Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Clements Bookworm: "Vanguard" Author Conversation with Martha S. Jones (January 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90355 90355-21670449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. Historian Martha S. Jones’ 2020 book “Vanguard” shows how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, black women—Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more—were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Tom Wagner.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:03:17 -0500 2022-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Vanguard" Book Cover
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use in Two Urban High-Risk Communities (February 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91744 91744-21682698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use in Two Urban High-Risk Communities
Thursday, Feb. 10, noon ET via Zoom

Speakers: Eric F. Dubow (Adjunct Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics; Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University) and L. R. Huesmann (Amos N Tversky Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Psychology, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, College of LSA and Research Professor Emeritus, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research)

Researchers Dubow and Huesmann report preliminary results of data that they have collected over the last 13 years from youth and young adults in two diverse, urban, high-crime communities (Flint, MI, and Jersey City, NJ). Their findings have shown that early exposure to weapons violence (whether in the family, neighborhood, or through engaging with violent media) significantly correlates at modest levels with weapon carrying, weapon use or threats-to-use, arrests for weapons use, and criminally violent acts 10 years later. Violence exposure was significantly linked to beliefs about the acceptability of behaving aggressively. They argue that youth who observe more violence with weapons, whether in the family, among peers, in the neighborhood, or through the media or video games become infected from the exposure with a social-cognitive-emotional disease (evidenced particularly by normative beliefs approving of gun violence) that increases their own risk of behaving violently with weapons later in life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:38:02 -0500 2022-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21677910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Few retail sectors have been as thoroughly transformed by the revolution in online commerce as the retail bookstore. The retail storefront dedicated primarily to the sale of printed books (new or used) has become a vanishing breed. Or so we are told. But how did readers in the past buy things to read? What sorts of retail outlets sold reading material? And what did it *feel* like to shop there? Clements Library Director Paul Erickson will draw on printed, manuscript, and visual sources to shed light on the various settings for the retail traffic in print in the 19th-century northern United States.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:05:15 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Trade Card for New York Bookseller William W. Swayne, Clements Library.
Critical Conversations: Citizen/ship (February 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91066 91066-21692152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Presentations begin at 12:30pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:00.

Cathy Sanok will explore what kind of resources premodern conceptualizations of citizenship might offer to contemporary ones.

Raevin Jimenez will discuss the cannibals of early 19th century Southeastern Africa and colonialism.

Erin Brightwell will turn to 20th century Japanese Empire and "soft power".

Mrinalini Sinha will make a case for the continuing political and critical purchase of the concept of citizenship.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:47:05 -0500 2022-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion "We the People"
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91307 91307-21677932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality
Thursday, February 24 at 12pm ET via Zoom

Speaker: Erin Cech, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center

“Follow your passion” is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. In this talk, Cech will discuss her research on this ubiquitous cultural narrative that she call the “passion principle.” The passion principle is rooted in tensions between postindustrial capitalism and cultural norms of self-expression and is compelling to college-educated career aspirants and workers because passion is presumed to motivate the hard work required for success while providing opportunities for meaning and self-expression. Although passion-seeking seems like a promising option for individuals hoping to avoid drudgery in their labor force participation, she argues that the passion principle has a dark side: it reinforces socio-economic disadvantages and occupational segregation among career aspirants and workers in the aggregate and helps reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force. These findings have implications for cultural notions of “good work” popular in higher education and the US workforce and raises broader questions about what it means when becoming a dedicated labor force participant feels like an act of self-fulfillment.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:45:30 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
EIHS Lecture: Writing the Past-Perfect: Memoir and the Making of a Meaningful Past (February 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85512 85512-21626798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/Ek82M).

Description: Questions about the relationship between historical memory and slavery have become increasingly acute in a political environment where thinly veiled claims to racial purity have been weaponized to proscribe the boundaries of national citizenship. At the same time, various protest movements have demanded that we reconsider the violent legacy of racism that is enshrined, commemorated, and memorialized in this country. In this talk, Jason Young argues that much of what we have inherited as the sights, sounds, and symbols of slavery are of very recent provenance, much of it produced by influential myth-makers in the early twentieth century who responded to the racial anxieties of their day by weaponizing their memories of the antebellum past. The themes explored in this talk continue to have great currency in the current moment when debates about historical memory, race and slavery are being waged both in the arena of popular culture as well as in the halls of academia.

Biography: Jason R. Young is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcounrty Region of Georgia and South Carolina in the Era of Slavery, an exploration into the religious and ritual practices that linked Kongo with South Carolina in the era of slavery. He is the co-editor, with Edward J. Blum, of The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections. Professor Young has published articles in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Africana Religions and Journal of Southern Religion among others. He is currently conducting research toward his next book project, "'To Make the Slave Anew': Art, History and the Politics of Authenticity."

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:51:31 -0500 2022-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Jason Young
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-25T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-25T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Museum Studies Program: What's the Object of this Museum? (March 8, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92745 92745-21694959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Worker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures, everyday objects and labels written by public housing residents, cultural work that contributes to more just public policies and reparations, collective joy and civic love. Learn about the work of the National Public Housing Museum and how a cultural institution contributes to the ongoing struggle for housing as a human right.

Presentation by Lisa Yun Lee, Director, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/whats-the-object-of-this-museum-everyday-resistance-at-the-national-public-housing-museum/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:02:13 -0500 2022-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2022-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Lisa Yun Lee
West African Dance and Drum: Community, Identity, Storytelling (March 10, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92932 92932-21698086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Where does a dance come from? Who makes a dance? One person? Many? These may seem like simple questions, but they’re portals to bigger conversations in the world of West African dance and drumming, where questions of politics, ownership, innovation, tradition, and identity intersect.

Join Daring Dances artist-in-residence, T. Ayo Alston –founder and director of Chicago-based Ayodele Drum and Dance– with guest speakers from the Detroit West African community (Ajara Alghali and Crettia Hunter), as well as University of Pennsylvania dance scholar Dr. Jasmine Johnson, as the group discusses what it means to make dance from a West African perspective while also centering the voices and experiences of women.

This event is part of the Daring Dances program, and precedes a live performance by Ayodele Drum and Dance on Saturday, March 12, at the Keene Theatre in East Quad at 7 pm. More details on that event here: https://events.umich.edu/event/92805 (Please note the Keene Theatre requires proof of vaccination for all.)

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. For more details on safety protocols, directions, and parking, visit https://umma.umich.edu/plan-your-visit

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:26:39 -0500 2022-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 2022-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Poster for Event
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (March 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21665072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
The 6th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90218 90218-21692643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan invites you to the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

The past five Berkhofer Lectures, featuring Tommy Orange, author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, were grand affairs, with some 300 people in attendance each year. These audiences consisted of students and faculty from U-M, interested residents of Ann Arbor, Native Americans from the Metro-Detroit area, and with the event now online, audiences worldwide. In asking Robin Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment we seek to shift the focus of the Berkhofer lecture to highlight emerging indigenous literary talent.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kreg1LmxTCuWxF61YyGEJg

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:29:02 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Robin Kimmerer
Guinea Sweet Suite (March 12, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92805 92805-21695823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 12, 2022 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

T. Ayo Alston comes to Ann Arbor for a week of guest teaching, panel conversations and performance. While in residence, Alston will build upon a past work, Femme DeLa Force: Herstory to Tell (2014) and HerStory II Tell: Inside her Eyes (2020), using West African dance styles to tell the story of women warriors who have successfully and/or powerfully challenged systems, governments and male dominated conquerors to maintain their land, integrity or their people. Learn more about the residency here: https://www.daringdances.org/tayoalston

T. Ayo Alston will conclude her Daring Dances residency with a culminating performance featuring Ayodele Drum and Dance at the Keene Theater. This event is FREE and open to the public. Proof of vaccination, Photo ID, Face Covering and a fast ResponsiBLUE Health Questionnaire are required for entry to the Keene Theater. A post-show discussion will take place after the performance.

