questions\, hear about life in industry\, and explore the unconventional places a degree in can take you while enjoying a light meal. \nSTEM equity for everyone needs everyone! WISE programming is open to all students regardless of sex\, gender\, or gender identity.\n
UID:152514-21913855@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152514
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Engineering,Food,Free,Graduate Student,Michigan Engineering,science,Sessions,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building
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DTSTAMP:20261002T120320
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T184500
SUMMARY:Presentation:OUTx
DESCRIPTION:Join Out for Business for OUTx 2026: We’re Still Here\, our annual storytelling event celebrating LGBTQ+ voices\, experiences\, and perspectives across the Ross community.\n \nVoted Ross’s #1 Educational Event last year\, OUTx creates space for members of our community to share the personal stories that have shaped who they are. This year\, six Ross student speakers will take the stage alongside keynote speaker Shalanda Baker\, a former U.S. Air Force officer\, law professor\, and former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.\n \nWhether you identify as LGBTQ+\, consider yourself an ally\, or simply want to hear perspectives and lived experiences different from your own\, OUTx is an opportunity to listen\, learn\, and connect with the people who make up our Ross community.\n \nThursday\, October 8 | 5:30–7:00 PM\nTauber Colloquium\nFree and open to the Ross community
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151639
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Tauber Colloquium
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DTSTAMP:20260821T153627
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAmy Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter\, exchange\, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the \"certainties\" of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between \"humans\" and \"nature\". Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to \"hunt\" and \"gather\". Using this as a starting point\, she creates relational objects that invoke action and inquiry\; not only to imagine\, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.\n\nIn 1995\, Franceschini founded Futurefarmers as a collaborative platform to consider the social\, political\, and environmental organization of space. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics\; food systems\, public transportation\, education. Through this disassembly\, they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems.\n\nFuturefarmers work is based in enmeshed acts of wandering and material processes. In the context of public art works\, they cultivate public life in place\, rather than inserting pre-determined forms and concepts into public space. They do so through a process-led approach\,inviting materials and communities to arrive and intersect at a specific site or situation. Through time and the practiced presence of Futurefarmers\, the meeting place of people and materials transform from provisional arrangements into durable forms and functions of their work\n\nFranceschini is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow\, a 2019 Rome Prize Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award for Visual Arts. She is the author of A Variation on the Powers of Ten\, For Want of a Nail\, and\, most recently\, Silicon Forest in 2026. Franceschini received a BFA in Photography from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Stanford University\, and in the Master of Eco-Social Design at the Free University in Bolzano\, Italy. \n\nWith support from Design Core Detroit\, Detroit UNESCO City of Design\, and U-M Student Life Sustainability. \n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150479
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Collaboration,Collectivism,Design,Detroit Design Festival,Public Art,Sustainability,Systems Thinking
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260831T110534
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading\, Q&A\, and Book Signing with Jaswinder Bolina
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nJaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist whose work frequently explores the intersections of language\, race\, and the South Asian immigrant experience. Born in Chicago to Punjabi immigrant parents\, he earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago\, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan\, and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University. Bolina currently resides in Florida\, where he serves as Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing and teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Miami.\n\nOften blending personal narrative with politics and metaphysics\, Bolina’s poetry is noted for its investigation of the “perceptual and sonic ground” of modern life. He is the author of four full-length poetry collections\, including his debut *Carrier Wave* (2007)—adapted from his M.F.A. thesis at the University of Michigan—*Phantom Camera *(2013)\, and *The 44th of July* (2019). His most recent collection\, *English as a Second Language and Other Poems* (2023)\, which was awarded the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University\, continues his deep dive into cultural identity. Beyond poetry\, Bolina gained significant recognition for his 2020 essay collection\, *Of Color*\, which provides a poignant examination of racial perception and the complexities of the American dream. \n\nBolina’s writing has been recognized with numerous awards. His accolades include the Green Rose Prize for *Phantom Camera*\, the Colorado Prize for Poetry for *Carrier Wave*\, and a long-listing for the PEN America Open Book Award for *The 44th of July*. His work has been featured in *The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Paris Review\,* and other journals.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). For Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) . All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:150544-21909581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150544
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,book discussion,book event,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Lecture,literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Rackham,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA,Undergraduate,Writing,zell visiting writers series
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20261002T172127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026-2027 Ginsberg Center Open Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Ginsberg Center Open Workshops offers a variety of educational opportunities designed to help University of Michigan students build the knowledge\, skills\, and perspectives needed to engage thoughtfully with communities and create positive social change. Whether students are just beginning to explore community engagement or looking to deepen specific skills\, these workshops provide opportunities to learn\, reflect\, and connect with others.\nWorkshops cover topics such as ethical community engagement\, leadership\, civic and democratic engagement\, social change\, local communities and government\, reflective practice\, and practical skills for working in partnership with communities. Offerings include workshops such as Foundations of Community Engagement\, Exiting a Community-Engaged Project\, Appreciative Interviewing\, Getting Informed: How Local Government Works\, and Welcome to Washtenaw County\, among others.See workshop descriptions for details.
UID:150661-21909862@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150661
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:https://umich.zoom.us/j/97648857561
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908323@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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