Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Book Signing: Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge (September 21, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42980 42980-9688336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Learn about the dynamic history of the museums at the University of Michigan as part of the University's Bicentennial Anniversary. Copies of the 'Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge' will be available for purchase in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology gift shop during the event.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Other Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:04:24 -0400 2017-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Object Lessons
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Center for Socially Engaged Design Launch Open House (September 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42939 42939-9685661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Center for Socially Engaged Design

Come tour the newly opened Center for Socially Engaged Design (C-SED)! Learn about C-SED's mission and resources, meet the socially engaged design community in the College of Engineering, mingle and have a bite to eat.

The Center for Socially Engaged Design at the University of Michigan College of Engineering provides research and education to advance the science and practice of integrating human, cultural, economic, and environmental factors within technology design processes.

RSVPs appreciated: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1488709

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:48:06 -0400 2017-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Center for Socially Engaged Design Reception / Open House Center for Socially Engaged Design
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (September 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Third Century Screens (3CS) Colloquium (September 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42061 42061-9531993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Guest artists and scholars mingle with U-M students and faculty and share their understanding of screen culture and its histories, ideas, and practices in the arts, humanities, entertainment industry, sciences, and commerce. Featured guest speakers are Alison Griffiths, (author of Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinemas, Museums and the Immersive View; Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture; and Screens Behind Bars: Cinema, Prisons, and the Making of Modern America) and Ricardo Rivera, artistic director of Klip Collective, a Philadelphia-based collective of video projection artists. Participants will then ride together to Detroit to witness DLECTRICITY, the light spectacle staged on the city’s streets.

Register for the Colloquium at http://myumi.ch/J7ekA

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Performance Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:15:28 -0400 2017-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Third Century Screens (3CS) Colloquium
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 23, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (September 23, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (September 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (September 24, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 24, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 25, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 26, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Book Launch: Object Lessons (September 26, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41551 41551-9358896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The book "Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017" presents a full color journey through the treasures of the University’s collections. Join us for a panel discussion with a focus on items from library collections. Panelists include Martha Conway, director of the U-M Library's Special Collections Library; Kevin Graffagnino, director of the Clements Library; and Terry McDonald, director of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:01:49 -0400 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Object Lessons
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42426 42426-9601972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by FoodLab Detroit, Keep Growing Detroit, and GRA Inc. Join us to learn first-hand how community entrepeneurs in Detroit and post-tsunami Japan are working to make the business of growing, picking, and selling food more equitable and inclusive!

To register for this event, or to sign up for a ride to Detroit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agricultural-entrepreneurship-in-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168276288

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:44:03 -0400 2017-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Detroit & Regional Japan
2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: The Intrinsic Reward of a Life (September 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41612 41612-9383190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The 2017 Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan will be given by our own Professor Allan Gibbard. This year's Tanner Lecture, taking place during the University's Bicentennial Celebration, will reflect on the historic role and future of philosophy at UM. Specifically, Professor Gibbard will discuss the history of ethics at UM and what he took from the Stevenson-Brandt-Frankena era, which made UM a leader in moral philosophy.

On September 28, Professor Gibbard will be joined by Professor Stephen Darwall (Yale University), Professor Connie Rosati (University of Arizona), and Professor Sigrun Svavarsdóttir (Tufts University) for a symposium.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:57:55 -0400 2017-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: The Intrinsic Reward of a Life (September 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41612 41612-9383191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The 2017 Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan will be given by our own Professor Allan Gibbard. This year's Tanner Lecture, taking place during the University's Bicentennial Celebration, will reflect on the historic role and future of philosophy at UM. Specifically, Professor Gibbard will discuss the history of ethics at UM and what he took from the Stevenson-Brandt-Frankena era, which made UM a leader in moral philosophy.

