Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 2023 Juneteenth Symposium (June 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108025 108025-21818853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Michigan will celebrate the 3rd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme of this year’s event is Systems Check: Exploring Structural Solutions to Systemic Racism.

Juneteenth events honor the progress of African Americans in the U.S. since the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 while continuing to recognize the ongoing efforts to overcome systemic injustices and inequities faced by Black communities. This year’s celebratory events include a community prayer breakfast, a black film festival, and the Kidz Zone tent at the Top of the Park. A host of panel discussions will highlight topics such as housing discrimination and voter suppression, to name a few.

Our hope is to enrich the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities by underscoring the importance of Juneteenth ensuring 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 empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 10 May 2023 11:54:59 -0400 2023-06-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-06-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference / Symposium Invitation to the 2023 Juneteenth Symposium. The event logo provides the date and event topic information over text from the U.S. Constitution.
2023 Juneteenth Symposium (June 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108025 108025-21818854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Michigan will celebrate the 3rd Annual Juneteenth Symposium. The theme of this year’s event is Systems Check: Exploring Structural Solutions to Systemic Racism.

Juneteenth events honor the progress of African Americans in the U.S. since the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 while continuing to recognize the ongoing efforts to overcome systemic injustices and inequities faced by Black communities. This year’s celebratory events include a community prayer breakfast, a black film festival, and the Kidz Zone tent at the Top of the Park. A host of panel discussions will highlight topics such as housing discrimination and voter suppression, to name a few.

Our hope is to enrich the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities by underscoring the importance of Juneteenth ensuring 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 empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 10 May 2023 11:54:59 -0400 2023-06-16T08:00:00-04:00 2023-06-16T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference / Symposium Invitation to the 2023 Juneteenth Symposium. The event logo provides the date and event topic information over text from the U.S. Constitution.
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (June 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-06-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (June 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-06-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 1, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 1, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-01T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 2, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 2, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-02T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 3, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 3, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-03T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-03T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 4, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 4, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-04T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-04T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 5, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-05T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-05T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 7, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-07T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-07T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 8, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 8, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 9, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 9, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-09T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-09T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 10, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-10T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 11, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-11T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 12, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-12T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108902 108902-21820533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:51:55 -0400 2023-07-12T16:00:00-04:00 2023-07-12T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Clements Library
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 14, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 14, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 15, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 15, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 16, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 16, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-16T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-16T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-17T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-17T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 18, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-18T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 19, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
The Clements Bookworm: Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828 (July 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108879 108879-21820506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European printmaking, this book is a survey and catalogue of all known American political caricatures created in the country’s transformative early years, as the nation sought to define itself in relation to European models of governance and artistry.
Allison Stagg is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Art History at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

This event is VIRTUAL
Please register here http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:53:22 -0400 2023-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Allison Stagg
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 21, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 22, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 23, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-23T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Become a UROP Symposium Judge (July 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108917 108917-21820580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Become a judge at our Research Symposium this upcoming spring on April 19th 2023. The Spring Symposium will host around 980 presenters across the U-M campus. Support this event by helping award blue ribbons to students who give outstanding research presentations.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:39:33 -0400 2023-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-24T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Symposium Judge Graphic
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109041 109041-21820778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:34:22 -0400 2023-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Image of Clements Library
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 25, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109041 109041-21820779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:34:22 -0400 2023-08-25T16:00:00-04:00 2023-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Image of Clements Library
Children Living in Grandparent-Led and Multigenerational Families: Implications for Policy and Practice (September 6, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111184 111184-21826166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Children Living in Grandparent-Led and Multigenerational Families: Implications for Policy and Practice (Webinar)
Wednesday, September 6, 2023, 2-3pm ET
Learn more and register: https://wisc.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9843475efd2f7b3976fcd0fbe&id=c6bb8f45b3&e=31c34e2bd7

The number of children living in multigenerational households has increased steadily since the 1980s. As of 2021, more than 10% of children (roughly 7.5 million) share a home with two or more generations. While the stays may be relatively short, overall, about 30% of children in the United States will live in a multigenerational or skipped-generation household at some point during their childhood. This is even more common for children of color and for those whose adult family members are low income. In this webinar, panelists will examine the scope of the issue and its implications for child well-being and security, as well as opportunities for policy and practice to support these children and their adult household members

Presenters:
- Natasha Pilkauskas, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Poverty Solutions; University of Michigan
- J. Michael Collins, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- LaShawnDa Pittman, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:31:26 -0400 2023-09-06T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual Multigenerational Family
GREAT COMET AUDITIONS (September 10, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110196 110196-21824478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Submit a virtual audition for "NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812"! Join us as we put on this modern classic! Help us to transform this piece and amplify LGBTQIA+ stories and storytellers as we highlight the Queer themes of this masterpiece!

Audition forms and videos are due by Sunday, September 10. Callbacks will be held Tuesday, September 12 and Wednesday, September 13. Our performances will be December 1-3 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Following a critically exalted premiere at Ars Nova in New York City, a subsequent Off-Broadway transfer, and an acclaimed run on Broadway, this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.

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Auditions Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:54:56 -0400 2023-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 2023-09-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Great Comet Logo
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 12, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112101 112101-21828435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Learn more about the Michigan in Washington program!

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Presentation Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:01:48 -0400 2023-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Presentation MIW
UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series (September 13, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110300 110300-21832496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

The Health Equity Leadership Series is a speaker series that welcomes leaders in the fields of nursing and healthcare to share their expertise and engage members of the UM community in critical thinking, learning, and dialogue about topics in health equity. Our goal is to expose UM faculty, staff, students, and alumni to some of the most pressing and relevant topics in health equity and nursing. Attendees will be challenged to learn, unlearn, and expand upon their own views while also networking with leaders who have a demonstrated commitment to advancing equity in healthcare.

This year's line-up:

Dr. Nao Hagiwara, PhD
Implicit Bias and Patient-Provider Communication
September 13, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Black Maternal Health
October 11, 2023
12:00 -1:00 PM ET

Dr. Priyoth Kittiteerasack, PhD, RN
LGBT Life in Thailand: Past, Current, and Future Situations
November 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Shirley Stephenson, MS, MFA, MA, FNP-BC
Humanities & Nursing
January 17, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

State Rep. Jason Morgan
Housing Insecurity & Inequality in Washtenaw County
February 16, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Victor Pedrero, PsyD
Diabetes and Stigma
March 13, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Erin Tenney, DNP, CNM, WHNP, APNP
Cultural Safety and Native American Health
April 10, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

For full event descriptions, please visit our Sessions page: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/13451

This event series is hosted by the Office of Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. All UM students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to attend. Please register on UM Sessions and send any questions about the Health Equity Leadership Series to Emily Herzog (epawlik@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:21:50 -0400 2023-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Lecture / Discussion UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series Logo
The Sweep and Force of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: The Constitution's Disqualification from Office of Oath-Breaking Insurrectionists (September 18, 2023 4:20pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110566 110566-21825100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 4:20pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join us for the University of Michigan's annual commemoration of Constitution Day. A reception will immediately follow in the Jeffries Lounge (Jeffries Hall 1220). Michael Stokes Paulsen, Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Law at University of St. Thomas School of Law, will deliver a lecture entitled, "The Sweep and Force of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: The Constitution's Disqualification from Office of Oath-Breaking Insurrectionists."

Professor Paulsen is the co-author, along with William Baude, of an article forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review titled The Sweep and Force of Section Three.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:39:55 -0400 2023-09-18T16:20:00-04:00 2023-09-18T17:45:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 19, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112101 112101-21828436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Learn more about the Michigan in Washington program!

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Presentation Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:01:48 -0400 2023-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Presentation MIW
Organize Against the Machine: Labor's Response to AI (September 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112291 112291-21828764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

This is an event that explores the dynamic intersection of labor and automation. In a world shadowed by AI-driven job displacement, this event addresses the vital questions: How can we preserve the dignity and value of human workers in an increasingly automated environment? What strategies can we employ to adapt without losing our essential humanity? Join us on this series of events as we navigate the future of work, and the quest to uphold human dignity amid the rise of automation.

The event will feature a panel discussion with labor and technology experts, Elizabeth Faue, Molly Kleinman, Merve Hickok, and Lionel Robert. Seating is limited, register today!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:25:09 -0400 2023-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion Man holding sign of protest
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (September 22, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111408 111408-21826992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

LOCATION CHANGE - to SSW B780

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

Pre-talk by Alexa Eisenberg, Research Fellow, Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:57:21 -0400 2023-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Geronimus and Eisenberg lecture promo
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 22, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109472 109472-21822060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 1:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:12:35 -0400 2023-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Exterior image of Clements Library
Silent Pasts and Speaking Presents: History and Language in Contemporary South Asia (September 22, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109146 109146-21821170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join Professor G.N. Devy for a presentation on two recent, major intellectual initiatives that pose significant challenges to the ongoing politicization of language, community, and history in contemporary India.
 
The first project is the massive, People’s Linguistic Survey of India (published by Orient Blackswan, 2013-23), a 50+-volume survey of more than 780 languages currently spoken in India today, many of which now struggle for recognition and preservation, as perceived by the people who speak them.
 
The second, The Indians: Histories of a Civilization (published by Aleph, 2023), is a seven-part history of India spanning more than 12,000 years, with contributions from more than 100 of South Asia’s most prominent historians and ethnographers, including two U-M faculty members (professors emeriti Thomas Trautmann and Madhav Deshpande).
 
G.N. Devy organized and edited both of these ambitious and historically important projects. Both projects creatively draw a bright line under the intimate relation between democracy and diversity, and work against contemporary political efforts to homogenize India’s cultures and sanitize India’s pasts. Professor Devy’s presentation will describe the genesis and approach of each project, and reflect more broadly on the place of diversity in India as a nation, as people, and as a spectrum of cultures.

Ganesh N. Devy is a scholar, educator, activist, and the Obaid Sidiqqi Chair Professor at the National Center for Biological Research, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore. He is a prolific writer, having authored or edited 109 books in the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, education, and philosophy. From 1980 to 1996, Devy was a professor in the Department of English at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda.

In 1996, Devy gave up his academic career to initiate a deeper engagement with Adivasi and Denotified and Nomadic Tribal (DNT) communities. Devy went on to found the Bhasha Research and Publication Center in Baroda, the Adivasis Academy at Tejgadh village, and the DNT Rights Action Group, among several other initiatives. Professor Devy has also been the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the Padma Shri (India’s fourth highest civilian award, given by the Indian government) in 2013. In 2003, Devy received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his pathbreaking book of literary criticism, After Amnesia (Orient Blackswan, 1993). In 2015, Devy returned this award in protest over the “growing intolerance towards the differences of opinion” then manifesting in the murder and imprisonment of several prominent intellectuals in India.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:00:02 -0400 2023-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Image: Artwork from The Rain Within Exhibition by Mayank Shyam, 2022
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 22, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109472 109472-21822061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:12:35 -0400 2023-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Exterior image of Clements Library
Sonic Contributions (September 22, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Sonic Contributions (September 23, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Women and Revolutionary Art in Iran (September 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110462 110462-21824947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Iranian women have been protagonists in revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution (1905) to the Iranian Revolution (1979), the civil rights movements of 2009 (Green Movement), and more recently the 2022 Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement. They have been fighting for voting rights, gender and ethnic equality, freedom of assembly and of expression as well as the right to a dignified life. Using the media of the arts, the three panelists will discuss the visual and performative language of activism to think about the role of gender and the visual arts in revolutionary Iran.

About the panelists:
Orkideh Torabi was born in Tehran and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and she received her MA and BFA from The University of Art in Tehran. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Texas. She is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.

Niloofar Sarlati is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature at U-M. Her publications include “Suspicious Gifts, Skeptical Words, and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters Between English and Persian” forthcoming in Comparative Literature .

Kathryn Babayan, moderator, is a professor in Middle East Studies and History at U-M. She is the author of The City as Anthology: Visualizing Cultures of Literacy in Early Modern Isfahan.

Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:10:43 -0400 2023-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion “Woman, life, freedom” – bilingual English-Persian billboard display, Piccadilly Circus, London (Image credit: Xanyar)
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (September 26, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110382 110382-21824849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
This talk will discuss thinking through challenges facing U.S. imams and the field of American Muslim Studies.

About Nancy Khalil:
Nancy Khalil is a 2023-24 Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and assistant professor, American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:32:31 -0400 2023-09-26T12:30:00-04:00 2023-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Panel Discussion: Renée Fleming’s Music and Mind (September 27, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110203 110203-21824490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Soprano superstar Renée Fleming is a leading advocate for the study of powerful connections between the arts and health, and has worked with the National Institutes of Health and other leading organizations to bring attention to research and practice at the intersection of music, health, and neuroscience. The day before her performance in Ann Arbor, she will be joined by local researchers and medical practitioners for a public conversation exploring these important topics.

Presented in partnership with Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:38:58 -0400 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T19:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building University Musical Society (UMS) Lecture / Discussion Renée Fleming
"Orkideh's Comical Character Parade" (September 28, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110359 110359-21824817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As part of her residency at the Institute for the Humanities, Orkideh Torabi is heading to the U-M Dearborn campus. In this talk, she will delve into the transition of her focus from gender-segregated spaces to the exploration of power dynamics and governance while taking a broader perspective on society. She will focus on two paintings that embody this societal paradox and explore how her art challenges conventional notions of femininity, power, and identity, achieved by blending Persian miniature art with contemporary imagery.

The talk will be followed by a strolling reception and the opportunity to talk to the artist and view her work.

About Orkideh Torabi:
Orkideh Torabi, a native of Tehran, Iran, began her artistic journey in her hometown. She obtained an MFA in graphic design and illustration from the University of Art in Tehran and served as a faculty member there for seven years. Eager to explore new horizons, Torabi made the bold decision to relocate to the United States, driven by her passion to advance her artistic career. She completed her second MFA in 2016 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presently, Torabi resides and works in Brooklyn, New York, channeling her artistic vision and enriching the cultural landscape of her new home.

Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

In her artistic practice, she embraces the role of a storyteller, recognizing the integral role that narration plays in her paintings. Within her work, she has crafted a diverse array of whimsical characters, each with their own unique backstory and personality. For her, the canvas becomes a stage, and her paintings take on the essence of a captivating play or theatrical scene, with these characters serving as the ensemble cast, each playing their distinct role.

*Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

*Many thanks to the following units at UM- Dearborn for their support of this event: Arabic Studies, Art History, Center for Arab American Studies, Honors Program, the Art Collections and Exhibitions Department/ Stamelos Gallery Center, Middle East Studies, Women and Gender Studies.*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:14:18 -0400 2023-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Orkideh Torabi
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America? (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111573 111573-21827262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:16:50 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Cornell William Brooks Lecture Advertisement
Moving to the Beat: West African Dance and Visual Art (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110205 110205-21824492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to feel the heat, listen to the beat, and move your feet. Created especially for families, participants in this workshop will experience traditional West African Dance as well as contemporary AfroBeat dance moves! Afterward, families will participate in an art-making workshop that connects movement to visual art.

Recommended for ages 3-17 and their parents or guardians.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:48:14 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
West African Dance at the Freighthouse (September 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110206 110206-21824494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Originating from the Malinke people of West Africa, Moribayassa is a traditional practice in which participants are invited to relieve their burdens through movement and music. The practice uses dance and live drumming as a way to offer thanks for overcoming obstacles or adversities within the context of community support. Participants will be invited to write, sing, and dance as a healing modality for their struggles.

Recommended for ages 14+, no experience necessary.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:50:58 -0400 2023-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
Moving to the Beat: West African Dance and Visual Art (October 1, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110205 110205-21824493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to feel the heat, listen to the beat, and move your feet. Created especially for families, participants in this workshop will experience traditional West African Dance as well as contemporary AfroBeat dance moves! Afterward, families will participate in an art-making workshop that connects movement to visual art.

Recommended for ages 3-17 and their parents or guardians.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:48:14 -0400 2023-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
Michigan in Washington Fall 2023 Application Deadline (October 2, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110233 110233-21824612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington program is accepting applications for Winter 2024 and early admission to Fall 2024. The deadline is October 2nd and applications are available on M-Compass. Info Session: September 12th and 19th at 6:00 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99157149437

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Meeting Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:35:22 -0400 2023-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107937 107937-21819158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?
Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you!

*CGIS is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs.*

No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Get your questions answered! Come chat with:
- CGIS Program Advisors
- Recent U-M study abroad students
- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office
- Newnan Academic Advisors
- Other on-campus offices
*Several study abroad offices from around campus will also be present.*

With over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year, there are many options to choose from.

If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad, how to afford study abroad, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip, or want to know what to expect, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:34:42 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival CGIS Study Abroad Fair - Come find the program for you!
Artist Talk and Reception (October 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110764 110764-21825498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space (first floor) on Wednesday 10/4 to celebrate Sarah Buckius’ innovative exhibition !!!techn010ffspring!!! Refreshments, community, and conversation will be available starting at 4pm. At 5pm the artist will give a talk on the exhibition, its origins, and her process in Lane Hall 2239. There will be time for Q&A.

About the exhibit:
Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is an exhibition where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.

Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.

About the Artist:
Sarah Buckius is an artist, educator, and engineer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. Originally from the midwest (Champaign, IL), she holds an M.F.A. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her creative work, which incorporates digital media (video, photography, collage, animation) and performance, has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Through her work, she weaves "Intertwined HerStories" that originate from the cross-section of *-gender-*-technology-*-lens-based-media-*-the human body-*-caregiving-*. She works in the space of absurdity that emerges at the point of disconnect between the seemingly coded / structured / ordered / production-based space of technology and the messy / complex / idiosyncratic space of humanity and is interested in uncovering the ways in which working with and creating technology illuminates humanness, including gender biases. With an underlying goal of supporting DEI in STEM fields, her work illuminates the ingenuity of diverse groups of people.

“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Arts Council Santa Cruz County.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:42:38 -0400 2023-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Reception / Open House Text reads: Sarah Buckius !!!techn010ffspring!!! Artist Talk & Reception
Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives (October 4, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113131 113131-21830128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This roundtable brings together scholars of the horror film working in the contexts of Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli cinemas. They will discuss these questions and issues: How do we take stock of concurrent developments in Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli horror films? What are the points of convergence and divergence among them? What does horror add to our understanding of Muslim and Jewish cultures? Alternatively, how do Jewish and Muslim interventions contribute to the horror genre?

Attend in-person, or online at https://myumi.ch/gRAV2

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:32 -0400 2023-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History (October 5, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111677 111677-21827410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History

What is the historic relation of left-wing politics and modern intellectual life? How have today’s humanist disciplines in the academy been influenced by a scholarly generation radicalized as part of late-1960s insurgent movements (and by a secondary generation schooled by that one)?

Circa 1950, “the intellectuals” as a social phenomenon, whether “critical” or conformist, absorbed a great deal of attention—just as “intellectual history” stood as a prominent part of the historical discipline. Now, hardly anyone will talk of “the intellectuals” as a group, stratum, or role-carriers of a distinct sort. Within the academy, talk of “intellectuals” has devolved into a placid appreciation of “public intellectuals,” or those whom administrators value for “engaged scholarship.” But what of the “radical left” in the sense suggested by Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps’s Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War: a variegated, concrete social current of dissent in the United States, from the time of the Abolitionists (circa 1830) to the present, identified with radical visions of new, dramatically transformed social relations characterized by wide-ranging emancipation, equality, and democratic participation in collective self-government?

This conference asks for a new approach to an old question regarding intellectuals and politics: To what extent has there been an identifiable left-wing intellectual tradition within and/or without the more general mainstream sense of an “American intellectual tradition”? And insofar as we can locate such, to what extent has it been historically significant—significant, that is, in terms beyond the high-cultural virtue of contributing to knowledge but in an effectual sense of helping to shape (as it is shaped by) human action generally, its structures, conflicts, and development? And finally, what can we say, historically, about the practical impact or efficacy of this radical left intellectual tradition/lineage over time or at particular moments?


Full Program:
1014 Tisch Hall

Thursday, October 5, 2023

1 pm Opening Reception

2-3:30 pm Panel 1: A Heritage of Antiracist and Anticolonial Agitation

Jay Cook (University of Michigan): “Rethinking Ira Aldridge: Actor of Color, Global Star, Insurgent Intellectual, and the Most Widely-Seen Abolitionist of the Nineteenth Century”
Mary Kelley (University of Michigan): “Journey in and through Women’s and Gender History”
Anthony Mora (University of Michigan): “Mexican Heroes in U.S. Imaginations”

4-5:30 pm Keynote Address
Nelson Lichtenstein (UC-Santa Barbara): “What is a Labor Intellectual?”

Friday, October 6, 2023

10:30-12 pm Panel 2: Prologue to the 20th-Century Left and the Emergence of Modern “Intellectuals”

Julie Greene (University of Maryland): “The Wages of Empire: U.S. Workers Confront Global Capitalism”
Eileen Boris (UC-Santa Barbara): “Emma Goldman’s ‘The Traffic in Women’ Revisited: Sex Work, Sweatshops, and Discourses of Slavery”
Kevin Gaines (University of Virginia): “Du Bois, the Black Left, and Black Radicalism”

1:30-3 pm Panel 3: Radical Intellectuals over the Course of the “Old Left”

Casey Blake (Columbia University): “Paul Goodman: Drawing the Line, Again and Again”
Alan Wald (University of Michigan): “Paradigm Dramas in U.S. Literary Radicalism”
Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): “Before the New Left: Anticolonial Intellectuals and the Non-Aligned Imagination”

3:30-5 pm Panel 4: The New Left and Beyond: Whither the Radicals of ’68?

Alice Echols (University of Southern California): “Paths to ‘68: ‘Organize Around Your Own Oppression’”
Christian Davenport (University of Michigan): "Mapping the DeMarketplace of Ideas: Introducing Ptolemy with Selected Applications Across Time"
Daniel Geary (Trinity College Dublin): “Radical Chic?: The Left-Liberal Revival of the 1960s and 1970s”

5:15-6:30 Panel 5: Capital and Critique (Toward a Social-Intellectual History of the Radical Left)

Margaret Somers (University of Michigan)
Greg Parker (University of Michigan)
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan)
David Spreen (Harvard University)
Dan Borus (University of Rochester)
James Maffie (University of Maryland)

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:35:21 -0400 2023-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium UNIA Parade in Harlem 1920
U-M Center for Social Solutions x SALA Summit (October 5, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112884 112884-21829708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Alumni Center
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Held on the University of Michigan’s campus, the SALA Series & University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions Summit will convene thought leaders to answer this fundamental question: How do we renew the promise of America?

The half-day Summit will feature moderated thought leadership sessions with 15 of the country's leading experts in reparations, higher education, and criminal justice reform.

Seating in limited, be sure to register now!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:57:31 -0400 2023-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Alumni Center Center for Social Solutions Workshop / Seminar U-M Center for Social Solutions x SALA Summit
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History (October 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111677 111677-21827411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History

What is the historic relation of left-wing politics and modern intellectual life? How have today’s humanist disciplines in the academy been influenced by a scholarly generation radicalized as part of late-1960s insurgent movements (and by a secondary generation schooled by that one)?

Circa 1950, “the intellectuals” as a social phenomenon, whether “critical” or conformist, absorbed a great deal of attention—just as “intellectual history” stood as a prominent part of the historical discipline. Now, hardly anyone will talk of “the intellectuals” as a group, stratum, or role-carriers of a distinct sort. Within the academy, talk of “intellectuals” has devolved into a placid appreciation of “public intellectuals,” or those whom administrators value for “engaged scholarship.” But what of the “radical left” in the sense suggested by Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps’s Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War: a variegated, concrete social current of dissent in the United States, from the time of the Abolitionists (circa 1830) to the present, identified with radical visions of new, dramatically transformed social relations characterized by wide-ranging emancipation, equality, and democratic participation in collective self-government?

This conference asks for a new approach to an old question regarding intellectuals and politics: To what extent has there been an identifiable left-wing intellectual tradition within and/or without the more general mainstream sense of an “American intellectual tradition”? And insofar as we can locate such, to what extent has it been historically significant—significant, that is, in terms beyond the high-cultural virtue of contributing to knowledge but in an effectual sense of helping to shape (as it is shaped by) human action generally, its structures, conflicts, and development? And finally, what can we say, historically, about the practical impact or efficacy of this radical left intellectual tradition/lineage over time or at particular moments?


Full Program:
1014 Tisch Hall

Thursday, October 5, 2023

1 pm Opening Reception

2-3:30 pm Panel 1: A Heritage of Antiracist and Anticolonial Agitation

Jay Cook (University of Michigan): “Rethinking Ira Aldridge: Actor of Color, Global Star, Insurgent Intellectual, and the Most Widely-Seen Abolitionist of the Nineteenth Century”
Mary Kelley (University of Michigan): “Journey in and through Women’s and Gender History”
Anthony Mora (University of Michigan): “Mexican Heroes in U.S. Imaginations”

4-5:30 pm Keynote Address
Nelson Lichtenstein (UC-Santa Barbara): “What is a Labor Intellectual?”

Friday, October 6, 2023

10:30-12 pm Panel 2: Prologue to the 20th-Century Left and the Emergence of Modern “Intellectuals”

Julie Greene (University of Maryland): “The Wages of Empire: U.S. Workers Confront Global Capitalism”
Eileen Boris (UC-Santa Barbara): “Emma Goldman’s ‘The Traffic in Women’ Revisited: Sex Work, Sweatshops, and Discourses of Slavery”
Kevin Gaines (University of Virginia): “Du Bois, the Black Left, and Black Radicalism”

1:30-3 pm Panel 3: Radical Intellectuals over the Course of the “Old Left”

Casey Blake (Columbia University): “Paul Goodman: Drawing the Line, Again and Again”
Alan Wald (University of Michigan): “Paradigm Dramas in U.S. Literary Radicalism”
Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): “Before the New Left: Anticolonial Intellectuals and the Non-Aligned Imagination”

3:30-5 pm Panel 4: The New Left and Beyond: Whither the Radicals of ’68?

Alice Echols (University of Southern California): “Paths to ‘68: ‘Organize Around Your Own Oppression’”
Christian Davenport (University of Michigan): "Mapping the DeMarketplace of Ideas: Introducing Ptolemy with Selected Applications Across Time"
Daniel Geary (Trinity College Dublin): “Radical Chic?: The Left-Liberal Revival of the 1960s and 1970s”

5:15-6:30 Panel 5: Capital and Critique (Toward a Social-Intellectual History of the Radical Left)

Margaret Somers (University of Michigan)
Greg Parker (University of Michigan)
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan)
David Spreen (Harvard University)
Dan Borus (University of Rochester)
James Maffie (University of Maryland)

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:35:21 -0400 2023-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium UNIA Parade in Harlem 1920
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
The power in a single story: Scaling social change by focusing on individuals (October 6, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111576 111576-21827263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:07:36 -0400 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Adam Selzer Lecture Advertisement
Bridging Borders: Connecting for Social Change (October 7, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112978 112978-21829843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Project RISHI

Bridging Borders, hosted by Project RISHI, is an incredible opportunity to hear from students and faculty engaging in global community-impact projects that address disparities in health, education, and more. Open to all UM students, this event will feature a speech from Dr. Mousumi Banerjee from the Center for Global Health Equity and student-group presentations from SAAHI, M-HEAL's Project MESA and Team Pact, and Paani, followed by facilitated discussion. Join us on October 7th from 5-7pm at the Vandenberg Room (The League). Dinner will also be provided. Be sure to RSVP!

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Presentation Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:35:00 -0400 2023-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Project RISHI Presentation Bridging Borders: Connecting for Social Change
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
The Impact of AI on the Lives and Rights of Women in the US and the Middle East (October 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113519 113519-21831110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Overview: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of our society and our lives. However, just like any emerging technology, AI’s impact varies greatly for different demographic groups, in different geographic regions, and is shaped by social conventions, culture, religion, economic realities, among many other factors. We invite everyone who is interested in understanding the impact of AI to join Marina Alsahawneh and Merve Hickok for a discussion of the impact of AI on women in the US and the Middle East. They will discuss gender biases in AI algorithms, opportunities and gender inequity in the AI-enabled workforce, and cyber-based violence against women. They will discuss how these intersect with the political, social, cultural, economic and religious features of different geographic regions.

Speakers:
Marina Alsahawneh, Gender and Inclusion Officer at Jordan Open Source Association

Merve Hickok, Responsible Data & AI Advisor, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Moderator:
Jing Liu, Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science

More information and registration here: https://midas.umich.edu/ai-womens-rights/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:36:50 -0400 2023-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion AI-generated image of a woman in profile with abstract geometric designs
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (October 10, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110383 110383-21824852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
To the mass standardization that has accompanied our thermo-industrialized society, we can oppose vernaculars (linguistic, architectural, economic, ritualistic, …) as forms that capacitate deceleration and autonomy through specificity and disconnection. In this talk, I explore whose agency is privileged by the efficiency of norms and standards, and who benefits from the singularity of resilient adaptations by looking at practices of care, maintenance, and repair, along with their respective modes of transmission and know-how. Most crucially, this project probes the potential of vernacular forms to regulate our ever-increasing energy consumption and dissipation in the service of social and climate well-being.

About Mireille Roddier:
Mireille Roddier is a 2023-24 Hunting Family Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and associate professor, Architecture and Women’s & Gender Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:47:22 -0400 2023-10-10T12:30:00-04:00 2023-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Radical Vernacular
Digital Archive Launch Party (October 10, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112234 112234-21828625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

It is with both a sense of reflection and hope that we invite you to join us in celebrating the culmination of the Michigan–Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis and the launch of our digital archive collection.

Enjoy dinner & drinks and live DJ sets in a lounge-like setting while exploring the interactive digital archive stations located throughout the elevated LSA Atrium space.

Registration is required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CJMQ2KVfD4q2VWuSSegv3WUOeMlbHqYW9T_z0ITm-m0/edit?ts=64ee0e29

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Reception / Open House Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:45:53 -0400 2023-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House Pink background with blue text, Save the Date, October 10, 2023, 5:30 to 7:00 PM
UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series (October 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110300 110300-21832495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

The Health Equity Leadership Series is a speaker series that welcomes leaders in the fields of nursing and healthcare to share their expertise and engage members of the UM community in critical thinking, learning, and dialogue about topics in health equity. Our goal is to expose UM faculty, staff, students, and alumni to some of the most pressing and relevant topics in health equity and nursing. Attendees will be challenged to learn, unlearn, and expand upon their own views while also networking with leaders who have a demonstrated commitment to advancing equity in healthcare.

This year's line-up:

Dr. Nao Hagiwara, PhD
Implicit Bias and Patient-Provider Communication
September 13, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Black Maternal Health
October 11, 2023
12:00 -1:00 PM ET

Dr. Priyoth Kittiteerasack, PhD, RN
LGBT Life in Thailand: Past, Current, and Future Situations
November 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Shirley Stephenson, MS, MFA, MA, FNP-BC
Humanities & Nursing
January 17, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

State Rep. Jason Morgan
Housing Insecurity & Inequality in Washtenaw County
February 16, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Victor Pedrero, PsyD
Diabetes and Stigma
March 13, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Erin Tenney, DNP, CNM, WHNP, APNP
Cultural Safety and Native American Health
April 10, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

For full event descriptions, please visit our Sessions page: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/13451

This event series is hosted by the Office of Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. All UM students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to attend. Please register on UM Sessions and send any questions about the Health Equity Leadership Series to Emily Herzog (epawlik@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:21:50 -0400 2023-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Lecture / Discussion UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series Logo
Digital Scholarship 101: Planning For Your Digital Project (October 11, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112361 112361-21828832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Are you planning a digital project but don’t know where to start? Conceptualizing and planning for a digital project so that the research goals guide the technology and project, instead of the other way around can sometimes be difficult. In this workshop we will cover conceptualizing a research project with specific scholastic outcomes, objectives, and deliverables and learning the steps needed to plan for success. Practical and critical considerations will be discussed and covered when writing a project charter, and how a project plan can ease the creation of documentation as well as the grant application process.

This session is only available via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration and a few days prior to the session date.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:30:20 -0400 2023-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar office supplies
Humanities Mindsets (October 12, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110454 110454-21824939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Register for this workshop at https://myumi.ch/W24xd.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About today's workshop:
Led by Derek Attig and Mearah Quinn-Brauner, the Humanities Mindsets workshop invites participants to experiment with using humanistic modes of thinking in conversations about jobs and careers. The workshop adapts a form used in many career workshops: having participants reflect on their experiences and the experiences of their peers using shared terms. But instead of an unfamiliar (and potentially alienating) vocabulary of “skills” or “values,” we guide participants in using theoretical frameworks from the humanities to analyze those experiences. Our hope is that the workshop helps humanists see their working lives as worthy of deep, critical, and playful intellectual engagement—and equips them to help one another to make stronger and more confident career decisions.

About the presenters:
Derek Attig is the assistant dean for career & professional development at the University of Illinois. Mearah Quinn-Brauner is the senior director for strategy and policy at Northwestern University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:07:12 -0400 2023-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Resist, Persist, Exist: Art for the Earth; A program at the Art & Environment Gallery at SEAS (October 12, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113675 113675-21831441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment & Sustainability

The exhibit is a collection of environmentally inspired oil paintings dealing with ecological processes that occur
in connected landscape and waterscape ecosystems and sustainable solutions to environmental crises.
Adlerstein is an applied aquatic ecologist, visual artist and curator. She has painted for as long as she has been a
scientist. Her art is published in books and magazines, shown in galleries and museums in Chile, Europe, Canada
and the U.S. and is part of public collections. She is a Research Scientist in the School for Environment &
Sustainability and member of the Ann Arbor WSG Gallery. She advocates for a vision bridging arts and sciences.

The exhibit is with support of the LSA Arts & Resistance Semester, UM- Arts Initiative.
For more information visit https://seas.umich.edu/about/gallery
The exhibit is open to the public until November 20- Mondays to Fridays 7am-7pm

Join the artist for the gallery reception and conversations about the interconnection of art and environmental sciences.
Thursday October 12th, 5 – 7pm Dana Building, First Floor Commons
Performance by U-M Music Department students

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Exhibition Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:26:26 -0400 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building School for Environment & Sustainability Exhibition Get your kicks on route 66 | Oil painting by Sara Adlerstein | 40"hx40" w
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Chelsea Eats: Basic Income and Food Security (October 13, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111577 111577-21827264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:10:52 -0400 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Jeff Leibman Lecture Advertisement
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (October 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109472 109472-21822062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:12:35 -0400 2023-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Exterior image of Clements Library
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (October 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 16, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
DruidO’Casey: The Plough and the Stars (October 18, 2023 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109615 109615-21822406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 7:30am
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars is a gripping portrayal of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, a six-day conflict led by Irish Republicans who were attempting to establish an independent Ireland while the British were preoccupied by World War I. Set in a tenement house, the story follows the lives of ordinary citizens who are caught up in the tumultuous events of the rebellion. The tenement’s residents grapple with their own loyalties and beliefs as the rebellion unfolds, with their romanticized ideals clashing with the harsh realities of war.

Through vivid dialogue and dramatic events, O’Casey masterfully portrays their struggles, dreams, and disillusionment in the face of political upheaval, challenging romanticized notions of heroism while highlighting the often-unseen sacrifices made by ordinary individuals. Director Garry Hynes “deliver[s] a Plough that leaves room for all of the fun to be had…while shifting elegantly into an expressionistic mode. A significant achievement by Hynes and her superb ensemble.” (The Irish Examiner)

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:51:57 -0400 2023-10-18T07:30:00-04:00 2023-10-18T10:30:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Plough and the Stars
Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People (October 19, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113205 113205-21830500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

Thursday, October 19, 2023
5:00-6:30 p.m.; reception and gallery exhibit opening to follow
Hatcher Library Gallery (in-person only)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the building and heightening of the Aswan Dam under the oversight of British engineers (and, later, Egyptian capital) radically altered the relationship of the region of Nubia to Egypt. Flooding Nubian settlements and causing the population to move their homes higher up the banks of the Nile, the dam’s increasingly high floodwaters constituted Nubia within imaginaries of (ancient) Egypt itself. I will illustrate how the imbrication of imperial engineering, national development, and archaeological survey created a region in which contemporary population became disaggregated from ancient past and touristic gaze shaped all in its image. As a result, during the 1960s—and this time under the auspices of UNESCO—archaeological and preservationist intervention again took place as construction of the Aswan High Dam began and Nubia flooded further: not only in newly independent Egypt, but also on the other side of the border in the one-time Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. That work not only rested on earlier colonial intervention, but also made possible the elision of Nubians from the cross-border region, perhaps forever.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
William Carruthers is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the University of Essex.
He holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and earlier degrees in archaeology from UCL. William has held postdoctoral fellowships from, among others, the Leverhulme Trust and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. He is the author of "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology," published in 2022 by Cornell University Press. He is also the editor of various journal special issues and the book "Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures," published by Routledge in 2014.
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Sponsored by Narrating Nubia, the Humanities Collaboratory, and the Department of Anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:24:14 -0400 2023-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Poster for Creating Nubia by William Carruthers
DruidO’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman (October 19, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109616 109616-21822408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In The Shadow of a Gunman, Sean O’Casey explores the Irish War of Independence (1920-21). Set in a tenement house in Dublin, the story centers around the character of Donal Davoren, a struggling poet mistaken for an Irish Republican Army gunman by his neighbors, who approach him with a mixture of fear and intrigue. As the rumor of Davoren’s affiliation spreads, he finds himself caught between his desire to maintain his romantic image as a poet and the harsh reality of being seen as a revolutionary. The tension escalates when an actual IRA gunman arrives, forcing Davoren to confront the consequences of his assumed identity.

“O’Casey’s dramatic toolbag is stuffed with the conventions of his time: comic double acts, maudlin heroines, tragic twists, malaproprisms, and melodrama” (The Irish Examiner) as he highlights the profound impact of political unrest on ordinary lives.

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:52:37 -0400 2023-10-19T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-19T21:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Shadow of a Gunman
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Creating Green Energy and Equitable Enterprise in Detroit (October 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111579 111579-21827269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:44:13 -0400 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Jerry Davis Lecture Series
DruidO’Casey: Juno and the Paycock (October 20, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109617 109617-21822410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

The Irish Civil War of 1922-23 provides a backdrop of political unrest and social upheaval that amplifies the struggles of the working-class characters in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. The Boyle family lives in squalor, with Captain Jack’s laziness and alcoholism contributing to their financial struggles while his wife Juno works tirelessly to provide for the family. When the family receives news of an unexpected inheritance, their hopes rise and they dream of a better life. However, their newfound fortune soon proves illusory, and their lives become entangled in a web of betrayal, deceit, and tragedy.

With humor and tragedy, O’Casey depicts the harsh realities of life in a war-torn society and the impact of ideological divides within a single family. Of the first performances of DruidO’Casey in Galway, Ireland in July, The Arts Review observed, “To see one of O’Casey’s classics is to be astonished at the manner in which he courageously articulated, challenged, and shared an emerging Ireland. To see all three together is to go deeper and ask how far have we traveled, or failed to? Many of the questions raised by O’Casey prov[e] prescient, and alas, still relevant.”

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:53:13 -0400 2023-10-20T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-20T22:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Juno and the Paycock
DruidO’Casey: The Plough and the Stars (October 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109615 109615-21822407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars is a gripping portrayal of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, a six-day conflict led by Irish Republicans who were attempting to establish an independent Ireland while the British were preoccupied by World War I. Set in a tenement house, the story follows the lives of ordinary citizens who are caught up in the tumultuous events of the rebellion. The tenement’s residents grapple with their own loyalties and beliefs as the rebellion unfolds, with their romanticized ideals clashing with the harsh realities of war.

Through vivid dialogue and dramatic events, O’Casey masterfully portrays their struggles, dreams, and disillusionment in the face of political upheaval, challenging romanticized notions of heroism while highlighting the often-unseen sacrifices made by ordinary individuals. Director Garry Hynes “deliver[s] a Plough that leaves room for all of the fun to be had…while shifting elegantly into an expressionistic mode. A significant achievement by Hynes and her superb ensemble.” (The Irish Examiner)

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:51:57 -0400 2023-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Plough and the Stars
Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy (October 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109614 109614-21822404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

A century ago, Ireland was reborn in the fires of rebellion and war. The playwright Sean O’Casey bore witness to these seismic events and dramatized them as the Dublin Trilogy, three great works of Irish theater full of history, humanity, and humor, all written in the immediate aftermath of the tumultuous period.

Druid will weave O’Casey’s three plays into an epic theatrical event of conflict, national identity, and the human toll of war: DruidO’Casey. The three plays will be presented in only two US cities — New York and Ann Arbor.

Directed by Tony Award winner Garry Hynes, a single company of 18 actors will perform all three plays, drawing parallels between an Irish past and an international present. Each play will be presented twice in Ann Arbor, with the opportunity to view each work individually, across the week, or as a single immersive experience. Experience one play, or experience them all!

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:40:20 -0400 2023-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T21:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Plough and the Stars
DruidO’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman (October 21, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109616 109616-21822409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In The Shadow of a Gunman, Sean O’Casey explores the Irish War of Independence (1920-21). Set in a tenement house in Dublin, the story centers around the character of Donal Davoren, a struggling poet mistaken for an Irish Republican Army gunman by his neighbors, who approach him with a mixture of fear and intrigue. As the rumor of Davoren’s affiliation spreads, he finds himself caught between his desire to maintain his romantic image as a poet and the harsh reality of being seen as a revolutionary. The tension escalates when an actual IRA gunman arrives, forcing Davoren to confront the consequences of his assumed identity.

“O’Casey’s dramatic toolbag is stuffed with the conventions of his time: comic double acts, maudlin heroines, tragic twists, malaproprisms, and melodrama” (The Irish Examiner) as he highlights the profound impact of political unrest on ordinary lives.

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:52:37 -0400 2023-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Shadow of a Gunman
DruidO’Casey: Juno and the Paycock (October 21, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109617 109617-21822411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

The Irish Civil War of 1922-23 provides a backdrop of political unrest and social upheaval that amplifies the struggles of the working-class characters in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. The Boyle family lives in squalor, with Captain Jack’s laziness and alcoholism contributing to their financial struggles while his wife Juno works tirelessly to provide for the family. When the family receives news of an unexpected inheritance, their hopes rise and they dream of a better life. However, their newfound fortune soon proves illusory, and their lives become entangled in a web of betrayal, deceit, and tragedy.

With humor and tragedy, O’Casey depicts the harsh realities of life in a war-torn society and the impact of ideological divides within a single family. Of the first performances of DruidO’Casey in Galway, Ireland in July, The Arts Review observed, “To see one of O’Casey’s classics is to be astonished at the manner in which he courageously articulated, challenged, and shared an emerging Ireland. To see all three together is to go deeper and ask how far have we traveled, or failed to? Many of the questions raised by O’Casey prov[e] prescient, and alas, still relevant.”

This performance is part of Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, which includes The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, and Juno and the Paycock. Get tickets to all three performances and save.

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:53:13 -0400 2023-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T22:30:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Juno and the Paycock
Book Talk with Andrea Rottmann (October 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113124 113124-21830120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Andrea Rottmann (she/they) is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. She got her PhD in German Studies at the University of Michigan in 2019. Her book *Queer Lives Across the Wall. Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970* came out with the University of Toronto Press in May 2023. Andrea has researched and published on queer spaces, on sexuality and gender in museums, on the politics of queer history and the LGBTIQ movement in Germany and the US. With Martin Lücke (FU Berlin) and Benno Gammerl (EUI Florence) she coordinates the network "Queer Contemporary Histories of German-speaking Europe," which brings together queer history scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:38:45 -0400 2023-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Woman stands outdoors in front of a microphone
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 23, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (October 24, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110384 110384-21824853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
This talk explores how risk was transformed from being understood as a property of groups to being understood as a property of individuals by examining the history of public and private insurance in the United States. Rather than seeing this change as the product of the "great risk shift" that occurred with the emergence of neoliberalism, my account suggests that the individualization of risk in recent decades is only the latest instantiation of a recurrent conflict between security and freedom that has marked the evolution of capitalism. Seen from this longer historical perspective, the "personal responsibility revolution" appears not as the handiwork of neoliberal policymakers, but rather as the unintended result of social movements that contested discriminatory practices in insurance markets.

About Greta Krippner:
Greta Krippner is a 2023-24 John Rich Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and associate professor, Sociology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:49:07 -0400 2023-10-24T12:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Unmasked: A History of the Individualization of Risk
European History Workshop: Book Talk (October 24, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113721 113721-21831507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: European History Workshop

The European History Workshop (EHW) is proud to announce the workshop’s first book-talk of the semester, featuring the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Prof. George Steinmetz. He has graciously agreed to speak about his recent book, *The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire* (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Prof. Steinmetz will join us on Tuesday, October 24, 2023, from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM at 1014 Tisch. The EHW will serve light refreshments. The professor’s talk will be followed by discussant commentary from the EHW’s co-coordinators, Keanu Heydari and Paige Newhouse, and then will open to questions and comments from workshop participants.

From the publisher: “In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control over their crisis-ridden colonies, Steinmetz argues that colonial research represented a crucial core of the renascent academic discipline of sociology, especially between the late 1930s and the 1960s. Sociologists, who became favored partners of colonial governments, were asked to apply their expertise to such “social problems” as detribalization, urbanization, poverty, and labor migration. This colonial orientation permeated all the major subfields of sociological research, Steinmetz contends, and is at the center of the work of four influential scholars: Raymond Aron, Jacques Berque, Georges Balandier, and Pierre Bourdieu.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:01:27 -0400 2023-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall European History Workshop Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Black Feminist Futures (October 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102179 102179-21823124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto talk with Aida Levy-Hussen, associate professor of English Language and Literature, about their book series, Black Feminism on the Edge, and about what new and urgent scholarship in Black feminist thought can look like.

About the speakers:
Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of three books, most recently *How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory*, forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2024.

Samantha Pinto is professor of English, core faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies, and affiliated faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2022, she has served as Director of the Humanities Institute at UT. She is the author of two books, most recently *Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights* (Duke UP, 2020).

*This event was originally scheduled to take place in February 2022 as part of our Humanities Afrofutures series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:11:14 -0400 2023-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental and Mixed Methods Evidence on Neighborhood Choice (October 27, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111582 111582-21827271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:47:08 -0400 2023-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Stefanie DeLuca Lecture Advertisement
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 30, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service (November 2, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114653 114653-21833258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop

The talk, “Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service,” suggests that representations of “essential work” oscillate between sentimentalized depictions of service work as “productive” or heroic and a counter-discourse of service work as uniquely abject or degraded. It reads these contradictions through the history of feminized, racialized, and informalized wage forms like piece-rate and tips and connects that history to contemporary comparisons of service work to sex work.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:59:30 -0400 2023-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop Lecture / Discussion Poster
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (November 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109041 109041-21820780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:34:22 -0400 2023-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Image of Clements Library
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 3, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Chapter Workshop: "Piece-Rate Poetics and the Techniques of Microwork" (November 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114654 114654-21833259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop

Following Thursday’s lecture "Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service", the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop will host a collaborative workshop on a work-in-progress titled “Piece-rate Poetics and the Techniques of Microwork” on Friday at 12 p.m. The reading will be circulated in advance with the registered attendees. Lunch will be served after the workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:10:40 -0400 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop Workshop / Seminar Poster
Poverty Solutions Alumni Panel (November 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111583 111583-21827272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:50:10 -0400 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion PS Alumni Lecture Advertisement
Lawyer Up: The Role of Legal Executives in the Rise of Corporate Political Activity (co-authored with Tim Werner) (November 3, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114672 114672-21833284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Neo-institutional theory depicts the regulative pillar of institutions, the system of formal laws and punishments, as one of society's most formidable tools for aligning corporate behavior with societal interests. Yet, work in non-market strategy suggests that firms have shifted toward an increasingly strategic (rather than compliant) posture vis a vis their regulative environments, demonstrated through an expanding repertoire of strategies meant to influence, co-opt, or subvert legal and regulatory institutions. While the organization-level incentives for such a shift are straightforward, the political process within firms that would lead internal legal counsel to support this shift is unclear, given lawyers' professional obligations to protect the integrity of legal and regulatory structures. In this paper, we shed light on this process by exploring the ascendency of general counsel to firms' top management teams in the post-SOX "era of compliance" and the relationship between the GC's strategic ascendency and corporate political activity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:57:20 -0400 2023-11-03T13:30:00-04:00 2023-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Mae McDonnell
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (November 3, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109041 109041-21820781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:34:22 -0400 2023-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Image of Clements Library
(DE) CONSTRUCTED Exhibition By Nour Ballout (November 3, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114009 114009-21832072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Opening Reception November 3, 5-7 pm
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 18, Ann Arbor 48109
Parking free after 5:00 pm
for further information contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:35:28 -0400 2023-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Reception / Open House Wild is the Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 3, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114011 114011-21832142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am to 5 pm, or by appointment serrag@med.umich.edu

Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:58:59 -0400 2023-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Reception / Open House Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (November 3, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109041 109041-21820783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 5:30pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:34:22 -0400 2023-11-03T17:30:00-04:00 2023-11-03T18:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours Image of Clements Library
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Black History 101 Mobile Museum (November 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110375 110375-21824844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The Black History 101 Mobile Museum is a national award-winning traveling exhibit that educates and informs the public about the rich and diverse history of African Americans. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the exhibit will showcase over 150 original artifacts reflecting the evolution of hip-hop culture and its impact on American society, highlighting the contributions of Black artists and innovators in the genre.

This insightful exhibit takes an interesting angle in viewing hip-hop culture through the lens of social movements such as the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Stop the Violence Movement, The Million Man March, and Black Lives Matter. The exhibit also includes historical and cultural artifacts from the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Era, Black Power, and Black Arts Movement.

Join us at noon for “Using Hip-Hop Artifacts to Understand Hip-Hop Culture and its Connection to Broader Black Social, Cultural, and Political Movements” with Dr. Khalid el-Hakim, founder of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum. Details at https://events.umich.edu/event/109913.
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This exhibition is part of LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:53:04 -0400 2023-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Dr. Khalid el-Hakim, founder of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
A Conversation on the Future of the Engaged Humanities (November 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114862 114862-21833708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please join us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a reception and engaging conversations, celebrating the work of Julie Ellison.

Guest speakers:

David Scobey, Director of Bringing Theory to Practice
“Scholarship and the Engaged Scholar”

Dr. Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University
“Imagining America and the Work of Carving Out Space in the Academy”

Dr. Sylvia Gale, Executive Director, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond
“Learning from PAGE: 20 Years of Engaged Graduate Education,”

Dr. Michelle May-Curry, Faculty in Georgetown University’s Program in Engaged and Public Humanities and Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance
“Looking Forward”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:00:06 -0400 2023-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
"Navigating Memory and Fantasy in the Digital Realm" (November 7, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110235 110235-21824652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this lecture, Ruiz will explore how her artistic practice has evolved, and her fascination with the concept of memory archiving through technology. She will unravel how our digital landscapes have become modern repositories of our memories, shaping the essence of our personal and collective narratives.

Gabriela Ruiz is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Strongly influenced by growing up in LA’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico, Ruiz’s practice is a reflection of the DIY work ethic she was raised with, the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions, and her exposure to subculture and fantasy at a young age as a means to escape the realities of daily life. One of LA’s rising young talents, she presented her solo show Stream at the Palm Springs Art Museum 2022, part of the museum's Outburst project.

*Gabriela Ruiz is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. This lecture is a collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the College for Creative Studies, Detroit.*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:08:18 -0400 2023-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Gabriela Ruiz. Image by Jade Mainade.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series (November 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110300 110300-21832338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

The Health Equity Leadership Series is a speaker series that welcomes leaders in the fields of nursing and healthcare to share their expertise and engage members of the UM community in critical thinking, learning, and dialogue about topics in health equity. Our goal is to expose UM faculty, staff, students, and alumni to some of the most pressing and relevant topics in health equity and nursing. Attendees will be challenged to learn, unlearn, and expand upon their own views while also networking with leaders who have a demonstrated commitment to advancing equity in healthcare.

This year's line-up:

Dr. Nao Hagiwara, PhD
Implicit Bias and Patient-Provider Communication
September 13, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Black Maternal Health
October 11, 2023
12:00 -1:00 PM ET

Dr. Priyoth Kittiteerasack, PhD, RN
LGBT Life in Thailand: Past, Current, and Future Situations
November 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Shirley Stephenson, MS, MFA, MA, FNP-BC
Humanities & Nursing
January 17, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

State Rep. Jason Morgan
Housing Insecurity & Inequality in Washtenaw County
February 16, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Victor Pedrero, PsyD
Diabetes and Stigma
March 13, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Erin Tenney, DNP, CNM, WHNP, APNP
Cultural Safety and Native American Health
April 10, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

For full event descriptions, please visit our Sessions page: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/13451

This event series is hosted by the Office of Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. All UM students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to attend. Please register on UM Sessions and send any questions about the Health Equity Leadership Series to Emily Herzog (epawlik@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:21:50 -0400 2023-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Lecture / Discussion UMSN Health Equity Leadership Series Logo
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 9, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 9, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Cover Letters and Resumes for Diverse Career Pathways in the Humanities Workshop (November 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110455 110455-21824940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Register for this workshop at https://myumi.ch/W24xd.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About today's workshop:
With a focus on humanities students, this workshop will provide guidance around cover letters and resumes for positions beyond tenure track roles.

The process of synthesizing your academic experiences into strong application materials for jobs beyond academia can be challenging but rewarding. This workshop is a hands-on opportunity for graduate students to learn how to effectively develop a resume using the foundation that they have laid with information and experiences from their CV. The session will also include strategies for writing compelling, tailored cover letters and thinking strategically about how these two documents complement each other.

To make the most of the session, students should come prepared to discuss and workshop ideas, and have a simple list of their recent experiences and skills they might want to highlight (a CV or past resume would also work).

About the presenters:
Joe Cialdella is the assistant director of internships & public scholarship at Rackham Graduate School. Kirsten Elling is the coordinator for graduate student career advancement and the Rackham embedded career counselor at the University Career Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:06:56 -0400 2023-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T16:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Apalache? Appalachia? The Talimali Band of Apalachee Indians, Twenty-First Century Colonialism, and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty (November 9, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114499 114499-21832980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Colonial studies are often conducted within the “bubble” of academia and in isolation from the descendants of the communities most dramatically impacted by the ravages of colonialism. In this talk, Kimberly C. Borchard (Randolph-Macon College) will discuss how her first monograph, Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715, in chronicling two centuries of atrocities committed against the Apalachee people and other Native societies of the American southeast, led to a new project documenting Apalachee history since 1763. Through contact with living descendants of the people that first encountered Spanish gold-seekers in the Florida peninsula in the early sixteenth century, Borchard has transitioned from purely historical research to contemporary advocacy for living members of the Apalachee tribe, whose land claims and sovereignty continue to be systematically ignored by the U.S. government.

Kim Borchard earned her B.A. and M.A. from Ohio University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches courses in Spanish, Latin American colonial literature, the social issues surrounding Latin American immigration to the U.S., and humor in Spanish at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Her first book, Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715 explores the European obsession with Appalachian mineral resources from 1528 to 1715, reframing Appalachian history within the fields of Latin American, early American, and Atlantic history. Her next book, tentatively titled The Talimali Band the Apalachee Indians of Louisiana: The Struggle for Survival and Federal Reinstatement of One of America's Oldest Tribes, 1763-2024, will document the history of the Apalachee diaspora in Louisiana after the tribe's expulsion from Florida in 1704.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:42:14 -0400 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 10, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 10, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Akropolis Reed Quintet (November 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109620 109620-21822414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? is an electrifying concert experience that blurs the lines between classical, jazz, and contemporary music.

Ann Arbor’s own Akropolis Reed Quintet — composed of U-M Alumni on clarinet, oboe, saxophone, bass clarinet, and bassoon — joins forces with Grammy-nominated composer and jazz pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and celebrated drummer Christian Euman. Le Boeuf’s composition is inspired by his musical “ancestors” — Geri Allen, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, and Leonard Bernstein — representing a variety of perspectives concerning the unity of the American experience. His composition asks: Are we really dreaming the same American dream, or is our consumer culture overshadowing our own sense of belonging?

Founded in 2009, the Akropolis Reed Quintet has won seven national chamber music prizes, including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, and has premiered and commissioned over 150 works by living artists and composers. “Infallible musicality and huge vitality” (Fanfare Magazine)

PROGRAM
Pascal Le Boeuf Are We Dreaming the Same Dream
Pascal Le Boeuf Wanderlust
George Gershwin An American in Paris (arr. Raaf Hekkema)
Charles Mingus Self-Portrait in Three Colors (arr. Le Boeuf)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:14:12 -0400 2023-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Akropolis Reed Quintet
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 13, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
The John H. Mitchell Critical Conversations Symposium (November 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113696 113696-21831470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Our Fall 2023 John H. Mitchell Critical Conversation, "Finding Your Way: Creative Careers in an Era of Streamers, Studios, and AI" will be held on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, from 4:00 - 6:00 PM in Rackham's Amphitheatre.

This year's conversation features the Fall 2023 John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment, Scholar and Author, Miranda Banks, in conversation with Writer Robb Chavis; CMO of Fantom Foundation, Joseph Epstein; and Writer/Director/Producer Gail Lerner.

Please join us for a conversation about exploring career paths related to contemporary transformations in the entertainment industry.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:51:15 -0400 2023-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Film, Television, and Media Conference / Symposium Symposium Poster
History Matters Film Series: Summer of Soul (November 14, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114008 114008-21832071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Join U-M History at the Michigan Theater for "Summer of Soul" (2021), Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson's documentary film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Stay after for a discussion and Q&A with Stephen Berrey and Traci Lombre. Part of the U-M History Department's History Matters Film Series.

Admission is free for all; tickets are not required. This program is provided with support from the LSA Arts Initiative and is presented in conjunction with the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester.

Reserve your FREE tickets here: https://michtheater.org/summer-of-soul

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:20:20 -0500 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening Summer of Soul poster (2021)
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Search Engines | "Asian futures, without Asians" (November 15, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111957 111957-21828062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://tinyurl.com/2btrxwmz

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/byx2x

"Asian futures, without Asians" is a multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of actual Asian people?”

The first iteration of "Asian futures, without Asians" was an online performance commissioned by The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, as part of their Trinh T. Minh-ha season. The project has developed over a series of live performances made for the Zoom camera and for in-person, with script, imagery, costuming, and backdrops tailored to each arts institution and country in which it is presented.

As part of the inaugural season of the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network’s Search Engines series, Astria Suparak will present a new, live multimedia performance edition of the project for the University of Michigan and for our broader community.

Part critical analysis, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor, justified anger, and informative morsels, this hour-long illustrated lecture examines nearly 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing. Using a wide interpretation of “Asian” to reflect current and historical geopolitical trends and self-definitions (inclusive of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Pacific Islands—the latter two of which are not Asia), this research-creation project examines how Asian cultures have been mixed and matched, contrasted against, and conflated with each other, often creating a fungible “Asianness” in futuristic sci-fi.

The quick-paced performance lecture is interspersed with selected images and clips from dozens of futuristic movies and television shows, as Suparak delivers anecdotes, trivia, and historical documents (including photographs, advertisements, and cultural artifacts) from the histories of film, art, architecture, design, fashion, food, and martial arts. Suparak discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures, but decontextualizing and misrepresenting them, while excluding Asian contributors.

Artist Bio:

Astria Suparak is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, California.

Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism, feminisms and gender, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives.

Over the last year Suparak’s creative projects have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and as part of the For Freedoms billboard series. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; The Kitchen, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1, in New York; and Expo Chicago, as well as for unconventional spaces, such as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award.

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://tinyurl.com/2btrxwmz

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/byx2x

CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Covid Precautions: The artists requests that guests wear well-fitting masks.

We would like to thank the following Department Co-Sponsors:

Department of American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program
Department of Asian Languages and Culture
Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing
Center for Japanese Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Nam Center for Korean Studies
STAMPS School of Art and Design

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Performance Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:57:54 -0400 2023-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Digital Studies Institute Performance Natalie Portman's character Padmé Amidala from the Star Wars movie franchise wearing "Asian-influenced" costuming.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 15, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Freedom House Detroit (November 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114942 114942-21833838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Interested in Human Rights? This is Freedom House.

Join the RC French program to learn more about how YOU can get involved.

Freedom House Detroit is a non-profit organization that supports and empowers refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection.

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Presentation Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:02:43 -0500 2023-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation A flyer describing Freedom House Detroit with linked hands in the background
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 16, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-16T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 17, 2023 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 7:30am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-17T07:30:00-05:00 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Networking and Informational Interviewing for Diverse Career Pathways in the Humanities (November 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110456 110456-21824941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Register for this event at https://myumi.ch/W24xd.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About today's workshop:
Developing your professional network is an important part of graduate school and success on the job market. Join this discussion to learn strategies for building your network and professional community (including tips on using LinkedIn, alumni networks, and professional organizations), and how to connect with this network for both career exploration and job/internship searching. We will also cover informational interviewing, including the purpose of an informational interview, how to identify people to interview, and how to prepare for a productive conversation. There will be plenty of time for your questions!

About the presenters:
Joe Cialdella is the assistant director of internships & public scholarship at Rackham Graduate School. Kirsten Elling is the coordinator for graduate student career advancement and the Rackham embedded career counselor at the University Career Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:06:02 -0400 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
DIY Digital Scholarship: Text Analysis with Voyant (November 17, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112365 112365-21828835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

In this DIY Digital Scholarship workshop, we will be discussing how to do textual analysis using the application, Voyant. Voyant is an open-source and no-cost tool that allows users to perform distant reading and textual analysis on a text corpus or corpora. Voyant can be easily accessed from your internet browser and is a great tool for this new to textual analysis. This workshop will provide best practices for safe analysis, tips/cautionary tales for accessible, inclusive data analysis in general. No previous experience is needed for this workshop. Media and materials for text will be provided.

This session is only available via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration and prior to the session.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:33:05 -0400 2023-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar many texts
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 18, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (November 18, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109627 109627-21822426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.

The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:55:39 -0400 2023-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Javaad Alipoor
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 20, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 27, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-27T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-27T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (November 28, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110385 110385-21824855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
How might the act of writing Civil War-era memoirs, letters, and diaries have helped Black people negotiate intense personal and community challenges? How did these narrative forms enable or limit an author’s ability to envision a future of “freedom” amid the horror of war? This talk explores the shifting regimes of race and class for
a Black Philadelphian diarist in Union-occupied South Carolina.

About Sandra Gunning:
Sandra Gunning is a 2023-24 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and professor, English Language and Literature, American Culture, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:22:58 -0400 2023-11-28T12:30:00-05:00 2023-11-28T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Charlotte Forten
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Tacos & Trivia (November 29, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114725 114725-21833382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

What is the best-selling hip-hop album of all time? Who starred in the 1996 remake of Romeo and Juliet? Test your knowledge at Tacos & Trivia: Humanities In Pop Culture Trivia Night! Join the Public Humanities Interns of the Institute for the Humanities for an evening filled with fun questions, delicious food, and awesome prizes! Come alone or with a team — the interns can’t wait to see you!

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Recreational / Games Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:21:26 -0500 2023-11-29T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Recreational / Games Tacos & Trivia infographic
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 30, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (November 30, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Curating Scholarship: A Workshop on the Visual Presentation of Research (November 30, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110236 110236-21824653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Visual exhibitions of research have the potential to engage publics beyond the readers of a scholarly monograph. Moving research off the page can take a variety of forms, but always requires careful curation. In this two-day workshop, graduate student and faculty scholars will gain an understanding of the requirements of curation, of the relationship between curation and creation, and of the research potentials opened through collaboration.

Curating Scholarship will be led by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak, who will address conceptual questions of importance such as visual choices, context, display, and organizational styles. Logistical factors to be covered include planning, strategies, collaborative possibilities, and generating interest and support. Guest presenters will discuss their experience translating research and into exhibition format.

After the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to meet with the curator for a 30-minute one-on-one session to discuss the exhibition potential of their own work.

Eligibility

Currently enrolled PhD students that have reached candidacy level as of September 1, 2023.
Faculty with an active appointment on any U-M campus as of September 1, 2023. Faculty are defined as tenure track and tenured professors, lecturers, and post-doctoral/research fellows.
Each selected participant will receive $250 in compensation for their time in attending the workshop.

Facilitator and Presenter:
Amanda Krugliak, Artist, Institute for the Humanities Curator, and Arts Administrator whose practice includes performance and conceptual experiential installations.

Presenters TBA

Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

Selection Criteria:

Promise, significance, and interdisciplinary scope of the research project
The humanities and arts content of the project
The project’s potential contribution to public humanities scholarship
The quality, significance, and breadth of the applicant’s prior work

To apply, visit https://myumi.ch/qGnwX.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:19:23 -0400 2023-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T21:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Curating workshop
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Curating Scholarship: A Workshop on the Visual Presentation of Research (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110236 110236-21824654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Visual exhibitions of research have the potential to engage publics beyond the readers of a scholarly monograph. Moving research off the page can take a variety of forms, but always requires careful curation. In this two-day workshop, graduate student and faculty scholars will gain an understanding of the requirements of curation, of the relationship between curation and creation, and of the research potentials opened through collaboration.

Curating Scholarship will be led by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak, who will address conceptual questions of importance such as visual choices, context, display, and organizational styles. Logistical factors to be covered include planning, strategies, collaborative possibilities, and generating interest and support. Guest presenters will discuss their experience translating research and into exhibition format.

After the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to meet with the curator for a 30-minute one-on-one session to discuss the exhibition potential of their own work.

Eligibility

Currently enrolled PhD students that have reached candidacy level as of September 1, 2023.
Faculty with an active appointment on any U-M campus as of September 1, 2023. Faculty are defined as tenure track and tenured professors, lecturers, and post-doctoral/research fellows.
Each selected participant will receive $250 in compensation for their time in attending the workshop.

Facilitator and Presenter:
Amanda Krugliak, Artist, Institute for the Humanities Curator, and Arts Administrator whose practice includes performance and conceptual experiential installations.

Presenters TBA

Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

Selection Criteria:

Promise, significance, and interdisciplinary scope of the research project
The humanities and arts content of the project
The project’s potential contribution to public humanities scholarship
The quality, significance, and breadth of the applicant’s prior work

To apply, visit https://myumi.ch/qGnwX.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:19:23 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Curating workshop
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Curating Scholarship: A Workshop on the Visual Presentation of Research (December 2, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110236 110236-21824655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2023 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Visual exhibitions of research have the potential to engage publics beyond the readers of a scholarly monograph. Moving research off the page can take a variety of forms, but always requires careful curation. In this two-day workshop, graduate student and faculty scholars will gain an understanding of the requirements of curation, of the relationship between curation and creation, and of the research potentials opened through collaboration.

Curating Scholarship will be led by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak, who will address conceptual questions of importance such as visual choices, context, display, and organizational styles. Logistical factors to be covered include planning, strategies, collaborative possibilities, and generating interest and support. Guest presenters will discuss their experience translating research and into exhibition format.

After the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to meet with the curator for a 30-minute one-on-one session to discuss the exhibition potential of their own work.

Eligibility

Currently enrolled PhD students that have reached candidacy level as of September 1, 2023.
Faculty with an active appointment on any U-M campus as of September 1, 2023. Faculty are defined as tenure track and tenured professors, lecturers, and post-doctoral/research fellows.
Each selected participant will receive $250 in compensation for their time in attending the workshop.

Facilitator and Presenter:
Amanda Krugliak, Artist, Institute for the Humanities Curator, and Arts Administrator whose practice includes performance and conceptual experiential installations.

Presenters TBA

Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

Selection Criteria:

Promise, significance, and interdisciplinary scope of the research project
The humanities and arts content of the project
The project’s potential contribution to public humanities scholarship
The quality, significance, and breadth of the applicant’s prior work

To apply, visit https://myumi.ch/qGnwX.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:19:23 -0400 2023-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Curating workshop
Study Days at Thayer (December 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115082 115082-21834031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Feeling bored with your go-to study spots? Well, there’s no gatekeeping at the Institute for the Humanities. Come over to the Thayer Academic Building (across from MLB), where we are hosting Study Days at Thayer! The Institute for the Humanities' Public Humanities Interns will transform the space into a cozy, productive space to grind it out before final exams. We’ll provide the coffee, tea, and snacks, so all you need to do is bring over your books, laptops, and friends! But wait! There’s more…There will be a decompression room, a quiet study area, a social study area, and the gallery will be open.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:30:55 -0500 2023-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Social / Informal Gathering Thayer Academic Building
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 4, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 4, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Alumni Career Panel (December 4, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110457 110457-21824942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Register for this event at https://myumi.ch/W24xd. You will receive Zoom Link upon registration.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center, this series of events is intended to support humanities graduate students from across fields in exploring and preparing for the diverse career paths available to them. Students may attend events individually, but may find it especially helpful to attend each in progression.

About this event:
For humanists interested in pursuing diverse career pathways beyond tenure-track roles, the options can sometimes feel overwhelming and abstract. During this session, a panel of alumni from U-M humanities departments working in diverse industries will provide concrete details about their day-to-day work and the career journeys that led them there. Panelists include: Jill Jividen, Senior Director of Research Development at the University of Michigan; Michelle-May Curry, Curator at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; and Jamie Hart, Executive Director at the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access. The goal is to provide examples of the varied pathways and types of work humanists pursue after graduating with a Ph.D.

Students should come prepared with questions for the panelists, as there will be plenty of time to steer the conversation in directions that are most meaningful for the group.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:16:24 -0500 2023-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion
Search Engines | "Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology" (December 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115066 115066-21834003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here:
https://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus:
https://myumi.ch/EPMmG

Talk Abstract

“Meanwhile blackness means to render unanswerable the question of how to govern the thing that loses and finds itself to be what it is not.” Harney & Moten, The Undercommons

My argument in this project is to make AI more wild, not less. By wild, I indicate generative possibility for the technology in opposition to the reproduction of the same. The prompt for this line of inquiry is the call for transparency and accountability as an “ethics” in AI design. Another prompt is the “alien encounters” described in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series of speculative fiction. I wonder if advocacy toward a corrective can produce the ends sought: less harmful bias and more equitable opportunity. What if—outside of the frame of the ethical corrective—one reorients AI application and ontology?

Keywords

artificial intelligence, black techné, ethics, Octavia Butler, ontology, predictive, surround, supervised learning, unsupervised learning

Dr. Beth Coleman is an Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Race Theory, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning, urban data, and civic engagement. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles. Her research affiliations have included the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Microsoft Research; Data & Society Institute; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She was the 4S 2021 Toronto Conference Co-Chair. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing lab, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Inaugural Director, University of Toronto Black Research Network Institute Strategic Initiative. Coleman is a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee and 2022 Google Senior Visiting Researcher. Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris.

Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1994, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White, Routledge, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2007); Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman, Routledge, 2000). In November 2019, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.”

André Brock is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, video games, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.

This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here:
https://myumi.ch/Z3Vqy

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus:
https://myumi.ch/EPMmG


This event is the second lecture of new DISCO Network programming, titled "Search Engines," funded by the U-M Arts Initiative with support from the DISCO Network and Digital Studies Institute.


We would like to thank the following co-sponsors:

Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Department of American Culture
Department of Communication and Media
Department of English Literature and Language
Department of History
School of Information
Trotter Multicultural Center

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:05:45 -0500 2023-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion Yellow background with six AI-generated abstract images surrounding text.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 5, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 5, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
CREATIVE CLASSICAL PEDAGOGIES SYMPOSIUM (December 8, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115648 115648-21835200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

SYMPOSIUM ON CREATIVE CLASSICAL PEDAGOGIES

Co-sponsored by Contexts for Classics and Topics in Classical Intersectionalities

Friday, December 8, 2023
11 am - 4pm, Classics Library, 2175 Angell Hall


11-12:00 Keynote Address

Dr. Hannah Silverblank, Brown University
How to crip the dictionary: A pedagogical proposal for ancient language study

This talk combines a meditation on the politics of Greek-English lexicography with a proposal for a speculative pedagogical collaboration called the “Anti-Lexicon.” The essential aim of the Anti-Lexicon is to challenge and expand the range of meanings that make themselves available to twenty-first century students and scholars of ancient languages and cultures, with awareness of the implicit exclusionary ideologies that have operated within the history of the discipline of Classics. Steeped in questions emerging from disability justice, crip pedagogy, and the language(s) of disability, this talk invites students and teachers of Classics to consider how we might practice non-traditional acts of lexicography as inclusive collaborations geared toward cultivating more nuanced understandings of ancient linguistic meaning in the classroom.



12:15-1:15 Panel One

Netta Berlin, “Dissident Voices in the Teaching of Greek Myth”

Fernando Gorab Leme, “Reception as a pedagogical tool to present (and challenge) the Classics and their primacy”

Amanda Kubic, “Bringing Gender and Disability Studies into the ‘Great Books’ Classroom: A Case Study of Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan Women



1:30-2:30 Panel Two

Robert Santucci, “Fan Fiction in Ancient Rome”

Ian Moyer, “Incorporating “critical fabulation” into ancient history courses”

Sanjana Ramanathan, “Unraveling the epic: postcolonial presence through cross-temporal comparison"



2:45-3:45 Panel Three
Natalie Francis, “‘‘Difficult Parents, Protean Dance’: Theorizing Queer Kinship from Lucian’s Pan(tomime) to RF Kuang’s Babel (2022)”

Brittany Hardy, “Incorporating Principles of Ecopedagogy into Your Classics Curriculum”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:04:35 -0500 2023-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Study Days at Thayer (December 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115082 115082-21834032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Feeling bored with your go-to study spots? Well, there’s no gatekeeping at the Institute for the Humanities. Come over to the Thayer Academic Building (across from MLB), where we are hosting Study Days at Thayer! The Institute for the Humanities' Public Humanities Interns will transform the space into a cozy, productive space to grind it out before final exams. We’ll provide the coffee, tea, and snacks, so all you need to do is bring over your books, laptops, and friends! But wait! There’s more…There will be a decompression room, a quiet study area, a social study area, and the gallery will be open.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:30:55 -0500 2023-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-10T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Social / Informal Gathering Thayer Academic Building
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 11, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 11, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
Making Healthy Environments a Legal Right in Michigan: Legislation or Green Amendment (December 12, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115567 115567-21835021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Panel discussion with Laprisha Berry-Daniels (Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice) and Nick Schroek (University of Detroit Mercy). Moderated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).

Zoom registration required: https://tinyurl.com/4hv3j363

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:58:39 -0500 2023-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Dec 12 Panel Discussion on Making Healthy Environments a Legal Right in Michigan
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
"Death and Its Afterlives: De/composing Boundaries" Conference (December 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115961 115961-21836066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF)

Death and Its Afterlives: De/composing Boundaries
28th Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 8-9, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Luciana Chamorro, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Full schedule and abstract descriptions linked here: https://lsa.umich.edu/complit/news-events/all-news/search-news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-year-s-cliff.html

From necropolitics to ecological decline, from digital dead links to haunted sites, from the material ruins of late capitalism to the allegorical decay of “late style,” this year’s CLIFF conference seeks to de/compose the boundaries between the living and the dead. We hope to bring together a diverse set of critical interests and disciplines on a terrain where death and precarious (after)lives lay bare the politics of exclusion, the erosion of memory, and the ethical responsibilities that confront us in the face of current crises. Our graduate student-organized conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues; we welcome researchers, independent scholars, and artists to join us in exploring death, rebirth, and the in-between.

For our 28th annual conference, the Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) invites 15 minute presentations based in literary analysis, critical theory, history, politics, anthropology, translation studies, and interdisciplinary work. These presentations may take the form of academic papers, creative work, performance, and/or visual media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Luciana Chamorro, professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Chamorro is a socio-cultural anthropologist studying revolution and its afterlives in the Central American region and its diasporas. Her work includes research on political revolution and violence, desire and affect, generational difference, states of exception, and feminist and queer imaginaries of the future.

If you are planning to attend this event and need accommodations, please notify the organizers by February 22, 2024, so that proper arrangements can be made. The organizers can be contacted at cliff.complit@umich.edu.

Our conference is entirely organized by graduate students in the University of Michigan's Department of Comparative Literature. This year's organizing members are Arianna Afsari, CC Barrick, Delsa Lopez, and Sanjana Ramanathan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:37:58 -0500 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) Conference / Symposium Photo of CLIFF poster with sponsors listed
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee (December 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114012 114012-21832184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu
Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:11:21 -0400 2023-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Roof Slightly Ajar, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 18, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-18T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023