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:20261013T140517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Speakers: Julia Boyle & Marianne Azevedo Silva DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Julia Boyle from Weber lab\n\nTitle: Microbes mediate extrafloral nectary ecology\n\nDescription: Plant-arthropod defense mutualisms involve specialized plant traits that provide food or shelter to arthropods in return for protection against natural enemies\, including herbivores and pathogens. Two examples of such traits are extrafloral nectaries\, plant organs that secrete sugary amino-acid-rich nectar to feed beneficial arthropods\, and leaf domatia\, small structures on the undersides of leaves that shelter predatory and fungivorous mites. Despite their widespread distribution and convergent evolution\, little is known about how domatia and extrafloral nectaries interact with plant microbiomes\, and whether microbes mediate the costs and benefits of these traits. Here\, I combine field observations and manipulative common gardens to demonstrate that both microbes and mites play an underappreciated role in the ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries.\n\nSpeaker 2: Marianne Azevedo Silva from Weber lab\n\nTitle: A Tale of Mutualism Exploitation\, Told Twice: The Science We Present and the Stories We Leave Untold\n\nDescription: In this talk\, I will present a study investigating potential exploitation in one of the most ancient mutualisms between plants and arthropods: the plant–mite mutualism mediated by leaf domatia. Herbivorous eriophyid mites (often referred to as “gall mites”) have long been hypothesized to exploit this mutualism\, yet this hypothesis has remained untested. By combining leaf observations with molecular data\, I investigated whether the gall mite Acalitus ferrugineum acts as an exploiter of the domatia-mediated mutualism in American beech (Fagus grandifolia).\nBut this talk is about more than the scientific findings. I will tell the story of this research twice: first\, as the polished\, seemingly straightforward narrative we typically present at scientific conferences\, and then as the much less predictable journey behind it. From the initial idea to unexpected challenges\, changes in direction\, and the decisions that ultimately shaped our findings\, I will share some of the stories that scientific talks often leave untold. UID:153627-21916115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,Ecosystems,eeb,Environment,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology,Research,Science,scientists,seminar,Workshop LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T103525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:From Classroom to Career: Sociology Alumni Panel and Networking Event DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 27th from 12-2pm in the LSA Building for an exciting afternoon with U-M Sociology alumni! We have invited 5 alums from various backgrounds to give current Sociology students a glimpse at what post-graduation life can look like for someone with an undergraduate Sociology degree. Enjoy a free lunch while we have conversations centered around the alums’ time as an LSA student\, their journeys to the careers they are in today\, and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way. Business attire is not required\, so please come as you are!\n\n\nYou should attend this event if you are:\nA liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student\nInterested in learning more about what post-grad life is like for a Soc alum\n\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\nLunch! \nInsight into the wide range of careers available to you after graduation\nThe opportunity to network with alums who have been where you are\n\n\nRSVP now to reserve your spot! Lunch will be served. If you have any questions you’d like to ask the panel\, please fill out the form in the sidebar by Wednesday\, October 21. \n\nAlum Bios:\n\nJasmine Brooks - Consulting & Nonprofit \nJasmine Brooks\, M.Ed.\, Jasmine has been advising and guiding others in their decisions towards success since 2010. She began her career as a first-grade teacher in Detroit\, and then as a college success counselor for high school students. Since then\, she has served in roles such as the National Honor Society Advisor\, Dean of Students and Dean of College Success\, and Assistant Principal with a primary focus on the matriculation and graduation rate of high school students into post-secondary institutions. \n\nJasmine founded JMB Advising\, an educational consulting company that has grown from supporting high school and college students to servicing school curriculum development\, individual clients\, and out-of-school programming. This role helped connect her to the Detroit College Access Network\, where she now serves as the Senior Director of Graduate 313. DCAN’s focus is to open three community hub locations across Detroit that will support students\, families\, and residents of Detroit as they earn post secondary credentials within the next 5 years.\n\n\n\n\nLauren Bacans-Grounds - Public Health\n\nBorn and raised in Michigan\, Lauren is now the Executive Director at the Islamic Food Bank of Toledo. She received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and planted her roots in Perrysburg Heights a few years later.\n\nAs a community organizer\, volunteer manager\, and program manager for many years\, she is passionate about joyful volunteer experiences that create positive impact in the community. She also believes in building strong community networks\; we must all work together to support each other.\n\nIn her spare time\, she fosters cats (with the help of her husband\, dog\, and four cats)\, and she likes to cook and hike.\n\n\nJeff May - Law\nJeff May is a member of Bodman's Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group where he represents business clients in complex commercial disputes. He is also a member of the Municipal Law and Government Relations Practice Group where he handles municipal litigation on behalf of municipal and private clients and counsels township boards and city councils on a broad range of governance matters. Mr. May currently serves as the prosecuting attorney for the cities of Howell and Brighton.\n\nPrior to his career in law\, Mr. May worked for over 5 years in the music industry\, primarily serving as a booking agent for independent music artists\, where he negotiated financial terms for performances\, designed and implemented touring plans\, researched prospective business partners\, and issued contracts. He also worked as a tour manager and concert promoter.\n\n\n\n\nYevgenia Gazman - Law\nYevgeniya Gazman graduated in 2002 from the University of Michigan with a BA in Sociology and a specialization in Criminology\, Law\, & Deviance. Ms. Gazman earned her JD in 2007 from the University of Minnesota. She is a staff attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center Detroit office where she specializes in representing unaccompanied children through their immigration proceedings in state and immigration court\, as well as before administrative bodies. Ms. Gazman is a regular contributing writer and photographer for the Detroit Jewish News. She is also the founder and creative force behind YGazm Art\, LLC. Her company's motto is “Good Through Art Together.”\n\nSusie Schutt - Mental Health \n\nSusie Schutt is a mental health counselor\, registered drama therapist\, theatre director\, and intimacy director based in Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan\, where she earned a B.A. in Sociology and Social Inequality\, with a focus on race\, class\, and gender. Susie went on to receive a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Drama Therapy from Lesley University in Massachusetts.\n\nSusie currently works with schools\, recovery centers\, families\, and individuals across Rhode Island through Thrive Behavioral Health\, 2nd Act\, and her private practice\, Third Person Therapy\, LLC. She served as Director of Education & Drama Therapist at The Gamm Theatre\, a professional theatre in Rhode Island\, from 2014 to 2022. She continues to work as a theatre and intimacy director with local colleges and theatre companies throughout New England. UID:152941-21914820@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alum Connections,Career,Lsa Opportunity Hub,Networking LOCATION:LSA Building - MPR 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T123057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Teach Appreciative Interviewing DESCRIPTION:Activities that ask students to conduct interviews\, particularly of community members\, can be a powerful method for helping students research real-world issues and understand diverse perspectives. While interview assignments are common across academic disciplines\, less common is explicit instruction for students on effective techniques for interviewing. How might we prepare our students to effectively build rapport with\, interview\, and collect stories or information from communities?\n\nIn this session\, staff from U-M’s Ginsberg Center will share methods for teaching students skills in appreciative interviewing\, an approach to interviewing that emphasizes interviewee expertise and encourages interviewers to guard against deficit-based thinking. Throughout the session\, we’ll model discussions and activities from Ginsberg Center that you can use to prepare your students for interviewing. In the process\, you’ll have the opportunity to practice skills that will strengthen your own communication with students\, be it in office hours\, classroom instruction\, supervision\, or other contexts.\n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111999 UID:149917-21907386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Leadership,Staff LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IPE Study Abroad Presentation to Integrated Business and Engin students DESCRIPTION:This presentation is for IBE students and will help them navigate how best to study abroad while pursuing both degree programs.  UID:153851-21916562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153851 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:DOW 2150 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T121559 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Metricracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/kVZXk\n\nBased on fieldwork inside one of China's most celebrated social credit systems\, this talk shows what actually happens when a state tries to score the moral lives of its citizens. Far from the all-seeing surveillance machine\, the system runs on data that are selectively collected and routinely fabricated—and even then\, the state struggles to make the score mean anything\, facing constant contestation and reinterpretation. This notorious system\, Dr. Liu will suggest\, is less an authoritarian anomaly than a sharp lens on the contradictions of governing by numbers anywhere.\n\nChuncheng Liu is a sociologist of knowledge and technology who studies the politics of data and classification. An assistant professor of communication and sociology at Northeastern University\, he earned his Ph.D. in sociology and science studies at the University of California\, San Diego\, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His current research examines the politics of sociotechnical systems that surveil and classify citizens. His work has appeared in journals including *Big Data & Society*\; *Information\, Communication & Society*\; *Social Science & Medicine*\; and *Science\, Technology & Human Values*\, and has been featured in outlets such as The Guardian\, Bloomberg\, and Rest of World.\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme UID:150169-21908314@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese,Chinese Studies,Data,Politics,Sociology,Theme Year LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T093938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Oak Hill Advisors | Company Presentation DESCRIPTION:Come learn about career opportunities at Oak Hill Advisors! If you are interested in investing and learning about how businesses are evaluated\, this session is for you. You don't need a background in finance. We hope this session will be interactive and informative. We will be talking about internship opportunities for the summer of 2028 so this is ideal for those graduating in 2029. Come join us! UID:152940-21914819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152940 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Employer Connection,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2114 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS GenAI Essentials - Fall 2026 DESCRIPTION:Generative AI tools are increasingly part of academic\, research\, and professional work\, but using them effectively requires more than knowing how to write a prompt. GenAI Essentials is a practical workshop series designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars make informed\, responsible decisions about when and how to use generative AI.Through interactive sessions and hands-on activities\, participants will examine the capabilities and limitations of GenAI tools\, practice strategies for using AI in writing and communication\, and develop more intentional approaches to prompting and evaluating AI-generated responses.Participants may register for one or more sessions.By the end of the Fall 2026 series\, participants will be able to:Evaluate appropriate uses and limitations of generative AI in academic\, research\, and professional contexts.Identify ethical\, privacy\, academic integrity\, and disclosure considerations that should inform GenAI use.Use GenAI strategically to support revision\, feedback\, and professional communication without outsourcing authorship or judgment.Develop more specific and effective prompts by identifying the characteristics\, goals\, and conventions of the writing they want to produce or improve.If you have any questions\, please reach out Dr. Ioannis Chremos (ichremos@umich.edu) UID:151412-21911559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:VIRTUAL CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T100515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Relieving Stress & Burnout DESCRIPTION:Does the semester feel like it will never end? Join the Relieving Stress & Burnout wellness group to learn some strategies to manage stress and prevent burnout. Plus free lunch! This FREE in-person educational wellness group is for students only and will include an interactive presentation facilitated by staff from the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and is a collaborative service with U-M Engineering's C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center.\n\nRegistration is not required for in-person wellness groups\, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees. You can register using the link. Learn more at campusmindworks.org UID:149353-21906266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149353 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Burnout,Campus Mind Works,Central Campus,Food,Free Food,Health & Wellness,In Person,Mental Health,Stress,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Wellness,Workshop LOCATION:Angell Hall - Angell Hall, G026 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261001T152518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T235900 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SMART CENTER Symposium DESCRIPTION:November 10 - 11\, 2026\n\nConnect with pioneers and shape the future of single-molecule biology together. The SMBio Single-molecule\nBiology Symposium brings together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches from all over the world to\nshare their research\, connect\, and exchange ideas and experiences.\n\nJoin us at Kahn Auditorium in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building (109 Zina Pitcher Place).\nPlease see https://www.lumicks.com/event/symposium/smbio-2026-midwest# for the agenda. UID:153165-21915237@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Molecular,Research,Symposium LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260805T110500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Structural Basis of B Cell Co-Receptor Signaling and Engineering of CD19 Antibodies with New Functions- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar presented by Dr. Katherine Susa\, University of California\, San Francisco UID:149903-21907352@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,biolgical chemistry,biological,biological chemistry,biological science,biology,Biosciences LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 5330 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T113736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Transfer Treats and Trinkets DESCRIPTION:Join us for sweet treats\, DIY halloween stuffed animals\, fall themed crafts\, and a sweet space to celebrate your U-M journey. No tricks here! Just transfer student celebrations.\n\nLimited supplies for all activities will be used at a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nWhere: Student Activities Building - Maize & Blue Auditorium\nWhen: Tuesday\, October 27 from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. UID:153470-21915894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Social,Transfer,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:Student Activities Building - Maize & Blue Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260925T140215 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Write Here/Write Now DESCRIPTION:Prioritize your work\, research\, and writing with dedicated quiet space\, snacks\, and coffee. Join us for this bi-weekly opportunity to meet other grad students and postdocs in STEM and stay ahead this semester. Each event will begin with 15 minutes to grab snacks/coffee\, get settled\, and set goals for the time block followed by 1.5 hours of quiet work time and conclude with partnered progress checks. \nSTEM equity for everyone needs everyone! WISE programming is open to all students regardless of sex\, gender\, or gender identity. UID:151553-21912379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Sessions,Writing LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T154932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Between Asante and the Whiteman: Fante and Ga Pressmen and the Racialization of Ethnicity in Gold Coast Newspapers DESCRIPTION:With the “Hear\, Here” series\, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.\n\nAbout this talk:\nThis talk illuminates the contradictory racial politics of late nineteenth-century African-owned newspapers by analyzing how Fante and Ga pressmen\, who positioned themselves as African defenders of African interests\, deployed racist depictions of the Asante empire in an effort to solicit British protection. This Faustian bargain backfired and when British protection led to colonial conquest\, these same newspapers mobilized race as the primary language of political dissent against British rule.\n\nCarina Ray is a 2026-27 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor\, History. UID:149783-21907184@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149783 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African Studies,History,Humanities LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026-2027 Ginsberg Center Events DESCRIPTION: UID:153065-21915027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153065 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Ginsberg Center Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Creating Cultures of Belonging: A Student Life Work Series (Fall 2026) DESCRIPTION:This workshop series brings a  renewed focus to cultivating inclusive environments across campus. Participants will explore personal and collective experiences\, learn best practices and strategies to foster belonging\, and strengthen their ability to serve and support a diverse student population.  Workshop offerings are open to Student Life staff and campus colleagues\; attendance is voluntary. All workshops are free to Student Life Professional Staff Members. \nPLEASE NOTE: A fee of $25 or the program’s registration fee (whichever is more) will be charged to the unit shortcode if registrants no show or drop less than 24 hrs prior to the event. \n\n UID:152315-21913520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152315 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:The Connector 1520 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T141720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Precise Connected Automated Vehicle Motion Planning with V2I Passive System: Real-Time Vehicle Deployment and Field Evaluation DESCRIPTION:This talk will present how pavement-encoded electromagnetic (EM) strips can provide real-time lateral-offset updates that improve closed-loop automated vehicle tracking. The analysis focuses on lateral tracking accuracy\, run-to-run repeatability\, and vehicle-control response on tangent and curved roadway sections. A real-time framework has been developed to detect pavement-encoded EM strips and estimate lateral offset using an onboard magnetometer array. EM estimates were integrated with GPS-based lateral control through event-triggered source switching. Fifty field runs over 36 strip locations yielded 1\,800 run-strip observations for lateral control performance analysis. A linear 10 mixed-effects model was derived that included localization condition\, roadway section\, and their interaction as fixed effects\, with random intercepts for run and strip. Repeatability was assessed using across-run variability and normalized FastDTW distances between lateral-offset profiles.\n---\nAbout the speakers:\nDr. Jeffery Roesler has been conducting research on a variety of transportation infrastructure topics for the past 25 years. His recent research interest involves passive material sensing for vehicle lateral positioning and construction work zone V2I communication\, micro-scale urban heat island and cool surfaces\, roller compacted concrete pavements\, 3D concrete printing for 1-story structures\, and non-contact ultrasonic sensing system for construction monitoring. He has authored/ co-authored more than 275 publications. He is a registered professional engineer in the California and active participant in TRB\, ACI\, and is Past President of the International Society of Concrete Pavements. Dr. Roesler teaches courses in transportation infrastructure\, specifically pavement analysis and design\, concrete materials\, introduction to transportation engineering\, geometric design of roads as well as a senior professional practice class and a first year project-based introduction to CEE course.