On September 28, Professor Gibbard will be joined by Professor Stephen Darwall (Yale University), Professor Connie Rosati (University of Arizona), and Professor Sigrun Svavarsdóttir (Tufts University) for a symposium.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:57:55 -0400 2017-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T12:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Center for Japanese Studies - A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning (September 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41959 41959-9497500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Robert Hall, the first director of the Center for Japanese Studies, once remarked: "For both faculty and student, the study of an area on the spot will do more than anything to demonstrate the essential unity, in actual life, of the knowledge encompassed by the different disciplines." In the seventy years since Hall founded CJS, this twin commitment to engagement and interdisciplinarity has never ceased to guide the Center's work. This panel event will convene several Center faculty to discuss CJS's long history of engaged scholarship, beginning with the historic Okayama Field Station in 1950 and continuing to the present day in the form of CJS's various study abroad, service-learning, and internship programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:36:44 -0400 2017-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42519 42519-9609331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by the Michigan Architecture Prep Program and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we delve into the basics of community design practice as applied to Ishinomaki, Japan--a community devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What are the principles of community design? How might we think of adapting the practices applied in Ishinomaki to communities in Detroit?

Registration is required and lunch will be provided, 11am-noon.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-design-in-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36802808190

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form.: https://goo.gl/forms/QrJ2fzVlwc6G8XjL2

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:45:25 -0400 2017-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Community Design in Detroit & Regional Japan
Yoga in the Big House (September 29, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41839 41839-9487235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Stadium
Organized By: MHealthy

On September 29, bring your best warrior pose and downward facing dog to the field of Michigan Stadium to celebrate U-M’s 200th birthday! Yoga in the Big House is a fun opportunity to get moving, centered and more relaxed in a place that is uniquely Michigan!

Sessions start every 30 minutes and include a five-minute cool down. Stay for 30 minutes, an hour or more! Each session is led by a Rec Sports or MHealthy yoga instructor. All levels and abilities are encouraged to attend. For the best experience, please bring a mat, towel and water bottle.

Brought to you through a partnership between MHealthy, Rec Sports, and University Health Service/Wolverine Wellness.

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:21:24 -0400 2017-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Stadium MHealthy Exercise / Fitness Woman sitting in yoga position.
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42570 42570-9611994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Revival Detroit LLC and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we discuss the challenges of real estate vacancy in northwest Detroit's Weatherby neighborhood and in Ishinomaki, Japan--a community devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What steps are local organizations taking to repurpose vacant properties? How do local organizations engage in redevelopment that is not only economically-sound, but also equitable and inclusive of diverse community voices?

Registration is required.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:49:23 -0400 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Real Estate Vacancy in NW Detroit & Regional Japan
Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42571 42571-9611995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Opening reception for Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space and The Carr Center.

Registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:54:46 -0400 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Ishinomaki Laboratory - Exhibition Opening
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (September 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (September 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
The Grandmother Tree Walk (September 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37328 37328-6502314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

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Exhibition Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:39:03 -0500 2017-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition The Grandmother Tree Walk
Cosmogonic Tattoos (September 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42574 42574-9611997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

A maker workshop for all ages! Using a DIY kit co-developed by the Brightmoor Maker Space, Ishinomaki Laboratory, and U-M called the Brightmoor Bento Kit, we will build furniture for use in outdoor classrooms in the neighborhood. Participants can also make their own creations: small stools, bookshelves, birdhouses--whatever you can imagine!

Lunch served at noon.

Registration required. Participants must fill out this questionnaire to secure their registration: https://goo.gl/forms/TQweMy7tKwRe1Ifu1

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:55:49 -0400 2017-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Brightmoor Bento Maker Workshop
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (September 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42575 42575-9611998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

DIY furniture maker Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space and The Carr Center.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:11:26 -0400 2017-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Ishinomaki Laboratory - Saturday Exhibition
Bicentennial Carillon Recital: Spencer Harney and Karl Ronneburg (September 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45031 45031-10072838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Winners of the 2017 "Hack the Bells" Bicentennial contest, Spencer Haney and Karl Ronneburg present "Reclaim" for carillon, live processing, recorded audio, car ensemble, and brass ensemble on Ingalls Mall. Visitors are encouraged to walk around Ingalls Mall to enjoy this spatial performance.