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Performance Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:01:43 -0500 2022-03-12T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Department of American Culture Performance Poster for performance at Keene Theater
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022: Opening Ceremony (March 14, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93297 93297-21702260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

This year's AA&PI Heritage Month theme is: "Are You Listening? Oral Histories and Storytelling from the AA&PI Communities." To kick off our month-long series of events, we will be joined by keynote speaker Dr. Sy Stokes, a scholar whose work is focused on addressing campus racial climate, equity, and student activism. He was a 2020 NCID Postdoctoral Fellow and serves as a lecturer at the University of Michigan. The Opening Ceremony will consist of a keynote speech from Dr. Stokes followed by an audience Q & A session. Register via Sessions today!

https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/54381

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:59:03 -0500 2022-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Ceremony / Service AA&PI Heritage Month 2022 logo in bottom right corner (drawn cassette tape with “AA&PI HM,” “‘22” and a star sticker). MESA logos in bottom left corner (block yellow M with "Student Life Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs" next to white "MESA 50"). The background is light pink with two shapes on the top left corner. On the left side reads, "Join us! AA&PI Heritage Month 2022 Opening Ceremony w/ Dr. Sy Stokes. March 14th, 5-6:30 PM, virtual. To kick off our month-long series of events, we will be joined by keynote speaker Dr. Sy Stokes, a scholar focused on addressing campus racial climate, equity, and student activism in his work."
Bridging 1982 to 2022 (March 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93002 93002-21698989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

"Bridging 1982 to 2022" features an intergenerational panel of Asian American activists, including those who were instrumental on campus and local organizing efforts after the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 and young Asian American activists who have led efforts to combat racism on campus today. The conversation will facilitate a space for discussion to address the interconnections between the murder of Vincent Chin and the recent incidents of anti-Asian violence in Atlanta, Indianapolis, and elsewhere.
The panel will be moderated by PBS Newshour Community Correspondent Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.

The event is hybrid.
The panel will take place in 3512 Haven Hall at 1-2:30pm.
In addition, participants who would like to view the panel online, must register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscOqhrjwvH9wYDLUr7yu0sbh91VvE8eN7

In addition to the afternoon panel, the Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Committee has organized an evening discussion from 7-8pm (Angell Hall, G115).
Please join for a student-driven community forum space to further discuss the themes and thoughts that these events bring up. Registration Required (see AA&PI Heritage Month website for further details: https://mesa.umich.edu/article/aa.pi)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:07:39 -0500 2022-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Arab Heritage Month 2022: Opening Ceremony (March 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93296 93296-21702259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The wait for Arab Heritage Month 2022 is over! Join us on Thursday, March 17th at 6 PM for the Opening Ceremony!

We are excited to kick-off our month long celebration and hope to see you there! Arab Heritage Month is one of the few times our culture and history is given a large platform at our institution, making it all the more important to host inspirational and impactful events for our community, highlighting the pride, success, and strength of Arab people. We hope to showcase the diverse perspectives and paths of the community under this year’s theme of the “Qisasna/Our Stories” theme.

Registration: https://myumi.ch/rqwqR

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:59:10 -0500 2022-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Ceremony / Service Dark teal background with white text. Arab Heritage Month Opening Ceremony on March 17 at 6:00 p.m. RSVP: htttps://myum.ich/rqwqr and instagram @umich_ahm . Black MESA50 logo bottom left corner. Arab Heritage Month logo: gold thermos pouring into green mug and Arab Heritage Month text acts as liquid being poured into mug, at bottom center. MESA logo at bottom left corner (yellow block "M" above white MESA surrounded by blue square).
THE MCCARTHY-ERA RED SCARE IN MICHIGAN: Its Meaning, Then and Now (March 17, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93070 93070-21700319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

David Maraniss, journalist and Associate Editor at the Washington Post, is the author of twelve books, among them: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story; They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October, 1967; as well as biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Roberto Clemente. His most recent book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, should be of particular interest to the University and to the Ann Arbor Community at large. Both Maraniss's parents, Elliot and Mary, were student activists at the University of Michigan in the late 1930s. His uncle, Robert Cummins, was one of three students who volunteered in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War in defense of the Republic. In his book Maraniss offers an account of his parents' anti-fascist activism at the University, his father's work as a reporter and editor at the Michigan Daily (alongside Arthur Miller), and the persecution his parents suffered during the McCarthy era. In 1952 his father was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. After refusing to name names, Elliot Maraniss was fired from his job at the Detroit Times and endured five years of being blacklisted from the newspaper business. Maraniss's presentation will bring to light a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the University and the Detroit area. His family's experiences in a period of heightened ideological tensions should resonate with a broad audience and prompt a serious discussion, given our own era of increasing political polarization.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:05:10 -0500 2022-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion David Maraniss Poster
The Mental Health Consequences of Vicarious Adolescent Police Exposure (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91194 91194-21677140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Mental Health Consequences of Vicarious Adolescent Police Exposure
by Kristin Turney, University of California, Irvine

Monday, March 21, 12-1pm ET via Zoom

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:53:57 -0500 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture (March 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93384 93384-21704099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Sharon P. Holland (she/her) is the Chair of American Studies and Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Holland is also the president-elect of the American Studies
Association.

Her talk focuses on her next monograph, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life."
This project centers itself in the field of Animal Studies and approaches that work from all and every available vantage point. First and foremost, her work involves thinking through the hum/animal distinction, but away from distinction and toward relation, mirroring the seeking behavior that makes us animals in the first place. In this reorientation, she found herself having to resolve a standing tension between the ontological – being -- and the ethical – doing. In philosophical work about the human and the animal, ontological proofs matter more. By creating a hum:animal configuration that centers ethical commitment, her book is then able to ask very different questions about animal life; in following, tracking this life, I returned to debates about blackness, insurgence (Hortense Spillers), flesh and femaleness, the abattoir and lynching, the pessimistic turn and its ordering of "flesh." It travels through multiple areas of critique -- feminist science, new materialism -- and avenues of investigation film, novel, archive, etc.

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

To register please click here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FYWmoxF0T3-0AI4fqAkYAg

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:46:47 -0400 2022-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Livestream / Virtual Poster of the event.
AA&PI HM: Burmese Americans: Weaving a Liberated Life Through Coups, Narratives, & Organizing (March 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93876 93876-21709214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

"Burmese Americans: Weaving a liberated life through coups, narratives, & organizing” is a panel and conversation with Michigan-based organizers Dim Mang and Tha Par. This event will discuss the history of Burmese-Americans in Michigan, and related political organizing such as the founding of the Burma Center in Battle Creek, MI. This conversation will also center ethnic and religious minorities in Burma, and how these identities play into Burmese American organizing. We will end by asking how community members and activists can integrate the identities and histories of Burmese ethnic minorities in our efforts for collective liberation.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:00:00 -0400 2022-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The graphic includes a light blue solid background. At the top in orange text it reads, "Burmese Americans." Below is the text, "Weaving a liberated life through coups, narratives, & organizing" followed by, "Join the Burma Center and AA&PI Heritage Month for a panel and conversation with Michigan-based organizers Tha Par & Dim Mang." Two photos of Par and Mang in circular frames are shown next to their respective names. The date, time, and location are listed at the bottom as "Thursday, March 24th from 6-7PM over Zoom."
Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89836 89836-21665914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies
Rebecca Hardin and David Porter, University of Michigan

Monday, Mar. 28, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
This event will be held via Zoom.