\n\nDr. Talebpour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has more than 12 years of experience in teaching\, research\, and consulting in vehicle automation\, connected transportation system\, traffic analysis\, and traffic flow theory. He was leading Texas A&M’s team in SAE/GM AutoDrive Challenge (before joining UIUC)\, a four-year competition to develop a fully (level 4) autonomous vehicle among eight Universities. He is currently leading an FHWA-funded project focusing on trajectory data collection from CAV operations in highway and arterial environments\, “Third Generation Simulation Data (TGSIM)”. He has been working on developing algorithms for vehicle safety and efficiency in a connected and automated driving environment and has developed simulation tools to simultaneously simulate wireless communications and drivers and automated vehicles. UID:153414-21915832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,conference,Discussion,Education,Engineering,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Leadership,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Professional Development,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Webcast LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T125526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Transfer Week Housing Hub DESCRIPTION:Questions about on- or off-campus housing? Connect with staff from Beyond The Diag and Michigan Housing to explore your options\, access helpful resources\, and pick up some fun giveaways. UID:153468-21915892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153468 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Housing,transfer,Transfer Students,Transferweek2026,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Student Activities Building - 1011 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T181747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Eva Albalghiti\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Eva Albalghiti performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:151971-21912520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151971 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T183210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/2025728Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.We will discuss and educate you on…- Design andformat- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resumefor specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Studentor Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note:This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students.We want to ensure full and equitable participation in ourevents. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements viathe link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC UID:152545-21913900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T152407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T150000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:German Lecturer\, Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu)\, brings German chocolate to snack on and games to play (e.g. Tabu)\, all while chatting in German. UID:151750-21912109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151750 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Games,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Multicultural LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - Common Room - 3110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260918T103231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:So Cool\, So Just Fair DESCRIPTION:Join the Ginsberg Center and Trotter/MESA on the Diag for So Cool So Just on October 27 from 2 – 4 PM. A vibrant resource fair bringing together student organizations\, community partners\, and campus units committed to community engagement and social change. Explore opportunities to get involved\, volunteer\, or simply learn what’s happening across campus and beyond. It’s your chance to connect with groups making a real impact. UID:151576-21911784@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ginsberg Center,Resource Fair,Sessions,Social Change,Trotter Multicultural Center LOCATION:University of Michigan Diag CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T151144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T153000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Explore Career Opportunities at Symbotic DESCRIPTION:Join us for a session with Symbotic\, designed especially for IOE students! Hear from recent IOE graduate Jackson Kobylarcz\, who is currently part of Symbotic’s Operations Development Program. UID:153931-21916767@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G690 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T101909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Magic Dirt: Social\, Economic\, and Political Divergence in the Antebellum DESCRIPTION:-- UID:150514-21909536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150514 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T083015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T144000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T154000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Cognitive Science Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:The Cognitive Science Seminar Series is an opportunity for graduate students and faculty from the cognitive science community at Michigan to engage with cutting edge research in the field. We welcome speakers from all areas of cognitive science\, including interdisciplinary developments in cognition and AI\, both within and beyond the University of Michigan cognitive science community. Seminars are held periodically throughout each Fall semester via Zoom.\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026 from 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM over Zoom!\n\nZoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99774053256\nPassword: CSSSF26 UID:153087-21915055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153087 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260906T234632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DSI Research Colloquium | The Urban Platform Playbook: Inside the Civic Tech Rewiring City Life DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the smartphone apps that allow you to request a ride\, get food delivered\, or even find a place to stay at the push of a button have become household names. But\, what about an app to fill the pothole on your street\, or monitor the flooding risks of local streams\, or raise funds to spruce up your local park? This talk will present ideas from a manuscript under preparation for a book telling the story of five civic urban platforms that have matured into new urban infrastructures in the United States in the past decade: municipal 311\, city data portals\, civic crowdfunding\, open stormwater\, and the use of crowdsourcing to analyze historical racial exclusion. Although these platforms may use similar technical ingredients as smart cities – such as data\, algorithms\, and interfaces – none aim at creating the automated\, optimized city animating the smart city dream. Instead\, they pursue a different\, more digitally connected city\, where technology is fostering new forms of connection\, resilience\, and civic vitality. The book’s original case studies are developed through interviews with the technologists and public servants who created them\, drawing out both the unique stories of each but also identifying generalizable lessons to inspire the next generation of urban technology. The argument of the book is that digital technology isn’t only for building a utopian automated city\, but instead a new type of city that fosters new forms of connections between citizens\, city government\, and the places they share.\n\nRobert Goodspeed\, PhD\, AICP\, is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of collaborative planning\, urban analytics\, and scenario planning theory and methods. He is the author of the book Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions: Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Futures\, over 30 articles and book chapters\, and an editor of four edited volumes on urban analytics and smart cities. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)\, and currently serves as the board chair for Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)\, a global society that organizes a leading biennial conference.\n\nThis event is in partnership with the Urban Tech Collective (UTC) housed at the University of Michigan’s Digital Studies Institute. UTC convenes U-M faculty and students from various disciplines investigating the imaginaries\, design\, and use of digital technologies within urban everyday life. UTC investigates topics related to physical and digital spaces\; mediated representations of urban space and urban communities\; digital rights and inequalities\; datafication\; urban intelligences\; and social change. The collective meets throughout the academic year to share research\, methodologies\, and best practices for the study of technology and urban life\, to host speakers\, and reimagine the role of urban technology scholarship\, design\, and policy in affecting more equitable\, sustainable futures.\n\nThe DSI Research Colloquium Series is closed to DSI-affiliated faculty and students. We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. If you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about joining this event\, please contact Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. UID:150826-21910249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150826 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Culture,Digital Cultures,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,Digital Studies Minor,digital technology,Technology,Urban And Regional Planning,urban design,urban planning,urban policy LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T110239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Controlling Superconductivity and Topology through Electronic Correlations\, Electron- Lattice Coupling\, and Interface Engineering DESCRIPTION:High-temperature superconductivity and topological quantum matter remain among the central challenges in condensed matter physics. Their coexistence offers a promising route toward realizing Majorana zero modes and fault-tolerant quantum technologies. While studies of topological materials and electron-phonon coupling have largely relied on single particle descriptions\, the role of strong electronic correlations remains unresolved. In particular\, it is unclear (i) how correlations modify electron-phonon coupling [1] and lattice dynamics in determining superconducting transition temperatures and (ii) how electron-electron interactions drive topological systems beyond the single-particle limit. \n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss our efforts to address these questions using parameter tuning-free embedded dynamical mean-field theory (eDMFT) [2]. By combining epitaxial thin-film growth\, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)\, and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S). Focusing on FeX (X = Se\, S\, Te) thin films on SrTiO₃ (001)\, we demonstrate a strong dependence of the superconducting transition temperature () on the FeX₄ tetrahedral bond angle\, highlighting the crucial role of lattice geometry in correlated superconductivity [3]. We further present evidence for topological superconductivity and identify a distinct phase that competes with strong electronic correlations[4]. Remarkably\, both the measured superconducting gap and the eDMFT-derived electron-phonon coupling exhibit a dome-shaped dependence on the tetrahedral angle [5]. I will then show how these insights can be extended toward a predictive\, materials-by-design framework for topological superconductivity. Applying a multiscale framework to FeTe₀.₅Se₀.₅ and FeSe/GaAs heterostructures\, we predict multiple topological superconducting phases and identify experimentally viable materials platforms in which topology\, superconductivity\, and strong correlations can be engineered in concert [5\,6]. Together\, these results demonstrate how electronic correlations\, lattice geometry\, and interface engineering can be harnessed to control superconductivity and topology\, providing a pathway toward the rational design of correlated topological quantum materials and future Majorana-based quantum technologies.\n\nReferences:\n[1] S. Mandal et al. PRB 89\, 220502(R) (2014)\; S. Gerber et al. Science 357\, 71 (2017).\n[2] A. Sihi\, S. Mandal\, &\; K. Haule\, Phys. Rev. B (Lett.) 113\, L201116 (2026)\; (Editor'\;s suggestion)\n[3] S. Mandal et al. PRL. 119\, 067004 (2017)\; Q. Zou\, et al. Nano Letters 25\, (47) 16572 (2025)\n[4] H. Lin\, et al. Nature Communications 17\, 1188 (2026)\n[5] Q. Zou\, et al. Phys. Rev. B 114\, 225123 (2026) (Editor'\;s suggestion) \n[6] Jacobs et al. arXiv:2609.10381 (2026). UID:153766-21916289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153766 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260923T090325 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: How to achieve quantum advantage? DESCRIPTION:The development of error-corrected quantum computers raises the prospect of quantum advantages in scientific computation. Which problems are likely to benefit\, and what will it take to realize these advantages? I will first discuss basic quantum algorithm concepts and some criteria for comparing quantum and classical computation. I will then focus on eigenvalue problems\, where improving the precision of an approximate solution offers one possible route to quantum advantage. Recent advances allow quantum eigensolvers to use few auxiliary qubits and short coherent evolutions\, with near-optimal dependence on the target precision. I will introduce these developments and a method for estimating multiple eigenvalues together with their multiplicities. Most of the presentation is intended to be accessible to a broad mathematical audience without prior background in quantum computation. UID:148250-21903442@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148250 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T160644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:DAAS Africa Workshop DESCRIPTION:Summary:\nEnclosing open-air dumps and outlawing waste picking are key approaches to modernizing cities around the world. THE WASTE COMMONS explores the dramatic transformations involved in the impending closure of the city waste dump in Dakar\, Senegal\, and the lives that hang in the balance. It follows charismatic Zidane\, trailblazing Adja\, and their waste picker community\, as they battle to defend their carefully crafted worlds and rights to waste.\n\nShort bio: Rosalind Fredericks is an urban geographer of West Africa and Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School. She is the producer and director of the award-winning documentary The Waste Commons\, which examines the politics of waste picking and urban transformation at the Mbeubeuss waste dump in Dakar\, Senegal. UID:153472-21915899@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153472 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,african diaspora,African Studies Center,Film,film screening LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T163000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Robotics Department Seminar Series: Language and Robots: Space\, Time\, and Common Ground DESCRIPTION:Robotics Department Seminar Series (https://robotics.umich.edu/events/robotics-seminar-series/)\nSpeaker: Joyce Y. Chai\, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering\, University of Michigan\nTitle: \"Language and Robots: Space\, Time\, and Common Ground\"\nDate: Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026\nTime: 4:00 - 5:00pm ET\nLocation: FRB 2300 + Zoom\nZoom Link: https://myumi.ch/Mp1x3\nMeeting ID: 961 2563 2448\nPasscode: 639024\n\nAbstract: Language plays a fundamental role in embodied AI\, serving not only as a means of communication between humans and robots\, but also as a powerful tool for representing knowledge\, reasoning about the world\, and guiding actions. While space and time have always been central to robotics\, language introduces new opportunities and challenges in how robots represent\, reason about\, and interact with the physical world. In this talk\, I will revisit some of the enduring challenges at the intersection of language and robotics through three interconnected dimensions: space\, time\, and common ground. For space\, I will discuss grounding language in the 3D world\, including reasoning across different spatial perspectives. For time\, I will explore how language supports learning about actions\, causal relationships\, and past experiences to enable long-horizon planning. For common ground\, I will examine how language enables humans and robots to establish\, maintain\, and repair shared understanding of their environment\, goals\, and intentions. Drawing on past and recent work\, I will take stock of where we stand and reflect on the challenges and opportunities. \n\nSpeaker Bio: Joyce Chai is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests span from natural language processing and embodied AI to human-AI collaboration. She is fascinated by how experience with the physical world and social interaction shape language learning and language use\; and is excited about situated language processing that is sensorimotor-grounded\, pragmatically-rich\, and cognitively-motivated. Her recent work explores the intersection of language\, vision\, and action to enable situated communication with embodied agents. She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award\, and multiple awards with her students (e.g.\, Best Long Paper Award at ACL 2010\, Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and ACL 2023\, and First Place in the Amazon Alexa AI Simbot Challenge 2023). She is a Fellow of ACL. UID:153749-21916275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Free,Robotics LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261005T120351 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Should Universities Strive to Bridge Division? DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together three former university presidents to explore whether colleges and universities have a responsibility to bridge social\, political\, and religious divides and\, if so\, whether they are succeeding and how they can do better. University of Michigan President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman will moderate the exchange\, which will also feature Brian Rosenberg\, president emeritus of Macalester College and author of *‘Whatever It Is\, I’m Against It’: Resistance to Change in Higher Education*\; and Teresa A. Sullivan\, president emerita of the University of Virginia and former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. UID:148331-21903933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Civic Engagement,Discussion,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,In Person,Intergroup Dialogue,Social,Social Impact,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T140621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkylation and Alkenylation of Olefins: New Molecular Catalysts and the Role of Lewis Acidic Oxidants DESCRIPTION:The selective catalytic functionalization of C–H bonds of hydrocarbons remains one of the foremost challenges facing synthetic chemists. For example\, alkyl and alkenyl arenes are produced on a scale of billions of pounds per year. Current commercial catalysts (e.g.\, Friedel-Crafts or zeolites catalysts) for arene alkylation are based on acid-mediated olefin activation. New catalysts that operate by a distinct reaction pathway that involves transition metal-mediated C–H activation followed by olefin insertion into metal-aryl bonds offer potential advantages. The presentation will focus on the development and study of new transition metal catalysts for arene alkylation and alkenylation based on molecular complexes of Ru\, Rh\, Pd and Pt with an emphasis on the unexpected role of Cu(II) carboxylates that are used as oxidant. UID:151569-21911776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151569 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Inorganic Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T141526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:UUWeekly: Diwali @ Pierpont DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Diwali at Pierpont Commons! Join us for Bollywood Dance Workshop\, crafts\, Karaoke (Bollywood edition)\, and some nostalgic games. Free food provided. UID:152867-21914615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bollywood,Celebration,Crafts,Dance,Diwali,Free,Free Food,Games,Karaoke LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T152824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Visualizing Care: Storytelling as Data Visualization at MohenjoDaro DESCRIPTION:Set in the World Heritage Site of MohenjoDaro (Sindh\, Pakistan)\, Visualizing Care approaches archaeological data visualization through deep mapping. Experimenting with multimodal and accessible forms of archaeological data presentation\, this study explores how care through time can be documented. Within an archaeological context\, the materiality of care can be seen through the intentional making/unmaking of urban design\, architectural features\, and infrastructure. Within a historical and contemporary framework\, care can be visualized through conservation and the relationships between caretakers and the site itself\, drawing attention to the affective aspects of archaeological research. This transdisciplinary project utilizes archival material\, LiDAR and 3-dimensional artifact captures\, ethnographic conversations\, GIS mapping\, sound\, and experiments with mudbrick\, to explore the many different ways of knowing the ancient city of MohenjoDaro.\n\n\nUzma Z. Rizvi is Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies\, in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NY. She is also a visiting faculty at Shah Abdul Latif University in Khairpur\, Pakistan. Dr. Rizvi’s work intentionally interweaves archaeology with cultural criticism\, philosophy\, critical theory\, art\, and design. With over two decades of work on decolonizing methodologies\, intersectional and feminist strategies\, and transdisciplinary approaches\, her work has intentionally pushed disciplinary limits\, and demanded ethical decolonial praxis at all levels of engagement\, from teaching to research. She is the PI of the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage (liavh.org)\, currently working at the 3rd millennium BCE world heritage site of MohenjoDaro\, Pakistan.\n\nThe lecture begins at 4PM EST\, in person at the Kelsey Museum (Room 125). Reception to follow at 5:30PM. \n\nIf you are unable to attend in person\, you may view the lecture via zoom by registering here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kai9ybzNSoGPYxwjs6lAyQ#/registration UID:153678-21916169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology,Architecture,Culture,Data Visualization,Deep Mapping,Design,Free,Gis Mapping,Heritage,History,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Lecture Hall (Rm 125) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T060340 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 SUMMARY:Other:MoMBA & PALS Trick or Treating DESCRIPTION:Join MoMBA for trick-or-treating with your little ones - costumes encouraged. Pizza Party immediately following - RSVP for the pizza party HERE. \n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026\n\n\nTrick or Treat: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM in the Ross Winter Garden \n\n UID:153601-21916089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross Winter Garden CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BLI Social: Halloween Social DESCRIPTION:Join us at the BLI on the 8th floor of Weiser Hall from 5:30-7pm Tuesday October 27th for a fun halloween themed social event. We will be having lots of crafts\, fun activities and showing a halloween movie during this time. Come destress after mid-terms and enjoy lots of candy and snacks all provided by the BLI. Feel free to come in costume.  