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Performance Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:15:20 -0400 2017-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Bicentennial Carillon Recital: Spencer Harney and Karl Ronneburg
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (September 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42576 42576-9611999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC) and ITNAV Ishinomaki. Join us as we discuss DHDC and ITNAV's co-developed Humans of Ishinotroit project, and workshop future community-engaged, IT-oriented collaborations between the two organizations.

Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-it-education-in-sw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168367561

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:14:19 -0400 2017-09-30T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Youth IT Education in SW Detroit & Regional Japan
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (October 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 1, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (October 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Symposium Kickoff and Exhibit Opening (October 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42727 42727-9651136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

University and community members join forces to deliver a message about climate change through the arts. Featuring cello major Kayla Mathes, who will perform a piece she has written on climate change; poet Sandra Steingraber; and Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez, who will formally open an art exhibit she’s curated on climate change.

Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez, PhD, has been a research faculty member at the School for Environment and Sustainability the University of Michigan for fourteen years. Her research program is centered on Great Lakes applied aquatic ecology, with emphasis on population assessments and ecosystem dynamics. She has authored over 50 peer review publications in scientific journals. Dr. Adlerstein is also a visual artist and she is involved with numerous projects bridging the arts and environmental sciences with particular focus on the role of art in conservation. One of her contributions to art and conservation is the creation of the Art & Environment Gallery in SEAS, where she is director and curator. Dr. Adlerstein is an artist member of the WSG gallery in Ann Arbor and her work is part of public and private collections in countries around the world. Her artwork is featured in Poemas de las Madres (Eastern Washington University Press, 1996).

Kayla Mathes is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan pursuing a double degree in cello performance and environmental science. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and came to Michigan specifically for the music program in pursuit of becoming a professional musician. Half way through her college career, she discovered a new passion for ecology and environmental sciences which has since taken her down a very different path. She now hopes to pursue a career as a forest ecology researcher and teacher.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from US cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media. A contributing essayist and editor for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham Graduate School; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Sustainability Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:41:59 -0400 2017-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Climate Future Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Art & Archive panel discussion with The Hinterlands and Design 99 (October 3, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42133 42133-9560492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A conversation with Detroit performance-art group The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby and Richard Newman) and Detroit design collective Design 99 (Mitch Cope & Gina Reichert), moderated by Amanda Krugliak and Lucy Cahill. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:25:06 -0400 2017-10-03T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-03T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Alverno Presents/Kat Schleicher Photography: The Radicalization Process
Bicentennial Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (October 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41067 41067-9552281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:20:00 -0400 2017-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Michael Mann
57th Annual Organ Conference Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng, carillon (October 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41642 41642-9417553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

See Robert Byrnes' virtuosic "Westminster" performed on the 48-bell Mobile Millennium Carillon parked outside of the Rackham Building, followed by Impressionist works and the Midwest premiere of Joseph Daniel's "Five Miniatures" for carillon and handbell choir. The spectacular finale on the Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower will feature works for bells and electronics, including PAT professor John Granzow's "Euler's Bell" and the North American premiere of Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz's "Nihil constat."

Co-sponsored by a Bicentennial Activity Grant.

Part of the 57th Annual Organ Conference: The Music of Louis Vierne. Presented in memory of Professor Robert Glasgow.

For more information on the Organ Conference, please visit http://myumi.ch/L1YXn

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Performance Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:15:22 -0400 2017-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance 57th Annual Organ Conference Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng, carillon
History and Politics of Climate Change (October 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42728 42728-9651137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This panel will focus on the university’s historical role in climate change science and the current political and social impacts of climate change. Featuring panelists:

Benjamin Iuliano (Undergraduate Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity, University of Michigan)
Stephen Mulkey (President Emeritus, Unity College)
Theresa Ong (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation)
Sandra Steingraber (Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Ithaca College)

Ben Iuliano is a senior at the University of Michigan studying ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, with a minor in food and the environment. In his time at Michigan, Ben has been a student activist affiliated with a variety of groups including Science for the People, the Michigan Student Power Network, and the U-M fossil fuel divestment campaign (Divest and Invest). During the 2015-2016 school year, he served as a student leader for Divest and Invest, overseeing campaign successes including the approval of a Faculty Senate Assembly Resolution and campaign endorsement by the Michigan Daily. Ben has published research on pollinator ecology in urban agroecosystems, and serves as the sustainable food, healthy communities program assistant at the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor.