Abstract:
U-M's Detroit River Story Lab is comprised of interdisciplinary faculty, partnering with a wide array of Michigan based organizations in efforts to reconnect residents with the Detroit River. The Story Lab uses the term “narrative infrastructure” to refer both to the fabric of shared stories that binds a given community together and the pipelines and platforms by which these stories are circulated and elevated. For decades, the needs of Detroit riverside communities’ have been framed in terms of physical infrastructure (transportation, utilities, etc). Today, community leaders and scholars alike have recognized how the arts, civic life, local journalism, and public history are also critical to social cohesion and vitality. Alongside Detroit's legacies of inequity due to pollution, the privatization of shorelands, the bulldozing of neighborhoods, and mass-incarceration, has come the loss of sustaining stories about the Detroit River--or resident’s stories for framing sustainability for the city's and region's future. Learning from local residents who do (or who seek to) engage with its waters, the Story Lab partnership seeks to strengthen the narrative infrastructure of the Detroit River corridor with respect to its indigenous sacred sites, roles in the Underground Railroad, and long histories of water activism, among other themes. We work together through independent media, software platforms, innovative secondary and higher education curricula, and interpretive programing in public spaces. We are also developing youth participatory research trainings in river heritage, ecosystem regeneration, carbon accounting and equitable landscape design, to encourage direct personal ties with the river as well as community identification and advocacy along the corridor. Drawing from pathbreaking recent scholarship on Detroit's history and collaborative sustainability science, we work toward possible narrative transformation from the one and only "Motor City” to a preeminent "River City" worthy of emulation as an international and intercultural confluence of innovations in climate change adaptation, active learning and environmental and social justice.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:01:30 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
NOBUKO MIYAMOTO (March 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93972 93972-21712971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program in the Department of American Culture presents

NOBUKO MIYAMOTO
- dance and theater artist -
- Asian American Movement activist -
- songwriter and author of
Not Yo' Butterfly:
My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

in conversation with
Prof. Emily P. Lawsin
ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course
in commemoration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

REGISTER for Zoom Link: tinyurl.com/NobukoWebinar


ABOUT THE BOOK:
Not Yo' Butterfly
My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

By NOBUKO MIYAMOTO
(University of California Press, 2021)

www.ucpress.edu/9780520380653

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose.
Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art.
Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation.
Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021.

ABOUT THE ALBUM:
120,000 Stories
Nobuko Miyamoto
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2021.
https://folkways.si.edu/nobuko-miyamoto/120000-stories?mc_cid=e752c698a4&mc_eid=4d22403658

Nobuko Miyamoto is an icon of Asian American music and activism. Since the early 1970s, she has been exploring ways to reclaim and respirit our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and forge solidarity. 120,000 Stories collects powerful new songs, reinterpretations of old ones, and recordings from across her career, including from the seminal 1973 album A Grain of Sand and the band Warriors of the Rainbow. These songs speak to past and present struggles—for self-determination, Black Lives, the environment. They chronicle difficult histories, they celebrate resilient traditions, and most of all, they endeavor to connect communities.
www.nobukomiyamoto.org

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:09:47 -0400 2022-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T14:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Livestream / Virtual Poster with a picture of the artist and information about the event.
Graduate Student Resume and CV Workshop (April 4, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93245 93245-21701939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

During this session, you'll learn more about how to prepare your materials (cover letter, CV, resume, etc.) for both the academic market and for industry, and gain a deeper understanding about how your materials should differ depending on your job search context. By keeping your audience in mind and understanding the norms of the context you're applying to, you'll be poised to submit compelling materials that best highlight your skills and expertise.

Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtd--prTwsH9KP3Db2YX0v-PuJb0iDAf5n

Dr. Elling supports the career development of U-M's Ph.D. students through 1:1 career coaching and counseling, program development and delivery, and service as liaison to Rackham Graduate School. She has been engaged in gender and diversity issues throughout her career, and brings a holistic, collaborative approach to the important work of helping students navigate their career development and educational paths. A proud U-M alumna (undergrad), she received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University, Chicago.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:06:49 -0500 2022-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 2022-04-04T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Livestream / Virtual Poster of the event.
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations (April 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92209 92209-21688189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations
April 6, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research at Pew Research Center

Abstract:

A typical public opinion survey cannot provide reliable insights into the attitudes and experiences of relatively small and diverse religious groups, such as adults identifying as Jewish or Muslim. Not only are the sample sizes too small, but adults who speak languages such as Russian, Arabic, or Farsi (and not English) are excluded from interviewing. This presentation discusses how Pew Research Center has sought to address this research gap by fielding large, multilingual probability-based surveys of special populations. Examples include the Center’s 2017 Survey of Muslim Americans and the 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans. These studies present numerous challenges in sampling, recruitment, crafting appropriate questions, and weighting. The presentation will also discuss the Center’s methods for studying racial and ethnic populations with the goal of reporting on diversity within these populations, as opposed to treated them as monolithic groups.

Bio:

Courtney Kennedy is director of survey research at Pew Research Center. Her team is responsible for the design of the Center’s U.S. surveys and maintenance of the American Trends Panel. Kennedy conducts experimental research to improve the accuracy of public opinion polls. Her research focuses on nonresponse, weighting, modes of administration and sampling frames. Her work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics. She has served as a co-author on five American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) task force reports, including chairing the committee that evaluated polling in the 2016 presidential election. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, Kennedy served as vice president of the advanced methods group at Abt SRBI, where she was responsible for designing complex surveys and assessing data quality. She has served as a statistical consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census and panels convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Kennedy has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in survey methodology. She received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan in statistics and political science. Kennedy has served as AAPOR standards chair and conference chair.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:21:45 -0500 2022-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek (April 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93434 93434-21704490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
"Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek"
Thursday, April 7, noon ET via Zoom

Presenters:
-Arland Thornton, Department of Sociology, Institute for Social Research, and Native American Studies, the University of Michigan
-Eric Hemenway, Anishanaabe/Odawa. Director of Archives and Records, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Harbor Springs, Michigan.
-Linda Young-DeMarco, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
-Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Odawa member of Wiikemkoong First Nation Unceded Territory, Ontario, Canada. Lecturer in American Culture and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan.
-Lindsey Willow Smith, Citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, University of Michigan Class of 2022, History and Museum Studies B.A.

Abstract:
In this presentation a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Archive and Records Department discuss the land and schooling of the Anishinaabek—the Three Fires of the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi. Of particular focus is the spread of Euro-American schooling among the Anishinaabek from the early 1800s through 1950. We trace the establishment of schools in the early 1800s and the growth of literacy and school attainment from the 1850s through 1940. In addition to considering schooling levels and trends of the Anishinaabek at the national level, we examine state differences, and focus on one particular group, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, who today live in Waganakising—the Land of the Crooked Tree—located in the northwest portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:21:53 -0400 2022-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Taking Cosmopolitan Locality Seriously (April 8, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92898 92898-21697951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Taking Cosmopolitan Locality Seriously​​ "in honor of the retirement of June Howard."

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Other Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:32:00 -0500 2022-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of English Language and Literature Other Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 8, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-08T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-08T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Critical Conversations: Poetry (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93810 93810-21708371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Presentations begin at 12:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 1:30 pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:41:09 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion "There is always light if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
Arab Heritage Month 2022: Closing Ceremony (April 14, 2022 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94422 94422-21738857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

This year's Arab Heritage Month has been filled with amazing cultural shows, workshops, and speakers. Join us in closing out this month-long programming with another social event, in which we will be in community over great food, games, and even better company!

Register today! https://myumi.ch/486RW

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 06 Apr 2022 19:01:19 -0400 2022-04-14T20:30:00-04:00 2022-04-14T22:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Social / Informal Gathering Dark teal background with beige text. Arab Heritage Month Closing Ceremony on Thursday, April 14 at Trotter Multicultural Center, Multipurpose Room from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Below this, Backgammon board to the bottom-left. Arab Heritage Month logo at bottom-center: gold thermos pouring into green mug and Arab Heritage Month text acts as liquid being poured into mug, at bottom center. Three playing cards at bottom-right. Below these images, beige text at bottom-center: join us for a fun night of food, games, music, photo-booth, and more! Pale-pink crescent moon at top left corner. Half flower on left- and right-centered border. Pale-pink five-point start at bottom-left corner.
The Clements Bookworm: “Legends and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier" Author Conversation (April 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94201 94201-21724111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, University of Michigan Professor Gregory Dowd joins us to discuss his book *Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries.