UID:153739-21916261@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:8th floor Weiser CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Cultural Studies RIW DESCRIPTION:Join us for an invigorating conversation as we continue our exploration of this week’s theme\, “Critique\, Politics\, and Power: The Frankfurt School.” Together\, we will engage critically with the ideas of Frankfurt School thinkers and consider their continued relevance to contemporary society\, culture\, media\, and structures of power. We look forward to a thoughtful and stimulating discussion!\n\n UID:153495-21915926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:FTVM Conference Room: North Quad 6450 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Empowerment Self-Defense - Pepper Spray DESCRIPTION:THIS COURSE WILL NOT USE PEPPER SPRAY AS AN APPPLICATION AND PARTICIPANTS SHOULD NOT BRING PEPPER SPRAY WITH THEM TO THE COURSEThis short and comprehensive course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary for the safe and legal use of pepper spray as a self-defense tool in Michigan. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of Michigan's pepper spray laws\, including restrictions and permissible uses\, ensuring compliance and responsible handling. The course also emphasizes the development of essential de-escalation techniques to prevent conflict and effective physical self-defense tactics to protect oneself in dangerous situations. Through practical exercises and expert guidance\, students will emerge more confident and prepared to navigate real-world scenarios safely and legally.\n\n\n UID:152854-21914600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Campus Safety Services Building, 1239 Kipke Dr. Ann Arbor Mich. 48109, (2nd flr conf. room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T142853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Feminist Voices Across Generations DESCRIPTION:Join the Inclusive History Project as we celebrate the launch of the Women's and Gender Studies Oral History Archive\, a new resource documenting the history and impact of Women’s and Gender Studies\, Women in Learning and Leadership\, and LGBTQ Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Through personal stories and reflections\, the collection explores the origins of these programs\, the labor and care that have sustained them through changing contexts\, and their ripple effects in and beyond the University.\n\nThe event will feature a panel discussion with individuals whose oral histories are included in the collection\, offering firsthand perspectives on advocacy\, challenges\, community-building\, and institutional change. Attendees will also hear from the students and faculty who created the project and learn how to access and use the collection for research\, teaching\, and engagement.\n\nThe panel discussion will be followed by a reception with a DJ and light fare. All are welcome. \n\nThe Women's and Gender Studies Oral History Archive at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is an outcome of the IHP Research and Engagement grant led by Dr. Amy Brainer with the assistance of Fatima al-Bedany and Lyla Kerr. \n\nRegistration is encouraged. This event is free and open to all. \n\nDate: Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026\n\nTime: 5pm - 7pm\n\nLocation: Kochoff Hall\, James C. Renick Center\, UM-Dearborn\, 4901 Evergreen Road\, Dearborn\, MI 48128\n\nQuestions? Email us at inclusivehistory@umich.edu. UID:152215-21913336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152215 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Discussion,Feminism,Free,LGBT,panel discussion,Social Justice,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Kochoff Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Room (League, 2nd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up. UID:102102-21914757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 SUMMARY:Other:Tech Across Industries : Health x Tech DESCRIPTION:Explore the range of tech roles inside the healthcare industry\, and roles in health-tech space.\nWhat you can hope to learn: \nHow panelists actually broke into these roles.\nWhat industry/technical knowledge actually matters (and what doesn't).\nHow to position yourself and prepare.\nResources available through both clubs to support your search. UID:153753-21916278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260924T103036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T184500 SUMMARY:Other:Continuing the Conversation DESCRIPTION:This event is open to U-M students who attend the Samantha Woll Dialogue \"Should Universities Strive to Bridge Divison?\" from 4-5:30pm at the Rackham Auditorium. After the program has concluded\, interested students will head next door to the East Conference Room to continue the conversations held during the Woll Dialogue until around 6:45pm. Facilitators from Dialogue Michigan will lead and help groups have productive and engaging discussions. A light dinner will be provided for participants! UID:152808-21914544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152808 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Conversations,Conversations Across Differences,dialogue,Discussion,Food,Free,In Person,Inclusion,Intergroup Dialogue,Open Inquiry,Social,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261005T143538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel | Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026 at 5:30 PM in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League at the University of Michigan for the first-ever Halaloween panel collaboration between the Global Islamic Studies Center and Michigan Medicine’s Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine! An expert panel of pediatric\, geriatric\, hospice\, and palliative care medical doctors\, hospital chaplains\, and horror film scholars will discuss how the horror genre and horror movies can be tools for people dealing with illness\, grief\, death\, loss\, and shared fears that are both specific to and transcend religion and culture.\n\nPanelists will discuss: what can horror tell us about the fears that people bring with them when they encounter bodily illness and healthcare providers\, particularly when they\, their elders\, or their children are experiencing serious illness\, the process of dying\, ambiguous loss\, or anticipatory grief? Can Muslim and spiritually or religiously themed horror movies provide psychological catharsis and alleviate suffering?\n\nThis panel is ONLY in person. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP on this form: https://forms.gle/bkZC5NsLagDaf99w9\n\n\nMeet the panelists:\n\nDr. Adam Marks\, MD\, Clinical Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine\; Medical Director\, Hospice Program and Adult Hospice\n\nDr. Nurah Omobola Lawal\, MD\, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Hospice and Palliative Medicine\n\nDr. Karla Mallette\, Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies\; Founder\, Halaloween\n\nChaplain LJ Brazier\, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department\, Palliative Care\n\nChaplain Maryam Ashraf\, Michigan Medicine Spiritual Care Department\, Spiritual and Muslim Patient Care\n\nModerator: Dr. Aliyah Khan\, Director\, Global Islamic Studies Center\; Associate Professor of English & Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nThis panel is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) in collaboration with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School.\n\n___\n\nHalaloween Muslim Horror Film Festival Info:\n\nWelcome to the 8th annual Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2026!\n\nWhat is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”\n\nThis year’s Halaloween 2026 film festival is a retrospective that brings back some of our Michigan community’s favorite Muslim horror films from the past few years. As usual\, the festival runs throughout October with a different movie screening and/or event every week. In addition to local theater screenings\, we are bringing you three community collaborations this year: with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn\, with Michigan Medicine and the U-M Medical School\, and with the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown!\n\nThe 2026 lineup: Halaloween starts off at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn on Thursday\, October 8\, with a screening of the Saudi found-footage film Madayen (2016). On October 12 and October 20\, head to the State Theatre in Ann Arbor for the Iranian film Under the Shadow (2016) and the Malaysian film Tiger Stripes (2023)\, respectively. On October 27\, we are collaborating with the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School to bring you an expert medical and film panel on “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, & Loss with Horror Movies.”\n\nHalaloween officially ends on the evening of October 29 at 9pm at the Brooklyn Detroit venue in Corktown\, Detroit\, with a screening of two Muslim horror short films: Aicha (directed by Sanaa El Alaoui\, Morocco\, 2025) and Enmity Djinn (directed by Mohamed Echkouna\, Mauritania\, 2023)\, followed immediately after by the special event “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\,\" a Halaloween sampler with live music score in collaboration with Reginald Thiessen\, Victor Ghannam\, and Devil's Night Detroit!\n\nAlso check out our streaming Muslim horror films anytime on U-M Kanopy: the Senegalese folk horror film Saloum (2021)\, the witchy Tunisian film Dachra (2018)\, and the Iranian “vampire spaghetti Western” film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).\n\nThe festival is mostly in-person and free–but make sure to reserve tickets! In-person screenings will be first-come\, first-served\, with RSVPs strongly encouraged.\n\nWe are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies\, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating and other details.\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Halaloween Lineup:\n\nOctober 8: Madayen | Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 7:00 PM | Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\nOctober 13: Under the Shadow | Iran | 2016 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 20: Tiger Stripes | Malaysia | 2023 | 7:00 PM | State Theatre\, Ann Arbor\n\nOctober 27: Halaloween x Michigan Medicine Panel: “Fears of the Body: Processing Illness\, Death\, and Loss with Horror Movies” | Hussey Room\, Michigan League\, University of Michigan\n\nOctober 29: “Those Between Worlds: A Jinn Dreamscape\": Halaloween Short Films and Live Music Score Retrospective at Devil's Night Detroit | Short films Aicha and Enmity Jinn | 7:00 PM | Brooklyn Detroit\, Corktown (venue). *This event is ticketed and not free. Get tickets and more info here.\n\n\nRSVP & find out more: watch.eventive.org/halaloween\n\nSponsors: Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan and cosponsored by the Arab American National Museum and the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Program in American Culture\, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)\, and the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (CMENAS). Featured events are brought to you by the Arab American National Museum\, Michigan Medicine\, Devil’s Night Detroit\, and the Huron High School Film Club.\n\n\n\n\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies. If you have any questions\, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.\n\nJoin our email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83.\n\n\n\nFollow our social media for event updates:\n\nFacebook: UmichGISC\nhttps://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/\n\nTwitter: @umichgisc\nhttps://twitter.com/umichGISC UID:152748-21914464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film,Global Islamic Studies,Halaloween,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T135344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Halloween Social DESCRIPTION:Join us at the BLI on the 8th floor of Weiser Hall from 5:30-7pm Tuesday October 27th for a fun halloween themed social event. We will be having lots of crafts\, fun activities and showing a halloween movie during this time. Come destress after mid-terms and enjoy lots of candy and snacks all provided by the BLI. Feel free to come in costume. UID:153741-21916263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153741 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Barger Leadership Institute,Bli,Bli10,film,Food,Free,Halloween,In Person,Leadership,Meal,Sessions,Social,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduates,Weiser,Weiser Hall LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 8th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T102146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Launch & Learn: How to decide what's worth building in an AI world DESCRIPTION:AI has made experimentation dramatically cheaper. But that doesn’t mean everything is worth building. Learn how to rethink workflows\, evaluate when to build vs. buy\, and design AI-native systems that can keep up as the tools change.\n\n​You’ll unlock:\n\n>​How to add AI to the workflow\, beyond just pasting text into chatbots\n​>How to structure your knowledge\, data\, and processes so they aren’t tied to one AI tool\n​>What gets in the way when AI moves from one person's experiments to how a whole team works\n\n​Mike Zhuo is a Ross alum who has sponsored seven MAP teams over five consecutive years\, currently working on AI-native transformation at a large technology organization. UID:153416-21915836@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai,Artificial Intelligence,Career,Career Navigation,Career Series,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Founder,Free,Innovation,Launch And Learn,Professional Development,Startups,Virtual,Workshop,Zell Lurie Institute,Zell Lurie Institute For Entrepreneurial Studies,Zell Lurie Institute For Entrepreneurship,Zli LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T152824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Visualizing Care: Storytelling as Data Visualization at MohenjoDaro DESCRIPTION:Set in the World Heritage Site of MohenjoDaro (Sindh\, Pakistan)\, Visualizing Care approaches archaeological data visualization through deep mapping. Experimenting with multimodal and accessible forms of archaeological data presentation\, this study explores how care through time can be documented. Within an archaeological context\, the materiality of care can be seen through the intentional making/unmaking of urban design\, architectural features\, and infrastructure. Within a historical and contemporary framework\, care can be visualized through conservation and the relationships between caretakers and the site itself\, drawing attention to the affective aspects of archaeological research. This transdisciplinary project utilizes archival material\, LiDAR and 3-dimensional artifact captures\, ethnographic conversations\, GIS mapping\, sound\, and experiments with mudbrick\, to explore the many different ways of knowing the ancient city of MohenjoDaro.\n\n\nUzma Z. Rizvi is Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies\, in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NY. She is also a visiting faculty at Shah Abdul Latif University in Khairpur\, Pakistan. Dr. Rizvi’s work intentionally interweaves archaeology with cultural criticism\, philosophy\, critical theory\, art\, and design. With over two decades of work on decolonizing methodologies\, intersectional and feminist strategies\, and transdisciplinary approaches\, her work has intentionally pushed disciplinary limits\, and demanded ethical decolonial praxis at all levels of engagement\, from teaching to research. She is the PI of the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage (liavh.org)\, currently working at the 3rd millennium BCE world heritage site of MohenjoDaro\, Pakistan.\n\nThe lecture begins at 4PM EST\, in person at the Kelsey Museum (Room 125). Reception to follow at 5:30PM. \n\nIf you are unable to attend in person\, you may view the lecture via zoom by registering here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kai9ybzNSoGPYxwjs6lAyQ#/registration UID:153678-21916171@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology,Architecture,Culture,Data Visualization,Deep Mapping,Design,Free,Gis Mapping,Heritage,History,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Lecture Hall (Rm 125) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T145130 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CAM: Creative Arts Meetup DESCRIPTION:Artists\, makers\, and the curious from the U-M community and the public are welcome to create\, share\, connect\, and explore creative ideas together.\nThe Creative Arts Meetup (CAM) is a space for multimedia art and creative community for all skill levels.\n\nMark your calendar\, and please invite colleagues\, students\, friends\, and others who may be interested in CAM. UID:153124-21915120@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153124 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Design Lab PIE Space, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222138 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LeaderShape 2027 Info Session DESCRIPTION: UID:153705-21916203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153705 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T121716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Whose City? Street Art and the Performance of Belonging in Tbilisi\, Georgia DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) at the Michigan League for a presentation by Greta Uehling\, a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow with the Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS).\n\nStreet art is often understood as a form of cultural resistance in politically constrained societies like Georgia. Professor Greta Uehling will draw on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi\, including interviews with artists\, activists\, and viewers supported to explore the forces that complicate its communicative potential. Uehling extends a Barthian approach that foregrounds the reception of street art and the contested meanings that emerge around it. In this talk\, she will explore the state’s appropriation of street-art aesthetics through government-sponsored projects\, as well as private citizens’ power to veto murals on their buildings. She will then turn to gender as a contested terrain where Georgia’s European aspirations meet enduring social norms. This research was supported by a Faculty Fellowship from the Center for World Performance Studies.\n\nPresented by the Center for World Performance Studies with support from the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies.\n\nFACULTY BIO\n\nGreta Uehling’s scholarship is broadly concerned with international migration and forced displacement. Major projects have examined the experiences of refugees\, asylum seekers\, and the internally displaced. Her current project explores the subjective experience of military conflict and forced displacement in Ukraine. Based on ethnographic fieldwork\, she documents how the military conflict reconfigured social worlds and how these social worlds became the site of a different\, everyday kind of war.\n\nPrior to teaching in the Program on International and Comparatives Studies\, Uehling consulted with a number of international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\, and the Watson Institute at Brown University.\n\nUehling holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. In 2004\, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book is *Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars*. Her forthcoming book is *Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas\, Ukraine*. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.\n\nExpert Advisory: Dr. Uehling is an expert on Ukraine and can discuss the war in Ukraine and its implications.\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.* UID:152235-21913411@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152235 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Free,Lecture,Research,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261009T121725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T192000 SUMMARY:Performance:Music & Dance with a View DESCRIPTION:Enjoy live\, collaborative performances featuring the talented faculty\, students and staff from Music and Dance at the University of Michigan in the intimate and naturally dramatic Granoff Studio. Programs will be announced from the stage. \n\nThe event runs 6:30 – 7:20pm.\n\nFree parking is available. Seating is limited. UID:152013-21912615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Perry Kasper Granoff Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222132 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Oxford Houses (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150871-21916038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Geddes Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261005T114524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CINEFORUM DESCRIPTION:All screenings will be held in Space2435 North Quad. Movies will be shown in Italian with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. \n\nTuesday September 29th @ 7:00 PM \n*Il Sorpasso *\nOn a deserted Ferragosto in Rome\, a shy young law student is drawn into a spontaneous road trip by a brash\, fast-talking stranger with a sports car. As the two men speed along the coast\, their comic misadventures reveal the pleasures and anxieties of Italy’s economic boom. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Dino Risi\,1962.\n\nTuesday October 27th @ 7:00 PM \n*La Signora senza camelie*\nIt’s the story of a shopclerk named Clara who finds a chance casting in a small movie role develop into a full-blown career as screen-siren. Tension erupts when her husband can no longer tolerate watching her frivolous cinema escapades\, and pushes her into a “serious\, artistic” production of the life of Joan of Arc… whereupon she is castigated by the critical establishment. Featuring Lucia Bose\, Gino Cervi\, Alain Cuny. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni\, 1953.\n\nTuesday November 17th @ 7:00 PM\n*Catene *\nIn the first of a series of meladramas directed by Matarazzo\, a husband kills his wife's ex-boyfriend\, who was blackmailing her. He flees to America\, but is sent back to Italy to stand trial. The only way he can be set free is if his wife confesses to adultery—so the murder can be considered a crime of passion—but this estranges her from her family. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo\, 1949. UID:151374-21911427@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151374 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Italian Studies,Romance Language LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T102754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Game Nights at The Connector DESCRIPTION:Do you like board games? Card games? Do you like free popcorn? We welcome all types of players here! Every Tuesday\, the Connector Community Assistants are hosting a game night where we eat delicious popcorn and have a chill (or competitive\, if that’s your energy!) night of joy and connection with one another! Bring your friends and hang! \n\nThe Connector is located in West Quad. UID:150142-21908198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T132111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Journey DESCRIPTION:Looking for a place to be real\, ask big questions\, and find community? Join \"The Journey\,\" a small group for undergraduate students exploring how to live faithfully in difficult times.