As a scholar of the interdisciplinary literature in environmental science, Stephen Mulkey is an active public interpreter of climate change and sustainability. His recent research focuses on the role of landscape carbon stocks in climate mitigation and on the academic structure of interdisciplinary programs in the environmental and sustainability sciences.From 2011 to 2015, he served as president of Unity College in Maine, a four-year liberal arts institution dedicated to sustainability science.

Theresa Wei Ying Ong, PhD, is a recent University of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology alum, where she worked with John Vandermeer. Currently, she is a NSF postdoctoral research fellow. She is broadly interested in theoretical agroecology, especially in the setting of urban gardens. Her work focuses on how biocomplexity influences the resilience of these agricultural systems to both ecological and political perturbations. Her scientific work has been published in Nature Communications, and in news outlets including Science Daily. Theresa has helped to organize many political and scientific events at U of M including the Climate Teach-In +50: End the War Against the Planet, the Early Career Scientists Symposium on Humans as a Force of Ecological and Evolutionary Change and the symposium in honor of John Vandermeer: Science with Passion and a Moral Compass. She is a graduate of the Frontiers Masters Program, an initiative to diversify the field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a proud member of Science for the People.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from US cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media. A contributing essayist and editor for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:42:44 -0400 2017-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Climate Future Graphic
Library of the Future Design Challenge: Physical Design (October 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45106 45106-10084369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Design physical mock-ups that imagine what the U-M Library of the Future will look or be like in 10, 25, and 50 years. Results of the challenge can include any form of interaction, from the physical to digital. We'll have refreshments on hand. Please RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLdlXLEHEEZVutkuYof6DabKuxcObGaW_AtxuUVO1qEw8EKw/viewform?usp=sf_link

An onsite prize for "most creative" solution will be awarded by our guest judge, Lisa Sauvé, Co-founder of Synecdoche Design Studio. All solutions will be entered into a pool for "most innovative" solution, with the winner announced October 27. The library will exhibit all products from this design challenge in an embedded exhibit that will showcase through the Fall 2017 term.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:22:40 -0400 2017-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Workshop / Seminar design challenge image
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Stephen Mulkey Lecture: Higher Education During the Great Disruption (October 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42730 42730-9653736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Lecture abstract forthcoming.

As a scholar of the interdisciplinary literature in environmental science, Stephen Mulkey is an active public interpreter of climate change and sustainability. His recent research focuses on the role of landscape carbon stocks in climate mitigation and on the academic structure of interdisciplinary programs in the environmental and sustainability sciences.From 2011 to 2015, he served as president of Unity College in Maine, a four-year liberal arts institution dedicated to sustainability science.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:43:14 -0400 2017-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Stephen Mulkey
Science Café Oil and Soil: The Forces of Climate Change (October 4, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43696 43696-9832672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

The politics of oil, water, and food production are deeply intertwined with human-caused climate change and political upheaval, especially in the Middle East. Join us as we explore and discuss some of the details with Jennifer Blesh, for U-M School for the Environment and Sustainability and Juan Cole, Professor of History and Director for U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current science topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited - come early.

Sponsored by Science for the People and MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis which is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:46:17 -0400 2017-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-04T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Bill McKibben, "Down to the Wire: A Hot Fight in a Hot World" (16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability) (October 5, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42731 42731-9653771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Bill McKibben, an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel." His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books,National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors . In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni—in his honor.

Bill McKibben is the featured presenter of the School for Environment and Sustainability's 16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability.

This program is presented in partnership with MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Center for Sustainable Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Photo by Steve Liptay.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:40:21 -0400 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Bill McKibben
Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA Present: Christo, The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, and Work in Progress: The Mastaba, Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (October 5, 2017 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44956 44956-10015368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Christo is a sculptor known for co-creating large scale ephemeral works worldwide with his longtime artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009). Over the span of his sixty-year career, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created many public works involving the exterior wrapping of buildings, museums, and public spaces in canvas, tarp, and other materials.