This episode is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:24:26 -0400 2022-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Groundless
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 15, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94208 94208-21724119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics.
Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!
Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

VISITOR INFO
The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:50:45 -0400 2022-04-15T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Clements Library
Study @ the Clements (April 18, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94379 94379-21736326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

U-M students are invited to enjoy studying in the Clements Library’s Avenir Foundation Room. No reservations needed. Enter through the north doors (facing Hatcher) and show your ResponsiBlue screening at the reception desk. Please note that masks are required at the Clements Library and food and drinks are not allowed. Students can also take a break from studying to #ColorOurCollections and view our current exhibit “Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America.”

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Other Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:57:23 -0400 2022-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T21:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Other Study Sessions @ the Clements
Timothy Yu (Wisconsin) and Edgar Garcia (UChicago) on Diaspora, Poetics, Politics (April 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93241 93241-21701930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poetry and Poetics Workshop

Join us for a conversation between Timothy Yu and Edgar Garcia on diasporic politics and thought in modern and contemporary poetry. We will host two short talks with Q&A to follow.

RSVP here for Zoom link: https://forms.gle/zvT1XV6BWXQsR45J9

Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has written about Asian identity in modern and contemporary English-language poetry, especially of the avant-garde. His most recent book, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (2021) shows how English-language poets in Asian diasporas use “strategies of adaptation” that break free from our models of race, diaspora, and poetics. He has also published a book of poems, 1000 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press, 2016), which unsettles the orientalism of white modernist U.S. poetry.

Edgar Garcia is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on literary production in the twentieth and twenty first century Americas. Focusing on indigenous, Chicanx, and latinx studies, Garcia studies how race and national identity is configured through aesthetics and semiotics. His 2020 monograph, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020) explores the ongoing vitality of such sign systems considered “dead.” An article portion of this book (“Pictography, Law, and Earth: Gerald Vizenor, John Borrows, and Louise Erdrich” in PMLA) was honored for the William Riley Parker Prize from the Modern Language Association. His upcoming book project, “Migrant Lots,” explores the relationship of divination and migration as modes of risk analysis.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:25:12 -0500 2022-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poetry and Poetics Workshop Lecture / Discussion
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's Reading (April 26, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94790 94790-21768311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Long time Ann Arbor writer and American Culture's Lecturer Frances Kai-Hwa Wang reads from her new book, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.
With many stories set on the streets and in the cafes of Ann Arbor, this is a mischievous and fierce collection of lyric essays and prose poems deftly navigating the space between cultures, punctuated by wise children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape that is Asian America. With artwork and stories behind the stories, we will discuss the challenges of writing in these political and pandemic times.

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:26:39 -0400 2022-04-26T18:30:00-04:00 2022-04-26T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 29, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-29T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-29T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 6, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21724106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-05-06T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-06T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (May 6, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21724629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 2022-05-06T20:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Designing AI 4 Black Diaspora (May 12, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95089 95089-21788457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 12, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Designing AI for the Black Diaspora seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries in which the artistic, mathematical, scientific, and legal are dichotomized and hierarchized for academic conventions to instantiate a fluid digital practice for socially just technological design.

This virtual symposium is an open-ended series of conversations prompting black creatives, legal workers, researchers, and academics to collectively imagine the many modes in which social justice can take place through the use of algorithms, data, and AI.

Registration Link: https://www.ai4bdiaspora.com/rsvp

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 May 2022 10:05:39 -0400 2022-05-12T13:00:00-04:00 2022-05-12T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Livestream / Virtual ai
The Clements Bookworm: The Importance of Companion Animals to U.S. Civil War Soldiers (May 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95161 95161-21788714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Historian Marcy S. Sacks discusses her research examining the role of pets and other domesticated animals in helping U.S. Civil War soldiers both endure the trauma of war and stay connected with their loved ones at home. Using soldiers’ letters and drawings, she argues that the men’s attention to animals helped them grapple with the brutality and boredom that marked their military service.

Cats, dogs, mice, pigs, and other animals served the critical function of softening the wartime experience and enabled soldiers to communicate – especially to women and children – through discourses of sympathy and sentimentalism, thereby reassuring their families of their continued humanity. By demonstrating that they remained capable of holding and expressing loving emotions, they showed that they would safely return home at war’s end.

Dr. Sacks, author of two books, is the Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor and chair of the History Department at Albion College (Michigan). Her research and teaching focus is on African American history and race in the United States.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Betty Bishop and Diane Hummel.

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Presentation Tue, 17 May 2022 10:51:02 -0400 2022-05-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation [Klemroth, The Cook with dog][1864], Edgar H. Klemroth Sketches from the Clements Library Image Bank.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 20, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-05-20T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-20T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
10th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (May 31, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95072 95072-21788414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/10th-annual-shirley-verrett-award-ceremony

The University of Michigan Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its 10th Annual Shirley Verrett Award to Professor of Theatre & Drama, the Residential College, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, American Culture, and English Language and Literature, Ashley Lucas. The award ceremony is scheduled for May 31 at 5:00 pm at the Stamps Auditorium. There may be an option to view the program virtually or as a recording.

Dr. Lucas will be recognized for her visionary leadership that demonstrates the power of theatre to change lives and promote social justice. Her mentorship of women, in particular, has been exemplary.

This year’s award ceremony will include a special guest performance by Dr. Marcía Porter, an award-winning soprano and Professor of Voice at Florida State University. A cousin and former student of Shirley Verrett’s, Dr. Porter is a passionate champion of extraordinary female artists and scholars of color at the University of Michigan and beyond.

The event is free and open to the public, however, registration is requested. Feel free to forward this invitation to those who may be interested in learning more about Shirley Verrett and Ashley Lucas' impact on academia and the Arts.

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Ceremony / Service Wed, 18 May 2022 11:33:10 -0400 2022-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 2022-05-31T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center CEW+ Ceremony / Service Professor Ashley Lucas
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 2, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 2, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-02T04:15:00-04:00 2022-06-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
The Clements Bookworm (June 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21789934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-08T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-09T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-10T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-15T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 16, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-16T08:30:00-04:00 2022-06-16T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 16, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
The Clements Bookworm (June 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21788715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 17, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-17T10:30:00-04:00 2022-06-17T11:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 17, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-17T15:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 17, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T20:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
2022 Juneteenth Symposium Celebration (June 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95334 95334-21789189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire.

Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994. ln 2021, the University hosted the first campus-wide, five-day, virtual celebration of Juneteenth, and collaborated with the NAACP to march from Fuller Park to Wheeler Park and to share in a picnic and community outreach event. The 2021 Juneteenth Celebration was a tremendous success.

Our hope is to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to underscore the importance of Juneteenth and to ensure that all students, staff, faculty, and residents feel a deep sense of belonging. We hope you can join us for our celebration, while we advance our educational mission as a university and seek to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:10:08 -0400 2022-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Conference / Symposium 2022 Juneteenth Symposium (01)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 23, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-23T16:15:00-04:00 2022-06-23T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Screening of film "Who Killed Vincent Chin" and panel discussion (June 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95707 95707-21790727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

In 1982, a 27-year-old Chinese American named Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two auto workers who blamed the Japanese for the U.S. auto industry’s troubles. The men were fined $3,000 and never spent a day in jail. Such a light sentence for such a brutal killing brought Asian Americans together across ethnic lines to form multiethnic and multiracial alliances, to organize for civil rights, advocating for change.

As the fortieth anniversary of Chin’s death, this story that is so Michigan and so important to the Asian American community is still poorly known. However, in today’s political landscape which is increasingly racist, sexist, violent, and exacerbated by COVID19-inspired anti-Asian American sentiment—it is not enough to know about this one case of injustice, but to harness that outrage and use it for good today.