\n\nCome for honest conversation\, encouragement\, and a welcoming group of fellow students. You don’t need to have the answers—just bring yourself.\n\nTuesdays at 7:00 p.m. \nEnter through the Wesley Tower doors. UID:151739-21912054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Christianity,Religious,Undergrad LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222117 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Transdisciplinary Fellows (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:149272-21914693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Fellows Lounge (8th Floor of Munger) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T100313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Student Art Meetup: \"Extra Credit\" Where Research and Improv Comedy Collide! DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to explore the arts in downtown Ann Arbor with a small group? Join us to enjoy a FREE live show at The Ark! \n\nAs described on The Arks website \"Extra Credit combines academic research from 3 professors at the University of Michigan with improv comedy from top performers at hear.say theater. Just like the audience\, the improvisers have no advanced notice about what is being presented! They take inspiration from each presentation in the moment to create laugh-out-loud scenes\, memorable characters\, and surprising connections across the research. We guarantee big laughs\, and who knows\, you might just learn something. Come see why Extra Credit is one of the most popular recurring shows at hear.say.”\n\nWe will meet outside of Sweetwaters at the Michigan Union at 7:15 PM\, and then walk together 15 minutes to The Ark. \n\nDoors open at 7:30 PM\, with the show beginning at 8:00 PM. Free show\, no tickets required UID:153394-21915800@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153394 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Art Meetups,artists,arts,Arts Initiative,Artsrx,Comedy,Improv,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Room (League, 2nd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T181656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Octubafest DESCRIPTION:Octubafest is a three day celebration of music for the tuba and euphonium. Octubafest\, as a concept\, originated with the late Harvey Phillips\, longtime Professor of Tuba at Indiana University. \n\nThe recitals for these three evenings will feature solo and chamber music performances by members of the University of Michigan Tuba Euphonium studio. UID:149545-21906667@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T192256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Extra Credit Improv DESCRIPTION:Extra Credit combines academic research from 3 professors at the University of Michigan with improv comedy from top performers at hear.say theater. Just like the audience\, the improvisers have no advanced notice about what is being presented! They take inspiration from each presentation in the moment to create laugh-out-loud scenes\, memorable characters\, and surprising connections across the research. We guarantee big laughs\, and who knows\, you might just learn something. Come see why Extra Credit is one of the most popular recurring shows at hear.say.\n\nWe're bringing our show to The Ark for the first time\, with talks by: Paul Conway (Information)\, Stephanie Preston (Psychology)\, and Antonio Cuyler (Music). UID:153452-21915871@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153452 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Ark,Arts Initiative,Comedy,Community,Improv,Michigan Arts Festival,Talk,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261019T181702 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Geoffrey Randolph\, French horn DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate student Geoffrey Randolph performs a final senior recital. UID:152958-21914835@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T171513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Midterm Election Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join BridgeUSA at Michigan for a conversation about the upcoming 2026 midterm elections!\n\nHear from student representatives of College Democrats\, College Republicans\, and Turning Point USA (TPUSA)\, alongside Professor Paul Resnick and Manu Meel\, CEO of BridgeUSA\, as we discuss the issues shaping this election\, the importance of civic engagement\, and the role of young voters in Michigan.\n\nThrough a moderated panel\, audience Q&A\, and open discussion\, this event aims to bring together differing political perspectives and encourage meaningful conversations across ideological divides.\n\nWhether you're politically involved or simply interested in learning more\, all perspectives are welcome! UID:153939-21916792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153939 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Inclusion,Open Inquiry,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Undergraduate LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T181657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:PRISM Quartet with Andrew Bishop DESCRIPTION:The award-winning PRISM Quartet performs a program of music by Roshanne Etezady\, Kristin Kuster\, Bill Ryan\, Bright Sheng\, Chris Potter\, and Don Byron. SMTD Professor Andrew Bishop will join the group as a guest artist. \n\nPRISM Quartet presents a program that travels from the factory floor to a pine forest and from Hollywood to China. Four of the works were commissioned by PRISM\, including Roshanne Etezady's *Inkling*\, a one-minute vignette written in 2004 for the ensemble's twentieth anniversary. As its title suggests\, it offers the merest hint of an idea\, and its clouds of sound showcase PRISM's flexibility and color. Don Byron's new *Quartet for Saxophones* is a fearless homage to classic film scores of the '50s and '60s\, from the title-sequence swagger of \"Saul Bass\" to a closing \"Fandango.\" Bright Sheng's *Old Tune Renewed* takes its name from a Chinese tradition in which performers reinvent well-known compositions as new works. Sheng builds his piece on a folk song from Northwestern China\, capturing the spirit of singing that rings through open valleys while imbuing it with his own voice. In selections from Chris Potter's epic *Improvisations*\, written for PRISM's Heritage/Evolution series and recorded on *Heritage/Evolution\, Volume 2*\, jazz saxophonist Andrew Bishop improvises over the quartet\, stepping into the solo role first shaped by Potter and Ravi Coltrane on the recording. The program's other two works have deep Michigan roots. Bill Ryan's *Tiny Machines*\, a set of miniatures inspired by the robotic assembly line at Ford's truck plant in Dearborn\, is heard in an arrangement commissioned by the Sinta Quartet. Kristin Kuster wrote *Red Pine* for the Sinta Quartet to mark Don Sinta's retirement from the University of Michigan. WNYC's John Schaefer calls it \"a sonic depiction of the simple beauty of the pine forests of Ontario.\" \n\n*This program is co-presented by the University of Michigan School of Music\, Theatre & Dance and New Sounds Music\, with support from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.*\n\nPRISM Quartet is:\nTimothy McAllister\, soprano saxophone (SMTD Professor of Saxophone)\nZach Shemon\, alto saxophone \nMatthew Levy\, tenor saxophone \nTaimur Sullivan\, baritone saxophone \n\nABOUT THE PRISM QUARTET\n\nIntriguing programs of great beauty and breadth have distinguished PRISM Quartet as one of America's foremost chamber ensembles. \"A bold ensemble that set the standard for contemporary-classical saxophone quartets\" (*The New York Times*)\, PRISM has performed at Carnegie Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, and has toured Latin America\, China\, and Russia under the auspices of USIA and USArtists International. PRISM has also appeared as soloists with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra\, and has held residencies at the nation's leading conservatories\, including the Curtis Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory\, with an upcoming residency at the Juilliard School. A two-time recipient of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming\, PRISM has commissioned more than 400 works by eminent composers\, including Pulitzer Prize winners William Bolcom\, Jennifer Higdon\, Susie Ibarra\, Bernard Rands\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Julia Wolfe\, and Zhou Long\, and MacArthur Fellows George Lewis\, Bright Sheng\, and Miguel Zenón. PRISM's discography is extensive\, with nearly 40 releases on Albany\, BCM&D\, BMOP/Sound\, ECM\, innova\, Koch International\, Navona\, Naxos\, New Dynamic\, New Focus\, Orange Mountain Music\, and its own label\, XAS Records. *The Fifth Century*\, PRISM's ECM recording with The Crossing\, won a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. PRISM was named by its alma mater\, the University of Michigan\, as the first recipient of the Christopher Kendall Award in recognition of its work in \"collaboration\, entrepreneurship\, and community engagement.\" PRISM Quartet performs exclusively on Selmer saxophones. UID:153404-21915825@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Choir DESCRIPTION:Though separated by nearly 200 years\, Nathaniel Dett and J.S. Bach in their own distinct ways used familiar melodies to show joy and praise in their cantatas. Presenting two seminal works\, *Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4)* and *Chariot Jubilee*\, this concert will feature student instrumentalists and soloists.\n\nMatthew Abernathy\, conductor\n\nPROGRAM\n\n*Christ lag in Todes Banden\, BWV 4* \nJohann Sebastian Bach\n\n*Chariot Jubilee* \nR. Nathaniel Dett\n\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148669-21904585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148669 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T213000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:West Quad (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:151036-21915273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151036 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:WQ Multipurpose Room (1005) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T181806 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T222000 SUMMARY:Performance:Organ Encore! DESCRIPTION:*Organ Encore!* recitals feature the historic Frieze Memorial Organ in Hill Auditorium following select ensemble concerts. Organ faculty and students will offer 20-minute programs that elaborate upon the theme or concept of the preceding concert. \n\nOn October 27\, Professor Caroline Robinson will offer works of Johann Sebastian Bach\, Florence Price\, and Nathaniel Dett to expound upon the University Choir’s program of “Joyful Melodies.” *Organ Encore!* recitals are free with no admission required\; just remain in your seat to continue to enjoy the show! UID:153143-21915174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T161912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T235900 SUMMARY:Well-being:Cook Scholars Free Sips DESCRIPTION:One month in\, are you looking for direction in networking\, searching student orgs\, or finding your way around Ann Arbor\, talk to us. We can help. During Sober October\, we'll treat you to Free Sips of your favorite beverage. Please indicate you're a Cook Scholar\, when you use the registration intake form (links on right). UID:153052-21915013@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153052 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cook Scholars,Free,Networking,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T235900 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Goosechase: Ghouls & Geese DESCRIPTION:Join the Ghouls & Geese Goosechase to explore campus haunts\, find free fall fun\, and make the most of spooky season. As you earn points\, you'll compete with fellow classmates for a top spot on the leaderboard. The 1st place winner gets a $100 gift card\, join now and start solving! UID:153389-21915792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Competition,Explore,Fall,Goosechase,Halloween,On Campus,Prize LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Spooky Cider Mill Ride 👻🎃🍩 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Halloween road ride to the Dexter Cider mill\, where we'll stop for treats before returning home. While this is a no-drop ride\, riders should be comfortable riding ~25 miles at a 11-13 mph pace. \nAs always\, helmets are mandatory! Don't forget to bring water\, money/card/ID\, and a spare tube if you have one. Lights/reflectors are optional\, but highly recommended. Costumes are welcome! 👻🎃\nWill update the route once we're closer to the ride. Hope you can join us! UID:153183-21915516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Washtenaw Dairy CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T133016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T071500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T161000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Caswell Diabetes Institute Metabolism\, Obesity\, Nutrition & Diabetes Symposium DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 5th annual Caswell Diabetes Institute Metabolism\, Obesity\, Nutrition & Diabetes Symposium. This one-day event brings together researchers\, clinicians\, trainees and colleagues from U-M and beyond to share new research\, emerging ideas and discoveries across metabolism\, obesity\, nutrition and diabetes. Register today and be part of the conversation! Sponsored by Caswell Diabetes Institute (CDI)\, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research (MCDTR)\, Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC) & Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC). UID:150953-21910491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Food,Free,In Person,Medicine,Networking,North campus,Nutrition,Research,symposium LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T104038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Photo Exhibition. This is the Place DESCRIPTION:There are nearly one million refugees currently living in Poland. While the vast majority arrived from Ukraine\, Poland has also welcomed forcibly displaced people from Central Asia\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. While refugees may be different\, they all search for a place that reminds them of home.\nIn *This Is The Place*\, a project supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)\, Anna Liminowicz asked refugees to show what\, in Poland\, reminds them of their home. These portraits and the personalized confessions her subjects handwrote in their native languages tell poignant stories about safety and hope.\nAnna Liminowicz is an award-winning photographer and reportage journalist based in Warsaw\, Poland. A frequent contributor to the *The New York Times*\, *The Guardian*\, *The Wall Street Journal*\, *The Washington Post*\, *El Pais*\, *Der Spiegel* and UNHCR\, Liminowicz divides her time between assignments and long-term personal projects\, mainly focusing on social issues like identity and loss\, and what uplifts her subjects. She has covered the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Poland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion\, and received the 2022 Grand Press Photo Award for her project “Too Precious to Leave Behind”.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149978-21907755@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:russia,Ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908836@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909217@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260721T102305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Transfer Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate U-M's transfer students for National Transfer Student Week 2026! Occurring from Monday\, October 26 through Friday\, October 30 you will find a series of fun\, engaging\, and educational events from a variety of campus offices and departments ready to celebrate and uplift our transfer students. UID:149489-21906484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149489 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Celebration,Free,Transfer,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026,Undergraduate Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260924T095542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Biomedical Engineering Career Chats DESCRIPTION:Hey Biomedical Engineering Students - This is for YOU!\n\nAre you feeling overwhelmed by your full-time job or internship search? Not sure where to begin\, or just need a little guidance? Whether you're just starting out or already deep in the search process\, we're here to help!\n\nJoin us for a quick 15-minute virtual chat with an Engineering Career Advisor. Ask us anythingfrom where your peers are landing jobs\, to job search strategies\, to personalized resume feedback. Its a chance to get the advice you need\, fast!\n\nDont navigate your career path alone - we've got your back!\n\nNote: Only students within the BME department are eligible for this event. UID:152805-21914539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152805 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261001T160941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women's anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. Instead\, the exhibit offers evidence of joy\, reminders of possibility\, and a visual legacy for generations to come. \n \nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae's belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers. They create space for BIPOC families to see themselves represented with dignity and to witness the full range of birth experiences. Lashae's photographs also create a tangible record that can support conversations around quality of medical care\, respectful treatment\, and patient rights. The exhibit empowers women to prioritize and advocate for their birth experiences while also encouraging perinatal health professionals and birthworkers to center the humanity\, dignity\, and individual experiences of patients and families. \n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer whose work has been published in Everyday Birth Magazine\, an international publication. The physical exhibit is accompanied by a virtual component that encourages audiences to engage with each mother's birth story.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan. \n\nBlack Birth Joy\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM UID:153178-21915303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153178 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:advocacy,african and african american studies,american culture,anthropology,Art,artists and curators,photography LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T130435 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy photography exhibit DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women’s anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. \n\nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae’s belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers.\n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan.\n\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM UID:153919-21916665@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:advocacy,african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,american culture,Art,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Black America,Blackness,Caregiver,Caregivers,center for the education of women,community activism,Community Engagement,daas,Diversity,equity issues,Exhibition,feminism,feminist,Gender Equality,gender studies,Health,Health & Wellness,health and wellness,Health Equity,healthcare,Nursing,obstetrics and gynecology,reproductive health,reproductive justice,Reproductive Rights,sexuality,social science research,Storytelling,Student Parent,Student Parents,Students With Children,Wellness,women,women of color,Women's And Gender Studies,women's health,women's health program,women's studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T123553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm. UID:152203-21913275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T151759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.\n\n *Image: \"Untitled\,\" Jade Saren\, Creative Growth Art Center* UID:149758-21907084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T153704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260728T142037 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Grand Vision DESCRIPTION:Visiting artist Olayami Dabls is a storyteller\, curator\, educator\, and mentor. He is the founder of the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit. Through material culture\, Dabls presents commentary on the past\, present\, and future from African and African-American perspectives\, with the understanding that generations of African ancestors used visual materials to convey information about their identity as well as send messages for healing and protection. Dabls is a luminary\; for decades he has re-imagined what a museum space can be\, accessible to everyone\, free from the underpinnings of colonialism and the Western\, often white\, frame. *Grand Vision* includes a conceptual installation in the Gallery\, presenting Dabls’s own work in visual conversation with African beads and artifacts from Dabls’s Bead Museum collections. \n\nAdditionally\, Dabls’s iconic outdoor sculpture *Iron Teaching Rocks Table Manners* will be installed on the U-M campus grounds near UMMA\, at the intersection of State Street and South University from September 17- October 11\, 2026. The project’s range intends to more fully articulate the many facets of Dabls’ creative practice\, and the overlay of art\, history\, identity\, community\, and healing. UID:149620-21906807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Detroit,Exhibition,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T095413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pumpkin Painting at the TSC for Transfer Student Week DESCRIPTION:Transfer Student Week is Mon\, Oct. 26 - Fri\, Oct. 30. Join us at the Transfer Student Center to celebrate with pumpkin painting and hot cider! \n\nStop by the TSC (LSA 1180) anytime throughout the week. We're open 9am-7pm Mon-Fri. \n\nWhile supplies last! UID:153724-21916239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153724 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T094427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026 DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space. UID:152872-21914636@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T113210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AI for Physics Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:This seminar series will take place in 340 West Hall\, Bi-weekly\, Wednesdays from 10:00--11:00 am\n\nFor details please see\;\n\nhttps://umich-ai4physics.github.io/) UID:151090-21912209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T153110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Campus Vaccination Clinics DESCRIPTION:Vax up\, Umich! Drop in at a campus clinic to get your updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccines. For the full schedule and more details\, visit https://healthresponse.umich.edu/vaccination-clinics/ UID:153221-21915446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153221 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Well-being LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Weiser Dining Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261009T120850 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Career Cafe featuring GM Performance Power Units DESCRIPTION:GM Performance Power Unites is hosting a Career Cafe event to recruit for open positions and network with candidates for future opportunities. Meet with company representatives in a casual setting to explore different career paths\, learn about various employment opportunities\, and when appropriate\, present yourself as a candidate for open positions.