Christo appears in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (on view through October 29, 2017) which includes one of Christo’s drawings related to The Gates project.

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with additional support from the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Visit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:10:15 -0400 2017-10-05T17:10:00-04:00 2017-10-05T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Floating Piers
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The People Against Climate Change: Resistance Through Art (October 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42725 42725-9651134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This art exhibition, curated by Sara Alderstein-Gonzalez, will focus both on the history of social impact towards climate change, the role of different student groups, and the possibilities of communicating climate change through the arts.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:17:02 -0400 2017-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Climate Future Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (October 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Saturday Morning Physics | The Arctic and the Tropics: Worlds Apart, Both Amplifying Climate Change (October 7, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44328 44328-9908895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

(Part of the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester Symposium MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis)
Humans have rapidly changed our Earth's climate, well beyond the natural variations recorded over at least the last million years. This perturbation has reached the point where other parts of the natural system are poised to change their behavior through accelerating feedbacks. Melting of permafrost in the Arctic and deforestation of forests and agroforestry systems in the tropics are two such important examples. These feedbacks are poorly understood, but have the potential to alter the globe as we know it and critically test humanity's resolve for mitigation and ability to adapt.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:44:47 -0400 2017-10-07T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-07T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (October 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (October 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (October 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 8, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
In Conversation: Abstract Moments throughout History in Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction (October 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44964 44964-10015380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email.

Join Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, on a tour of Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction, an exhibition that celebrates the rich history of over two thousand years of abstraction in art. The conversation will guide us through works created in different times and locations where the intention of abstraction emerged—from the 5th century Korean ceramic roof-tile, the Chinese calligraphy of the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), to the 19th century African reliquary figure—illustrating that abstraction in visual art was not the invention of the modern West.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:00:25 -0400 2017-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T16:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Abstraction
Climate Change Though Poetry and Music (October 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44576 44576-9931514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Performance Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:22:55 -0400 2017-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Performance Climate Future Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Library of the Future Design Challenge: Narrative & Visual Design (October 11, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45107 45107-10084371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This design challenge will ask students to help us imagine how we might communicate what our U-M Library of the Future can be and do for our community. Results of the challenge can include visual or narrative designs. We'll have refreshments on hand. Please RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuuhqrXXFicIxP0BMxJpkapy_iGmbOPLAcJQ2YuEEq0Mxdjw/viewform?usp=sf_link

An onsite prize for "most creative" solution will be awarded by our guest judge Katie Hearn, Communications Manager at Allied Media Projects. All solutions will be entered into a pool for "most innovative" solution, with the winner announced October 27. The library will exhibit all products from this design challenge in an embedded exhibit that will showcase through the Fall 2017 term.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:24:50 -0400 2017-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T21:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Workshop / Seminar design challenge image
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Immigrants and Newcomers: Historic Limits to Diversity at U-M (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42647 42647-9622474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Matthew Countryman (University of Michigan)
Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)
Brian Williams (University of Michigan)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Matthew Countryman is associate professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan and author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Karla Goldman is Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and professor of Judaic Studies. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard Univeristy Press).

Brian Williams is lead bicentennial archivist at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:39:22 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (October 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9622478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Migrancy and Border Control (October 13, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42662 42662-9622485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Kelly Lytle Hernandez (University of California, Los Angeles)
Eithne Luibhéid (University of Arizona)
Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor in the University of California, Los Angeles Departments of History and African American Studies as well as the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States. Her award-winning book, MIGRA! A History of the US Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), explored the making and meaning of the US Border Patrol in the US-Mexico borderlands, arguing that the century-long surge of US immigration law enforcement in the US-Mexico borderlands is a story of race in America. Her most recently published book, City of Inmates: Conquest and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), is an unsettling tale that spans two centuries to unearth the long rise of incarceration as a social institution bent toward disappearing targeted populations from land, life, and society in the United States. She is also the project lead for Million Dollar Hoods, a digital mapping project that documents how much is spent on incarceration in Los Angeles.