Join us for a special anniversary screening of the Oscar nominated 1987 documentary produced and directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena.

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SCHEDULE

7:00pm Welcome

7:15-8:45pm Screening

8:45-9:30pm Panel Discussion + Q&A

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TICKETS + DONATIONS

This event is free and open to the public. Registration and masks are encouraged. Seating is in the main theater and should allow for social distancing.

A $10 donation is recommended and will support:

A book anthology of Asian American activists and artists about how this case has inspired them and connects to contemporary issues. It will be published by Wayne State University Press with a foreword written by Asian American civil rights icon Helen Zia. By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang;

as well as Stop AAPI Hate Organization The coalition (AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University) tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Their mission is to advance equity, justice and power by dismantling systemic racism and building a multiracial movement to end anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate.

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderator:

Manan Desai is the author of The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature & Transnational Refraction (2020), published by Temple University Press as part of the Asian American History and Culture Series. His essays have been published in Comparative Literature, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the forthcoming volume of Asian American Literature in Transition. He has served on the Board of Directors for the South Asian American Digital Archive (saada.org). He is currently the director of the University of Michigan Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies in the Department of American Culture.

Panelist:

1. Ayesha Ghazi Edwin has dedicated her career to helping to mobilize and fight for the rights of the Asian American community. She previously served as the Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice, worked for APIAVote-Michigan, and currently serves as the Governor Whitmer appointed Chair of the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission. Ayesha is an award-winning social justice activist, having previously worked in health equity, labor rights, for immigration reform and for voting rights. Ayesha’s family is of Indian descent, and she grew up in Ann Arbor after immigrating here from London at the age of 3. Currently Ayesha serves as the Deputy Director of Detroit Disability Power, is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, an appointed Ann Arbor Human Rights Commissioner, and a current candidate for Ann Arbor City Council, Ward 3.

2. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a poet, artist, essayist, and activist focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at PBS NewsHour, NBCAsianAmerica, PRI GlobalNation, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat. She teaches Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at University of Michigan and creative writing at Washtenaw Community College. She was formerly Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice and Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist creating an anthology of essays and a digital arts archive about Vincent Chin. Her book of poetry, “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids,” is just out at Wayne State University Press. Franceskaihwawang.com @fkwang

3. Chien-An Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Ann Arbor, MI. Yuan runs 1473, a record label specializing in improvisation, electronics, and collaboration. He is also a founding member of IS/LAND, a performance collaborative comprised of AAPI movers, artists, and collaborators. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, NewCity, Salon, ArtSlant, Huffington Post, and WNYC. Past performances and exhibitions include Detroit Institute of Arts, The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Museum of Chinese in America NYC, Syrup Loft, Zhou B Arts Center, Asian American Cultural Center of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hyde Park Art Center, and Gallery 312.

4. Dim Mang (they/she) is a Community Organizer with Rising Voices, an Asian American non-profit committed to building power with Asian Americans in Michigan. Dim was born in Mandalay, Burma to two Tedim Chin parents, and they immigrated to the US with their family in 2005. She was raised in a working-class family in Tulsa, Oklahoma and went to college at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, majoring in History and Political Science. Outside of her day job, Dim is an At-Large Vice President of APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance), and helps run a mutual aid network and fundraiser to aid anti-coup protesters in her home country, Burma. They are fluent in English and Tedim Chin, and hope to relearn Burmese. Dim currently lives with her partner and their two cats on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Potawatomi, Fox, and Peoria. They hope to one day help co-create a Burmese community center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where her immediate and extended family still live. They hope to organize for collective liberation for the rest of their life.

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And out in the lobby:

Kizuna Tree art installation (w/o dancers)

Kizuna Tree is an interactive installation/performance collaboration between Detroit Public Television, WDET, Rising Voices, and IS/LAND Asian American Arts Collaborative. Comprised of an Ikebana Tree designed by Celeste Shimoura Goedert of Rising Voices, sound recordings from the collaborative series ‘Kizuna Stories’ from DPTV and WDET by Zosette Guir and Dorothy Hernandez, and dance by AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND, Kizuna Tree is an exploration of communal healing for AAPI peoples, across generations, communities, and ethnicities, connected through words, visuals, and movement. The restorative and healing properties through this physical movement and storytelling offers the audience an experiential exploration of the interactive connections between the dancers with each other, the audience, and the tree itself.

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Thank you to our Sponsors; CultureVerse & The New Foundry.

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Film Screening Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:36:09 -0400 2022-06-23T19:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Film Screening An image from the documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-24T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-27T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-28T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (July 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-01T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 7, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-07T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-07T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
The Clements Bookworm: Classic Food and Restaurants of the Upper Peninsula (July 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95502 95502-21790014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a veritable cornucopia of delicious dishes. Over the centuries, the shared food knowledge and passion of Native Americans and immigrants of all kinds produced the region’s iconic foods and beloved restaurants. Mackinac Island remains the epicenter for fine food. Here one can dine on freshly caught trout and whitefish at the Grand Hotel before tracking down the island’s celebrated fudge for dessert.

Afield of the island, visitors and residents alike can attend a Friday night fish fry virtually anywhere in the area, savor a juicy “Big C” burger at one of the many Clyde’s Drive-In locations or just have a refreshing glass of beer at Tahquamenon Brew Pub in aptly named Paradise. Author and award-winning historian Russell M. Magnaghi delves into the delectable food history of the Upper Peninsula.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by Barbara and Wally Prince.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:56:37 -0400 2022-07-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Russell Magnaghi pictured with a Pasty, and the cover of his book, "Classic Food and Restaurants of the Upper Peninsula"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 21, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-21T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 22, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-22T04:15:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 2, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-02T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
The Clements Bookworm: The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of The United States' First Forgotten Celebrity (August 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95520 95520-21790033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide celebrity known simply as Mr. O, counting the nation’s leading politicians and intellectuals among his admirers. And then, like so many meteoric American luminaries afterward, he fell from grace.

The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer--a gaunt Scottish orator who appeared in a toga--and a story of the United States during the founding era.

Why should we care about a now-forgotten celebrity of the early 19th century? Carolyn Eastman (Associate Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University) examines an explosive celebrity performer who captivated audiences at a key moment in the founding era, a man whose career featured many of the hallmarks of celebrity we recognize from later eras: glamorous friends, eccentric clothing, scandalous religious views, and even a drug habit. And yet examining his career and the Americans who loved (or hated) him reveals a vivid portrait of the United States in the midst of invention.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:49:33 -0400 2022-08-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-19T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Carolyn Eastman pictured with the cover of her book, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 24, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-24T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-24T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-25T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-25T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 26, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-26T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
In the Studio (September 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
In the Studio (September 14, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Latinx Heritage Month 2022: Opening Ceremony (September 15, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97653 97653-21794995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs invites you to the Latinx Heritage Month 2022: Opening Ceremony! Please join us this Thursday, September 15th at 6 PM in the Michigan Union's Rogel Ballroom for the Opening Ceremony! We are excited to kick off our month-long celebration and hope to see you there! The event will include a keynote, LHM theme reveal, food, dance tutorial, and more! Register here: https://myumi.ch/6NG8G

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:56:22 -0400 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Ceremony / Service Orange background with suns around the edges. Latinx Heritage Month 2022 Logo top and center. MESA 50 logo to left, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs logo to the left. Latinx Heritage Month Opening Ceremony center of graphic. Below indicates: Thursday, September 15th, 6PM-8PM; doors open 5:30 PM; 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom
The Clements Bookworm: “O Say Can You Hear?, A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’” (September 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95567 95567-21790162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Mark Clague brilliantly weaves together the stories of the song and the nation it represents in his newest book, "O Say Can You Hear?, A Cultural Biography of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'" Examining the origins of both text and music, alternate lyrics and translations, and the song’s use in sports, at times of war, and for political protest, he argues that the anthem’s meaning reflects—and is reflected by—the nation’s quest to become a more perfect union. From victory song to hymn of sacrifice and vehicle for protest, the story of Key’s song is the story of America itself.

Mark is Professor of musicology and American culture at the University of Michigan; associate dean at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance; and codirector of the American Music Institute.

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:34:35 -0400 2022-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Mark Clague pictured with the cover of his book, “O Say Can You Hear?"
In the Studio (September 16, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
LHS Collaboratory (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96027 96027-21791723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory Kickoff Poster Session Showcasing LHS Work at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:55:57 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
LGBTQIA+ Rights in Post-Roe America (September 22, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97971 97971-21795409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In the months following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many questions emerged related to if and how this decision would impact hard-fought LGBTQIA+ civil rights. The Spectrum Center is proud to host Avatara Smith-Carrington (they/them), a Staff Attorney in the Washington D.C. office of Lambda Legal. Please join us for a discussion of LGBTQIA+ rights in post-Roe America.

Please register for this event: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7OQYiI4tsuv4Joy?jfefe=new

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:19:33 -0400 2022-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event Graphic for LGBTQIA+ Rights in Post-Roe America
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 22, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21790159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-09-22T16:15:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 23, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21790160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-09-23T16:15:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
EXPOSED BODIES: FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND PERFORMING ARTS SINCE AND BEYOND THE CHILEAN REVOLT (September 28, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99028 99028-21797477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

CherIl Linett is a Chilean Performance artist, stage director, and
author of the performance project entitled Yeguada
Latinoamericana. She began her artistic work in 2015 mainly
performing independently in public spaces. She has also published
the books Yeguada Latinoamericana de Cheril Linett (Editorial Trio,
2021) and is coauthor of the book Anarcografías del Cuerpo.
Performances de Cheril Linet (2015-2020) (Editorial Trio, 2021).
Cheril has participated in exhibitions in Chile, Germany, and Spain.

SEPTEMBER 28th, DIALOGUE WITH LARRY LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES
SEPTEMBER 29th, TALK, DISCUSSION, AND Q&A

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:52:52 -0400 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Asian Americans, Religious Freedom, and the State (September 29, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98308 98308-21796470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

How have Asian Americans pursued legal recognition, religious freedom, and religious equality in the United States? This public forum convenes scholars from across disciplines to discuss how state governance has defined and regulated Asian American religious liberty claims and how Asian American religious practitioners have advocated for rights and recognition.

Panelists
Dr. Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Dr. Arvind-pal Mandair, University of Michigan
Dr. Junaid Rana, University of Illinois
Dr. Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University

Moderators
Dr. Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Melissa Borja, University Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:15:01 -0400 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXPOSED BODIES: FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND PERFORMING ARTS SINCE AND BEYOND THE CHILEAN REVOLT (September 29, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99028 99028-21797478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

CherIl Linett is a Chilean Performance artist, stage director, and
author of the performance project entitled Yeguada
Latinoamericana. She began her artistic work in 2015 mainly
performing independently in public spaces. She has also published
the books Yeguada Latinoamericana de Cheril Linett (Editorial Trio,
2021) and is coauthor of the book Anarcografías del Cuerpo.
Performances de Cheril Linet (2015-2020) (Editorial Trio, 2021).
Cheril has participated in exhibitions in Chile, Germany, and Spain.

SEPTEMBER 28th, DIALOGUE WITH LARRY LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES
SEPTEMBER 29th, TALK, DISCUSSION, AND Q&A

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:52:52 -0400 2022-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (October 6, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21795203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-10-06T04:15:00-04:00 2022-10-06T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Critical Conversations: Comics (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99063 99063-21797515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2022-23. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Presentations begin at 12:00 pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:00.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:10:48 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion A comic strip featuring a surprised woman, a ticking bomb, a set of red lips, and a telephone.
What’s In Your Attic? (October 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97158 97158-21794078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We would love to see what's in your attic!

Join us for an open house, informal day of sharing and bring in your paper Americana such as maps, letters, journals, books, photographs, and ephemera. Clements staff as well as collector volunteers will be available to share tips about care and storage and to answer questions.

Of course, it's not required that you bring in a treasure to share! This is also a rare opportunity to visit the Clements Library on a Sunday to enjoy our exhibit. You can also learn more about the history, collections, and architecture of the Clements in a behind-the-scenes tour at https://myumi.ch/29Pze

No appraisals will be available at this event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:10:09 -0400 2022-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering Postcard Advertisement for 2022 "What's In Your Attic" Event
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias (October 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98434 98434-21796653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Brady T. West is a Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, selection bias in surveys, responsive/adaptive survey design, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by CRC Press in June 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.

Among the numerous explanations that have been offered for recent errors in pre-election polls, selection bias due to non-ignorable partisan nonresponse bias, where the probability of responding to a poll is a function of the candidate preference that a poll is attempting to measure (even after conditioning on other relevant covariates used for weighting adjustments), has received relatively less focus in the academic literature. Under this type of selection mechanism, estimates of candidate preferences based on individual or aggregated polls may be subject to significant bias, even after standard weighting adjustments. Until recently, methods for measuring and adjusting for this type of non-ignorable selection bias have been unavailable. Fortunately, recent developments in the methodological literature have provided political researchers with easy-to-use measures of non-ignorable selection bias. In this study, we apply a new measure that has been developed specifically for estimated proportions to this challenging problem. We analyze data from 18 different pre-election polls: nine different telephone polls conducted in eight different states prior to the U.S. Presidential election in 2020, and nine different pre-election polls conducted either online or via telephone in Great Britain prior to the 2015 General Election. We rigorously evaluate the ability of this new measure to detect and adjust for selection bias in estimates of the proportion of likely voters that will vote for a specific candidate, using official outcomes from each election as benchmarks and alternative data sources for estimating key characteristics of the likely voter populations in each context.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:50:22 -0400 2022-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias
Wynton Marsalis and Warde Manuel: In Conversation (October 12, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97003 97003-21793680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Wynton Marsalis sits down with UM Director of Athletics Warde Manuel to explore art, athletics, and the creative process. These two successful New Orleans natives come together in a conversation moderated by Christopher Audain, Managing Director of the Arts Initiative.

Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader and composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and soon thereafter joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He recorded more than 103 jazz and classical recordings, which have won nine GRAMMY® awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs® in the same year, repeating the distinction the following year. Today, Wynton is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® in five consecutive years (1983−1987). In 1997, Wynton became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer in Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from over 25 of America’s top academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In 2005 Wynton received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

Warde Manuel is the Director of Athletics at the University of Michigan. He was a high school All-American football player, and played for the University of Michigan under Schembechler. After graduating, Manuel was coordinator of U‑M’s Wade H. McCree Jr. Incentive Scholarship program from 1990 to 1993, which helps students prepare for higher education at public universities in Michigan. Afterward, Manuel served in several roles within Michigan’s athletic department, and was named associate athletic director with oversight responsibility for operation facets of the university’s athletic program. He also oversaw Michigan’s football and men’s basketball programs. In 2012, Manuel became the director of athletics at the University of Connecticut. UConn teams won six NCAA national championships under Manuel’s leadership. Manuel returned to U‑M following his four-year run at UConn. His return to Ann Arbor brings him full-circle from an accomplished student-athlete and athletic administrator at U‑M to a distinguished career as an athletic director and back again.

This conversation will be moderated by Christopher Audain, Managing Director of the Arts Initiative. The University of Michigan Arts Initiative seeks to illuminate and expand human connections, inspire collaborative creativity, and build a more just and equitable world through the arts.

In partnership with the University Musical Society (UMS) as part of a weeklong residency with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Series presenting partners: Detroit Public Television and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Radio.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 07:53:33 -0400 2022-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2022-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (October 14, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21795205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-10-14T16:15:00-04:00 2022-10-14T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD AND SUPREME LITERACY (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99874 99874-21798818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy situates the Nation of Islam
leader within academic discourse by exploring his teachings on "Knowledge of Self" as a definition of literacy in its broadest applications.

Dr. Muhammad is a teacher, lecturer and columnist whose research interests include urban and cultural literacies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:36:55 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Student Musical Archival Blitz! (October 19, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100334 100334-21799621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

U-M students are invited to join the History Club for a fun event at the Clements Library!

6:00 - 6:30 Enter through the north entrance. Explore the Clements Library Avenir Foundation Room, Collecting 19th-Century Cuba Exhibit, and postcards from David V. Tinder Collection

6:30-6:40 Grab pizza and refreshments provided by the U-M History Club

6:45 Learn about and sign up for "Picturing Michigan's Past" Zooniverse project.

7:00 - 7:30 Play Musical Archival Blitz! Win prizes!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:42:44 -0400 2022-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T19:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering William L. Clements Library
LHS Collaboratory (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96028 96028-21791725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speakers:
Alex John London, PhD
Professor of Ethics and Philosophy
Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Explainability Is Not the Solution to Structural Challenges to AI in Medicine

Explainability is often treated as a necessary condition for ethical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in Medicine. In this brief talk I survey some of the structural challenges facing the development and deployment of effective AI systems in health care to illustrate some of the limitations to explainability in addressing these challenges. This talk builds on prior work (London 2019, 2022) to illustrate how ambitions for AI in health care likely require significant changes to key aspects of health systems.

Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc
Director of AI in Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
On the Inextricability of Explainability from Ethics: Explainable AI does not Ethical AI Make

Explainability is embedded into a plethora of legal, professional, and regulatory guidelines as it is often presumed that an ethical use of AI will require explainable algorithms. There is considerable controversy, however, as to whether post hoc explanations are computationally reliable, their value for decision-making, and the relational implications of their use in shared decision-making. This talk will explore the literature across these domains and argue that while post hoc explainability may be a reasonable technical goal, it should not be offered status as a moral standard by which AI use is judged to be ‘ethical.’

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:10:43 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
DISCO Network Lecture Series | Racial Replication: Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He (October 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97625 97625-21794842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Asiatic interchangeability is made, not born. In her talk, Michelle N. Huang discusses how dystopian clone narratives challenge notions of individual racialized identity at both the genetic and generic levels. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of racial fungibility, Huang will examine Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl (2002) to trace how Asian American interchangeability is produced through reproductive control as well as an economy of character. In rearticulating, rather than rejecting, notions of shared subjectivity, hivemind, and fellow feeling, Asiatic clones ask for experimental alternatives to the ethnic bildungsroman and demonstrate the novel form itself to be a racialized technology of identity.

Michelle N. Huang is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She has research and teaching interests in contemporary Asian American literature, posthumanism, and feminist science studies. Her current project, Molecular Race, examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial representation and epistemology at nonhuman, minute scales. Molecular Race argues that a rapprochement with scientific discourse is necessary to fully grasp how the formal and aesthetic qualities of Asian American literature unsettle sedimented structures of racial formation.

Michelle’s work appears in American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, and Post 45: Contemporaries, among other venues. Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website.

Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books on race, gender, and the Internet. She is the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and the Lead P.I. for the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration and Optimism) Network (disconetwork.org).

Huan He is a Curriculum Development Fellow at the DISCO Network Michigan Hub and holds a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Most broadly, his research engages Asian/American literature and culture, histories of media and technology, visual culture, digital game studies, and poetics. His book project, currently titled, “The Racial Interface,” explores the racial associations linking Asian/Americans and information technology in the digital era. Drawing from literature, art, and archival sources, this project reveals how myths of racial and technological progress converge in the shadow of U.S. liberal capitalism. He foregrounds minoritarian writers and artists who challenge the dominant technological imaginaries shaping the digital present. He is also interested in the relationship between race, gaming, cheating, and scams and pursuing a second project on these topics. His scholarly writing has been published in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies and Media-N and is forthcoming in an anthology on Asian/American game studies. In Fall 2023, he will start as an Assistant Professor of English (Asian American and Asian Diasporic Literature) at Vanderbilt University.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3CcvgFL

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://bit.ly/3R2S3bG

We will have automated captions. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please contact the DISCO Network at disconetwork@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:31:47 -0400 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion A purple background with a black disco ball. White retro lettering reads, "DISCO Network Lecture Series. Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He. Thursday, October 20, 2022. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm ET." Below that are six white stars surrounded by a black border. Below that are 3 circular headshots of the speakers. Michelle N. Huang has shoulder length brown hair and is wearing a white shirt, a thin tie tied into a bow, and a black blazer. She is standing in front of a bookcase with books of varying sizes, shapes, and colors. Lisa Nakamura has short reddish hair and is wearing a blue-grey top. Her background is a blurred image of trees. Huan He has short black hair. He is wearing a black shirt with a gold necklace. He is in front of a dark grey background. Below that is a black text box with white words that read, "This event will be presented in a hybrid format. In person attendance is limited. Attendees will be registered for in person attendance on a first come first served basis."
From Havana to Chapel Hill: A Latina's Search for Home (October 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100021 100021-21799000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor and Michigan alumna Rosa Perelmuter takes us on a journey through the questions of identity and belonging with which she has wrestled since she was born in Cuba to Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
Exiled in the U.S. at age 13 as a product of the Peter Pan Airlift, she reflects on the outsider status that first manifested itself in Cuba and the various shapes it took in Miami, Boston, Ann Arbor, and finally North Carolina.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:35:18 -0400 2022-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Clements Bookworm: Fundraising has a history you can tell through Objects with Amanda Moniz (October 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98038 98038-21795507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We know the names of major givers in American history. We recognize the power of the everyday philanthropists who have shaped and reshaped the nation. But we have largely overlooked the stories of people who have done the hard work of raising money for charitable causes from the colonial era to today. Yet fundraising has a history and Amanda Moniz is working to tell it as she builds the Smithsonian’s new philanthropy collection.

Amanda B. Moniz, Ph.D., is the David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She curates a long-term exhibit, Giving in America, and is building the Smithsonian's collection of objects telling stories about Americans' historical experiences of giving, fundraising, and working in and using charitable institutions. Her book, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism, was awarded ARNOVA’S inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize. She is currently working on a biography of Isabella Graham, an immigrant widow who transformed philanthropy in early national New York, and is grateful to the Clements Library for supporting research in its collections about Graham. Moniz received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2008, and during graduate school, she worked at the Clements as a curatorial assistant in the Manuscript Division.

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by Kristin Cabral ‘88, Member of the Clements Library Associates Board.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:41:19 -0400 2022-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Amanda Moniz.
Wearable History: Button Culture & Queer Activism (October 25, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100024 100024-21799007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/1n8Z1

Pin buttons are a prolific part of queer culture and history. They were worn to show pride, mark protests, support movements, identify allies, and champion change. For LGBT History Month, Spectrum Center will be highlighting this iconography at a button-making and decorating event! Join us to learn more about queer button culture from the civil rights era through today. We’ll have button makers to create replicas of pin buttons from history, as well as supplies to create your own! We encourage you to bring one of your own jackets/items to decorate. Light food and snacks also provided. See you there!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:35:32 -0400 2022-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Multi-colored LGBT rights and pride button pins on a denim background. Script at the top says "Wearable History: Button Culture & Queer Activism" with event details on pins below: 10/25/22 from 4-6pm on the 3rd floor of the Michigan Union, RSVP at the link myumi.ch/1n8Z1.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (October 28, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21795206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-10-28T16:15:00-04:00 2022-10-28T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
STS Speaker. Compass to Sentinel: The Automation of Self-tracking Technology (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98226 98226-21795744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk draws on ethnographic fieldwork to argue that a shift is underway in the logic of behavioral guidance informing the design and use of so-called self-tracking technology, or apps, and wearable devices that sense, record, and analyze users’ data. While first-wave self-tracking technologies were designed to serve as digital compasses that could provide attentive selves with information to help them navigate the choice-filled seas of modern life, newer technologies are designed to serve as sentinels that can stand watch for distracted and overwhelmed selves, providing just-in-time micronudges to keep them on track.

Co-sponsored by Center for Ethics, Society and Computing, Communication and Media Studies, American Culture, Digital Studies Institute.

Bio: Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (2012), an ethnographic exploration of the relationship between technology design and the experience of addiction. Her current book project, Keeping Track (forthcoming), concerns the rise of digital self-tracking technologies and the new modes of introspection and self-governance they engender. She has published numerous articles on the theme of digital media and subjectivity, and her research has been featured in such national media venues as 60 Minutes, The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:28:33 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion 2015 Wearables
Peter Gelderloos and StopCampGrayling on Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (November 7, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100819 100819-21800388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Global warming, climate change, the ecological crisis. Tipping points, extinction events. Conservation, green fascism. Carbon footprint, carbon offsets, carbon capture, neocolonialism. How we talk about the disaster is strongly related to how we respond to it, and how we understand it. Is it a countdown to an impending future event, a danger we are beginning to see the early signs of, or a catastrophe that has been ongoing for at least 500 years? The answer to these questions, and the language we use to pose the questions, can determine whether we consider a proposed response to the problem as compelling or completely absurd, whether a delusional half-measure or an exaggerated non-sequitur. The fact that, faced with the same problem, people lack a common language and reach such polarized viewpoints, has become a structural part of the problem itself.

Peter Gelderloos, author of The Solutions Are Already Here, will discuss how centrist approaches like conservation and carbon capture, and even approaches considered progressive like the Green New Deal, are responses to the needs of the current political and economic system rather than responses to the actual crisis that is unfolding. Moreover, there is strong evidence that our current system of government and capitalism is inherently and integrally ecocidal, that under any political program it would lead to broadly similar results as regards the ability of our planet to support life. As a result, standard approaches to dealing with the disaster will ignore or suppress the kinds of movements and solutions that are our greatest hope. This event will tie this analysis with exactly these kinds of movements, groups that offer a strategic horizon for facing our intersecting and most pressing challenges.

Peter will be joined by local activists from StopCampGrayling, a new initiative campaigning against the proposal to grant 162,000 acres of public lands, water, and forests to Michigan’s National Guard, a proposal threatening to destroy precious habitats, poison water sources, and increase militarization, all while expanding the army base at Grayling to twice the size of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:37:36 -0400 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
LHS Collaboratory (November 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96029 96029-21791726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory November Session

Speaker:

Kadija Ferryman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In this talk, Professor Ferryman will discuss the merits and challenges of conducting health equity reviews of artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in health and medicine. The talk will examine how interdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences, bioethics and humanities, and computational fields can be involved in the development of concepts, methods, frameworks, and guidelines for understanding and governing digital health tools.

Dr. Kadija Ferryman is a cultural anthropologist who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies. Specifically, her research examines how genomics, digital medical records, artificial intelligence, and other technologies impact racial disparities in health. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, she led the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study, which examines the potential for bias and discrimination in predictive precision medicine.

She earned a BA in Anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Before completing her PhD, she was a policy researcher at the Urban Institute where she studied how housing and neighborhoods impact well-being, specifically the effects of public housing redevelopment on children, families, and older adults.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:39:25 -0400 2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (November 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100863 100863-21800450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Carolyn Chen (Comparative Ethnic Studies, Berkeley) will be in conversation with Melissa Borja (American Culture & A/PIA Studies, UM) about her recent book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Work, Pray, Code explores how tech companies in Silicon Valley are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

The event is also co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (https://esc.umich.edu/)

To register: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfu2qqDIrGNHoT4OcWoRemvF4MG2dQ5we

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:31:10 -0400 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Clements Bookworm: Author Conversation with Michael Witgen (November 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100123 100123-21799242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishannabeg themselves. Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century, they leveraged their political savvy to advance a dual citizenship that enabled mixed-race tribal members to lay claim to a place in U.S. civil society.

Part of Native American Heritage Month at U-M: https://mesa.umich.edu/native-american-heritage

Free, registration required at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:25:08 -0400 2022-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Bookcover
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (November 22, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21795207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-11-22T16:15:00-05:00 2022-11-22T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean (November 29, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99378 99378-21797972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Panel: Ken Chitwood, Aliyah Khan, William Calvo-Quirós, and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt.


The Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) are proud to highlight and launch the new books of current and former University of Michigan faculty in religion and feminist studies in the Americas. The authors of three books in the field read from and discuss their work at a roundtable moderated by Dr. Ken Chitwood, author of The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (2021).


William Calvo- Quirós discusses his *Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions* (2022), which follows the migration of popular Catholic saints from Mexico into the U.S. and the evolution of their meaning in the context of racism and Latinx immigrant battles for survival.


Aliyah Khan talks about *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (2020), the first academic monograph on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean, focusing on the gendered fiction, poetry, and music of Islam of enslaved West African Muslims, indentured South Asian Indian Muslims, and their descendants in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica.


Jocelyn Fenton Stitt's *Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing* (2021), the first academic book on pan-Caribbean life writing and the recent use of the genre by Caribbean women to explore historical and archival absences. This talk focuses on Cuban Jewishness, feminism, and formal practices used to write about historical absences.

Combining literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, and historiography, these books showcase the innovative, interdisciplinary ways in which religious studies and feminist scholars study and write about creolized and syncretic cultures in the Caribbean and the hemispheric Americas.


Ken Chitwood will be moderating this conversation. He is a religion scholar conducting research on ethnographic journalism with the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Engaged Spirituality Project and on Latinx Muslim philanthropy with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. He is the author of the award-winning book, *The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean* (2021).

This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).


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Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing
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Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
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Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions
WILLIAM A. CALVO-QUIRÓS
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The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean
KEN CHITWOOD
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Register at https://bit.ly/GISCxLACS

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:52:40 -0500 2022-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean
Hula Showcase (December 5, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101760 101760-21802325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The students in AMCULT & ASIANPAM 372 invite you to a performance showcase of the Hawaiian hula and protocols they have learned this semester! Join us for refreshments after the performance.

To join virtually:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96740072500

Meeting ID: 967 4007 2500
Passcode: 067366

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Performance Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:52:43 -0500 2022-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Performance Event Poster
Paths of Protest: Histories of Student Activism on Campus (December 6, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101545 101545-21801503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

When the university fails, who steps up? Join the students of History 294/Amcult 301 for a historical campus walking tour about UMich student activism on Tuesday, December 6th at 1:00PM on the front steps of the Michigan Union. “Paths of Protest” disrupts university narratives of progress and instead centers students as the agents of change on campus. This hour-long tour includes stops at ten different historical campus sites, and free hot chocolate will be served afterwards.

Register to attend here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccGRMfOF43IN-4QfctFjWLxzIQtGExzSYhzLY5DFgNoYV9dg/viewform

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Tours Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:06:18 -0500 2022-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 Department of American Culture Tours Event Poster
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
The Plastic Bag Store (January 17, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
The Plastic Bag Store (January 18, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
The Plastic Bag Store (January 18, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
The Plastic Bag Store (January 19, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
The Plastic Bag Store (January 19, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
The Plastic Bag Store (January 20, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!
The Plastic Bag Store (January 20, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103461 103461-21807280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics.

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original grocery items meticulously sculpted by hand, all made from discarded single-use plastics organically harvested from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.

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Performance Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:31:38 -0500 2023-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Performance The Plastic Bag Store is coming to Ann Arbor!