\n\nStudents may drop in throughout the event to speak with company representatives\, pre-registration is not needed for this event.\n\nView more information in Career Forge or Career Fair Plus.\n\nThis is a College of Engineering event. UID:153507-21915938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222138 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Science Writing & Communication - Fall 2026 DESCRIPTION:This workshop series will equip you with practical strategies for communicating science with clarity and confidence as a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher. You will explore approaches to developing productive writing habits\, outlining a clear and compelling research manuscript\, and adapting scientific messages for different disciplines and audiences. The series will also offer guidance and hands-on practice in designing and delivering effective poster presentations and oral talks. Through interactive activities\, practical frameworks\, and opportunities to apply what you learn to your own research\, you will strengthen your written\, visual\, and verbal science communication skills.\nAims & Objectives\nBy the end of this series\, you will be able to:\n\nStructure and design engaging scientific posters that clearly convey your research and enhance audience understanding and message retention.Organize the motivation\, problem statement\, and results of your research into a logical manuscript outline that supports a clear and compelling scientific argument.Build confidence and productivity as a writer by reflecting on your writing habits\, considering your audience\, and applying strategies to overcome procrastination and maintain momentum.\nAdapt technical detail\, terminology\, context\, and emphasis to communicate your research accurately and effectively across disciplines\, audiences\, and professional settings.\n\nDevelop and deliver effective oral presentations using principles of audience engagement\, scientific storytelling\, clear organization\, and confident public speaking. UID:150654-21909768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T150032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Early Voting at the UMICH Votes Campus Voting Hubs DESCRIPTION:Victors Vote Early!\n\nStop by a Campus Voting Hub at UMMA or the Dude to Vote Early\, right here on campus. City of Ann Arbor voters can cast a ballot in person during Ann Arbor’s Early Voting at either Campus Voting Hub from Wednesday\, October 21 through Sunday\, November 1\, 11am–7pm every day\, weekends included.\n\nNot registered in Ann Arbor\, or moved since the last election? You can register and vote in the same visit. You’ll need a photo ID (like your MCard) and proof of residency (like your address in Wolverine Access)\; see govote.umich.edu/reg for what else counts.\n\nAlready have a City of Ann Arbor absentee ballot you need to return? Both hubs have an official Ann Arbor drop box.\n\nAnd UMICH Votes Fellows are on-site to answer any questions you have about voting! Plus stop by for food\, festivities\, live music\, voting stickers and button making!\n\nUMICH Votes is a non-partisan initiative of the Office of the Provost. UID:153584-21916046@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,Voting LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T150032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Early Voting at the UMICH Votes Campus Voting Hubs DESCRIPTION:Victors Vote Early!\n\nStop by a Campus Voting Hub at UMMA or the Dude to Vote Early\, right here on campus. City of Ann Arbor voters can cast a ballot in person during Ann Arbor’s Early Voting at either Campus Voting Hub from Wednesday\, October 21 through Sunday\, November 1\, 11am–7pm every day\, weekends included.\n\nNot registered in Ann Arbor\, or moved since the last election? You can register and vote in the same visit. You’ll need a photo ID (like your MCard) and proof of residency (like your address in Wolverine Access)\; see govote.umich.edu/reg for what else counts.\n\nAlready have a City of Ann Arbor absentee ballot you need to return? Both hubs have an official Ann Arbor drop box.\n\nAnd UMICH Votes Fellows are on-site to answer any questions you have about voting! Plus stop by for food\, festivities\, live music\, voting stickers and button making!\n\nUMICH Votes is a non-partisan initiative of the Office of the Provost. UID:153584-21916058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,Voting LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - The Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T121522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 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:138033-21881353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T165054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Free Sexual Health Resources Tabling DESCRIPTION:Stop by our table on the Diag on October 28 between 11am and 4pm to grab *free sexual health resources*\, including Plan B\, condoms\, drink covers\, keychain alarms\, pregnancy tests\, emergency whistles and more! This event is organized by the LSA Student Government SMRP and Health committees. UID:153330-21915841@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153330 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T181533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reverie: The Student-led Exhibition Committee Fall 2026 Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA reverie is a state between waking and dreaming\, a moment when the mind drifts beyond the immediate. It is a space where memory\, imagination\, desire\, and reality can overlap\, distort\, and take on new forms. In these moments\, the familiar can become strange\, and the ordinary can become something unexpected.\n\nReverie brings together student works that explore the space between what is known and what is felt. Across painting\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, animation\, and mixed media\, the artists move through imagined landscapes\, intimate encounters\, memories\, figures\, and fragments of the everyday. These works blur the boundaries between observation and imagination\, allowing emotion and perception to reshape what we recognize.\n\nRather than depicting dreams literally\, Reverie considers dreaming as a way of seeing. The works reflect moments of escape\, introspection\, fantasy\, and transformation\, where the subconscious can surface and reality becomes open to interpretation. \n\nReverie was conceived and curated by members of the Student-led Exhibition Committee (SEC)\, and features work by eight SEC members at the Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition includes ten works across oil on canvas\, oil pastel\, ceramic\, digital art\, digital animation\, and mixed media. UID:150344-21909059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SEEK Estabrook Curriculum Day 2 - Physical Sciences II DESCRIPTION:Today's topics will include Forces and Motion. Please be sure to arrive on time at 11AM so we have time to get set up!\nEstabrook Elementary is having us fill out an online volunteer form. The link to the form can be found here: https://app.informedk12.com/link_campaigns/ycs-volunteer-release-form?token=J5kcUqmg12wpECLCo9Nif1kt UID:152343-21913570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152343 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Estabrook Elementary, 1555 W Cross St, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T123941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Session: GCC London\, UK - Literary Monsters DESCRIPTION:Join us for this virtual Info Session to learn more about the CGIS: Global Course Connections (GCC) in London\, UK - Literary Monsters study abroad program for Spring 2027! Unable to Join? Register for the Info Session and even if you can't make it\, you'll automatically be sent a recording. \n\nGCC Program Model: ​​​​\nGlobal Course Connections (GCC) programs allow students to participate in a field-based extension of selected U-M courses. Students enroll for specific courses in the fall or winter semester and then travel for 3 weeks with classmates to field sites where they will put into practice what they have learned in their course. Instructor permission is required to register\, and courses are offered through individual academic departments.\n\nWhy choose a GCC program?: \n+​​​​​Unique UM faculty-led programs are a great way to maximize learning during a short-term study abroad experience.+\n+Preparation in the classroom before you go abroad makes it easy to hit the ground running with good cultural context.+\n+GCC programs allow for close-knit relationships between students and faculty.  You get to know your team well throughout the semester leading up to the field component.+\n\nGCC London- Literary Monsters Overview: \nMoving among the people and streets of London and studying the political and cultural power historically centered there\, students will deepen their understanding of the cultural and geographic origins and histories of British literary monsters such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde. The layered geography of the city itself\, its neighborhoods and institutions and cemeteries\, will become our classroom as well as an additional kind of course text\, as we unpack the anxieties about foreignness\, status\, and marginalization that tales of monstrosity have documented and critiqued. Building on concepts studied throughout the Winter semester\, students will have rich new opportunities to think about what monstrosity means in this particular material setting and historical moment\, visit London's past imaginatively and in some sense quite literally\, and continue to discover what kind of monster stories they themselves have to tell. UID:152892-21914696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152892 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Abroad,books,England,English,English Language & Literataure,Europe,European,global,global engagement,global opportunities,Humanities,Information Session,international,International Education,London,Sessions,study abroad,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,United Kingdom LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T091655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series: The Student Debt Crisis: Relief\, Reform\, and Repayment DESCRIPTION:Join the Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series and the Ford School of Public Policy for a conversation on one of the most pressing issues in higher education\, featuring Dr. Jamal Watson\, author of The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency\, and Dr. Preston Cooper\, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Together they’ll explore relief\, reform\, and repayment\, and what each means for students\, families\, and the future of college access.\n\nFirst 30 guests get a free copy of The Student Debt Crisis: America's Moral Urgency! UID:151559-21911763@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education Policy,Finance,ford school,ford school of public policy,government,MESA,multi-ethnic student affairs,Public Policy,Sessions,Trotter Multicultural Center LOCATION:Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Weill Hall, Betty R. Ford Classroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 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:152024-21912676@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261009T140627 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Clean Up and Organize Your Canvas Courses with TidyUP DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop\, you’ll learn how to use TidyUP (a Cidi Labs tool) to clean up and organize your Canvas course content. We’ll walk through scanning a course\, removing unused files and folders\, organizing files in use\, finding duplicate files and content\, and reviewing unpublished or empty course content and items not included in a module. You’ll also learn best practices for maintaining your Canvas courses with TidyUP. This workshop is designed for instructors and staff who manage or support Canvas courses. No prior experience with TidyUP is required. UID:153365-21915717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153365 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,accessibility,Canvas,Cidi Labs,Tidyup LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260924T121524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 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:149541-21906627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T191237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | What is the simplest holographic matrix model? DESCRIPTION:I’ll talk about a Hermitian two matrix model called the Hoppe model\, which has an interesting strong coupling limit where the matrices commute with each other. Furthermore\, there exists an emergent area preserving diffeomorphism symmetry of this model at strong coupling\, which allows us to completely solve it at leading order. The solution for all n-point connected correlators takes the form of a Witten diagram-like expansion in an emergent two-dimensional spacetime. I’ll also briefly talk about commuting strong coupling limits in more general multi-matrix integrals\, including supersymmetric ones. The talk will be based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14781 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21593. UID:151080-21910843@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MADS Placement Process Explained DESCRIPTION:Are you trying to figure out which placement test might be right for you? Would you like to know more about what you can expect in your placement interview?\nInterviewer Anna Vento\, and MADS Admissions & Recruitment coordinator Kelly Barger co-lead an in-depth review of the standard and advanced standing placement test procedure\, advanced interview process\, and hold a live Q&A at the end. Please join us to get your questions answered\, and benefit from the curiosity of like-minded peers! UID:144381-21907981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144381 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T170741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Make it Accessible: Video and Audio Content DESCRIPTION:This workshop will cover key concepts and best practices for creating and sharing accessible video and audio content. Participants will learn the differences between open captions\, closed captions\, subtitles\, and transcripts\, as well as how each supports people with a range of disabilities and access needs. We will also explore how to incorporate effective audio description into presentations\, recorded video content\, and social media\, helping ensure that multimedia materials are more inclusive\, usable\, and accessible to all audiences.\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:149399-21906356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149399 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261004T132756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T153000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:METS & M-Connect Relaxation Station DESCRIPTION:Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS) and M-Connect invite College of Engineering transfer students and community college transfer students to join us for the Relaxation Station on North Campus. Enjoy food\, games\, fall crafts\, and free shoulder massages (between 1-3:30 pm). Stop by 1180 Duderstadt Center on Wednesday\, October 28 between 12:00-3:30 p.m. for this special Transfer Student Week study break! RSVP at https://myumi.ch/J4EJq so we have enough food! UID:153240-21915497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153240 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261001T152518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T235900 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SMART CENTER Symposium DESCRIPTION:November 10 - 11\, 2026\n\nConnect with pioneers and shape the future of single-molecule biology together. The SMBio Single-molecule\nBiology Symposium brings together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches from all over the world to\nshare their research\, connect\, and exchange ideas and experiences.\n\nJoin us at Kahn Auditorium in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building (109 Zina Pitcher Place).\nPlease see https://www.lumicks.com/event/symposium/smbio-2026-midwest# for the agenda. UID:153165-21915238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Molecular,Research,Symposium LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261013T181726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:153650-21916141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153650 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260729T130108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/htrYM6lXQH28gjySTQaKIw\n\nJoin us on Wednesdays from 12:15 – 12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows.\n\nMindful meditation is a contemplative practice that\, over time\, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective\, navigate the demands of daily life\, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness\, open and directed attention\, non-judgment\, and self-compassion. CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction\, support\, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly\, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome! UID:109796-21906862@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregivers,first-generation,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Health & Wellness,Mindfulness,Nontraditional Students,Self-care,Student Parents,Students With Children,Support,transfer students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Welcome to Michigan,Well-being,Wellness,women,women's health,Work-life Balance,Zoom LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260619T104647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Career Exploration Resources & Strategies (for Graduate Students) DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options\, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking\, transferable skills\, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers\, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available. This workshop is designed for master's students\, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhamdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance. \nBrought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.\n UID:149022-21905329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149022 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Virtual on Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T183131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Career Exploration Resources & Strategies (for Graduate Students) DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options\, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking\, transferable skills\, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers\, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.This workshop is designed for master's students\, doctoral students andpostdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhamdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance. Brought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with RackhamGraduate School. Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/110431 #UCC UID:149042-21905349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149042 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T163201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:October Staff Craft: Spooky Origami DESCRIPTION:Take a break from work and learn to fold origami bats and ghosts to celebrate spooky season! No experience required\, materials provided. Open to all U-M staff and faculty. UID:153517-21915951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions,Staff Craft,Staff Explorer Pass LOCATION:Ruthven Building (1109 Geddes Ave) Room 1140 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up. UID:102102-21914758@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T160135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Git Beyond the Basics DESCRIPTION:Git Beyond the Basics is designed for researchers who work with code to confidently identify and resolve merge conflicts\, maintain a clean and understandable project history\, and select the right collaboration strategy - including when to create merge commits\, squash commits\, or rebase. Familiarity with basic Git commands such as add\, commit\, push\, and pull is recommended. UID:151040-21910794@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Programming,Research,Research Software Engineering,Workshop LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Git Beyond the Basics DESCRIPTION:Git Beyond the Basics is designed for researchers who work with code to confidently identify and resolve merge conflicts\, maintain a clean and understandable project history\, and select the right collaboration strategy—including when to create merge commits\, squash commits\, or rebase. Familiarity with basic Git commands such as add\, commit\, push\, and pull is recommended. UID:151046-21910802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151046 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T140053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MAXIMIZE Your ACCESS to High-Performance Computing Resources DESCRIPTION:MAXIMIZE Your ACCESS to High-Performance Computing Resources\n\nThis course is hosted remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants.\n\nThe National Science Foundation’s ACCESS program provides researchers and educators nationwide with advanced computing resources at no cost. Available resources include CPU and GPU computing\, data storage\, and cloud-based systems. Use of these resources does not require you to have a current or previous NSF grant.\n\nIn this workshop\, Josh Anderson of the Glotzer Lab will draw on firsthand experience to discuss how to prepare a Maximize proposal and successfully secure an ACCESS MAXIMIZE allocation.  Attendees will learn more about ACCESS resources\, the MAXIMIZE allocation application process and practical considerations for developing a strong proposal.\n\nPRE-REQUISITES\n\nNo prerequisites or preparation is necessary.