Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Wolverine Writers II: Stories of Fire, Ice . . . and Rebirth (June 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108320 108320-21819279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join us for our second annual episode of Wolverine Writers, to hear about some examples from the past year, including “Tragedy on the Ice,” the story of a disastrous expedition involving U-M astronomer Edmund Israel; “The Arsonist Was a Scholar,” the story — and the story of the story — of an act of arson on campus; and “The Tappan Oak,” about one of U-M’s most beloved natural features, and its life, death, and rebirth.



Our panel will include Kim Clarke, director of the Michigan Heritage Project; Deborah Holdship, editor of Michigan Today; and Lara Zielin, editor of the Bentley’s own Collections magazine.



For those attending in person, the event will be followed by tours of the Observatory, with observing if weather permits.

Please note: One of the talks will mention one person’s experience with suicide; please use care and know that support is available. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide or mental health issues, please note and use the resources below.

– For U-M students: Counseling & Psychological Services (www.caps.umich.edu; 734-764-8312, including CAPS After Hours 24/7)

– For U-M Faculty and Staff: Faculty & Staff Counseling & Consultation Office (734-936-8660; email: fascco@umich.edu)

– Psychiatric Emergency Services: 734-936-5900 – 24/7/365

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:05:19 -0400 2023-06-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-06-08T20:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of a yellow typewriter with a navy block M on the backdrop of a faded yellow map of the University of Michigan campus.
NSF AI Research Institutes Kick-Off (August 24, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109881 109881-21823192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

OVPR's Office of Research Development will provide an overview of the NSF AI Research Institute program for faculty interested in preparing applications for this funding opportunity. Presenters will discuss strategies for developing a competitive team and idea, what institutes have been funded recently, and how research development staff can support proposal planning efforts.

This will be offered as a hybrid meeting; join us in person at the Ruthven Administration Building, or via Zoom. Calendar invites with a Zoom link will be sent via email after you register below.

NOTE: This solicitation is a limited submission funding opportunity. Internal applications are due September 11 and will be peer-reviewed to select 2 U-M teams to submit applications to NSF. Submit your application at umich.infoready4.com

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:15:07 -0400 2023-08-24T13:00:00-04:00 2023-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research Development
Hopwood Celebration Tea (August 31, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110923 110923-21825852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 31, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

-Enjoy coffee, tea, and light refreshments
-Enter a raffle to win books and other prizes
-Check out books from the Hopwood Library
-All are welcome

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:55:15 -0400 2023-08-31T15:00:00-04:00 2023-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Purple and gold banner with Hopwood signature logo
Hopwood Tea (September 7, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-09-07T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
MFA Faculty Flash Reading (September 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108985 108985-21820682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Come hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from distinguished MFA and English Department faculty members!

This year's readers will include: Karyna McGlynn, Kelly Hoffer, Linda Gregerson, Tung-Hui Hu, Kiley Reid, Aaron Coleman, Gabe Habash, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and more!

This event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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Performance Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:19:42 -0400 2023-09-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance MFA Faculty Flash Reading
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
Plan Your Year with the Hub (September 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110124 110124-21824365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The Hub Presents: Plan Your Year with the Hub

Join the LSA Opportunity Hub for one of our first events of the academic year: Plan Your Year with the Hub! This event is tailored to enhance your approach to planning your professional development for the year. In collaboration with our experienced team, you will craft a personalized roadmap to steer your career aspirations, regardless of where you stand in your undergraduate journey.

Refreshments will be provided.

By attending this event, you can:
Formulate future aspirations and develop plans to achieve actionable goals for the year
Prepare for and reflect on engagement with professionals, employers, alum, and peers
Navigate and access resources and services within LSA, U-M, and beyond campus

We have three (3) available time slots for you to choose from to accommodate your schedule, but this event will look the same every hour. You must RSVP to attend this event.

You should attend this event if you are:
An LSA undergraduate student.
Looking to make the most of your time in LSA.
Eager to jumpstart your career exploration.

What to expect:
One-on-one conversations and personalized planning with a Hub staff member.
Dress code: Casual
No preparation is necessary.


RSVP NOW to save your spot. You must RSVP for this event in order to attend.
Capacity is limited. Don’t miss this opportunity for free career advice from Hub Coaches and career experts.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair-accessible building, including wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. Ramps are located at the East entrance (from State St.) and the Northwest entrance (from Maynard). Power doors are located at the Northwest entrance. To request other accommodations, please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-764-4920 so we can make arrangements.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:08 -0400 2023-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Reception / Open House LSA Building
Plan Your Year with the Hub (September 13, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110124 110124-21824366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The Hub Presents: Plan Your Year with the Hub

Join the LSA Opportunity Hub for one of our first events of the academic year: Plan Your Year with the Hub! This event is tailored to enhance your approach to planning your professional development for the year. In collaboration with our experienced team, you will craft a personalized roadmap to steer your career aspirations, regardless of where you stand in your undergraduate journey.

Refreshments will be provided.

By attending this event, you can:
Formulate future aspirations and develop plans to achieve actionable goals for the year
Prepare for and reflect on engagement with professionals, employers, alum, and peers
Navigate and access resources and services within LSA, U-M, and beyond campus

We have three (3) available time slots for you to choose from to accommodate your schedule, but this event will look the same every hour. You must RSVP to attend this event.

You should attend this event if you are:
An LSA undergraduate student.
Looking to make the most of your time in LSA.
Eager to jumpstart your career exploration.

What to expect:
One-on-one conversations and personalized planning with a Hub staff member.
Dress code: Casual
No preparation is necessary.


RSVP NOW to save your spot. You must RSVP for this event in order to attend.
Capacity is limited. Don’t miss this opportunity for free career advice from Hub Coaches and career experts.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair-accessible building, including wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. Ramps are located at the East entrance (from State St.) and the Northwest entrance (from Maynard). Power doors are located at the Northwest entrance. To request other accommodations, please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-764-4920 so we can make arrangements.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:08 -0400 2023-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Reception / Open House LSA Building
Plan Your Year with the Hub (September 13, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110124 110124-21824367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 1:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The Hub Presents: Plan Your Year with the Hub

Join the LSA Opportunity Hub for one of our first events of the academic year: Plan Your Year with the Hub! This event is tailored to enhance your approach to planning your professional development for the year. In collaboration with our experienced team, you will craft a personalized roadmap to steer your career aspirations, regardless of where you stand in your undergraduate journey.

Refreshments will be provided.

By attending this event, you can:
Formulate future aspirations and develop plans to achieve actionable goals for the year
Prepare for and reflect on engagement with professionals, employers, alum, and peers
Navigate and access resources and services within LSA, U-M, and beyond campus

We have three (3) available time slots for you to choose from to accommodate your schedule, but this event will look the same every hour. You must RSVP to attend this event.

You should attend this event if you are:
An LSA undergraduate student.
Looking to make the most of your time in LSA.
Eager to jumpstart your career exploration.

What to expect:
One-on-one conversations and personalized planning with a Hub staff member.
Dress code: Casual
No preparation is necessary.


RSVP NOW to save your spot. You must RSVP for this event in order to attend.
Capacity is limited. Don’t miss this opportunity for free career advice from Hub Coaches and career experts.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair-accessible building, including wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. Ramps are located at the East entrance (from State St.) and the Northwest entrance (from Maynard). Power doors are located at the Northwest entrance. To request other accommodations, please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-764-4920 so we can make arrangements.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:08 -0400 2023-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Reception / Open House LSA Building
Peer Writing Center Open House (September 14, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108871 108871-21820498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 9:30am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join us in the main lobby of the Shapiro Library for cider and donuts and learn about how the Peer Writing Center can assist you with your writing during your time at Michigan.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:30:31 -0400 2023-09-14T09:30:00-04:00 2023-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Sweetland Center for Writing Reception / Open House Open House Flyer
Hopwood Tea (September 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Visualization in Research, Part I (September 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109880 109880-21823191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

Steve Alvey, graphics specialist in OVPR’s Office of Research Development, will discuss best practices for developing conceptual figures and other visualizations that communicate research in clear, compelling ways. Learn the fundamentals of design, including effective use of color and typography, that help grant proposals or presentations come together. Simple and appealing visuals also help broad audiences better understand complex data, ideas and impact. The presenter will provide examples of proposal graphics that exemplify best practices.