Eithne Luibhéid is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She served as the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies from 2007-2011. Her research focuses on the connections among queer lives, state immigration controls, and justice struggles. Luibhéid is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Luibhéid’s current book manuscript, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Immigration, Deportability, and Queer Intimacies,” explores how deportability is being extended and resisted through intimate ties between LGBT undocumented migrants and US citizens.

Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes on Latin American and Caribbean history, theories and methods of transnational history, and issues of migration, kinship, and gender. Publications include The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (UNC Press, 2002), Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC Press, 2013), and more than two dozen chapters and articles. Recent honors include the Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of Association of Caribbean Historians, for “Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean,” Journal of British Studies (2014) and the 32nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica (2016). Putnam is President of the Conference on Latin American History and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:44:25 -0400 2017-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Crisis Democracy Graphic
Mae Ngai, A Long History of Unauthorized Immigration Keynote: Who Makes America a Nation of Immigrants? (October 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42666 42666-9622501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Mae M. Ngai is a professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Mae is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004), which won six awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians; and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Professor Ngai has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-10); the Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04); the Huntington Library (2006); NYU Law School (1999-2000). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and the Boston Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:44:20 -0400 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Mae Ngai
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (October 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 14, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (October 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-15T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Michigan Past & Present (October 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-15T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan (October 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39350 39350-7970519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:29:44 -0400 2017-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition 200 Years
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T02:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic
Michigan Past & Present (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39291 39291-9432264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:28:06 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Bicentennial Office Exhibition Judson Collins
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Cosmogonic Tattoos (October 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40187 40187-8516600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 May 2017 14:44:24 -0400 2017-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Exhibition Cosmogonic Tattoos
“Waiting for the Extraordinary,” artist reception and Penny W. Stamps lecture by Mark Dion (October 18, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42134 42134-9560493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mark Dion talks about his new iteration of “Waiting for the Extraordinary” on view at the Institute for the Humanities through Oct 20. (Immediately following the lecture, the reception takes place at Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer) Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 18th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this architecturally scaled installation presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers enter the darkened space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it. This new iteration of Dion’s 2011 installation at U-M serves as an archive of the original, as part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:31:17 -0400 2017-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-18T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Image: Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (TBG 14740)
Mark Dion: Waiting for the Extraordinary (October 18, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44979 44979-10038422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In 2011, Mark Dion created the the site-specific installation, "Waiting for the Extraordinary," commissioned by the U-M Institute for the Humanities. The work focused on the original blueprint for the University, and it's thirteen distinct classifications of knowledge, incorporating 3D replicas of artifacts from U-M museums and collections. It served as a formal critique on how institutions influence our understanding of history and choreograph our human experiences.

To coincide with the University's Bicentennial year, and the Institute for the Humanities's theme year of Archives and Futures, Dion now re-stages the work in a new iteration in the Institute's gallery. In this special presentation from the Penny Stamps Lecture Series, Dion will speak about his process and ruminate on both the original and the replica.

Join us for a reception at the exhibition opening directly following the lecture, at the U-M Institute for the Humanities at 202 S. Thayer in Ann Arbor.

Visit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:30:09 -0400 2017-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Mark Dion
Exhibition Opening Lecture | Guaranteed a 99.3% Survival Rate: The Archaeological Futures of U-M Museums (October 18, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42981 42981-9688337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In celebration of the opening of 'Excavating Archaeology' and the University’s Bicentennial, Prof. Susan Alcock will be discussing the future of archaeological museums.

The lecture will be held in the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union, from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. Reception to follow at the Kelsey Museum from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visit the exhibition website:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:47:27 -0400 2017-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T19:15:00-04:00 Michigan Union Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Excavating Archaeology @ the University of Michigan
Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial (October 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 41334-9144044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:04 -0500 2017-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Creating a Campus
Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University (October 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41774 41774-9470850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T23:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Exhibition Forever Unfinished Title Graphic