\n\nINSTRUCTORS\n\nMalcolm Miranda\nCollege of Engineering\n\nJason Sonk\nCollege of Engineering\n\nIf you have questions about this workshop\, please send an email to the instructor mmiranda@umich.edu UID:153744-21916265@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153744 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Access,Arc,Hpc,Xsede LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261019T180346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Other:Putting the Ace in Sex Ed Webinar DESCRIPTION:In celebration of asexual awareness week\, we are uplifting the ace community by centering asexual experiences in sexual health education. This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent\, desire\, and arousal\, communication in relationships\, setting boundaries\, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences. \n\nThis webinar is open to the entire U-M community. Registration is required. UID:153258-21915542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153258 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ace Week LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T113127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Responding to Mental Health Concerns in the Workplace DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:150785-21910175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150785 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Stress Management,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T123855 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Tours:Staff Explorer Pass | Guided Tour: *Frames of Reference\, Past and Present* by Anita Bates DESCRIPTION:The Art Collections and Exhibitions Department for the U-M Dearborn campus is proud to offer a special staff-only tour given by renowned artist Anita Bates of her exhibition\, Frames of Reference\, Past and Present: Selected Works By Anita Bates. \n\nThe tour will take place from 1–2:30 p.m. Immediately following the exhibition tour curator Laura Cotton will offer a brief tour of select pieces from the permanent collection displayed in the Library.\n\n+This event is free+ \n+Staff members from all three U-M campuses are invited+\n\n📍Location:\nStamelos Gallery Center at UM-Dearborn\nMardigian Library First Floor\,\n4901 Evergreen Rd\, Dearborn \n*Free parking is available in the large lot across from the library.*\n\n••••••\nThis program is part of the Michigan Arts Festival Staff Explorer Pass. In partnership with Voices of the Staff\, the U-M Arts Initiative is offering limited complimentary tickets for select campus events and extra special experiences for U-M staff members all throughout October! UID:152324-21913547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Arts Festival,Staff Explorer Pass,Tour LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T181743 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T135000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Carillon Open House DESCRIPTION:Visit the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nVisitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:151972-21912521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151972 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,North Campus LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T093431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.\n\nTuesdays\, 9:30-11 a.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 513 103 7575)\nWednesdays\, 1:30-3 p.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 513 103 7575) UID:152615-21914134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai,Artificial Intelligence,Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Great Lakes Cluster,High Performance Computing,Machine Learning,Social Science,Social Sciences,Statistics LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/5131037575?omn=94024500517 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T100810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T153000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Conversations and Course Planning DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Transfer Student Week with your Newnan Advisors. Chat about how your semester's going\, find resources to support your success\, and spend some time with us. While you're here\, enjoy some fresh popcorn. \n\nThis event is designed for transfer students\, but all are welcome to attend. UID:153548-21915992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Newnan,Newnan Academic Advising,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,Open To All Majors,transfer,Transfer Students,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:Angell Hall - Newnan Advising Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T144919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accessible Word Docs & PowerPoints for Canvas Courses DESCRIPTION:Learn practical ways to make Word Documents and PowerPoints in your Canvas course accessible for all learners.\n\nWe'll explore strategies to create accessible course documents\, and demonstrate how to use tools to make your content accessible.\n\nZoom meeting will include automatic captions.\n\nRegister here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/UBP50HcySlCdBuk-MJLTnQ#/registration UID:151034-21910745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151034 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,accessibility,assistive technology,Digital Accessibility LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T102705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea DESCRIPTION:The story of shipping and of global trade is often narrated as one of ever-increasing efficiency and speed\, of transitions from sail to steam to cargo and futures of automation—of making straight lines. But\, for as long as there has been trade (and ships) there have been delays and interruptions—rerouters and rerouting. I argue that disruptions and moments when things appear to be stuck or rerouted are neither aberrations nor failures. Rerouting\, far from being an exception\, is both the norm and\, at times\, such as this contemporary moment of wars\, sanctions\, and tariffs\, is a condition desired by many as a mode of profit and possibility.\n\nTo showcase the productive possibilities of rerouting\, I focus on one sea route—the Bab-el-Mandeb\, a key chokepoint for global trade connecting Europe to Asia and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. In 2023\, in response to Houthi attacks on merchant ships\, this shipping route briefly disappeared\, as cargo ships were rerouted through the Cape of Good Hope. I tell this story of this rerouting and its consequences both ephemeral and long-lasting from the perspective of a mobile set of actors in the Red Sea. Locating them within longer histories and wider geographies\, I argue for the centrality of interruptions within our understandings of circulation and crossings in the Indian Ocean and beyond.\n\nJatin Dua is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan (U-M). He also directs the Oceans Lab at U-M\, dedicated to collaborative and multimodal ways of engaging oceans as anthropological interlocutors. His research explores maritime mobility\, and its perils and possibilities\, in the Indian Ocean\, focusing on processes and projects of governance\, law\, and economy. His book\, *Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean\, published with the University of California Press* (December 2019) [winner of the 2020 Elliot P. Skinner Book Award\; shortlisted for the 2024 Monsoon Book Prize and translated into Italian and Greek] is a multi-sited ethnographic and archival engagement with Somali piracy and contestations over legitimate and illegitimate commerce in the Western Indian Ocean. In addition\, he has published several articles on maritime anthropology\, captivity\, political economy\, and sovereignty in *Public Culture*\, *American Ethnologist*\, *Cultural Anthropology\,* *Ethnos*\, *Annual Review of Anthropology*\, *History and Anthropology* and *Comparative Studies in Society and History*. He is currently the editor-in-chief of *Comparative Studies in Society and History*.\n\nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/PbbAb\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: warsansa@umich.edu UID:151293-21911330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,Global Affairs,History,Lecture,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Designing Your Life for Master’s Students Virtual Mini-Series DESCRIPTION:What is a well-designed life? How do you find a career where you can thrive? Inspired by Stanford’s Designing Your Life curriculum\, this interactive\, four-week\, in-person series will teach Master’s Students principles for designing a fulfilling career. Participants must commit to attending all four sessions. The series includes brief homework assignments\, in-class discussions\, and out-of-class application activities. This workshop is designed for Master’s Students. Registration closes Friday\, October 23. \nPlease note that your registration status will be marked as pending until all the steps (displayed below) are completed.Registration steps:Thoroughly check the dates to ensure you are available for each session in this workshop series. There are a total of four sessions in this series\, and participants are required to attend all four sessions.All sessions will be selected automatically when you register. Please do not deselect any sessions.If you have any questions about this process\, please contact Kirsten Elling (kelling@umich.edu) or Maggie Gardner (maggieev@umich.edu).Session Dates: October 28November 4November 11November 18\n UID:153222-21915447@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T120606 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:King Talks Information Session DESCRIPTION:These sessions will provide an overview of the application process\, expected time commitment\, and compensation associated with serving as a 2027 King Talks speaker. Interested individuals only need to attend one session. UID:147511-21916294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147511 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T095726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Snack Break | Transfer Student Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Calling all transfer students! During Transfer Student Week 2026\, come grab a treat and get to know us at the Center for the Education of Women+. We appreciate you registering so we know how much food to order. UID:151846-21912266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151846 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Transfer,transfer students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T183203 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Workplace Self-Advocacy: Disability Disclosure and Accommodations DESCRIPTION:You have valuable skills and abilities\, and you may also have a disability. During your job or internship search and once you are onthe job\, you want employers and colleagues to recognize your talents andfocus on what you can do. Self-advocacy is an important part of the worldof work\, and deciding whether and how to disclose a disability or request reasonable accommodations can be part of that process.In this interactive workshop\, you will learn strategies for discussing disability and requesting workplace accommodations. You will also have an opportunity to develop and practice a disclosure or accommodation-request script with peers\, helping you build confidence and strengthen your self-advocacy skills.This workshop is intentionally offered in October in recognitionof National Disability Employment Awareness Month.Brought to you by Student Accessibility and Accommodation Services (SAAS) and the University Career Center (UCC). This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/2019017/share_previewWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficienttime for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\,please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC UID:152043-21912761@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Davenport Scrimmage DESCRIPTION:Michigan Men's Ultimate will be scrimmaging at Davenport University in Grand Rapids\, MI. UID:153540-21915984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153540 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Davenport University Field CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UM-AMDP Info Session: Fall 2027 Admissions Cycle DESCRIPTION:Are you a current University of Michigan undergraduate student interested in earning a master’s degree from the U-M School of Information on an accelerated timeline?\nThe U-M Accelerated Master’s Degree Program (UM-AMDP) offers eligible U-M students a reduced-credit pathway to a UMSI master’s degree. Rather than completing the standard 48 credits\, UM-AMDP students complete 39 credits\, which may allow them to graduate in as little as 1.5 years—or three semesters.\nJoin one of our virtual UM-AMDP Information Sessions to learn how you can continue your education at Michigan and deepen your expertise in the information field.\nEach session includes:\n\nAn introduction to the UM-AMDP and an overview of the curriculum \nInformation about eligibility\, application requirements\, and deadlines \nDetails about the reduced-credit pathway and expected timeline \nLive Q&A with a member of the UMSI admissions team\n\nWhether you’re beginning to explore your options or preparing to apply\, this session will help you understand the program and determine whether the UM-AMDP is the right next step for you. UID:150830-21910245@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150830 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T120829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T161000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Multiscale Analysis of the Energetics of a Sonoluminescing Plasma Blackbody: What Are the Limits of Energy Density Concentration that Can Be Achieved with Collapsing Bubbles? DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nA gas bubble in a fluid can concentrate the energy density of a sound wave by 12 orders of magnitude to create picosecond flashes of light that originate in a dense strongly coupled plasma. An abiding question is: what are the limits of energy focusing that can be realized with sonoluminescence? Our attempt at an answer involves a multiscale simulation of an imploding bubble. The fluid must be described by compressible fluid mechanics as the velocity of implosion exceeds Mach 1. The gas containing fluid cavity is described by molecular dynamics as the gradients of temperature and velocity can be very steep. The available energy per atom matches the measured emissivity and temperature\, provided the ionization energy is much lower than current theories. Application of compressed ultrafast photography to laser breakdown of dense gases reveals a consistent requirement on the large reduction of the ionization potential in these plasmas. Our multiscale analysis allows predictions for regions of parameter space where energy density concentration is substantially larger.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nSeth Putterman is a Professor of Physics at UCLA\, and President of the Julian Schwinger Foundation for Physics Research. He received a BS from Caltech and a PhD from Rockefeller University with George E. Uhlenbeck. Putterman’s thesis on the macroscopic theory of superfluids was expanded into a monograph. His theoretical research in nonlinear fluid mechanics and acoustics motivated him to set up an experimental lab which probed energy-focusing phenomena such as sonoluminescence\, X-ray emission from triboelectrification\, and crystal-generated nuclear fusion. Putterman [with Porrati] developed the foundational theory of sequential quantum jumps in a driven system such as intermittency in the fluorescence of a single trapped ion. He has served on the Defense Sciences Research Council. His work on sonoluminescence was featured on BBC2 Horizon\, “An Experiment to Save the World”. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Physical Society and recipient of a Sloan Fellowship. Putterman was named the UCLA 2010–2011 Faculty Research Lecturer. Currently he is PI on a phase 2 clinical trial at UCLA hospital aimed at curing chronic wounds. Nature profiled his out of the mainstream approach to science in their October 2005 issue.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person\, with livestream on Zoom. For more information\, please check the MIPSE website: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2627.php#fall2026 UID:150202-21908390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150202 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,Research,seminar LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261020T133411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Bioinformatics Seminar Series featuring Lindsey Muir\, PhD (Research Assistant Prof. of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics) DESCRIPTION:Development of cell reprogramming methods is hindered by low efficiency and the challenge of analyzing rare cells that have yet unknown phenotypes. While cells in a typical biosample can be identified using unbiased single-cell transcriptomics\, annotation itself relies on known gene expression signatures. Cells that begin to reprogram within a larger population remain indiscernible using this approach. Work in this area illuminates the unknowns related to our understanding of cell identity and heterogeneity. I will discuss our recent work\, including direct cell reprogramming to human hematopoietic stem cells\, future directions\, and key barriers to discovery in the field. UID:153874-21916580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153874 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,biomedical research,Biosciences,Computational Science LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 4B700 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T151707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go DESCRIPTION:Meet at Burton Tower for a 1-hour walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu). This event happens 'rain or shine.' Open to speakers of German at all levels. UID:151752-21912123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Humanities,Language LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower - Meet Outside the Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T123858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How Wonderful A Good Map Is: How I Came To Chart The Wolverine DESCRIPTION:Artist Elaine S. Wilson will describe her ongoing project\, Charting the Wolverine\, from its inception in 2008 to its current state with 31 “map-prints” and over 240 watercolors created. She'll describe her research of historic atlases and maps and her adventures on the back roads of Michigan and Indiana along the railroad tracks making watercolors and drawings. Join us in the Clark Library or via Zoom (https://myumi.ch/2jjkZ).\n\nCharting the Wolverine is a series of digital prints about what you see when you ride Amtrak's Wolverine train from Ann Arbor\, MI to Chicago.\n\nThis event is made possible through the Dr. Bernard Sivak Memorial Fund. UID:150959-21910622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150959 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261019T123757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Information Session for Admitted Transfer Students DESCRIPTION:Join the Transfer Student Center staff to learn more about:\n\n • How to understand your transfer credit and how transfer credit will count towards degree requirements.\n • Orientation and registration: Registering for your first semester of classes.\n • Connecting with the department you plan to major in.\n • Understanding your housing options\n • Any other questions you may have.\n\nRegistration is required. Register with link at the right. UID:142813-21916407@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T140455 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Policy Gradient Flow for Stochastic Control DESCRIPTION:Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in landmark applications such as AlphaGo and AlphaFold\, and is increasingly expected to play a central role in emerging domains such as autonomous driving. A substantial body of work has established theoretical foundations for classical reinforcement learning algorithms\, including temporal-difference learning\, policy iteration\, and Q-learning. By contrast\, policy gradient descent\, despite its widespread use\, remains less well understood from a theoretical perspective\, largely because of its non-convex structure and the complexity of the underlying functional space. Existing convergence analyses typically require uniform regularity assumptions on the policy\, viewed as a feedback control function\, along the gradient flow\; moreover\, the resulting convergence rates depend on these regularity bounds. In this work\, we significantly strengthen the existing convergence theory. Our key insight is to relate policy gradient descent to a mirror flow on the space of probability measures over controlled trajectories\, where the Bregman divergence is induced by the convex control cost. We rigorously prove a JKO-type convergence result showing that the discrete-time mirror flow converges to its continuous-time counterpart\, and we identify the limiting dynamics as a preconditioned policy gradient descent flow on the space of control processes. Leveraging this mirror-flow perspective\, we establish an exponential convergence rate that is independent of policy regularity. The convergence holds both in Bregman divergence and in the value of the associated control problem. UID:148617-21904532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T184842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Probability and Analysis Seminar: Conformal removability and bubble connectivity of non-simple SLE DESCRIPTION:Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE_\kappa) is a one-parameter family of random fractal curves arising as scaling limits of interfaces in two-dimensional statistical mechanics models. For \kappa \in (4\, 8)\, the SLE_\kappa curve is self-intersecting but not space-filling\, forming complementary connected components known as bubbles. In this talk\, I will discuss the relationship between the conformal removability of SLE traces and connectivity of the bubble adjacency graph\, as well as a sharp phase transition as \kappa varies. Joint work with Zijie Zhuang (UNIGE). UID:153682-21916176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260811T150437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T172000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RTG SEMINAR: Geometry\, Topology\, Dynamics TBA DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:150138-21908180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150138 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261020T085407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Success Workshop: Dealing with Difficult Research Topics DESCRIPTION:Research can invite us to engage with complex\, sensitive\, and emotionally demanding topics—including sexual violence\, discrimination\, trauma\, and the experiences of vulnerable or historically marginalized communities. While this work can be meaningful\, it can also affect researchers in ways they may not anticipate. In this interactive\, student-centered workshop\, you’ll explore how to approach difficult research topics with care—for yourself\, your research partners\, and the communities connected to your work. Through reflection\, discussion\, and realistic scenarios\, you’ll learn practical strategies for recognizing emotional strain\, establishing healthy boundaries\, communicating sensitively\, and seeking support when needed. The workshop will also introduce principles for engaging ethically and respectfully with people’s lived experiences while avoiding assumptions\, harm\, or extractive research practices. Whether you are already working with a difficult topic or simply want to be better prepared\, this session will offer a supportive space to ask questions\, build skills\, and identify resources. You do not need to share personal experiences or details about your research to participate. UID:153848-21916558@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary,Research,symposium,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Travel Basics DESCRIPTION:If you haven't had the opportunity to travel as much as you would like\, we will be hosting a travel basics workshop to talk about how to travel like a pro. We will discuss how to find the best deals on flights\, packing tips\, tricks for layovers\, and so much more!