This is the first in a series of research visualization workshops; future sessions will include how to work with designers and how to maximize emotional impact (the "wow" factor) with research figures.

Calendar invites with a Zoom link will be sent via email after you register below.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:09:39 -0400 2023-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research Development
Hopwood Tea (September 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (September 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
Presentation and Q&A: "Dreaming Big & Building Bigger: Navigating Literary & Editorial Ambitions" (September 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109055 109055-21821010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

Peter LaBerge founded *The Adroit Journal* as a high school sophomore in November 2010 and he hasn’t slowed down since. The winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, Peter graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks — *Makeshift Cathedral* (YesYes Books, 2017) and *Hook* (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015) — and his poems have appeared in *AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New* *Poets, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and ZYZZYVA*. Currently, Peter is at work on his debut poetry collection, *Century Flower.*

Through *The Adroit Journal,* Peter has provided early editorial recognition to such luminaries as K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Richie Hofmann, Talin Tahajian, Ocean Vuong, Phillip B. Williams, and Shelley Wong, among many others. Peter also founded the online *Adroit Journal* Summer Mentorship Program, which connects high school writers from around the world with established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, as well as three annual prize opportunities for emerging writers: the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, and the Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program in Fiction. Peter has also previously taught creative writing to undergraduates at New York University and to middle school students at a public school in Queens, New York.

In addition to his continued leadership of *The Adroit Journal*, Peter is ever expanding his work with promising, tenacious students as founder of Ellipsis Writing, an online creative writing tutoring and college advising company. Through Ellipsis, Peter has independently mentored emerging student writers who have subsequently been recognized as *Best American Poetry* contributors, U.S. Presidential Scholars, and National Student Poets, as well as students recognized by BBC News, *The Boston Globe*, *Disney Channel*, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, *The Wall Street Journal,* the White House, and beyond. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:59:13 -0400 2023-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Peter LaBerge
Writing Personal and Academic Statements (September 26, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109722 109722-21822737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

Bioscience postdocs and grad students will cover what to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing statements for research-based grad programs. There will be a chance for workshopping statement drafts in small groups. This event is hybrid.

RSVP: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:58:30 -0400 2023-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T19:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Hopwood Tea (September 28, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
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!
What’s Reading Got to Do with It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School (September 29, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110441 110441-21824923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 2:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This new, four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.

What’s Reading Got to Do with It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School

This workshop will explore how you can read strategically to support your work as a writer in your academic field and discipline.

What is the relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes? How can we read to support our work as writers in our specific academic fields and disciplines? In this 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop, you will discover answers to these questions through guided reflection on your current reading (and writing) practices, as well as a hands-on introduction to specific reading strategies that support writing. You'll also leave with additional resources and ideas for how to continue to explore and develop the reading-writing connection in your own academic work.

Presenter: Megan Behrend, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:37:11 -0400 2023-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
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!
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (October 5, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T10:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
Hopwood Banned Books Tea (October 5, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112064 112064-21828392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome to join us for coffee, tea, and light refreshments as we celebrate and defend the reading of banned and challenged books.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:26:50 -0400 2023-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Flyer with image of caution tape over bookshelves
Reading and Q&A with Sidik Fofana (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108953 108953-21820646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta*. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstairs* is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights*, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:08:38 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
Promise That You Will Sing About Me: Craft Lessons That I’ve Learned From Hip-Hop Songs (October 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108980 108980-21820678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222)). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta.* He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstair*s is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights,* Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:27:33 -0400 2023-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
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!
Who Are You Talking To?: Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110444 110444-21824920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This new, four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.

Who Are You Talking To?: Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors

This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments.

Interlocutors are those you engage with in your research and writing; they may appear (re: be valued) differently across disciplines. This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments. Participants will work with peers to talk through rhetorical decisions scholars make when identifying and responding to interlocutors and set goals of how to use the workshop experience in their own graduate writing careers.

Presenter: April Conway, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:36:25 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
Mark Webster Reading Series (October 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109048 109048-21821003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:59:16 -0400 2023-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
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!
Peer Writing Consultant Program Info Session (October 10, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113165 113165-21830181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Peer Writing Consultant Program is an excellent way for undergraduate students from across the University to get involved in consulting with their peers about written communication. Becoming a writing consultant gives you the opportunity to work with others on their writing, enjoying conversations about interesting topics, helping to solve writing challenges, and supporting effective writing processes. Once writing consultants enter the job market or go to graduate school, many of them find that the program has given them important experience relating to people, working collaboratively, and engaging in rigorous thinking.

Students who have completed a first-year college writing course are encouraged to apply.

Learn more about the program from current Peer Writing Consultants and Peer Writing Program faculty and get any questions about the application process or working in our Writing Centers answered!

More info on the application process is available at https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/peer-writing-consultant-program.html as well as the Zoom link to the Info Session if you are viewing this from our website.

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Meeting Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:52:13 -0400 2023-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Peer Writing Consultant Program flyer
Interview Practice and CV Design (October 10, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110518 110518-21825008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

This seminar will cover what to expect with graduate school interviews (and those in academia generally), as well as how to design a CV vs a resume. There will be interview practice in small groups during the second half. This event is hybrid.

RSVP: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:03:30 -0400 2023-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Hopwood Tea (October 12, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Minor in Writing Info Session (October 12, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113271 113271-21830630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

The deadline to apply for the Winter 2024 cohort is Monday, October 23rd at noon.

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Meeting Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:20:42 -0400 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Minor in Writing flyer
Virtual Zell Visiting Writers Series: Fiction Author Liz Moore Reading and Q&A (October 12, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113818 113818-21831754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23.

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. 

Liz Moore is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) in Temple University’s MFA program and the author of four novels. Her most recent novel, the New York Times-and internationally bestselling Long Bright River(Riverhead), was also a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, the inaugural pick for the New York Times’s monthly “Group Text” column; and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020. 

Her other novels include The Words of Every Song (Random House, 2007); Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012); and The Unseen World (W.W. Norton, 2016). Moore's short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as Tin House, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. After winning a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she spent 2014-15 at the American Academy in Rome. Moore’s books have appeared on the “Best of the Year” lists of venues such as The New Yorker, NPR, Goodreads, and The Washington Post. Her novels have been published in more than twenty-five foreign territories to date. 

Her next novel is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2024, and a limited series adaptation of Long Bright River, co-written by Moore, is currently greenlit for production by Peacock. Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia. 

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. 

The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.

ZVWS events are free and open to the public. For additional information, questions, or accommodations needs, please contact Program Manager Julie Cadman-Kim at kimjulie@umich.edu.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:15:49 -0400 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
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!
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!
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (October 18, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T11:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
Minor in Writing Info Session (October 18, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113271 113271-21830631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

The deadline to apply for the Winter 2024 cohort is Monday, October 23rd at noon.

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Meeting Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:20:42 -0400 2023-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Meeting Minor in Writing flyer
Hopwood Tea (October 19, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Atsuro Riley (October 19, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108955 108955-21820648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Atsuro Riley is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of *Heard-Hoard* (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year, and a *Bookworm *Top 10 Book of the Year.

His 2010 book *Romey’s Order* received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, *The Believer *Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.

Riley’s other honors include Lannan Foundation and NEA Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by *POETRY *magazine.

His poems have been anthologized in *The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of POETRY Magazine, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poems of the American South, The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, Poems from Far and Wide, Vinegar and Char, Gracious,* and *Home: 100 Poems.*

Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.

He is the editor of *Revel*, a literary journal.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:40 -0400 2023-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
The Punctum & the Phosphorus, the Torque & the Haunt: In Search of The Poem (or Story) We Can't Shake Off - EVENT CANCELED (October 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108981 108981-21820679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

We will examine a selection of poems and other literary artworks (from the dead and the living), on the lookout for the ‘punctum’ and the ‘phosphorus’, the 'torque' and the 'haunt'—considering together the words, phrases, musical moves and formal choices that make the work viscerally felt and indelible, impossible to forget or shrug off.
The lenses and touchstones of our discussion will be the punctum vs. studium concept, formulated by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida, and the William Carlos Williams quote from In the American Grain:
It has been my wish to draw from every source one thing,
the strange phosphorus of the life. . .

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:35:46 -0400 2023-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
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!
How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students (October 20, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110447 110447-21824925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This new, four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.

How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students

This workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to help them thrive in their academic writing.

The most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and untaught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended arguments for academic purposes. What do academic writers do when they revise? How does an early draft become a polished, publishable article? This workshop will demystify the role of revision in academic writing – to advance and refine our good ideas! – and provide strategies to help you build quality revision into your writing practice. You will expand your revising practices and elevate your writing game.

Presenter: Louis Cicciarelli, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:35:45 -0400 2023-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
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!
Structuring and Developing Arguments (October 26, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112390 112390-21828863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

What kinds of arguments can graduate students make as they proceed through their coursework, professional development, and dissertation process? This presentation will focus on how to conceptualize and scaffold arguments to develop and shape scholarly work across the whole of one's graduate career.

Presented by Raymond McDaniel, Sweetland Center for Writing

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/69727

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:05:08 -0400 2023-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Hopwood Halloween Tea (October 26, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113204 113204-21830499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

-Seasonal refreshments
-Halloween music, games, and book raffle
-Costumes optional but welcome

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:44:55 -0400 2023-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea cup with spider and web; "Ghost Writers" book and pumpkin in the background
Reading and Q&A with Allison Epstein (October 26, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113939 113939-21831945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join RC Alum and fiction writer Allison Epstein for a reading from her forthcoming novel, Let the Dead Bury the Dead. Allison will also take questions from the audience about the writing life and the path to publication.

Allison Epstein earned her MFA
in fiction from Northwestern University and a BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. A Michigan native, she now lives in Chicago, where she works as an editor. When not writing, she enjoys good theater, bad puns, and fancy jackets. She is the author of historical novels including A Tip for the Hangman, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, and the forthcoming Our Rotten Hearts.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:00:37 -0400 2023-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T20:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event Graphic
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!
How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School?: From the Physical to the Philosophical (October 27, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110448 110448-21824931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This new, four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.

How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School?: From the Physical to the Philosophical

This workshop will address time management strategies, and effective habits and motivation for early graduate school success.

Time management and productivity may not seem like an exciting topic, but harnessing concrete tactics and strategies for how to maintain autonomy and agency over your own schedule is a crucial skill in graduate school. You will find yourself juggling multiple, and often competing, priorities– and many of them have to do with writing… lots, and lots of writing! This 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop will address time management strategies across scales (from pomodoros to physical planners to semester and year-long planning), as well as considerations regarding habits and motivation. The earlier you find what works for you, the more you can tailor your schedule to fit your life instead of the other way around!

Presenter: Cat Cassel, Sweetland Center for Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:35:10 -0400 2023-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
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!
Hopwood Tea (November 2, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Rebecca Makkai (November 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108957 108957-21820651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, *I Have Some Questions for You*, is a *New York Times* Best Seller. Her novel, *The Great Believers*, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the *LA Times* Book Prize; and it was one of the *New York Times*' Ten Best Books of 2018.

Her other books are the novels *The Borrower* and *The Hundred-Year House*, and the collection *Music for Wartime*—four stories from which appeared in* The Best American Short Stories*. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:42:23 -0400 2023-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Makkai
Can't Go Over It, Can't Go Under It: Writing the Impossible Story (November 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108982 108982-21820680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Every worthwhile artistic endeavor contains, at its heart, a cosmic impossibility -- a paradox that affects the conception of the piece itself, a reason the piece cannot actually exist as envisioned. Believe it or not, this is a good thing. We'll talk about how to deal with the impossible, and why.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, *I Have Some Questions for You,* is a *New York Times* Best Seller. Her novel, *The Great Believers*, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the *LA Times* Book Prize; and it was one of the *New York Times'* Ten Best Books of 2018.

Her other books are the novels *The Borrower* and *The Hundred-Year House*, and the collection *Music for Wartime*—four stories from which appeared in *The Best American Short Stories*. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:29:09 -0400 2023-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Makkai
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!
Hopwood Tea (November 6, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21833770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
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!
Hopwood Program's 4th Annual Pass the Mic (November 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113387 113387-21830951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

At this virtual open mic sponsored by the Hopwood Program, undergraduates from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses will share and celebrate their original prose and poetry.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:13:46 -0400 2023-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Event flyer with images of a book and microphone
Hopwood Tea (November 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
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!
Hopwood Awards Submissions Forum (November 10, 2023 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114901 114901-21833766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 12:45pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery will detail information and invite questions about submissions for the 2024 Hopwood Awards writing contests in advance of the January 18th deadline.

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Presentation Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:41:22 -0500 2023-11-10T12:45:00-05:00 2023-11-10T13:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Presentation Event flyer with image of people seated around a round table
Mark Webster Reading Series (November 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109049 109049-21821004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:58:43 -0400 2023-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
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!
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
Subject Matters: The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but Who Wins When It’s Pen vs. Paintbrush? (November 14, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113416 113416-21830975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek0gns0kf690c94c.

Trick question: they work together to take down even stronger foes. In this session, you’ll explore writing at the intersection of art and resistance. UMMA Curator Dave Choberka will be joined by Professor Scott Beal of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program to consider a range of art genres and objects and their relationship to resistance movements across the globe.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:15:24 -0500 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Hopwood Awards Virtual Submissions Forum (November 15, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114903 114903-21833768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery will detail submissions guidelines and invite questions in advance of the January 18th deadline for the 2024 Hopwood Awards writing contests. She will be joined by Emily Zhao and Camille Nagy, a graduate and undergraduate winner, respectively, of the 2023 Hopwood Award contests, who will offer their recommendations and join in the Q&A.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:57:17 -0500 2023-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Submissions flyer with image of people seated at a round table
Hopwood Tea (November 16, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Paul Tran (November 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108958 108958-21820652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, *All the Flowers Kneeling*, published by Penguin. Their work appears in *The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry*, and elsewhere.

They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/*Boston Review* Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom) .ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:46:36 -0400 2023-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-16T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paul Tran
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (November 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T10:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
The Beloved Poem: "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (November 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108983 108983-21820681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

*What did I know, what did I know*
*of love’s austere and lonely offices?*

This craft talk will examine how Robert Hayden constructed this unforgettable poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” and how the poem patterns language not simply to express but to enact its content. This craft talk will also examine how patterned language—when exacted very carefully and cleverly—can imagine for survivors of private and public trauma new ways to speak truth to power through form, ambiguity, and lyric indirection.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, *All the Flowers Kneeling*, published by Penguin. Their work appears in *The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry,* and elsewhere.

They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/*Boston Review* Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:29:45 -0400 2023-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paul Tran
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!
Mark Webster Reading Series (November 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109050 109050-21821005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:57:55 -0400 2023-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
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!
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!
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!
Zine Mini-Con (November 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115070 115070-21834007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Trade, make, and pick up zines at the Sweetland Center for Writing Zine Mini-Con! Students from WRT 160: Multimodal Composing organize the event and invite the public to participate. We will have zines, buttons, music, a zine maker-space, flash readings, refreshments and guests tabling: Guests include student organizations like Canopy and LSWA Zine Club.

Map to North Quad 2435
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Exhibition Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:40:22 -0500 2023-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T13:30:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Exhibition Event flyer
Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Alternative Narratives: Social Knowledge of Literature in the Post-Yugoslav Cultural Field (November 28, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113028 113028-21829939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This year’s Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture will address Yugoslav socialism in contemporary literature and culture after the collapse of socialism in the broader cultural, political and economic context of Eastern Europe. Unlike so-called ‘’peaceful revolutions’’ in the rest of Eastern Europe, the collapse of socialism and the disintegration of Yugoslavia in a tragic war influenced the course of a specific local transition where change of the social system went hand in hand with a thorough and rapid metamorphosis of a new collective identity. A particular ideological treatment of Yugoslavia and socialism in institutional memory and mainstream political discourse continues to hold a prominent place in the process of building a new identity. Parallel to this process, a large number of literary and cultural texts articulated specific narratives about the recent socialist past. In this talk, Maša Kolanović will provide insight into various figures and modes of literary and cultural articulations of the specific politics of remembrance, producing affective tones of nostalgia, melancholy, humor, trauma, as well as irony and parody, which are characteristic of the works of Dubravka Ugrešić, Miljenko Jergović, Ratko Cvetnić, Lana Bastašić and others.

Maša Kolanović is an associate professor in the Department of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb and a multi-genre writer. Her works include the poetry collection *Pijavice za usamljene (Leeches for the Lonely)*, the novel *Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie)*, the prose poem *Jamerika*, and the short story collection *Poštovani kukci i druge jezive price (Dear Pests and Other Chilling Stories)*. Following her monograph *Udarnik! Buntovnik? Potrošač…Hrvatski roman i popularna kultura od socijalizma do tranzicije (Strike! Rebel? Consumer…The Croatian Novel from Socialism to Transition)*, which she completed in 2011 for her PhD in Croatian language and comparative literature, she published articles on literature and popular culture. She co-edited the volumes: *Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva (Comparative Post-socialism: Slavic Experiences)*; *The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia* with D. Jelača and D. Lugarić; *Povijest, tekst, kontekst (History, Text, Context)* with L. Molvarec; and *Ekonomija i književnost (Economy and Literature)* with L. Molvarec and M. Hameršak. Her short story collection *Dear Pests and Other Chilling Stories* received the 2020 European Prize for Literature, the Pula Book Fair Audience Award, and the Vladimir Nazor Prize for Literature. Maša Kolanović is a member of Croatian Academy of Science and Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:02:44 -0500 2023-11-28T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Maša Kolanović
Hopwood Tea (November 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2023-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Writing Literature Reviews (November 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112391 112391-21828864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

How do I turn this never-ending tangle of literature into a neat, polished review? In this interactive workshop, we'll cover laying the foundation for your scholarly literature review and then taking that first critical step towards composition. We'll crowdsource tips for generating a source list, organizing it as you go, and starting to extract themes and ideas for section headings from your reading library. We'll also cover the basics of structure to reduce the barrier for writing your first sections. Whether you're halfway through or just starting out, you'll have a chance to take the next step on organizing, defining your purpose, or revising your argumentation. This presentation will focus on reviews in the sciences, but concepts are generalizable to all literature reviews.

Presented by Jimmy Brancho, Sweetland Center for Writing

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/69728

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:08:32 -0400 2023-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T16:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Creative Writing Program Honors Thesis Reading (December 1, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115288 115288-21834390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Please join us for an evening of readings from this term's honors thesis graduates. Featured presenters are Esther Launstein and Oscar Nollette-Patulski.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:57:30 -0500 2023-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T20:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Event Graphic
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (December 5, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T11:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
Michigan Voices Season 5 Podcast Launch Party (December 5, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115696 115696-21835387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 2:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join us for the launch of Season 5 of Michigan Voices. Michigan Voices explores the policy issues and cultural discussions prevalent in the Ann Arbor community and broader United States, as well as the perspectives and aspirations of university students from the University of Michigan and some of the voices of Gen Z. Produced by students in Writing 200: The Art of Podcasting.

Directions to Space 2435 in North Quad can be found here
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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:38:11 -0500 2023-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2023-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering party flyer
Writer to Writer with Public School Poetry (December 5, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115358 115358-21834566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writer to Writer offers rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom and how they handle the same challenges student writers face. Hosted by Shelley Manis from U-M LSA’s Sweetland Center for Writing.

This December, we welcome Public School Poetry with Ellen Stone, Scott Beal, David Ward, and Julie Babcock!

Public School Poetry was created by a group of poets educated through the public school system. We hope this online journal embodies the strangeness of public school and our colliding desires to learn, break rules, see what others are doing, and create new and better spaces. Despite the name, we are not a student-specific publication; our contributors come from all backgrounds and life stages.

This journal is a leap of faith and an ongoing experiment. Each contributor writes “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign. Poems and essays appear together in each issue.

https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/

Ellen Stone comes from a family of public-school teachers in Pennsylvania and spent her career teaching public school before retiring after 20+ years at Community High School in Ann Arbor.

Scott Beal is a product of public schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and currently directs the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at the University of Michigan.

David Ward has been a public school student at Sedona Red Rock High School, Arizona State University, and the University of Michigan, where he now teaches writing.

Julie Babcock is a poet and a fiction writer who sprang from public school systems in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and now teaches at University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:42:17 -0500 2023-12-05T18:30:00-05:00 2023-12-05T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Reading and Q&A with Ross Gay (December 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108961 108961-21820653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.
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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:31:05 -0400 2023-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ross Gay
Getting Lost (December 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109539 109539-21822276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

"In this talk, called 'Getting Lost', we will talk about, and maybe actually enter into, the virtues and quandaries of not knowing what the hell we're doing. We will talk some, but we will probably also do some mapping and drawing and building and definitely some dreaming."

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.
~

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:53:23 -0400 2023-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Ross Gay
Take Command Of Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word (December 13, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101962 101962-21821086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. This 50-minute online workshop will save you hours of time in creating your dissertation — and in any other writing you do with Microsoft Word.

In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of Contents, List of Figures, or a List of Tables. You’ll also learn about support resources and people who are available to answer your questions when you run into problems.

Please visit https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/dissertations to register for this session, and be sent the Zoom link.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:21 -0400 2023-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) Livestream / Virtual image of a hand gripping the Microsoft Word logo
2024 Hopwood Awards Deadline for December Graduates ONLY (December 18, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115858 115858-21835750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Students graduating at the end of the 2023 Fall semester who wish to submit work to the 2024 Hopwood Awards writing contests should submit no later than 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 18th, 2023. The deadline for all other students is January 18, 2024.

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Other Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:23:46 -0500 2023-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 2023-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other 2024 Hopwood Awards flyer with images of the Hopwood Room
Hopwood Tea (January 9, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21838014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-01-09T15:00:00-05:00 2024-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Hopwood Tea (January 11, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 2024-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Christina Sharpe (January 11, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108963 108963-21820655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:19 -0500 2024-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Thinking Juxtapositionally (January 12, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109068 109068-21821026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:01:33 -0500 2024-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Hopwood Program Manager Virtual Office Hours (January 15, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115855 115855-21835745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery is available to answer last-minute questions regarding submissions to the 2024 Hopwood Awards Contests. Please read contest descriptions and submissions guidelines at https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood before seeking a consultation.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:41:59 -0500 2024-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Hopwood Awards flyer with image of Hopwood Room
Hopwood Program Manager Virtual Office Hours (January 16, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115855 115855-21835746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery is available to answer last-minute questions regarding submissions to the 2024 Hopwood Awards Contests. Please read contest descriptions and submissions guidelines at https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood before seeking a consultation.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:41:59 -0500 2024-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Hopwood Awards flyer with image of Hopwood Room
Hopwood Program Manager Virtual Office Hours (January 17, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115855 115855-21835747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery is available to answer last-minute questions regarding submissions to the 2024 Hopwood Awards Contests. Please read contest descriptions and submissions guidelines at https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood before seeking a consultation.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:41:59 -0500 2024-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Hopwood Awards flyer with image of Hopwood Room
2024 Hopwood Awards Writing Contests Deadline (January 18, 2024 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115860 115860-21835752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Deadline for entering the 2024 Hopwood Awards writing contests is January 18th at 11:59 p.m. EXCEPT for December 2023 graduates, whose deadline is December 18th, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.

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Other Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:22:33 -0500 2024-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other Hopwood Awards contest flyer with images of Hopwood Room
Hopwood Tea (January 18, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
DAF Lab | "Writing (or not) on Crip Time" (January 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115976 115976-21835968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Accessible Futures Lab

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/DwEr8

This roundtable conversation considers what it means to write, make, and do (or not!) on crip time. Universities and other institutions typically represent disability through the logics of cost-burden models, which position disability as antithetical to collegiality, punctuality, responsibility, and often, life. How might we work against, crip, and ultimately dismantle these systems? How might bed rest, deferrals, stims, stutters, and other embodyminded insights help us generate tactics for survival? How might we think about digital activism and disabled collectivity online in ways that provide us respite rather than distress? How might we collectively reimagine the temporalities of labor, care, and composing?

This event will be held on Zoom. 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.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/DwEr8

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:00:32 -0500 2024-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Accessible Futures Lab Lecture / Discussion Dark brown wood background with a cup of coffee, white lattice table decoration, and spoons alternating directions. Also featuring four labeled headshots of speakers on the right.
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 19, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109051 109051-21821006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:57:14 -0400 2024-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Revising to Publish (January 22, 2024 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116075 116075-21836136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2024 10:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This workshop will provide an overview of how to revise a course or conference paper for publication. We will start with a review of useful publishing resources, and move through exercises to redefine your argument, identify a target journal, and design a writing schedule to achieve your publication goals. Students should bring a course or conference paper to work with during the workshop.

Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/73431

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:28:39 -0500 2024-01-22T10:30:00-05:00 2024-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 24, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Hopwood Tea (January 25, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Karen Solie (January 25, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108964 108964-21820656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. After working as a reporter for three years for *The Lethbridge Herald*, she earned an MA in English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of five collections of poetry. *Short Haul Engine* (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. *Modern and Normal *(Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. *Pigeon* (Anansi, 2009) won the Trillium Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. *The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out* (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. *The Caiplie Caves* (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. *The Living Option*, a volume of selected poems published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Karen's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Australia and translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of the Latner Poetry Prize, the Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught for writing programs and universities across Canada and in the UK, was the 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for Massey College at the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:40:08 -0400 2024-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Karen Solie
The Path of the Hare (January 26, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109761 109761-21822787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. After working as a reporter for three years for *The Lethbridge Herald*, she earned an MA in English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of five collections of poetry. *Short Haul Engine* (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. *Modern and Normal *(Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. *Pigeon* (Anansi, 2009) won the Trillium Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. *The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out* (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. *The Caiplie Caves* (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. *The Living Option*, a volume of selected poems published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Karen's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Australia and translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of the Latner Poetry Prize, the Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught for writing programs and universities across Canada and in the UK, was the 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for Massey College at the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:11:55 -0400 2024-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Presentation Karen Solie
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 26, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109052 109052-21821007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:52:20 -0400 2024-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 31, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Hopwood Celebration Tea and English Faculty Reading (February 1, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118220 118220-21840666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us to hear four English Department faculty (two poets, one fiction writer, and one creative nonfiction writer) read from their latest work. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:05:46 -0500 2024-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Flyer with teacup
Reading and Q&A with Halle Butler (February 1, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108965 108965-21820657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:22:06 -0400 2024-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 2024-02-01T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Halle Butler
Craft Lecture with Fiction Author Halle Butler (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109762 109762-21822791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:24:04 -0400 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Halle Butler
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 5, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Let There Be Light (February 6, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115690 115690-21835384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Liana Finck is a well-known comics artist. Her two recent books, Passing as Human
(2018), and Let there Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation (2022), whimsically
approach the timeless questions: What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our lives? And how should we treat one another? Finck will discuss the ideas and creation of these books and engage in dialogue with faculty and students.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:51:31 -0500 2024-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 2024-02-06T18:30:00-05:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Presentation Artist and Author Liana Finck
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Ergonomics for Performing Artists: What is it and how can we improve it? (February 9, 2024 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118603 118603-21841282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance Wellness Program

What is ergonomics? How does it apply to performing artists like musicians, actors, and dancers at the desk studying or on the stage? How can we improve it? Learn more by reading Performing Well's latest blog post at the link: https://umperformingwell.wordpress.com/blog/

Performing Well is a blog to experience wellness and its unique challenges through the lens of the performing artist. The blog is a resource for the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance community, and beyond, provided by our SMTD Wellness Ambassadors. The blog is a source for inclusive informal content, conversation, interviews, wellness resources, and more for anyone on campus.

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Well-being Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:02:21 -0500 2024-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Wellness Program Well-being Ergonomics Blog Featured Graphic
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 12, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Hopwood Tea for Book Lovers (February 15, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118224 118224-21840669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us for tea, coffee, specialty treats, and a blind date with a book!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:16:12 -0500 2024-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Flyer with candy hearts
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Writing with ChatGPT (February 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116078 116078-21836140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This workshop will provide graduate students with techniques for graduate writing with ChatGPT. We will start with a brief overview of current academic conversations about ChatGPT, authorship, and citation, and we will consider how disciplinary contexts might shape these conversations. We will then practice a series of prompts and writing exercises graduate students can use while working with ChatGPT. Students should bring a piece of writing they are interested in working on during the workshop.

Please note this workshop is for graduate students.

Register at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/73432

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:27:51 -0500 2024-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Hopwood Tea (February 22, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Collecting Stories Listening Party (February 23, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118600 118600-21841264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Michigan students interview people important to them to shine a light on their ideas, experiences, and stories -- and to document their voices in an ongoing audio archive. Please join us to celebrate these voices and share their stories at our public listening party. Refreshments provided. All are welcome.

Presented by students of Sweetland Writing 201 course, Collecting Stories.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:19:35 -0500 2024-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Exhibition Collecting Stories poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 26, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 28, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 4, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture with Catherine Filloux, Playwright/Librettist/Activitst (March 4, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117466 117466-21839352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The Role of an Activist Artist, Playwright/Librettist, in Post-Genocide Cambodia and in Human Rights

Featured Speaker: Catherine Filloux, Playwright/Librettist/Activist  Moderator: Dr. Nachiket Chanchani, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art. 

The role of activist artists (broadly conceived to include theater actors and librettists) in bearing witness, nurturing empathy, and peacebuilding in post-genocide Cambodia where severe human rights violations and other grievous injustices are rampant. The talk is in conjunction with UMMA Exhibition: Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition following the event. 

CATHERINE FILLOUX is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s new play “How to Eat an Orange” was commissioned by INTAR and is premiering at La MaMa in New York City. Her new musical “Welcome to the Big Dipper” (composer Jimmy Roberts, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”) premieres Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York City; it is a National Alliance for Musical Theatre finalist and received a workshop at the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY (Hunter Foster, AD). Catherine’s new play “White Savior” was nominated for The Venturous Play List. Her plays have been produced nationally, internationally and have been widely anthologized and written about. Filloux is the librettist for four produced operas: “Orlando” (composer Olga Neuwirth) is the first opera by a woman composer-librettist team in the history of the Vienna State Opera and is the 2022 Grawemeyer Award winner. Catherine has traveled for her plays to conflict-zones including Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Morocco, and to Sudan and South Sudan on an overseas reading tour with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. 

Filloux’s plays include: her livestream web drama “turning your body into a compass” at CultureHub, NYC; “whatdoesfreemean?” at Nora’s Playhouse, NYC; “Kidnap Road”, La MaMa, NYC; “Selma ‘65”, NYC and U.S. tour; “Luz”, La MaMa and Looking for Lilith in Louisville, KY. “Dog and Wolf” (59E59 Theaters/Watson Arts, NYC and “Dog and Wolf” Community Outreach Project.); “Killing the Boss” (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC); “Lemkin’s House” (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia); “The Beauty Inside” (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia; also translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Rabat, Morocco; and produced in Iraq, in Kurdish by ArtRole.) “Eyes of the Heart” (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC); “Silence of God” (Contemporary American Theater Festival [CATF], WV); “Mary and Myra” (CATF and Todd Mountain Theater, NY); “Arthur’s War” (commissioned by Theatreworks/ USA, NYC); “Photographs From S-21”, a short play produced throughout the world; “Escuela del Mundo” (commissioned by The Ohio State University, Columbus and Ohio tour.) 

Other opera productions: “New Arrivals” (Houston Grand Opera, composer John Glover); “Where Elephants Weep” (Chenla Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, composer Him Sophy) broadcast on Cambodian national television and Broadway on Demand; “The Floating Box” (Asia Society, NYC, composer Jason Kao Hwang) an Opera News Critic’s Choice and released by New World Records. Filloux is the librettist for the new operas “Blued Trees” (producer Aviva Rahmani; composer Julia Schwartz) and Thresh’s “L’Orient” (composer Kamala Sankaram; choreographer Preeti Vasudevan.) 

