Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Making Michigan: To put living force into the symbols: Journeys of Anatol Rapoport (September 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97630 97630-21794830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

As a boy, Anatol Rapoport and his father succeeded in a daring escape from the Soviet Union. He went on to become a leading mathematical psychologist, semanticist and game theorist, making major contributions to the understanding of strategy, conflict, war, and peace -- always intent on tying strategic analysis to the conscientious appreciation of real human beings. As he wrote at one point, "One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls . . . ." Rapoport spent a significant portion of his variegated career at U-M, where among other things he helped found the Mental Health Research Institute and organize the first Teach-In, on the Vietnam War. Join us for an exploration of Anatol Rapoport's journeys -- personal and intellectual -- with three panelists: Shirli Kopelman, leading researcher, expert, and educator in the field of negotiations at the U-M Ross School of Business; Anthony Rapoport, son of Anatol and principal violist with Sinfonia Toronto and the Windermere Quartet; and Roger Rapoport, LSA '68, award-winning author and filmmaker and author of "A Professor's War for Peace."

This event will take place at the Detroit Observatory and will also be streamed online. Advance registration is required for either the in-person or virtual event.

Registration for the in-person event can be found here: https://myumi.ch/wM4XX

Registration for the virtual event can be found here: https://myumi.ch/WJqP9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:53:52 -0400 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Black and white image of Anatol Rapoport with surrounding newspaper clippings.
Spirits of Michigan's Past: A Walking Tour of Forest Hill Cemetery (October 31, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100758 100758-21800321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Numerous figures from U-M’s history — from the time of the University’s relocation to Ann Arbor in the 1830s to the recent past — are interred in Forest Hill Cemetery, located near the Observatory. Learn about such individuals as football player George Jewett, U-M’s first African American player; longtime U-M president James B. Angell; famed conductor Eva Jessye; the Detroit Observatory’s own James Craig Watson; and many more. We look forward to sharing university history with you at this unique and scenic setting.

Please be advised that the tour involves steep hills and potentially walking through grass, both of which could make this walking tour a challenge for some. This walking toward starts at the Detroit Observatory.

* Advance registration optional *

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Tours Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:18:01 -0400 2022-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T19:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Tours Image of the Forest Hill Cemetery.
U-M's Original 40 Acres Tour (November 4, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100759 100759-21800322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join us for a 1.5-hour walking tour covering highlights of the first 70 years of U-M history. This tour will explore questions such as: What do the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Badawademi have to do with the founding of the University? How did the Diag change from pasture to the tree-covered expanse it is today? Before the President’s House was the President’s House, what was it? Why is a plaque commemorating the admission of women located in Angell Hall?

This tour meets in front of Angell Hall. Advance registration optional.

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Tours Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:22:55 -0400 2022-11-04T14:30:00-04:00 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Bentley Historical Library Tours Sketch of a university map.
Movie Night: "An Uncommon Education" Revisited (January 26, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103652 103652-21807599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

What does it mean that U-M's first president, Henry Philip Tappan, wanted to turn Michigan into a "true university"?  How has student activism remade Michigan over the decades?  How did one of the nation's most prestigious student literary awards come to U-M?  What does it mean to be a leader and best -- on the playing field or in the laboratory?  And, how should you depict U-M's history?  For its 2017 bicentennial, the University of Michigan collaborated with Detroit Public Television to produce ten mini-documentaries covering questions such as these from U-M's history.  What do those videos look like six years later, given so many changes in the University and the world? For this movie night, we will screen several videos from the series, and our panel will discuss those videos and the series as a whole.  The panel will consist of Fran Blouin and Kim Clarke, who both appeared in many of the videos, and Gary Krenz, who directed the University's bicentennial.

As with all public events at the Observatory, this movie night will include tours of the building by our student docents, with observing if weather permits.

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Film Screening Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:38:44 -0500 2023-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Film Screening Poster of "An Common Education" with ring of leaves.
"Keeping resistance alive": Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at Michigan (February 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103293 103293-21806753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

H. Chandler Davis — courageous, stalwart and lifelong champion of academic and intellectual freedom in the face of persecution, including his own imprisonment — passed away on September 24, 2022, at the age of 96. He was a former instructor at the University of Michigan who, in 1954, was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He and others from U-M l were “unfriendly witnesses, refusing to confess” their political dissent. Davis, unlike the others, based his refusal to answer only on the First Amendment, waiving his protection under the Fifth Amendment. Thereby he deliberately invited a citation for Contempt of Congress, so as to give himself standing to argue in court that the Committee’s proceedings were unconstitutional. He got the citation, but he did not prevail in court; his appeals were exhausted in 1959 and he served prison time in 1960. This Making Michigan will reflect on Davis’s life, actions and legacy at U-M and beyond and will seek to understand and recognize his contributions. Panelists include Steve Batterson, author of a forthcoming bio of Davis; Peggie Hollingsworth, founding chair and longtime director of the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund; and Alan Wald, expert on the political left in the US and Davis's contributions to it.

This event is both in-person at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory on the U-M campus and virtually on YouTube.

As with other Detroit Observatory events, in-person attendees may tour the Observatory after the conclusion of the panel, with stargazing if weather permits.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:10:55 -0500 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Chandler Davis in the 1950s and 1990s
Fabulous and Fantastical Stories from U-M’s Past (April 20, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106654 106654-21814646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

How do you build a 40-foot-long portable telescopic camera, and what can you do with it? How did U-M’s first African American PhD astronomer pursue his effort to solve the “painfully absurd” mystery of what makes the stars shine? Where was William Fletcher — one of the first U-M Regents and the first Michigan Supreme Court chief justice — buried and why did no one know for a hundred years?

The Detroit Observatory is excited to host our first History Roundtable! The roundtable will feature presentations by three of our student docents, Eva Chavez, Sophia Grant, and Bennett Walling. Join us for discussion of topics like those above, and learn about our student docent program and the range of activities that our docents undertake.

Refreshments will be provided.

As with all of our events, the Observatory will be open for tours following the panel discussion, with observing if weather permits.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:32:53 -0400 2023-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Reception / Open House Black and white image of the Observatory from the street in the mid-20th century.