\n\nThis session is targeted towards students participating in Ross semester exchange and short-term global programs. UID:150932-21916793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pre-Law 101 Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Pre-Law 101 Info Session is an exploratory program that focuses on developing strategies to explore the legal field and provides an overview of the law school admission process. The session will include a presentation given by Pre-Law Advisors followed by a live Q & A period. The session is open to all interested University of Michigan students and alumni. UID:149584-21906726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T174836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pre-Law 101 Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Pre-Law 101 Info Session is an exploratory program that focuses on developing strategies to explore the legal field and provides an overview of the law school admission process. The session will include a presentation given by Pre-Law Advisors followed by a live Q & A period. The session is open to all interested University of Michigan students and alumni. UID:149583-21906727@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Law,Newnan,Newnan Academic Advising,Pre Law LOCATION:Angell Hall - G-243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21909957@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Rackham Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260527T110226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:UM Law and Philosophy workshop: Gideon Rosen (Princeton Philosophy) DESCRIPTION:As part of the The UM Law and Philosophy workshop\, Gideon Rosen will be speaking at U-M.\n\nMore information\, including location and talk theme will be provided closer to the date.\n\nFind more information on Gideon Rosen here: https://grosen.scholar.princeton.edu/ UID:148427-21904249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148427 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:law,Lecture,philosophy LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261005T114232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:ASIAN HORROR FILM SCREENING – Ringu! DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a night of chills\, thrills\, and culture! Join us for a screening of the iconic Japanese horror film Ringu and discover how studying with Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) can open doors to language\, history\, media\, and more. Come for the horror\, stay to learn about the ALC major/minor! UID:153135-21915134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153135 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian Horror,Asian Languages And Cultures,Film,Film Screening,Horror,japan LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - STB 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T155918 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CEE Open House Fall 2026 DESCRIPTION:This event is for undeclared undergraduate students who have an interest in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)\, as well as those considering a double major or wishing to declare a minor in the field. UID:153133-21915132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153133 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Engineering,Environment,Food,Free,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 1280 (Blue Lounge) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21910011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Room (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up. UID:102102-21914759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T180736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:UM Social Science and Medicine Hub Launch Event DESCRIPTION:The Social Science and Medicine Hub sits within the Center for History\, Humanities\, Arts\, Social Sciences and Ethics in Medicine (CHHASSEM) at the UM Medical School. The mission of SSM Hub is to grow connections between social and medical sciences at the University of Michigan and accelerate innovative interdisciplinary research being jointly conducted by social and medical scientists. We use a living laboratory model to develop and test novel collaboration-building strategies and mechanisms that can be replicated across the University and the nation.\n\nUM Social Science and Medicine Hub Co-directors Julie Maslowsky\, PhD\, and Scott Stonington\, MD\, PhD\, cordially invite social science and medical researchers to attend a dinner\n reception featuring keynote speakers\, an introduction to the Hub\, creative networking\, and funding announcements. UID:153586-21916063@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153586 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:academic medicine,Basic Science,behavior,Biosciences,decision sciences,Diversity,Education,gender,health,health behavior,health care,medical school,medical science,medicine,public health,public health law,Social Sciences LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T060420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Golf Club at Ross x MBW Women's Clinic DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Women’s Golf Clinic hosted by Golf Club at Ross and MBW at Miles of Golf! We’ve reserved five bays for two hours\, with two instructors on hand to help everyone improve their game\, learn something new\, and have fun on the range.\nWhether you’re picking up a club for the first time or play every week\, this clinic is open to all skill levels. Come ready to work on your swing\, ask questions\, and meet other women who enjoy the game in a relaxed environment. UID:153331-21915647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Miles of Golf CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261009T155351 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T191500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Turning a New Leaf! 🍂 DESCRIPTION:Fall into new connections and fresh strategies for success! Join Transfer Connections for a relaxed\, fall-themed event where you can connect with fellow transfer students\, swap study tips\, explore campus and career resources\, and share what’s helped you thrive at Michigan. Enjoy some fall favorites like hot chocolate\, apple cider\, and donuts while making new connections and finding fresh ways to finish the semester strong!\n\nWhen: Wednesday\, Oct. 28\, 5:45–7:15 p.m.\nWhere: Student Activities Building - Maize and Blue Auditorium UID:153518-21915952@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026,Workshop LOCATION:Student Activities Building - Maize & Blue Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T145221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:America at 250: History\, Memory\, and Truth DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled from the original March\, 2026 date!\n\nFree and open to the public. Registration is not required but we would appreciate it if you let us know you're coming at https://myumi.ch/bDEz9.\n\nMuseums are the classrooms of our country. They play a crucial role in helping us understand the nation’s complex past. This December\, Lonnie G. Bunch III will step down after seven years as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Join us for one of his last public conversations in the role\, a dynamic exchange with Lynette Clemetson\, Director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, on the significance of the 250th anniversary of the United States. At a moment in which discussions about our shared past and collective future feel especially urgent\, this is a rare chance to hear a leader reflect on a career devoted to informing and inspiring Americans to strive for the public good. \n\nQ & A will follow and copies of Secretary Bunch's book *A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump* will be available for purchase. \n\nParking is available at the Thayer Parking Structure\, 216 S. Thayer\, at the standard charge of $10/vehicle.\n\nLonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16\, 2019. As Secretary\, he oversees 21 museums\, 21 libraries\, the National Zoo\, numerous research centers\, and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bunch chronicled the creation of the museum in his book\, *A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump*\, and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. Since 2024\, Bunch has been Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen’s University Belfast. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, Bunch received France’s highest award\, The Legion of Honor\, in 2021.\n\nLynette Clemetson is Director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. She came to the university from NPR where she was Senior Director of Strategy and Content Initiatives\, developing and guiding projects across broadcast\, digital and events to develop new audiences. Her career in journalism spans newspapers\, magazines and audio across a range of platforms. As a reporter\, she was a Washington-based correspondent for *The New York Times *and *Newsweek*\, writing about politics\, social issues and demographic change. Prior to her domestic correspondent work\, she was an international correspondent for *Newsweek *based in Hong Kong\, where she covered the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. She moved into digital strategy and leadership in 2008 as the founding managing editor of TheRoot.com\, launched for The Washington Post Company with Henry Louis Gates Jr. She is also the former Director of Content Strategy at Pew Center on the States.\n\n*This 2026 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture is presented by the Institute for the Humanities in partnership with Wallace House Center for Journalists. Additional support provided by the Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Life-Changing Education\, Museum Studies Program\, U-M Library\, and the U-M Museum of Art*. UID:142899-21891778@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142899 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,american culture,Art,Art History,Democracy,Discussion,History,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Museum LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T111502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Deutschtisch is a weekly event in the North Quad dining hall for Max Kade residents and visitors from outside of Max Kade Haus to speak German during a meal. UID:151889-21912343@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151889 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ELI Student to Student Event: Halloween Celebration! 2026 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Halloween with other U-M international students and get into the Halloween spirit!Learn about the history of this popular holiday rooted in ancient Celtic traditions that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark\, cold winter.Come warm up and make new friends over pizza and Halloween candy. Make your own Jack-o'-Lantern\, one of the most iconic symbols of Halloween to decorate your home or office. There will be prizes for the most creative lanterns! UID:153900-21916612@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153900 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Weiser Hall 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T153227 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Excursion Lab DESCRIPTION:Adventure starts with trying something new. Excursion Lab is a series of approachable outdoor experiences where you can experiment with new activities\, build confidence\, and meet other students. Try things like geocaching\, slacklining\, rucking\, and other outdoor pursuits in a welcoming\, beginner-friendly environment. No previous experience required. UID:151136-21910944@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151136 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Well-being LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building - Adventure Leadership Outpost CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T134858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Haunted Histories DESCRIPTION:Join the Clements Library for a spooktacular open-house style event. Go undercover as a detective to solve the murder of a 1910s mayor before a new mayor (who's possibly the killer) is elected! Inspired by our current exhibit\, \"Who Counts? A History of Voting in America\,\" you'll meet the town's candidates\, vote in the election\, and view the exhibit. Additionally\, participate in a costume contest from 7:30-8 pm or attend performances at 7 and 8 pm of “A Ghost\,” a play from our very own collections! Register now to reserve your spot. UID:153055-21915020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153055 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Event,Free,Halloween,history,Horror,In Person LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IGR (SET) Crafts/Movie Night DESCRIPTION: UID:153562-21916012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:530 E. Liberty St. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Kessler Creatives: Bracelets and Coloring Pages DESCRIPTION:We are making bracelets and coloring coloring pages with pizza! RSVP if you want dinner :) UID:153375-21915727@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153375 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:LSA Multipurpose Room (1040) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T094608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:Road Trip! A Live Stage Production and Community Conversation DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nJoin us for a kickoff of the Parental Advisory Toolkit and our live stage performance: Road Trip!\nWe are proud to launch Parental Advisory: A toolkit for modern families to support youth substance use prevention\, from your friends at OPEN and HBOM.\n\nAbout Road Trip:\nCar rides and couch time can be great opportunities for conversation. A Michigan family is driving Up North and you are in the backseat in our production of Road Trip: A Parental Advisory Initiative.\nRoad Trip is presented in three acts\, with six fantastic professional actors playing the role of parent and youth.\n\nThroughout the show\, a track list of popular songs and shows will be played\, and the cast will press pause to discuss the song or show's portrayal of drugs and alcohol. Our goal is for you to feel like you could see yourself starting similar conversations with your children. Even if they don’t engage right away\, it doesn’t mean they didn’t hear you. You are planting important seeds that can really make a difference.\n\nAfter the performance\, we will have an open discussion and Q&A with three expert panelists and the Parental Advisory/HBOM/OPEN team. Panelists include:\nCharles Graham\, PhD\, LCSW\, University of Michigan\, Adolescent Addiction Disorder Expert\nJohn Steffenson\, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital\, Michigan Medicine\, Music and Occupational Therapist\nVicki Kavanaugh\, CPS\, Arbor Circle\, Prevention Manager\, Prevention and Advocacy Division\n\nAbout Parental Advisory:\nToday’s caregivers are raising young people in a world with social media\, high-potency legal cannabis\, vaping devices\, counterfeit or poisoned pills and increasing concerns about youth mental health. Many parents grew up in simpler times\, when warnings and campaigns focused on fears rather than honest conversation.\n\nThe world has changed\, but one thing has not: Young people need trusted adults who listen\, stay informed\, set clear boundaries\, and stand beside them when things get hard.\nParental Advisory is here to help you and your family navigate the modern world of substance use prevention. Visit www.miparentaladvisory.org to find the complete toolkit. UID:152201-21913230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Arthur Miller CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260115T110339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Stuttering Support Group DESCRIPTION:This Stuttering Support Group is open to any teens and adults who stutter. It provides a safe space to connect\, share experiences\, and navigate challenges with one another.\n\nDate: Fourth Wednesday of every month\nTime: 6:00p.m.–7:30p.m.\nLocation: 3rd Floor Freespace\, Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown\n\nAttendees can also join virtually if they prefer. Please email cwsbrains@umich.edu to request the link to join.\n\n*This group meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month at the same time and place.*\n\nHosted by the Ann Arbor Stuttering Awareness and Research Club (A2STAR) in collaboration with the U-M Speech Neurophysiology Lab. The group is facilitated by students from the University of Michigan who stutter. UID:121370-21894319@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/121370 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,In Person,Inclusion,Social,Student Org,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 3rd Floor Freespace CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UMSI Inclusive Leaders in Information program DESCRIPTION: UID:153683-21916181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Leinweber 3250 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T213000 SUMMARY:Other:Beginner lesson and social dance DESCRIPTION:Swing Ann Arbor hosts a beginner Lindy Hop drop-in lesson and social dance every Wednesday! No partner or experience needed. You do not need to be a student of the University of Michigan to attend. Just bring yourself and some comfy shoes!\n \n WHEN:Join us Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for a free beginner drop-in lesson\, followed by a social dance from 7:30-9:30pm!\n \n WHERE:Michigan League\, Vandenberg Room throughout Fall 2025911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\n \n COST:Admission to beginner drop-in lesson: FREE!\nAdmission to social dance: $5 or FREE if you take the beginner drop-in lesson\n \n LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAYS:Each last week of the month we are hosting live music during our social dances! Check out our separate event listing for full details.\n \n VOLUNTEER:Help us run the front desk! You get free admission and $5 in Swing Ann Arbor credit! Email swingannarbor@gmail.com to help out.\n \n Photo Credit: Samantha Kunz Photography UID:152098-21912988@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152098 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Vandenberg Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T213000 SUMMARY:Other:Live Music Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Swing Ann Arbor hosts a beginner Lindy Hop drop-in lesson and social dance every Wednesday! No partner or experience needed. You do not need to be a student of the University of Michigan to attend. Just bring yourself and some comfy shoes!\n\n \n LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAYS:Each last week of the month we are hosting live music during our social dances! The cost for these events is $10-30 Pay-What-You-Wish. The beginner lesson is still free.\nSeptember 30: Lynne Frederickson\nOctober 28: Kait Bimer\nNovember 25: Swing Nouvelle\n\n \n WHEN:Join us Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for a free beginner drop-in lesson\, followed by a social dance from 7:30-9:30pm!\n \n WHERE:Michigan League\, Vandenberg Room throughout Fall 2025911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\n \n VOLUNTEER:Help us run the front desk! You get free admission and $5 in Swing Ann Arbor credit! Email swingannarbor@gmail.com to help out.\n \n Photo Credit: Samantha Kunz Photography UID:152107-21912997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Vandenberg Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222132 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Oxford Houses (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150871-21914684@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Resume Review Workshop CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Stockwell (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150491-21916273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150491 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Grand Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260930T102622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T210000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Transfer Student Wellness Study Nights DESCRIPTION:Transfer students\, join us in the Transfer Student Center (LSA 1180) for cozy wellness study nights on Wednesdays in October. Bring a blanket & friends for a better lock-in session. Free coffee\, tea\, & hot chocolate!\n\nNo registration required. Just come on by anytime between 7-9 PM. UID:153098-21915084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153098 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Wine Tasting - Reds Around the World DESCRIPTION:Join Wolverine Wine Club for our second Wine Tasting & Education Session\, featuring red wines from around the world. Learn about different varietals\, regions\, and tasting profiles\, followed by a social hour to enjoy more wine and good company.\n📅 Wednesday\, October 28\n⏰ 7:00 PM\n📍 1824 Cocktails & Coffee\n \nPricing:\nWWC Members: First tasting FREE | Subsequent tastings $10\nNon-Members: $25\n \nPayment Methods (Please pay within 30 minutes of registration):\nZelle: rosswolverinewineclub@umich.edu\nVenmo: Michael-Clark-147\nOnly 45 spots available. Only add a +1 to the RSVP if you are bringing a guest UID:153377-21915729@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153377 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1824 Cocktails and Coffee CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21910012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Room (League, 2nd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T181658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Octubafest DESCRIPTION:Octubafest is a three day celebration of music for the tuba and euphonium. Octubafest\, as a concept\, originated with the late Harvey Phillips\, longtime Professor of Tuba at Indiana University. \n\nThe recitals for these three evenings will feature solo and chamber music performances by members of the University of Michigan Tuba Euphonium studio. UID:149546-21906668@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149546 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261013T163752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pumpkin Decorating DESCRIPTION:Get into the fall spirit with a night of pumpkin decorating\, pizza\, and community! Join us to decorate your own pumpkin while enjoying good food and connecting with your fellow residents. Whether you’re feeling creative or just looking for a fun way to unwind\, everyone is welcome!