Filloux was invited to Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Henry Smith Artist in Residence Programme with The Derry Playhouse and served as a Juror for Sarajevo’s MES International Theater Festival in Bosnia. She developed the Oral History Project “A Circle of Grace” with the Cambodian Women's Group at St. Rita’s Refugee Center in Bronx, NY. Filloux was Playwright Facilitator for the International Playwright Retreat at La MaMa Umbria in Italy and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She received her French Baccalaureate in Philosophy with Honors in Toulon, France, and her M.F.A. at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, NYC. Catherine is featured in the documentary film “Acting Together on the World Stage" and is the co-founder/co-director of Theatre Without Borders. www.catherinefilloux.com

Organized and presented by the U-M Donia Human Rights Center in connection with the UMMA exhibition Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia 

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, U-M Ross School of Business, U-M Department of History of Art, Mark and Julie Phillips, U-M Center for Southeast Asian Studies, US Department of Education Title VI grant, and an anonymous donor. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:43 -0500 2024-03-04T17:30:00-05:00 2024-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 6, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Major Feelings: Cathy Park Hong in Conversation with Peter Ho Davies (March 6, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116779 116779-21837987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Cathy Park Hong is an award-winning poet and essayist whose book, *Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning*, is a searching work that ruthlessly reckons with the American racial consciousness. Hong weaves together personal stories, historical context, and cultural criticism to ultimately create an emotional and impactful exploration of Asian American personhood.

Cathy Park Hong will be in conversation with Peter Ho Davies, U-M Professor of English Language and Literature, discussing her life and work.

Free and open to the public; please arrive early as seating is limited.

"Major Feelings" is the 2024 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture. To learn more about the lectureship, visit https://myumi.ch/zwz82.

About the series:
(Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures, a collaboration between Asian American studies scholars and the Institute for the Humanities, is a series of events committed to interdisciplinary exploration and community engagement. The series brings together filmmakers, creative writers, scholars, and activists to think through diverse Asian American histories and how we might learn from them to shape radically different futures. See the complete list of events at https://myumi.ch/mZ4dE.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:49:41 -0500 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Cathy Park Hong from the neck up wearing large hoop earrings
Hopwood Tea (March 7, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 8, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109053 109053-21821008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:50:14 -0400 2024-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 11, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Minor in Writing Info Session (March 11, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117758 117758-21839975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

The deadline to apply for the Fall 2024 cohort is Monday, March 18th at noon.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:43:43 -0500 2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Rally / Mass Meeting Minor in Writing flyer
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 13, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
2024 Arthur Aiton Lecture: Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117680 117680-21839840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This talk challenges images of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego as idyllic, wild places by revealing how the exploitation of animals was central to the regions’ transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. 

Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, historian John Soluri traces the nineteenth- and twentieth-century circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of capitalist fashion stretched far beyond Europe’s houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the “end of the world.”

Carnegie Mellon University history professor John Soluri's teaching and research uses transboundary approaches to understand social and environmental change in Latin America and beyond. A founding member of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Environmental History (SOLCHA), his writing focuses on Central and South America. He is the author of "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (2024) and "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (revised ed., 2021).

This lecture is sponsored by the Aiton Lecture Committee in collaboration with the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:27:40 -0400 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia book cover
Minor in Writing Info Session (March 14, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117758 117758-21839977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty, or have questions about the application process, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.

The deadline to apply for the Fall 2024 cohort is Monday, March 18th at noon.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:43:43 -0500 2024-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Rally / Mass Meeting Minor in Writing flyer
Reading and Q&A with Aria Aber (March 14, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108967 108967-21820658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her debut book *Hard Damage *(University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the *Prairie Schooner* Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award.

Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in *The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, POETRY*, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:02:36 -0500 2024-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Aria Aber
Craft Lecture with Poet Aria Aber (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109765 109765-21822792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

***Due to technical difficulties, the livestream this morning has been cancelled. The in-person event is still scheduled. See below for details.***


Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her debut book *Hard Damage *(University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the *Prairie Schooner* Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award.

Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in *The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, POETRY*, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:30:51 -0400 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Aria Aber
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Writer to Writer with Petra Kuppers (March 19, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119215 119215-21842340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

This month Writer to Writer presents a conversation with Petra Kuppers via Zoom.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduitpzoiH9fAB_BfTFnX1emQ0SbZKthg

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She uses social somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Petra is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan.

Her artistry is grounded in the twin experiences of pain and joy. She has lived with chronic pain all her life, but her love of movement expresses itself in multiple ways: pushing against established definitions of what dance can be, and realigning connections between movement and writing. Her experimentation in creative somatics have allowed her to create community projects of embodied dreaming.

Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020), won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Her fourth collection, Diver Beneath the Street – true crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil – appears with Wayne State University Press in February 2024. Kuppers also writes academic books. Her latest, Eco Soma: Joy and Pain in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access), has received honorable mentions by the National Dance Educators' Organization’s Ruth Murray Book Award, the British Theatre and Performance Research Association’s’ David Bradby Monograph Award, and was shortlisted for the de la Torre Bueno Prize by the Dance Studies Association.

Petra was a 2022/2023 Dance/USA Fellow and is a 2023/24 Guggenheim Fellow.

She is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective, and co-creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio, with her wife, poet and dancer Stephanie Heit.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:42:15 -0500 2024-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Writer to Writer flyer
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 20, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
It is never too late for Late Kant (March 20, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119808 119808-21843605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, is a Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies, in Northwestern University. He is the author of *A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant* (Cornell University Press, 1991), *“Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard* (Stanford University Press, 1993), *Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin* (Stanford University Press, 2001); *Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth* (Routledge, 2003); The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford University Press, 2010), among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:25:17 -0500 2024-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Fenves Poster
It is never too late for Late Kant (March 20, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119808 119808-21843606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, is a Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies, in Northwestern University. He is the author of *A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant* (Cornell University Press, 1991), *“Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard* (Stanford University Press, 1993), *Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin* (Stanford University Press, 2001); *Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth* (Routledge, 2003); The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford University Press, 2010), among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:25:17 -0500 2024-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Fenves Poster
Hopwood Tea (March 21, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
It is never too late for Late Kant (March 21, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119808 119808-21843607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, is a Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies, in Northwestern University. He is the author of *A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant* (Cornell University Press, 1991), *“Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard* (Stanford University Press, 1993), *Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin* (Stanford University Press, 2001); *Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth* (Routledge, 2003); The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford University Press, 2010), among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:25:17 -0500 2024-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Fenves Poster
It is never too late for Late Kant (March 21, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119808 119808-21843610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, is a Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies, in Northwestern University. He is the author of *A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant* (Cornell University Press, 1991), *“Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard* (Stanford University Press, 1993), *Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin* (Stanford University Press, 2001); *Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth* (Routledge, 2003); The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford University Press, 2010), among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:25:17 -0500 2024-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Fenves Poster
Reading and Q&A with Mary Gaitskill (March 21, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108968 108968-21820659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Seats are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium).


Mary Gaitskill is the author of novels, short stories, and essays. Her most recent book is the hybrid work *The Devil’s Treasure* (ZE Books, 2021), which creates a collage out of her previous works, connected by the thread of a new short story.

In 2019, she published the widely acclaimed *This is Pleasure* (Pantheon), which *The Guardian* praised as “formidable.” Other works include the essay collection* Somebody with a Little Hammer* (Pantheon, 2017), the novels *The Mare *(Vintage, 2015), longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, *Veronica *(Vintage 2013), a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the *Los Angeles Times* Book Award, and *Two Girls, Fat and Thin* (Simon & Schuster, 1991). She is also the author of the story collections *Bad Behavior* (Simon & Schuster, 2012),* Don’t Cry* (Pantheon, 2009), and *Because They Wanted To* (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader.

Gaitskill’s stories and essays have appeared in *The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories*, and *The O. Henry Prize Stories*. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction and a Cullman Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Hopwood Award.

Gaitskill has taught at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Houston, New York University, Brown, and Syracuse University. Born in Lexington, KY, she currently lives in New York State’s Hudson Valley.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:41:24 -0500 2024-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mary Gaitskill
Giving Words to What is Wordless, Form to What is Formless: The Power of Imagery in Fiction (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109014 109014-21820722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Seats are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Of her lecture, Mary says, "This talk will focus on how writers may use words to create non-verbal imagery with layers of meaning and/or feeling through which we sense the hidden and irrational life of their characters and stories; how authors blend the primitive with the intellectual; how words may be used to describe or at least to glimpse the indescribable. This way of writing is now seemingly at odds with the dominant contemporary sensibility but I believe it is still powerful and essential."

Mary Gaitskill is the author of novels, short stories, and essays. Her most recent book is the hybrid work *The Devil’s Treasure* (ZE Books, 2021), which creates a collage out of her previous works, connected by the thread of a new short story.

In 2019, she published the widely acclaimed *This is Pleasure* (Pantheon), which *The Guardian* praised as “formidable.” Other works include the essay collection *Somebody with a Little Hammer* (Pantheon, 2017), the novels *The Mar*e (Vintage, 2015), longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, *Veronica* (Vintage 2013), a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the *Los Angeles Times* Book Award, and *Two Girls, Fat and Thin* (Simon & Schuster, 1991). She is also the author of the story collections *Bad Behavior* (Simon & Schuster, 2012), *Don’t Cry* (Pantheon, 2009), and *Because They Wanted To* (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader.

Gaitskill’s stories and essays have appeared in *The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories*, and *The O. Henry Prize Stories*. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction and a Cullman Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Hopwood Award.

Gaitskill has taught at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Houston, New York University, Brown, and Syracuse University. Born in Lexington, KY, she currently lives in New York State’s Hudson Valley.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:41:44 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mary Gaitskill
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 22, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109054 109054-21821009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:51:43 -0400 2024-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 25, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 27, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-27T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Hopwood Tea (March 28, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Asian x American x Buddhist x Literature (March 29, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116359 116359-21838712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

RSVP for in-person (Koessler Room, Michigan League 3rd Floor) or virtual attendance here: http://tinyurl.com/ahmhe7sw

What creative, political, and liberatory possibilities emerge at the intersections of Asian America, Buddhism, and literature? This roundtable brings together five prolific authors—Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Shin Yu Pai, Ryan Lee Wong, and Bryan Thao Worra—to discuss the cultural and spiritual influences in their work. In a panel conversation moderated by Chenxing Han, these writers will share how a wide range of Buddhist traditions—in conjunction with their Vietnamese, Laotian, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Korean, and Chinese heritages—shape their artistic practice and political commitments.

If you’re able, please join us in person at the Michigan League to welcome our guest speakers, who are visiting from Pittsburgh, New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, Canada. After the author readings and roundtable discussion, there will be time for audience Q&A followed by an informal reception and book signings. Please stay to enjoy light refreshments and to meet the authors one-on-one!

This event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies with local bookshop Booksweet organizing the book signings.

Panelists
*Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng* is a writer and translator born in Việt Nam. Recent publications include Masked Force (Sàn Art), a pamphlet-catalogue on Võ An Khánh’s war photographs, and Chronicles of a Village (Penguin SEA), her translation of a novel by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Jacket2, Modern Poetry in Translation and other venues. Currently studying at Stanford University, she has received support from the PEN/Heim Fund and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, among other honors.

*Tsering Yangzom Lama*’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. Tsering holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies is published in English in Canada, the United States, and India. Translations are available or forthcoming in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Arabic.

*Shin Yu Pai* is currently the Civic Poet of The City of Seattle. She is the author of 13 books, and has received awards for her work from the Academy of American Poets, 4Culture, The Awesome Foundation, and Artist Trust. Shin Yu is host and writer of “Ten Thousand Things”—an award-winning, chart-topping podcast on Asian American stories. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MA in Museology from The University of Washington.

*Ryan Lee Wong* is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, and has written on the intersections of arts, race, and social movements. Ryan holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.

*Bryan Thao Worra* is a Lao American poet. With 20+ awards and fellowships, he is the author of 9+ books of poetry on the Lao American diaspora. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Poets House, Kearny Street Workshop, the Singapore Writers Festival, and the Smithsonian, and is the author of over 100 publications. He has documented Lao Theravada Buddhist temples in the US for over 15 years. His newest book American Laodyssey is forthcoming from Sahtu Press in Spring 2024.


Moderator
*Chenxing Han* is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists; one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care; and over twenty articles and book chapters for both academic and mainstream audiences. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at schools, universities, and Buddhist communities across the nation, and currently serves as the Khyentse Visitor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:14:43 -0500 2024-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2024-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Asian American Buddhist Literature Panel Poster
Asian x American x Buddhist x Literature (March 29, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116359 116359-21839756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

RSVP for in-person (Koessler Room, Michigan League 3rd Floor) or virtual attendance here: http://tinyurl.com/ahmhe7sw

What creative, political, and liberatory possibilities emerge at the intersections of Asian America, Buddhism, and literature? This roundtable brings together five prolific authors—Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Shin Yu Pai, Ryan Lee Wong, and Bryan Thao Worra—to discuss the cultural and spiritual influences in their work. In a panel conversation moderated by Chenxing Han, these writers will share how a wide range of Buddhist traditions—in conjunction with their Vietnamese, Laotian, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Korean, and Chinese heritages—shape their artistic practice and political commitments.

If you’re able, please join us in person at the Michigan League to welcome our guest speakers, who are visiting from Pittsburgh, New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, Canada. After the author readings and roundtable discussion, there will be time for audience Q&A followed by an informal reception and book signings. Please stay to enjoy light refreshments and to meet the authors one-on-one!

This event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies with local bookshop Booksweet organizing the book signings.

Panelists
*Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng* is a writer and translator born in Việt Nam. Recent publications include Masked Force (Sàn Art), a pamphlet-catalogue on Võ An Khánh’s war photographs, and Chronicles of a Village (Penguin SEA), her translation of a novel by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Jacket2, Modern Poetry in Translation and other venues. Currently studying at Stanford University, she has received support from the PEN/Heim Fund and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, among other honors.

*Tsering Yangzom Lama*’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. Tsering holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies is published in English in Canada, the United States, and India. Translations are available or forthcoming in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Arabic.

*Shin Yu Pai* is currently the Civic Poet of The City of Seattle. She is the author of 13 books, and has received awards for her work from the Academy of American Poets, 4Culture, The Awesome Foundation, and Artist Trust. Shin Yu is host and writer of “Ten Thousand Things”—an award-winning, chart-topping podcast on Asian American stories. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MA in Museology from The University of Washington.

*Ryan Lee Wong* is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, and has written on the intersections of arts, race, and social movements. Ryan holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.

*Bryan Thao Worra* is a Lao American poet. With 20+ awards and fellowships, he is the author of 9+ books of poetry on the Lao American diaspora. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Poets House, Kearny Street Workshop, the Singapore Writers Festival, and the Smithsonian, and is the author of over 100 publications. He has documented Lao Theravada Buddhist temples in the US for over 15 years. His newest book American Laodyssey is forthcoming from Sahtu Press in Spring 2024.


Moderator
*Chenxing Han* is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists; one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care; and over twenty articles and book chapters for both academic and mainstream audiences. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at schools, universities, and Buddhist communities across the nation, and currently serves as the Khyentse Visitor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:14:43 -0500 2024-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2024-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Asian American Buddhist Literature Panel Poster
Journey Through the Dissertation (April 1, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120193 120193-21844207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This multidisciplinary panel of doctoral students will share insights from their dissertation writing journeys. Panelists will discuss their own writing processes, the challenges they encountered, and the strategies and resources they used to complete their dissertations. Whether you are finishing your final chapter, or outlining your first, you will leave with valuable insights into how to make your writing process successful.

Register at https://myumi.ch/5yWDw
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Deepthi Bathala is a Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture (History/Theory) in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her dissertation explores the intersections of climate, colonialism, and the environment. She plans to defend her dissertation in Fall.

Raúl Gámez is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Marsal School of Education, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, studying how diversity leaders in higher education use diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational processes that can transform organizations into more equitable, inclusive, and just learning and working spaces. He expects to defend his dissertation in the Fall of 2024.

Saba Gerami is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Education, where she studies mathematics education, particularly calculus instruction. She will defend her dissertation in April 2024 and will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the fall.

Adelay Elizabeth Witherite is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Ph.D. Program in English and Education. In her dissertation, she explores how emotions mediate first-year writing students' learning experiences and their understanding of social differences. She plans to defend her dissertation in May, 2024.

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:14:26 -0400 2024-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T13:20:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Journey Through the Dissertation flyer
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 1, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Book Launch: When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven (April 2, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119984 119984-21843898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species

A book launch with Author Rafe Neis

Join us for a conversation about sex, gender, and human and nonhuman reproduction in antiquity and perhaps now. Panel participants: Anna Bonnell Freiden, Jay Chrisostomo, Peggy McCracken, Rafe Neis, and Maya Barzilai (facilitating). The book, including comics and drawings, is available through open access: https://tinyurl.com/whenahuman

Event at 4pm. Reception to follow.


The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable full participation in this event. Please contact js-event-coord@umich.edu to request disability accommodations or with any questions/concerns. Please provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:51:34 -0400 2024-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Launch Flyer
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 3, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-03T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Writing Beyond the Academy (April 3, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119367 119367-21842627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 5:30pm
Location: U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium
Organized By: Sessions @ Michigan

How can scholars broaden the reach of their research beyond the academy? Professor Kevin Maillard (Syracuse University) will discuss engaging public audiences through journalism and children’s literature as a culture and food reporter for the New York Times and as an children's book author for the award-winning, "Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story."

Speaker Bio: Kevin Maillard is a Professor of Law at Syracuse University, a contributor to the New York Times, and an author of children’s literature. He has written for The Atlantic and has provided on-air commentary to ABC News and MSNBC. He is the debut author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, which won the Sibert Medal and the American Indian Youth Literature Honor. An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, he is based in Manhattan, NY.

Cosponsors: The Office of Public Engagement & Research Impacts (PE+RI), The Edward Ginsberg Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:56:02 -0400 2024-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium Sessions @ Michigan Lecture / Discussion Photo of Kevin Maillard
A Dwarf Among Giants (April 3, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119716 119716-21843441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Iceland´s population of 370,000 people has a rich literary tradition, renewed by a current expansion in creative writing. The Scandinavian Program Writer in Residence Hlín Agnarsdóttir will discuss the importance of literature in saving a small language, and the importance of translation for those writing in their mother tongue.

A versatile author and seasoned theater director, dramaturg and playwright, Hlín Agnarsdóttir has published four novels, two memoirs, various plays and a bilingual poetry collection *Deer Hunting*. Her latest book *Celibacy, Love Research* was published in October 2023. Hlín has been teaching creative writing at the University of Iceland and Iceland University of the Arts for several years. She now lives in Sweden and mainly works as a writer.

*followed by a light reception*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:27:34 -0500 2024-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion A Dwarf Among Giants Poster
Signe Karlström Lecture: A Dwarf Among Giants (April 3, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118910 118910-21841873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Iceland ́s population of 370,000 people has a rich literary tradition, renewed by a current expansion in creative writing. The Scandinavian Program Writer in Residence Hlín Agnarsdóttir will discuss the importance of literature in saving a small language, and the importance of translation for those writing in their mother tongue.
A versatile author and seasoned theater director, dramaturg and playwright, Hlín Agnarsdóttir has published four novels, two memoirs, various plays and a bilingual poetry collection Deer Hunting. Her latest book Celibacy, Love Research was published in October 2023. Hlín has been teaching creative writing at the University of Iceland and Iceland University of the Arts for several years. She now lives in Sweden and mainly works as a writer.
Sponsored by the Detroit Swedish Foundation and the Signe Karlström Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:14:08 -0500 2024-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-03T19:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Portrait of smiling Icelandic woman with dark rimmed glasses, blond hair and a light shirt
Hopwood Tea (April 4, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2024-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
Reading and Q&A with Luis Alberto Urrea (April 4, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108969 108969-21820661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Luis Alberto Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of 18 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.” His most recent novel, *Good Night Irene*, was published in May 2023 and is inspired by his mother’s service in Europe during WWII as a Red Cross Clubmobile “Donut Dolly.”

*The Devil’s Highway,* Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize. *The House of Broken Angels*, was a 2018 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a *New York Times* Notable Book of the Year. He won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction award for his collection of short stories, *The Water Museum, *which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Urrea’s novel *Into the Beautiful North* is a Big Read selection of the National Endowment of the Arts. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:46:53 -0400 2024-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Luis Alberto Urrea
Lending Attention and the Understory (April 5, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108970 108970-21820663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

"In Spanish, you do not 'pay attention,' you 'lend attention.' I use this idea as a subtle technique in character development that often draws details from the people and places I know best. These details are what I call “the understory” of memory. The way authors do this is not accidental, it is a form of intuitive writing. There is always more than meets the eye."

Luis Alberto Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of 18 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.” His most recent novel, *Good Night Irene*, was published in May 2023 and is inspired by his mother’s service in Europe during WWII as a Red Cross Clubmobile “Donut Dolly.”

*The Devil’s Highway,* Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize. *The House of Broken Angels,* was a 2018 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a *New York Times* Notable Book of the Year. He won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction award for his collection of short stories, *The Water Museum,* which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Urrea’s novel *Into the Beautiful North* is a Big Read selection of the National Endowment of the Arts. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:32:00 -0400 2024-04-05T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-05T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Luis Alberto Urrea
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 8, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 10, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-10T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Hopwood Tea (April 11, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109936 109936-21823427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome for tea, coffee, and light refreshments at the weekly tea in the Hopwood Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:03 -0500 2024-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Tea service in Hopwood Room (photo credit: Raquel Buckley)
EIHS Public Lecture: “Species Insurance”: Harriet Tubman, Environmental Storytelling, and Historical Modes of Survival (April 11, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119386 119386-21842656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: Lecture followed by book signing with light refreshments. Literati Bookstore will sell copies of Professor Miles's book.

Abstract: Borrowing the words of Octavia E. Butler for theoretical inspiration, this talk engages in a thought experiment. What if we were to take Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous historical figures in the US, and center her in an environmental story? What would we learn about Tubman herself? What would we notice about Black women in the nineteenth century and the role of place and ecology in their survival? And what connections might we draw between Black women’s environmental thinking in the multi-temporal past and the greatest challenges facing our species in the murky present and future?

Biography: Tiya Miles is the author of seven books, including four prize-winning studies on the history of American slavery. Her works include the National Book Award winner, All That She Carried, The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake; Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation; The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits, and Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, among others. She has written prize-winning historical fiction: The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts, shared her travels to "haunted" historic sites of slavery in a published lecture series, and written various articles and op-eds (in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, CNN.com, and more) on women’s history, history and memory, Black public culture, and Black and Indigenous interrelated experience. Miles’s forthcoming book, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, will be published by Penguin Press in June. Miles taught on the faculty of the University of Michigan for sixteen years and is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University. Her work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:20:45 -0500 2024-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tiya Miles, Harvard University
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 15, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 17, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-17T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
2024 Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 17, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112061 112061-21828388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2024 Hopwood Awards. Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers will deliver the 2024 Hopwood Lecture.

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Ceremony / Service Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:52:19 -0400 2024-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service African American screenwriter and director Kemp Powers in a brown shirt
An Evening with Kemp Powers (April 18, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111971 111971-21828077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers will discuss and show clips from his work including One Night in Miami, Soul, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Jim Burnstein, Director of the University of Michigan's Screenwriting Program, will moderate.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:48:50 -0400 2024-04-18T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-18T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion African American screenwriter and playwright Kemp Powers in a brown shirt
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 24, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-24T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (April 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (May 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-05-01T10:00:00-04:00 2024-05-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.