\n\nCome craft\, eat\, chat\, and enjoy some fall fun with your neighbors! UID:153642-21916133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free LOCATION:Couzens Hall - CAMEO Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T141033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Succulent Making DESCRIPTION:In this event\, residents will be able to engage with each other while participating in the creation of succulents. In making these mini succulents\, residents will be able to converse with each other\, while listening to music! UID:153641-21916132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free LOCATION:Newberry Residence - Audre Lorde Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260920T223410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:UMS presents Bruce Liu DESCRIPTION:Program\nGyörgy Ligeti Etude No. 4: Fanfares\nLudwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor\, Op. 27\, No. 2 (“Moonlight”)\nFrédéric Chopin Nocturnes\, Op. 27\, Nos. 1 and 2\nMaurice Ravel Alborada del Gracioso (from Miroirs)\nClaude Debussy Rêverie\, L. 68\nLudwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major\, Op. 53 (“Waldstein”)\nFederico Mompou Glossa sobre Au clair de la lune\nIsaac Albéniz “El Puerto” from Iberia\nFranz Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole\, S. 254\, R. 90\n\n“Liu can do the impeccable glitter\, but his playing is more than pyrotechnics. It is powerful\, polished\, and emanates from a disciplined mind.” (The Telegram)\n\nNot yet 30\, Bruce Liu\, the First Prize winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw\, has become a worldwide sensation and one of the most compelling pianists of his generation. A musician praised for his dazzling technique\, his curiosity\, and artistry that combines “nimble versatility” (The New York Times) and “playing of breathtaking beauty” (BBC Music Magazine)\, the Paris-born\, Montreal-raised Liu makes his UMS debut with a wide-ranging program that draws from his new album Lunaris. This evocative journey through night\, imagination\, and transcendence is built around some of the most iconic piano repertoire every written. “You don’t always know where Bruce Liu is taking you\,” says ResMusica\, a French classical music and dance publication\, “but you feel compelled to follow him.” UID:152499-21913831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Music,Hill Auditorium,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Piano Performance,UMS LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T120242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Haggis X-1 DESCRIPTION:A mix of Enter the Haggis favorites and fresh material\, all served with their signature Celtic fire\n\nHaggis X-1 is a high-energy Celtic rock band built around veteran members of Enter the Haggis. Over a 30-year career\, Enter the Haggis toured extensively across North America\, performing on national television programs including Regis and Kelly\, A&E\, PBS\, and at prestigious stages such as the Kennedy Center for the Arts. Their songs “One Last Drink” and “Down With The Ship” have become modern Celtic pub anthems\, keeping audiences raising a pint and singing along wherever they’re played.\n\nCarrying that legacy forward\, Haggis X-1 blends driving rhythms\, pipes\, fiddle\, and memorable songs into a powerful live show that connects equally with longtime Celtic music fans and brand-new listeners. The band delivers a mix of beloved Enter the Haggis favorites and fresh material\, all rooted in strong melodies\, big choruses\, and a sense of celebration.\n\nIn addition to Craig Downie\, Trevor Lewington and Tom Barraco of Enter the Haggis\, Haggis X-1’s lineup features virtuoso fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Grandmont on fiddle and mandolin (known for appearances on America’s Got Talent and performances with Barrage and Ben Harper)\, guitarist Will Earley adding rhythmic punch and melodic flair\, vocalist/keyboardist Charlotte Roth bringing dynamic lead vocals and rich textures to the band’s sound\, and Anthony Candullo on bass. Together\, they create an engaging\, contemporary take on Celtic rock that’s equally at home in listening rooms\, theatres\, clubs\, and festival stages.\n\nHaggis X-1 is built for live performance: a tight\, seasoned band delivering big hooks\, fiery instrumentals\, and the kind of communal singalongs that turn every night into a celebration. UID:148915-21905198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T181658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Trent Ice\, horn DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Trent Ice performs a final master's degree recital. UID:153943-21916797@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153943 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261002T161912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T235900 SUMMARY:Well-being:Cook Scholars Free Sips DESCRIPTION:One month in\, are you looking for direction in networking\, searching student orgs\, or finding your way around Ann Arbor\, talk to us. We can help. During Sober October\, we'll treat you to Free Sips of your favorite beverage. Please indicate you're a Cook Scholar\, when you use the registration intake form (links on right). UID:153052-21915014@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153052 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cook Scholars,Free,Networking,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T235900 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Goosechase: Ghouls & Geese DESCRIPTION:Join the Ghouls & Geese Goosechase to explore campus haunts\, find free fall fun\, and make the most of spooky season. As you earn points\, you'll compete with fellow classmates for a top spot on the leaderboard. The 1st place winner gets a $100 gift card\, join now and start solving! UID:153389-21915793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Competition,Explore,Fall,Goosechase,Halloween,On Campus,Prize LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T171204 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Make it Accessible: InDesign to PDF Best Practices DESCRIPTION:Join this workshop to learn how to build accessibility into your Adobe InDesign documents from the start\, shifting from retroactive remediation to a “born accessible” workflow. We’ll briefly discuss key accessibility regulations and what they mean for your documents\, then cover design decisions that make a big impact\, such as color contrast\, font choice\, layout\, and content organization.\n\nThe core of this session will be a guided demonstration of InDesign features that support an accessible output\, including text box threading\, image anchors and alt text\, paragraph styles export options\, and much more. We’ll also show you how to export your content to a tagged PDF and provide resources for doing final checks and clean up in Acrobat.\n\nAs a participant\, you’ll receive access to a sample InDesign file to practice applying accessibility features along with additional resources for continued learning. There will also be time for Q&A. \n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:149388-21906341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T180335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Spooky Cider Mill Ride 👻🎃🍩 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Halloween road ride to the Dexter Cider mill\, where we'll stop for treats before returning home. While this is a no-drop ride\, riders should be comfortable riding ~25 miles at a 11-13 mph pace. \nAs always\, helmets are mandatory! Don't forget to bring water\, money/card/ID\, and a spare tube if you have one. Lights/reflectors are optional\, but highly recommended. Costumes are welcome! 👻🎃\nWill update the route once we're closer to the ride. Hope you can join us! UID:153183-21915517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Washtenaw Dairy CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T104038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Photo Exhibition. This is the Place DESCRIPTION:There are nearly one million refugees currently living in Poland. While the vast majority arrived from Ukraine\, Poland has also welcomed forcibly displaced people from Central Asia\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. While refugees may be different\, they all search for a place that reminds them of home.\nIn *This Is The Place*\, a project supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)\, Anna Liminowicz asked refugees to show what\, in Poland\, reminds them of their home. These portraits and the personalized confessions her subjects handwrote in their native languages tell poignant stories about safety and hope.\nAnna Liminowicz is an award-winning photographer and reportage journalist based in Warsaw\, Poland. A frequent contributor to the *The New York Times*\, *The Guardian*\, *The Wall Street Journal*\, *The Washington Post*\, *El Pais*\, *Der Spiegel* and UNHCR\, Liminowicz divides her time between assignments and long-term personal projects\, mainly focusing on social issues like identity and loss\, and what uplifts her subjects. She has covered the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Poland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion\, and received the 2022 Grand Press Photo Award for her project “Too Precious to Leave Behind”.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149978-21907756@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149978 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:russia,Ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908837@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T113711 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership in Action: Building a Speak Up\, Listen Up\, Follow Up Culture DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:150789-21910179@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Culture,Intergroup Dialogue,Leadership,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location - West Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260721T102305 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Transfer Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate U-M's transfer students for National Transfer Student Week 2026! Occurring from Monday\, October 26 through Friday\, October 30 you will find a series of fun\, engaging\, and educational events from a variety of campus offices and departments ready to celebrate and uplift our transfer students. UID:149489-21906485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149489 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Celebration,Free,Transfer,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026,Undergraduate Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261001T160941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women's anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. Instead\, the exhibit offers evidence of joy\, reminders of possibility\, and a visual legacy for generations to come. \n \nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae's belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers. They create space for BIPOC families to see themselves represented with dignity and to witness the full range of birth experiences. Lashae's photographs also create a tangible record that can support conversations around quality of medical care\, respectful treatment\, and patient rights. The exhibit empowers women to prioritize and advocate for their birth experiences while also encouraging perinatal health professionals and birthworkers to center the humanity\, dignity\, and individual experiences of patients and families. \n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer whose work has been published in Everyday Birth Magazine\, an international publication. The physical exhibit is accompanied by a virtual component that encourages audiences to engage with each mother's birth story.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan. \n\nBlack Birth Joy\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM UID:153178-21915304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153178 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:advocacy,african and african american studies,american culture,anthropology,Art,artists and curators,photography LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T130435 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy photography exhibit DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women’s anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. \n\nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae’s belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers.\n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan.\n\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM UID:153919-21916666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:advocacy,african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,american culture,Art,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Black America,Blackness,Caregiver,Caregivers,center for the education of women,community activism,Community Engagement,daas,Diversity,equity issues,Exhibition,feminism,feminist,Gender Equality,gender studies,Health,Health & Wellness,health and wellness,Health Equity,healthcare,Nursing,obstetrics and gynecology,reproductive health,reproductive justice,Reproductive Rights,sexuality,social science research,Storytelling,Student Parent,Student Parents,Students With Children,Wellness,women,women of color,Women's And Gender Studies,women's health,women's health program,women's studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T123553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm. UID:152203-21913276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T151759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.\n\n *Image: \"Untitled\,\" Jade Saren\, Creative Growth Art Center* UID:149758-21907085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260928T153704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261019T123757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T101500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Information Session for Admitted Transfer Students DESCRIPTION:Join the Transfer Student Center staff to learn more about:\n\n • How to understand your transfer credit and how transfer credit will count towards degree requirements.\n • Orientation and registration: Registering for your first semester of classes.\n • Connecting with the department you plan to major in.\n • Understanding your housing options\n • Any other questions you may have.\n\nRegistration is required. Register with link at the right. UID:142813-21916408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T095413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pumpkin Painting at the TSC for Transfer Student Week DESCRIPTION:Transfer Student Week is Mon\, Oct. 26 - Fri\, Oct. 30. Join us at the Transfer Student Center to celebrate with pumpkin painting and hot cider! \n\nStop by the TSC (LSA 1180) anytime throughout the week. We're open 9am-7pm Mon-Fri. \n\nWhile supplies last! UID:153724-21916240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153724 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students,Transfer Week,Transferweek2026 LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T094427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Small Works: Prints & Book Objects from Detroit\, 2020–2026 DESCRIPTION:Small Works\nPrints & Book Objects from Detroit 2020–2026\n\nOctober 27 - November 19 \nPublic Reception: Friday\, November 13 from 4:30-6pm.\n\nSmall Works was a print shop ran by Li Chen & Gerald Schulze\, in Detroit\, MI\, from 2020–2026. Mariana Matos joined as the studio assistant\, and later studio manager\, in 2024. Over those six years\, the business grew from an extension of their design practice to a community space that hosts more than 70 classes a year\, open studio for the public\, and year long funded fellowships that investigate practice in art and design related to the Book Arts. In 2026\, they decided to expand community programming\, and to accommodate this expansion closed Small Works\, and formed Center for the Book Arts Detroit (BAD) which operates in the same space.\n\nThis exhibition is a eulogy for the former Small Works shop\, and a celebration of all the people who made work here. It also serves to show what is possible as a community\, when they share space and create work together. \n\nThe work featured is a collection of things printed by Small Works\, by their studiomates Diskette Press\, the publisher Maamoul Press\, and by the community that uses the space. UID:152872-21914637@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Book,book discussion,book event,Detroit,Exhibition,Michigan Arts,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Arabic Placement test_October 29\, 2026 (9:30am-12:00pm EST) DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test takes approximately three hours in length\, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed on paper and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed online through Canvas site\, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion\, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: a. Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the LSA Language Requirement.b. Students who are not able to write in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) do not need to take the placement test and they will be advised to enroll in Arabic 101.Where can I view my results?a. Placement results are posted within 7 business days after the test.b. You will not be notified of your score automatically. c. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.\nImportant information about the test* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in\, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* Students who are currently taking an Arabic course will not be allowed to take the placement test. * Students who took or are currently enrolled in an Arabic course are not eligible to take the Arabic placement test. They should register for the next course level.* The test assesses students’ proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)\, NOT colloquial Arabic.  * If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge\, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before\, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM\, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level\, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement. * Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in\, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101\, 201\, 401\, 501 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester\, and Arabic 102\, 202\, 402\, 504\, 511 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 & 102\, combined) AND Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202\, combined) are offered in the Spring-Summer terms.\nUM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan\, Syria\, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to developing the four language skills of formal Arabic (fuSHa). \nIf you have questions regarding the placement test\, please contact the program director at\, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu. UID:151599-21911809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151599 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:1500 North Quad 105 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Language Resource Center) (MAC Lab) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T222111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21909958@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:NQ 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T151354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000 SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants! DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES). UID:138848-21913632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/3131159012 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261021T183219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T113000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:International Student Career Series - Navigating On Campus Job Search DESCRIPTION:Looking for a job on campus but not sure where to start? Join us for this interactive session designed to help international studentsexplore the on-campus employment opportunities available at U-M. You’lllearn how to approach the application process with confidence\, discover how campus jobs can help you build valuable skills for future career success\, and find out how the University Career Center can support you throughout your journey. This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attendthis event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/2028187/share_previewWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensuresufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to ourprograms\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC UID:152782-21914516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T150032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Early Voting at the UMICH Votes Campus Voting Hubs DESCRIPTION:Victors Vote Early!\n\nStop by a Campus Voting Hub at UMMA or the Dude to Vote Early\, right here on campus. City of Ann Arbor voters can cast a ballot in person during Ann Arbor’s Early Voting at either Campus Voting Hub from Wednesday\, October 21 through Sunday\, November 1\, 11am–7pm every day\, weekends included.\n\nNot registered in Ann Arbor\, or moved since the last election? You can register and vote in the same visit. You’ll need a photo ID (like your MCard) and proof of residency (like your address in Wolverine Access)\; see govote.umich.edu/reg for what else counts.\n\nAlready have a City of Ann Arbor absentee ballot you need to return? Both hubs have an official Ann Arbor drop box.\n\nAnd UMICH Votes Fellows are on-site to answer any questions you have about voting! Plus stop by for food\, festivities\, live music\, voting stickers and button making!\n\nUMICH Votes is a non-partisan initiative of the Office of the Provost. UID:153584-21916047@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,Voting LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T150032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Early Voting at the UMICH Votes Campus Voting Hubs DESCRIPTION:Victors Vote Early!\n\nStop by a Campus Voting Hub at UMMA or the Dude to Vote Early\, right here on campus. City of Ann Arbor voters can cast a ballot in person during Ann Arbor’s Early Voting at either Campus Voting Hub from Wednesday\, October 21 through Sunday\, November 1\, 11am–7pm every day\, weekends included.\n\nNot registered in Ann Arbor\, or moved since the last election? You can register and vote in the same visit. You’ll need a photo ID (like your MCard) and proof of residency (like your address in Wolverine Access)\; see govote.umich.edu/reg for what else counts.\n\nAlready have a City of Ann Arbor absentee ballot you need to return? Both hubs have an official Ann Arbor drop box.\n\nAnd UMICH Votes Fellows are on-site to answer any questions you have about voting! Plus stop by for food\, festivities\, live music\, voting stickers and button making!\n\nUMICH Votes is a non-partisan initiative of the Office of the Provost. UID:153584-21916059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,Voting LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - The Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261012T121522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000 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:138033-21881354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260819T162337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Community Event DESCRIPTION:Join the IOE students\, faculty and staff as we gather around food and friends. UID:148456-21909640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite (IOE 1700) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR