BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908845@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BSI Information Sessions- Current U of M Students DESCRIPTION:We encourage every student interested in or contemplating an undergraduate degree at the School of Information to attend an information session. You will receive an engaging and comprehensive overview of the program\, as well as guidance for the application process. Sessions are hosted on different days and times to accommodate as many students as possible\, and you only need to attend one session before you apply.These information sessions are for students who area currently University of Michigan students. UID:150985-21910669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150985 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T135300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX. UID:149758-21907093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909817@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T124814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"* UID:149763-21907125@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T105818 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:MORE Committee Offerings (Faculty Registration) DESCRIPTION:Created by the MORE Committee\, these workshops are designed to strengthen the student–faculty mentoring relationship through the development of shared expectations\, sharing mentoring best practices\, and understanding of mentoring across differences.\n\nThe Getting Your Mentoring Relationship off to a Good Start Workshop is attended jointly by faculty mentors and their graduate student mentees.\n\nThe Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Workshop is attended only by faculty mentors.\n\nThe Mentoring 101 New Faculty Workshop is attended only by faculty new to U-M or starting a faculty mentoring role.\n\nSeparate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/11ANg. UID:149988-21907770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Boulevard Room, First Level Mezzanine CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T105818 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:MORE Committee Offerings (Faculty Registration) DESCRIPTION:Created by the MORE Committee\, these workshops are designed to strengthen the student–faculty mentoring relationship through the development of shared expectations\, sharing mentoring best practices\, and understanding of mentoring across differences.\n\nThe Getting Your Mentoring Relationship off to a Good Start Workshop is attended jointly by faculty mentors and their graduate student mentees.\n\nThe Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Workshop is attended only by faculty mentors.\n\nThe Mentoring 101 New Faculty Workshop is attended only by faculty new to U-M or starting a faculty mentoring role.\n\nSeparate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/11ANg. UID:149988-21907771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Pierpont Commons (Center Room, First Level Mezzanine) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T105818 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:MORE Committee Offerings (Faculty Registration) DESCRIPTION:Created by the MORE Committee\, these workshops are designed to strengthen the student–faculty mentoring relationship through the development of shared expectations\, sharing mentoring best practices\, and understanding of mentoring across differences.\n\nThe Getting Your Mentoring Relationship off to a Good Start Workshop is attended jointly by faculty mentors and their graduate student mentees.\n\nThe Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Workshop is attended only by faculty mentors.\n\nThe Mentoring 101 New Faculty Workshop is attended only by faculty new to U-M or starting a faculty mentoring role.\n\nSeparate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/11ANg. UID:149988-21907779@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:Center Room, First Level Mezzanine CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T105720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Committee Workshop: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start (Student Registration) DESCRIPTION:Created by the MORE Committee\, these workshops are designed to strengthen the student–faculty mentoring relationship through the development of shared expectations\, sharing mentoring best practices\, and understanding of mentoring across differences.\n\nThe Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start Workshop is attended jointly by faculty mentors and their graduate student mentees. Mentors and mentees first participate in separate parallel sessions\, where they reflect on their own goals\, working styles\, and approaches to common challenges. Afterwards\, each student–faculty pair collaborates to create a written mentoring plan that outlines key elements such as needs\, objectives\, and mutual expectations. Among Rackham doctoral students who have drafted mentoring plans\, 83 percent report finding them helpful. Mentoring pairs are encouraged to consider attending the optional one-on-one discussion time at the end of the workshop\, where they have dedicated time to work together on developing the mentoring plan.\n\nSeparate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/61V6J. UID:149989-21907783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:East Room, First Level Mezzanine CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260904T114252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:10-Week Accessibility Challenge DESCRIPTION:Join the 10-Week Accessibility Challenge to learn more about accessibility basics\, best practices\, and U-M resources and tools available to help you with this work. This training program is open to all U-M staff\, faculty\, and students - no prior accessibility experience or knowledge is required. These live sessions dive deeper into the Challenge content and give participants a chance to get live support and ask questions with our digital accessibility staff. If you have any questions or concerns\, please reach out to accessibility-challenge@umich.edu.\n\nThe 10-Week Accessibility Challenge Live sessions take place on Fridays at 10:00 - 11:00am\, October 2 - December 4\, 2026.\n\nSign up for the challenge today: https://mailchi.mp/umich/10-week-accessibility-challenge\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 995 6855 7925 UID:150570-21909633@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T160441 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T112000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Industrial Organization Seminar: Friday\, November 6 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:151852-21912271@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Industrial Organization,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260821T105645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\; stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods. UID:150691-21909925@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,International,Language,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21912175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:NQ 1287 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram UID:138033-21881359@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120247 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T123000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Marketing: Education Session #7 DESCRIPTION:Casing 101: Market Sizing\, TOESS\, Wildcards: Join the MMC for Ed Session 7\, where we'll practice market sizing\, advertising analysis\, and wildcard questions. UID:151189-21911048@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:R2220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T105818 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:MORE Committee Offerings (Faculty Registration) DESCRIPTION:Created by the MORE Committee\, these workshops are designed to strengthen the student–faculty mentoring relationship through the development of shared expectations\, sharing mentoring best practices\, and understanding of mentoring across differences.\n\nThe Getting Your Mentoring Relationship off to a Good Start Workshop is attended jointly by faculty mentors and their graduate student mentees.\n\nThe Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Workshop is attended only by faculty mentors.\n\nThe Mentoring 101 New Faculty Workshop is attended only by faculty new to U-M or starting a faculty mentoring role.\n\nSeparate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/11ANg. UID:149988-21907772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:East Room, First Level Mezzanine CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Faculty Corner - Fall 2026 DESCRIPTION:This is a monthly in-person event designed to provide insights\, advice\, and knowledge to you as an emerging academic. Each event features a faculty member discussing topics pertinent to starting an academic career focusing on research. You will get to hear from faculty about their career trajectories and how they navigated their transition from trainee to faculty member. You will also have an opportunity to network with the faculty member as well as other trainees.Aims and Objectives:To provide a platform where trainees can learn from faculty experiences and knowledge.To address and discuss pertinent issues and topics relevant to the biomedical/medical field and life sciences.To foster networking and community-building opportunities among trainees and faculty.To promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement\, equipping trainees with the necessary skills and information for the faculty profession needed to transition into academia. UID:150293-21908983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T122333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ginsberg Reads Book Club DESCRIPTION:Come cultivate your creativity with the 2nd installation of Ginsberg Reads Book Club\, hosted by Jessica A.S. Letaw\, our Community Leader in Residence! \n\nLast year\, we focused on imagination\, and we know working for a better world requires creativity\, too. We will gather to reflect\, imagine and dream together in an expansive conversation about what it takes to make room for creativity in a culture of busyness and scarcity. September book: Pleasure Activism\n\nOpen to all\, with special focus on U-M staff.\nBring your own lunch: light snacks & drinks will be provided. UID:151134-21910912@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151134 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Faculty And Staff,Free,In Person LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library. UID:149541-21906634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260622T092756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe session involves 3 simple steps:\n\nBreathing\nRelaxation\nMeditation\n\nDeep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice. This is the art of Heartfulness Meditation. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org. UID:143758-21893972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T153442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T133000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:IOE 101: Kirsten Martin DESCRIPTION:More details to come. UID:150641-21909749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T123349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar Series> DESCRIPTION:Title and abstract coming soon! UID:151239-21911137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151239 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T144322 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:NERS Colloquium: Radiation Signatures\, Passive Safeguards\, and Advanced Nuclear Systems DESCRIPTION:Robert Hayes will discuss how radiation signatures can be detected and interpreted for nuclear safeguards\, security and nonproliferation. His research includes passive techniques that use materials in the surrounding environment to identify and characterize radioactive sources\, even after those sources have been removed.\n\nThe NERS Colloquia Series invites leading researchers\, industry experts\, and thought leaders from across the nuclear engineering and radiological sciences community to share their insights with students\, faculty\, and guests. Covering a wide range of topics—from cutting-edge research and emerging technologies to policy\, education\, and professional development—the weekly talks offer an opportunity to explore current issues and innovations shaping the future of the field. UID:150324-21909026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Energy,Physics,Public Policy,Research,Science LOCATION:Cooley Building - Baer Room (2906 Cooley) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T124000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Transdisciplinary Fellows (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:149272-21908108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BSI Information Sessions- New Transfer Students DESCRIPTION:We encourage every student interested in or contemplating an undergraduate degree at the School of Information to attend an information session. You will receive an engaging and comprehensive overview of the program\, as well as guidance for the application process. Sessions are hosted on different days to accommodate as many students as possible\, and you only need to attend one session before you apply.  If you are unable to attend an information session\, we highly recommend emailing our team (umsi\,.undergrad@umich.edu) to make sure you have all of the necessary details or scheduling a 1:1 appointment with a student ambassador or admissions advisor.These information sessions are for students interested in transferring to UMSI from outside of the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor campus. UID:150986-21910678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Koessler (League, 3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T111632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Opportunity Hub Pop-Up Coaching DESCRIPTION:Pop Up Coaching at the LSA Opportunity Hub presents a low stakes opportunity for students to stop by our office\, grab some popcorn\, and engage in a brief 10-15 minute career coaching conversation with one of our career coaches\, in addition to learning about our other services and offerings!\n\nPop Up Coaching is held on select Fridays during the Fall and Winter semesters in the LSA Building from 1-3 PM-- No appointment necessary!\n\nThe 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 which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor as well\, and places to sit or stand during the event. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements. UID:150338-21910712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150338 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Career,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:LSA Building - Hub Space First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T123310 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T143000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:First-Gen Celebration Week: UCC Clothes Closet Event DESCRIPTION:Last drop-in: 2:15 p.m.Close out First-Gen Celebration Week by upgrading your professional wardrobe...for free!Need an outfitfor an interview\, internship\, career fair\, or new job? Visit the University Career Center’s (UCC) Clothes Closet for a special event in partnership with the First Gen Gateway. This event is open to all students.Spend 10–15 minutes browsing our selection of free business-formal and business-casual clothing. You may select up to three items per semester to upgrade your wardrobe\, build confidence\, and look your best.How does the drop-in work?*Arrive anytime between 1:30 and 2:15 p.m.*Choose items that fit your style and professional needs.*Meet new friends and connect with UCC staff.*Get helpful tips on dressing for interviews and workplace success.No appointment is needed...just stop by!This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1995406/share_preview We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC  UID:150439-21909452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150439 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T040000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Away Game v.s. Wittenberg DESCRIPTION:Away game at Wittenberg starting at 8:30 UID:151207-21911084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151207 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:NTPRD Chiller CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BME 2026-2027 Declaration Sessions DESCRIPTION:These sessions are only for students eligible and ready to declare BME as their major. For students interested in BME but not yet eligible or ready to declare\, please meet with one of our Peer Advisors to learn more about our program!What to expect: You are signing up for a group declaration session for the U-M Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program. All sessions will be held in person at LBME (view map). In this meeting we will go over the curriculum\, discuss your 4 year plan\, review the BME Student Advising Agreement\, and share the various resources you can engage in as part of the BME department. Please bring a personal computing device (laptop or tablet). A phone will not suffice. In order to officially declare\, students must:Attend the full registration session.By the end of the session\, complete a draft of their 4-year graduation plan and send it to bme-advising@umich.eduBy the end of the session\, complete the BME Advising Agreement form.If students do not attend the full session and/or do not complete items b and c\, they will either need to register for a new declaration appointment or submit items b and c to bme-advising@umich.edu as soon as possible. Failing to complete these items will delay your declaration!If you need to cancel or reschedule\, please do so within Sessions@Michigan so students on the waitlist may attend (if applicable). Eligibility:Students are eligible to Declare the BME Major after completing at least one full term of courses on the U-M Ann Arbor campus (we do not declare students early).Have an overall U-M GPA of 2.0 or better in courses taken at the U-M Ann Arbor campus and are in good standing.Have completed or earned credit by exam or transfer for one or more courses in each of these categories:Calculus (e.g. Math 115\, 116\, 156)Calculus-based physics lectures (e.g. Physics 140\, 160) or chemistry lectures (e.g. Chemistry 130)Required engineering courses (Engr 100\, 101\, 151)Contact Us: If you have further questions about this meeting\, please email bme-advising@umich.edu. UID:149380-21906329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149380 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:LBME 2203 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T143744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Environmental Humanities Workshop DESCRIPTION:EHW will be hosting Michelle N. Huang as our visiting speaker for this school year! Michelle is jointly appointed in the English Department and in the Asian American Studies Program\, has research and teaching interests in contemporary Asian American literature\, posthumanism\, feminist science studies\, the environmental humanities\, and the medical humanities. Her first book\, *Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms*\, was published with the ANIMA series at Duke University Press in March 2026. She is currently working on a second project on Asian American racialization and biomedicine. \n\nFind more at: http://www.michellenhuang.com\nRSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/112292\n\nWhether you consider yourself a seasoned Environmental Humanist or you are simply curious about the field\, we hope to see you there! Feel free to bring friends and circulate our programming to anyone else you think might be interested. UID:151332-21911382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian American Studies,English Language And Literature,Environment,Humanities,Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Kalamazoo (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Visiting Lecture by Michelle N. Huang DESCRIPTION: UID:150233-21908431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150233 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Angell Hall 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T081935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Combinatorics Seminar DESCRIPTION:TBD UID:150159-21908304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260825T093241 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | DESCRIPTION:tbd UID:150864-21910328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics,Science,Seminar LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 4404 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260829T095319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | DESCRIPTION:tbd UID:151162-21910993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151162 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science,Seminar,Talk LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T150336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Larry Seiford Retirement Celebration:Stories\, Laughs and Memories DESCRIPTION:After an extraordinary career at the University of Michigan\, we’re gathering in person and virtually to celebrate Professor Larry Seiford and all he has contributed to the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering\, the university\, and the many students\, colleagues\, and friends whose lives he has touched.\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of stories\, laughter\, and memories as we look back on Larry’s remarkable career and celebrate the impact he has made over the years. We’ll share favorite memories\, recognize his many accomplishments\, and\, of course\, give Larry the good-natured roast he deserves!\n\nRSVP to be onsite or virtually: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/larry-seifords-retirement-celebration-stories-laughs-memories-hybrid-tickets-1996798466967\n\nPlease also consider sharing photos and/or stories for Larry to collect in a commemorative box: https://www.boomboxgifts.com/guest-card/025ba9be-9931-4a5e-9a74-0c3be402e0f6 The deadline to add a story is October 16\, 2026. UID:150649-21909757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150649 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms (3rd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T103351 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation! DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us! Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p UID:138091-21908266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T193154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Title TBA DESCRIPTION:Abstract: TBA\n\nContact: Zhiyan Ding UID:148881-21905043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BSI Information Sessions- Current High School Students DESCRIPTION:We encourage every student interested in or contemplating an undergraduate degree at the School of Information to attend an information session. You will receive an engaging and comprehensive overview of the program\, as well as guidance for the application process. Sessions are hosted on different days and times to accommodate as many students as possible\, and you only need to attend one session before you apply.These information sessions are for students who are still enrolled in high school UID:150987-21910685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150987 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906307@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Kalamazoo (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152200 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE All-Community Meetings DESCRIPTION:Grad students\, postdocs\, and undergrads all come together with a common interest of building a STEM community. Join us in the WISE space for snacks\, new friends\, professional development lead by our student mentors\, and time for connections in small groups! All are welcome.\nSTEM equity for everyone needs everyone! WISE programming is open to all students regardless of sex\, gender\, or gender identity.\n UID:151300-21912381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T150526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind \"auf Deutsch\". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents\, chat informally in German\, and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM.\n\nKaffeestunde meets weekly on Fridays from 5-6pm in the Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ) UID:151925-21912435@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21909962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260804T163535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Queer Art Showcase DESCRIPTION:Join Spectrum Center Programming Board and Stamps Gallery for an incredible showcase of queer and trans art from U-M students of all genders and sexualities. Enjoy a variety of mediums showcasing queer joy while engaging in a panel discussion with the artists. Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nThis event is open to all members of the U-M community.\n\nCalling all student artists! Submit your artwork to the Queer Art Showcase in celebration of queer and trans experiences.\n\nStudents of all genders and sexualities are welcome to submit. Submissions close September 23rd. UID:149517-21906548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,spectrum center LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T121518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Queer Art Showcase DESCRIPTION:\n\nCalling all U-M student artists: submit your artwork in celebration of queer and trans experiences! Selected work will be featured in the Queer Art Showcase on Friday\, November 6\, from 6-8 p.m. at Stamps Gallery.\n\n\nStudents of all genders and sexualities are welcome to submit. Submissions close on Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Click here for more information and to submit your artwork.\n\nQueer Art Showcase and Panel Discussion\n\nFriday\, November 6\, 6-8 p.m. at Stamps Gallery\n\nJoin Spectrum Center Programming Board and Stamps Gallery for an incredible showcase of queer and trans art from U-M students of all genders and sexualities. Enjoy a variety of mediums showcasing queer joy while engaging in a panel discussion with the artists. Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nThis event is open to all members of the U-M community. Presented in partnership with the U-M Spectrum Center.\n UID:150346-21909064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T141923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T193000 SUMMARY:Tours:Walking Tour: Invisible to Indispensable: Black Legacies at Michigan DESCRIPTION:Dive into the stories that have shaped the African American experience at the University of Michigan. We’ll learn about the pioneering students who redefined what it meant to belong at U-M and visit the places where campus social movements like the Black Action Movement and #BBUM coalesced.

\n\nGuided walking tour developed and led by student docents from the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory. Duration: 1.5 hours\; 1.4 miles.
\n\nTour will take place in rain or snow\, but will be cancelled for severe weather (will email).\n\nRegistration required. UID:150635-21909733@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,civil rights,Education,educational,free,tour,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T142405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T193000 SUMMARY:Tours:Walking Tour: Invisible to Indispensable: Black Legacies at Michigan DESCRIPTION:Dive into the stories that have shaped the African American experience at the University of Michigan. We’ll learn about the pioneering students who redefined what it meant to belong at U-M and visit the places where campus social movements like the Black Action Movement and #BBUM coalesced.

\n\nGuided walking tour developed and led by student docents from the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory. Duration: 1.5 hours\; 1.4 miles.
\n\nTour will take place in rain or snow\, but will be cancelled for severe weather (will email).\n\nRegistration required. UID:150639-21909748@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,civil rights,free,history,tour,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T100249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:2026-2027 Mark Webster Reading Series DESCRIPTION:The Mark Webster Reading Series showcases work by second-year MFA students in the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Held on Friday evenings\, Webster Readings present one poet and one fiction writer\, each introduced by a fellow writer also in the graduating cohort. As the culminating event for students of the program\, Webster Readings are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art and held in-person in Helmut Stern Auditorium. An opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting\, these readings are free and open to the public. The readings are also live-streamed at https://tinyurl.com/Websters26-27 \n\nThe Mark Webster Reading Series remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster. Webster's work is available in the Hopwood Room (1176 Angell Hall).\n\nQuestions? Email websterseries@umich.edu\n\n2026-2027 Webster Reading Series Schedule\n+September 18\, 2026 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Kameryn Alexa Carter and prose by Zach Anderson.\n+September 25\, 2026 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Dagmawe Berhanu and prose by Theo Stewart.\n+October 16\, 2026 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Charlotte Trumble and prose by Priya Pai.\n+November 6\, 2026 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Amogha and prose by Lily Zhou.\n+November 20\, 2026 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Jordan Stanley and prose by Cameron Opartkiettikul.\n+January 22\, 2027 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features prose by Rachel Seo.\n+January 29\, 2027 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Peter Stuart and prose by Etim Singkem.\n+February 26\, 2027 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Miracle Thornton and prose by Micaela Daney.\n+March 26\, 2027 at 7 p.m.: Tonight's reading features poetry by Caryn Corliss and prose by Jazelle Jajeh. UID:151555-21911731@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,Literary Event,Poetry,Poetry Reading,Prose Reading,The Helen Zell Writers' Program LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260723T150311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T223000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Friends of the UMMP Fossil Club DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the U-M Museum of Paleontology (FUMMP) meet once a month\, usually on the first Friday\, with both an in-person component at the Research Museum Center (RMC) and Zoom option. The exterior building doors are locked for security reasons and someone will start letting people in the doors at RMC from 7:00 - 7:30pm\, and the Zoom room will open around 7:15pm. The meeting will start at 7:30pm with a few business details discussed until about 7:45pm when the presentation or program will begin.\n\nDr. Matt Friedman\, UMMP Director and Curator will be presenting a talk to the group this month entitled\, \"Drawing back the curtain: The dawn of modern marine fish diversity\".\n\nContact bauerjen@umich.edu to request access to the Zoom link.\n\nLearn more about the Friends of the UMMP on their website: http://michiganbasinfossils.org/. UID:145979-21898220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center LOCATION:Research Museums Center - RMC 1006 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T230000 SUMMARY:Performance:La Rondine (The Swallow) DESCRIPTION:*La Rondine* is a bittersweet comedy from one of the best-loved composers of Italian opera. The story follows the love life of courtesan Magda\, who flies away from her wealthy\, pampered life with the unromantic Rombaldo in favor of a passionate affair with the younger (and poorer) Ruggero – disguising her identity as she does so. When two visitors from her past appear\, Magda must wrestle with the question of who she truly is and what she wants.\n\nMusic by Giacomo Puccini\nLibretto by Giuseppe Adami\n\nConducted by Kirk Severtson\nDirected by Stephanie Havey\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148674-21904590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148674 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T181721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Matthew Bengtson and Joseph Gascho\, early keyboards DESCRIPTION:The William P. Malm Performance Series and the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments present an SMTD faculty recital by Matthew Bengtson and Joseph Gascho\, featuring a pristine copy of one of the very first pianos: Bartolomeo Cristofori's 1722 gravicembalo col piano\, e forte. The program will include solo keyboard and collaborative repertoire by Scarlatti\, Marcello\, Vivaldi\, and more.\n\nPreceding this performance\, all are welcome to a pre-concert talk beginning at 7:00 pm in Watkins Lecture Hall\, just across the hallway from McIntosh Theatre.\n\n*One of three events in a series featuring early keyboards and the Cristofori piano\, November 6-7\, 2026.* UID:151547-21911718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Men's Glee Club Fall Concert DESCRIPTION:Be a part of this storied tradition! The Men’s Glee Club – the oldest student organization on campus – entertains audiences of all ages with its annual fall concert.\n\nConducted by Matthew Abernathy\n\nNot eligible for the Flex Series discount.\nRecommended Ages: 3+\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148673-21904589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148673 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:SAS Public Open House DESCRIPTION:Open houses are free\, inclusive opportunities to learn about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house\, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Guests can view astronomical objects through the 8-inch telescopes and the 0.4m telescope (weather permitting)\, watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics\, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation. No special registrations or reservations are required\, these events are entirely free to students and members of the public alike. \nThe Angell Hall Observatory is located on the roof of Angell Hall. Take the elevator to the 5th floor to find the door to the roof down the hall.\nThe Angell Hall Planetarium is located on the third floor of Angell Hall\, in room 3118. UID:149613-21906764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T103132 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Minor Pieces DESCRIPTION:Blending Americana\, folk\, and roots rock\, The Minor Pieces create a night of music that feels as good as that second\, or maybe third drink. Soulful vocals and smooth guitar drive songs that feel both timeless and modern. They pull from a wide range of influences to find a sound that lives somewhere in the neighborhood of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats\, The Red Clay Strays\, and Wilco. UID:150745-21910062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150745 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T203500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T230500 SUMMARY:Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey @ Eastern DESCRIPTION:Away game vs EMU UID:149141-21905816@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149141 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Arctic Edge of Canton CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T000000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Florent Gillet (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150389-21910325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Stadium - Big House Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120157 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Bald Eagle Head Race DESCRIPTION:We race Purdue and other Midwest schools to see who is fastest on the 4500 m course UID:150860-21910316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150860 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bald Eagle Park, Indianapolis CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908846@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909818@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T181528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T140000 SUMMARY:Other:National Portfolio Day - Online DESCRIPTION:\n\nExplore the nation’s best col­leges of art and design and meet with Stamps Admissions rep­re­sen­ta­tives\, who can pro­vide informal port­fo­lio reviews\, dis­cuss our unique cur­ricu­lum\, and answer ques­tions about pro­fes­sional careers in art. Show­ing your work early can help you acquire impor­tant infor­ma­tion about orga­niz­ing and pre­sent­ing your port­fo­lio for future admis­sion con­sid­er­a­tion. High school stu­dents\, par­ents\, teach­ers\, guid­ance coun­selors\, and col­lege trans­fer stu­dents are encour­aged to attend. All National Portfolio Day events are free and open to the public.\n\nAll in-person event times are listed according to the event’s local time and all virtual events are listed in Eastern Time. Please be sure to check the equivalent time in your local time zone\, and register through the official National Portfolio Day website. UID:150664-21909867@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150664 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T181722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Barbara and Thomas Wolf\, harpsichord makers DESCRIPTION:Renowned instrument builders Thomas and Barbara Wolf present an historical and acoustical account of their study and recreation of Bartolomeo Cristofori's 1722 piano. Hailed as the inventor of the piano\, Cristofori was an unrivalled builder and designer and only three of his pianos have survived. This presentation is sponsored by the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series and the William P. Malm Performance Series.\n\n*One of three events in a series featuring early keyboards and the Cristofori piano\, November 6-7\, 2026.* UID:151548-21911719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram UID:138033-21881360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T235959 SUMMARY:Other:15's Big Ten Final DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby will face a Big Ten opponent in the playoffs UID:148064-21902900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Kuntz Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library. UID:149541-21906635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T121519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Be Curious: Making Art with Stamps MFAs DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan as they lead creative workshops exploring voice\, process\, and practice. In partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative\, this series is an opportunity for second-year Stamps MFA students to engage the community in their creative and iterative processes through hands-on art making activities. \n\n\nPrior experience not required\, all supplies provided. Individual themes to be announced. Each program is presented individually\; participation in all of the programs is not required. Limited space available\, reservations are required.\n UID:150347-21909065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T181723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T163000 SUMMARY:Performance:Student Recital featuring 1722 Cristofori piano DESCRIPTION:The William P. Malm Performance Series and the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments present an SMTD student recital\, performed by the students of Matthew Bengtson and Joseph Gascho. Featuring a pristine copy of one of the very first pianos – Bartolomeo Cristofori's 1722 gravicembalo col piano\, e forte – the program will include solo keyboard and collaborative repertoire by a variety of 18th century composers.\n\n*One of three events in a series featuring early keyboards and the Cristofori piano\, November 6-7\, 2026.* UID:151549-21911720@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260618T181539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260423T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Football vs Michigan State DESCRIPTION:Football vs Michigan State UID:147931-21902564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Football LOCATION:Michigan Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260603T130216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Ezra Group DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous roots-based music that makes a connection\n\nWe don’t see many artists building the kind of momentum Adam Ezra Group is generating right now.\n\nWhat has grown over more than two decades of relentless grassroots touring has become something far bigger than a typical touring band: a fiercely independent\, fan-powered community that continues to expand one show at a time. Rooms across the country are selling out when Adam Ezra Group comes to town\, with longtime fans regularly traveling across state lines to catch multiple shows\, drawn by the band’s deep sense of community and the promise that no two nights are ever the same.\n\nThe band never performs from a fixed setlist\, instead shaping each night around the energy in the room. Songs\, stories\, and moments unfold in real time—part concert\, part revival\, and part reminder of what live music can still be at its best.\n\nBlending folk/Americana soul\, rock ’n’ roll energy\, and deeply human songwriting\, Adam Ezra Group has built one of the most authentic underground followings in live music today while quickly becoming recognized on a national level. As SPIN recently put it\, they are “an independent underground folk band blowing up without selling out\,” a rise that has happened entirely outside the traditional industry system\, powered by word of mouth\, community activism\, and a genuine connection between band and audience that often turns first-time listeners into lifelong fans.\n\nCatch them now while they’re still playing the kinds of rooms where you can give Adam a hug on your way out. UID:148479-21904356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261107T230000 SUMMARY:Performance:La Rondine (The Swallow) DESCRIPTION:*La Rondine* is a bittersweet comedy from one of the best-loved composers of Italian opera. The story follows the love life of courtesan Magda\, who flies away from her wealthy\, pampered life with the unromantic Rombaldo in favor of a passionate affair with the younger (and poorer) Ruggero – disguising her identity as she does so. When two visitors from her past appear\, Magda must wrestle with the question of who she truly is and what she wants.\n\nMusic by Giacomo Puccini\nLibretto by Giuseppe Adami\n\nConducted by Kirk Severtson\nDirected by Stephanie Havey\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148675-21904591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T235959 SUMMARY:Other:15's Big Ten Final DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby will face a Big Ten opponent in the playoffs UID:148064-21902901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Kuntz Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908847@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T235959 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Tech Week 2026\, a week-long series of company presentations\, networking opportunities\, coffee chats\, panels\, and hands-on workshops designed to connect members with leaders across the tech ecosystem. The week will bring together students\, sponsors\, alumni\, and industry professionals for recruiting insights\, career exploration\, and practical skill-building.\nTech Week will kick off on Sunday\, November 8 with a keynote presentation\, networking kickoff\, and opening reception. From Monday\, November 9 through Thursday\, November 12\, members will participate in Company Super Days featuring sponsor-led company talks\, cross-company panels\, and functional track sessions across areas like Product\, GTM\, Finance\, Operations\, and more. The week will conclude on Friday\, November 13 with Builder Workshops\, including hands-on sessions and technical deep dives.\nThroughout the week\, members will also have access to ongoing coffee chats\, offered both in person and virtually\, with scheduling coordinated based on sponsor availability. Whether you’re exploring tech careers\, preparing for recruiting\, looking to build practical skills\, or hoping to expand your network\, Tech Week is a signature opportunity to engage with the tech community and learn from companies and peers. UID:149883-21907328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Case Interview Preparation Sunday Session (Part 1) DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Part 1 of our Case Interview Preparation Sunday Session. Participants will break into small groups based on their target roles to learn and practice case interview fundamentals in a focused\, collaborative setting. This session will help members understand common case formats\, build structured problem-solving approaches\, and begin preparing for tech\, strategy\, product\, operations\, and related recruiting processes. UID:149842-21907249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Tauber Colloquium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912687@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906308@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:2210ABC (Union, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260819T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Graduate Portfolio Day - New York\, NY DESCRIPTION:\n\nProspective graduate students: Join us for an in-person Graduate National Portfolio Day event on Sunday\, November 8! You’ll meet one-on-one with a Stamps representative and receive valuable feedback and guidance on your portfolio prior to submitting your application.\n\nNational Portfolio Day events are free for students to attend from anywhere around the world. Meet with counselors\, admission team members\, and faculty from accredited art and design schools across the nation for free portfolio reviews.\n\nNovember 8\, 2026\, 12-4 pm EDT\nParsons School of Design\, The New School\n63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10003\n UID:150571-21909643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120412 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T130000 SUMMARY:Other:HLS Sunday Session - Healthcare Marketing w/ Marketing Club DESCRIPTION:HLS Sunday Session - Healthcare Marketing w/ Marketing Club\nLocation: R1240 or Zoom  UID:151677-21911939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151677 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:R1240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Crafting Meeting DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us every Sunday from 2:00-4:00p for our weekly crafting meeting! All skills are welcome with plenty of teachers and projects for knitting and crocheting each week. Our meetings are entirely free along with all of our materials. If you have more questions\, please DM us on Instagram or email vipsclub-admin@umich.edu \nTime: 2:00-4:00 pm\nLocation: Central Campus\, Michigan Union in the Parker Room (2nd floor) \nVIPs Club GCal: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y183OWUyMmFkNTQ2NDk4NDdmNWZiN2U1NmE4ZDMwNjIzMWUwYTE4MWUyYjY0YTQyNjZkYjIzNzdlMTRlODhlYzczQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20\nVIPs Club Instagram: @vipsclubumich\nNonprofit Website: vipsfund.org\nNonprofit Instagram: @vipsfund UID:151217-21911094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151217 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union: Parker Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:La Rondine (The Swallow) DESCRIPTION:*La Rondine* is a bittersweet comedy from one of the best-loved composers of Italian opera. The story follows the love life of courtesan Magda\, who flies away from her wealthy\, pampered life with the unromantic Rombaldo in favor of a passionate affair with the younger (and poorer) Ruggero – disguising her identity as she does so. When two visitors from her past appear\, Magda must wrestle with the question of who she truly is and what she wants.\n\nMusic by Giacomo Puccini\nLibretto by Giuseppe Adami\n\nConducted by Kirk Severtson\nDirected by Stephanie Havey\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148676-21904592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906309@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:2210ABC (Union, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:Campus & University Bands DESCRIPTION:Primarily for non-music majors who desire a concert band experience\, the University and Campus Bands are open to the entire U-M community and offer a great opportunity to enjoy an immersive musical experience and to learn from SMTD’s renowned faculty. The University Band is the most advanced non-music-major band and placement is by audition. Campus Band is open to any student with experience.\n\nCampus Band: Richard Frey\, conductor\nUniversity Band: John Pasquale\, conductor\nKate Stienstra\, student conductor (Fisher)\n\nPROGRAM\n\nCAMPUS BAND:\n*A Time to Dance*\, Julie Giroux\n*Little Mexican Suite* - III. *Sahuaro*\, IV. *Ceiba*\, Nubia Jaime Donjuan\n*Vesuvius*\, Frank Ticheli\n*Golden Jubilee March*\, John Philip Sousa\n\nUNIVERSITY BAND:\n*Lux Perpetua*\, Frank Ticheli\n*Pathways*\, Danielle Fisher\n*Deep River*\, Ben Horne\n*Vulcan*\, Michael Daugherty \n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148677-21904593@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148677 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120423 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T161500 SUMMARY:Other:Consulting Club Education Sessions DESCRIPTION:Weekly Education session focused on recruiting\, networking\, and casing prep for full-time and internship opportunities in consulting. UID:151772-21912156@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Tauber Colloquium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T183000 SUMMARY:Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey vs. Eastern DESCRIPTION:Home game vs EMU UID:149142-21905817@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120150 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Weekly Session Michigan Cricket Club DESCRIPTION:Michigan Cricket Club Weekly Session\; Hard Tennis Ball at the U of M - Sports Coliseum\, 721 S 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\, USA UID:150302-21908993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150302 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:U of M - Sports Coliseum, CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260829T224821 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Gadites Meeting DESCRIPTION:📖 Proverbs 6:23 (KJV)\nFor the commandment is a lamp\; and the law is light\; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life…\n\nLet’s come together with open hearts as we receive the light of the Lord tomorrow.\n\nSee you all at East Quad!!\n\n🚨 Have you invited someone to Gadites recently?\n\n😇 Bring a friend and let them witness what the Lord is doing in our midst.\n\n©️ GADITES\n#ATroopCometh UID:151164-21911021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151164 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bible Study,Christian,Religious,Spirituality LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1405 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T133111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T200000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Worship & Dinner DESCRIPTION:Join us for Worship & Dinner every Sunday at 6:00 p.m. in the Wesley Lounge at the Wesley Foundation!\n\nCome as you are for a relaxed time of worship\, prayer\, reflection\, and community—followed by a free shared meal. Whether you are looking for a spiritual home\, new friends\, or simply a good dinner at the end of the weekend\, you are welcome here.\n\n📍 Wesley Foundation\, Wesley Lounge (602 E. Huron St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI) \n🕕 Sundays at 6:00 p.m. \n🍽️ Free dinner follows worship\nAll are welcome! UID:151743-21912079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Christianity,Dinner,Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Wesley Lounge (Main Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T190000 SUMMARY:Other:WoW Weekly Meetings! DESCRIPTION:Weekly meetings are hosted every Sunday from 6-7 p.m. Join our calendar for locations!\nWoW Weekly meetings count as credit towards earning a bike through our Cycling Forward program. UID:151103-21910869@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151103 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260629T181659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261108T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michigan Youth Trombone Ensemble DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Youth Trombone Ensemble (MYTE)\, under the direction of Professor David Jackson\, provides students advanced experience in performing a variety of trombone ensemble repertoire. Students will work with current U-M trombone students to strengthen their overall musicianship\, learn new repertoire\, and participate in collaborative music making through weekly rehearsals. The Michigan Youth Trombone Ensemble is open by audition to high-school aged trombonists.\n\nFaculty Director David Jackson UID:148678-21904594@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T235959 SUMMARY:Other:15's Big Ten Final DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby will face a Big Ten opponent in the playoffs UID:148064-21902902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Kuntz Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T124051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Student Caregiver Appreciation Week DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating University of Michigan Student Caregivers Appreciation Week\, November 9-14\, 2026. Units across campus will host programs and events to celebrate student caregivers at U-M and highlight their experiences. Whether you are a student parent\, caregiver\, or want to support students who are\, please join in this annual celebration! UID:150334-21909013@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregiver,Caregivers,Parents,Student Caregiver,Student Caregivers,Student Parent,Student Parents,Studentcaregiverweek2026,Students With Children,Support LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T235959 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Tech Week 2026\, a week-long series of company presentations\, networking opportunities\, coffee chats\, panels\, and hands-on workshops designed to connect members with leaders across the tech ecosystem. The week will bring together students\, sponsors\, alumni\, and industry professionals for recruiting insights\, career exploration\, and practical skill-building.\nTech Week will kick off on Sunday\, November 8 with a keynote presentation\, networking kickoff\, and opening reception. From Monday\, November 9 through Thursday\, November 12\, members will participate in Company Super Days featuring sponsor-led company talks\, cross-company panels\, and functional track sessions across areas like Product\, GTM\, Finance\, Operations\, and more. The week will conclude on Friday\, November 13 with Builder Workshops\, including hands-on sessions and technical deep dives.\nThroughout the week\, members will also have access to ongoing coffee chats\, offered both in person and virtually\, with scheduling coordinated based on sponsor availability. Whether you’re exploring tech careers\, preparing for recruiting\, looking to build practical skills\, or hoping to expand your network\, Tech Week is a signature opportunity to engage with the tech community and learn from companies and peers. UID:149883-21907329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260819T175253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Sawsan Abdulrahim) DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded. UID:149695-21906961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149695 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Global Engagement,Health,Research,Social Science LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T153625 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T093000 SUMMARY:Well-being:First Light DESCRIPTION:Start your week with First Light. Join Adventure Leadership for a guided morning experience designed to help you greet the day\, connect with others\, and get outside. Depending on the week\, we'll take a reflective walk\, listen for birdsong\, or simply enjoy a quiet morning outdoors. Hot beverages always\, no previous experience is required. UID:151135-21910932@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151135 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Well-being LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building - Adventure Leadership Outpost CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908848@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T135300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX. UID:149758-21907096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909820@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T124814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"* UID:149763-21907128@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152233 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ethics 101 (Virtual) - Expanded Sessions Beyond Ethics & Compliance Week DESCRIPTION:Open to faculty\, staff\, and Michigan Medicine.\nEthics 101 is an introductory workshop designed to help U‑M employees navigate everyday situations where the “right next step” may not be obvious. Grounded in the university’s values and the realities of our work\, the session builds shared language for ethical decision-making\, offers practical tools for addressing uncertainty\, and clarifies when and where to seek guidance. Participants will work through brief\, relatable scenarios and leave with concrete strategies they can apply immediately. \nParticipants will be able to:\nUnderstand and apply UM’s definition of ethical conduct. \nRecognize common “ethical tension” situations in university settings (e.g.\, conflicts of interest\, gifts\, appropriate use of resources\, data stewardship\, respectful conduct).\nIdentify practical steps to take when an ethical issue arises.\nPractice using short scenarios to choose value-aligned responses and identify next best actions. UID:150259-21908483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150259 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Data Cleaning DESCRIPTION:Focus: Using AI to support data preparation and quality improvement.Description:\nThis session would examine how AI can help researchers think through data cleaning tasks before formal analysis begins. The emphasis would be on using AI as a support tool to identify inconsistencies\, plan\, clean workflows\, document decisions\, and generate reusable code templates\, while keeping human review central.Possible hands-on activities:\nIdentify common data quality issues in a sample datasetDraft a cleaning plan for missing values\, duplicates\, or formatting inconsistenciesGenerate starter code for basic cleaning steps in Python or RCreate a data cleaning log or documentation templateCompare raw and cleaned data examples to assess impactReminder: All attendees\, please bring a laptop. UID:149475-21906467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:TBD (Central Campus) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T150343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T143000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kreativwerkstatt DESCRIPTION:Chat in German and express yourself creatively. Crafting\, coloring\, painting\, drawing\, knitting\, sewing\, crochet\, embroidery\, origami? You will combine speaking German\, any level welcome\, beginners included\, and creatively expressing yourself. You are encouraged to bring your own materials or (ongoing) projects\, but we will also provide some materials and prompts each week. \n\nContact Laura Okkema (lokkema@umich.edu) or Iris Zapf-Garcia (iriszaga@umich.edu.) with questions. UID:151749-21912097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Visual Arts LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - Conference Room, 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260821T104852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T153000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pause Café: French Conversation Hour DESCRIPTION:-Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and snacks while improving your French skills!\n\n-Chat for 10 minutes or the entire hour. All language levels are welcome.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Alan Ames at (alanames@umich.edu). UID:150689-21909909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150689 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Coffee,Community,Culture,Discussion,Food,Free,French,Games,Global,Humanities,In Person,Interactive,Language,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Job Search Series - Fall 2026 DESCRIPTION:This workshop series helps graduate students and \npostdoctoral fellows build the professional skills needed to succeed in \ntoday’s competitive job market. With a focus on biomedical and life \nsciences\, and biomedical engineering\, you will gain the strategies and \nconfidence to pursue careers in academia\, industry\, or beyond. Through \ninteractive sessions that blend presentations with hands-on activities\, \nyou will practice proven approaches to job applications\, networking\, \ninterviewing\, and career planning\, so you can stand out to employers and\n take the next step with confidence.Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this series\, you will be able to:Craft strong application materials that showcase your research expertise and transferable skills using the W.H.O. method.Build connections and network effectively with a strong elevator pitch and an optimized LinkedIn profile (Headline-About-Experience format).Succeed in interviews by applying the S.T.A.R. method and approach salary negotiations confidently.Design a strategic job search with S.M.A.R.T. goals and plan long-term career growth through an Individual Development Plan. UID:149807-21907213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260713T143846 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T172000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, November 9 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:149334-21906244@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Public Finance,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120342 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Brazilian Zouk Dance Lesson DESCRIPTION:Hi zoukinis! Join us for Brazilian Zouk Dance Lessons!\nNot sure what Zouk is? Zouk is a Brazilian social partner dance known for its fun-loving and playful style\, often involving close embrace\, body rolls\, and hair whips. Check out our page for example videos! \n6 pm-Beginner Lesson\n7 pm-Practica\n8 pm-Improver Lesson\nAll of our lessons are open level and require no experience\, feel free to drop in and meet our fun-loving and welcoming community. See you soon! UID:151443-21911600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151443 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:TBD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T181802 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Film Sampler: The Janes DESCRIPTION:Join us for *Film Sampler*\, a series of film screenings focused on themes of protest and resistance.\n\nWatch a screening of *The Janes *(2010\, 101 min)\, followed by a talk back with director Emma Pildes and Ling Hsu.\n\nPolice arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names\, blindfolds and safe houses\, they built an underground service for women seeking safe\, affordable\, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.\n\nThese screenings are free and open to the public\, no registration or ticket required.\n\n*Film Sampler*\, organized in partnership with the U-M Department of Film\, Television\, and Media (FTVM)\, is offered in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition American Sampler: Activating the Archive. UID:150703-21909982@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150703 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T193000 SUMMARY:Other:General Meeting DESCRIPTION:General Meeting! UID:151665-21911912@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151665 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham West Conference Room- Fourth Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T121724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance.\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction/ UID:151494-21911656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MPSDS PhD Info Sessions (2026) DESCRIPTION:Interested in furthering your education in social research and data science? Join the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science's informational session to learn more about our PhD program in survey and data science. Led by faculty and current students\, you will receive an overview of the field\, the program\, professional opportunities\, and community building. Want to learn more about our PhD program before the info session? Please read about our doctoral program (https://surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu/education/doctoral-program/). We hope to see you soon! UID:151934-21912481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T121723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T211500 SUMMARY:Performance:University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Step beyond the footlights into a musical world that traverses from magic to masquerades\, comedy to romance\, and elegance to spectacle. The University Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of music inspired by the stage\, featuring 2026 SMTD Concerto Competition winner Grace Ryan (MM ’26\, voice)\, mezzo-soprano\, in two very different portrayals of Cinderella: the tender and lyrical *Cendrillon* by Massenet\, and the dazzling and playful *La Cenerentola* by Rossini.\n\nMozart’s sparkling *Magic Flute* Overture sets the stage for the evening\, which culminates in Richard Strauss’s exuberant *Le Bourgeois gentilhomme*\, featuring virtuosic violin\, cello\, and piano soloists. Witty\, energetic\, and full of theatrical flair\, Strauss’s music brings this journey to a rollicking conclusion.\n\nKenneth Kiesler\, conductor\nGrace Ryan\, mezzo-soprano (Massenet and Rossini)\n\nPROGRAM\nOverture to *The Magic Flute*\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart \n\"Enfin je suis ici\" from *Cendrillon*\, Jules Massenet \n\"Nacqui all'affanno... Non più mesta\" from *La Cenerentola*\, Gioachino Rossini\n*Le bourgeois gentilhomme\, op. 60*\, Richard Strauss \n\nConcert Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes \n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148679-21904595@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T235959 SUMMARY:Other:15's Big Ten Final DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby will face a Big Ten opponent in the playoffs UID:148064-21902903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Kuntz Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T124051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Student Caregiver Appreciation Week DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating University of Michigan Student Caregivers Appreciation Week\, November 9-14\, 2026. Units across campus will host programs and events to celebrate student caregivers at U-M and highlight their experiences. Whether you are a student parent\, caregiver\, or want to support students who are\, please join in this annual celebration! UID:150334-21909093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregiver,Caregivers,Parents,Student Caregiver,Student Caregivers,Student Parent,Student Parents,Studentcaregiverweek2026,Students With Children,Support LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T235959 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Tech Week 2026\, a week-long series of company presentations\, networking opportunities\, coffee chats\, panels\, and hands-on workshops designed to connect members with leaders across the tech ecosystem. The week will bring together students\, sponsors\, alumni\, and industry professionals for recruiting insights\, career exploration\, and practical skill-building.\nTech Week will kick off on Sunday\, November 8 with a keynote presentation\, networking kickoff\, and opening reception. From Monday\, November 9 through Thursday\, November 12\, members will participate in Company Super Days featuring sponsor-led company talks\, cross-company panels\, and functional track sessions across areas like Product\, GTM\, Finance\, Operations\, and more. The week will conclude on Friday\, November 13 with Builder Workshops\, including hands-on sessions and technical deep dives.\nThroughout the week\, members will also have access to ongoing coffee chats\, offered both in person and virtually\, with scheduling coordinated based on sponsor availability. Whether you’re exploring tech careers\, preparing for recruiting\, looking to build practical skills\, or hoping to expand your network\, Tech Week is a signature opportunity to engage with the tech community and learn from companies and peers. UID:149883-21907330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908546@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908849@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T135300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX. UID:149758-21907097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T124814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"* UID:149763-21907129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260727T094651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday\, November 10 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:149570-21906714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152150 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026-2027 CommuniTEA DESCRIPTION:Weekly gathering for students\, staff\, and faculty to build community with the Trotter/MESA team and discuss the week’s events. Organizations and units are encouraged to collaborate and offer light refreshments or share tea practices that center their cultural practices. Come join us for good conversation\, food and fun! UID:151558-21911746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T073145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Chemoproteomic Approaches to Define the Functional and Therapeutically Relevant Proteome- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar presented by Dr. Keriann Backus\, University of California\, Los Angeles UID:149904-21907353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,biolgical chemistry,biological,biological chemistry,biological science,biology,Biosciences LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 5330 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T134245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T140000 SUMMARY:Well-being:CommuniTEA DESCRIPTION:Join students\, staff\, and faculty in the Sankofa Lounge for weekly CommuniTEA gatherings. Come to connect\, share experiences\, good vibes\, and unwind. Meet new friends\, play a card game\, or study and eat your lunch among community! Organizations and units are welcome to collaborate and share refreshments or cultural tea practices. UID:150822-21910266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150822 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Diversity,Free,Inclusion,MESA,Multicultural,Social Impact,Well-being LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library. UID:149541-21906636@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T121639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Sacred Edict as Hate Speech: Griffith John\, the Hunan Riots\, and Qing imperial ideology DESCRIPTION:In the 1890s\, a series of anti-missionary riots swept through Hunan province. While the disturbances were promptly quelled and the instigators brought to justice\, missionaries found themselves in heated debates about the origins of the riots. One of them was Welshman Griffith John who singled out the Sacred Edict as one root cause of anti-Christian sentiment and argued for its amendment. This talk examines the context behind the debate and what it can tell us about endurance of and contradictions within imperial ideology in late imperial China.\n\nPär Cassel is an associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Michigan. He is strongly committed to multi-lingual and multi-archival research and is especially interested in historical problems where international relations\, jurisprudence\, institutional history\, and linguistics intersect. He is currently working on a book length project about the Sacred Edict.\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme UID:150196-21908382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150196 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese history,Chinese Studies,History,Imperialism,Theme Year LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T090956 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T130000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Rehearsing the Future: Imagination\, Foresight\, and the Practice of Thinking Ahead DESCRIPTION:The future cannot be predicted—but it can be explored\, challenged\, and rehearsed.\n\nWhat if being prepared for the future wasn’t about having the right answers—but about strengthening how you think? In environments dominated by short-term pressures\, the ability to think beyond the present is emerging as a critical leadership advantage.\n\nImagination is a fundamental cognitive capability that allows us to generate possibilities beyond what exists today. Yet in fast-paced\, and uncertain environments\, we rarely make time to develop it. When imagination is underused\, we default to reaction\, overlook emerging signals\, and feel less prepared for what’s ahead. Research consistently shows that while the vast majority of leaders see imagination as critical to future success\, only a small minority actively cultivate it in practice.\n\nStrategic foresight provides a way to actively build this capability — combining data\, signals\, and structured exploration with generative thinking to help individuals rehearse possibilities and shape more intentional outcomes. Organizations that apply these future-focused practices consistently outperform peers in growth\, resilience\, and innovation.\n\nLed by leading foresight practitioners\, this interactive session will engage participants in futures thinking and real-time exploration through approaches like scenarios\, provocations\, and reflection — creating space to strengthen imagination in action.\n\nParticipants will leave with practical approaches to:\n\nGenerate and explore new possibilities\nGreater confidence navigating uncertainty\nNew ways to think\, decide\, and lead beyond the present UID:151682-21911944@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,Free,Leadership,Professional Development,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T181731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Stearns Collection Lunchtime Concert Series DESCRIPTION:The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments presents the second installment of the 2026-2027 NCRC Lunchtime Concert Series. These free 45 minute programs highlight instruments from the collection and music from around the globe. This performance will feature Persian santour player Alireza Fazel\, with Stearns Director Joseph Gascho and U-M Performing Arts Technology Associate Professor John Granzow and their students.\n\nU-M staff\, faculty\, and members of the public are welcome to bring their lunch to the auditorium adjacent to the cafeteria in NCRC Building 18 at 12 p.m. Paid parking is available in the nearby NC99 parking lot with the AMP mobile app. UID:151351-21911394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151351 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to Notebook DESCRIPTION:A one-hour\, in-person workshop designed for LSA staff to learn to navigate and use Google's Notebook tool. \n UID:151856-21912280@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151856 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:LSA 1168 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T152407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T150000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:German Lecturer\, Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu)\, brings German chocolate to snack on and games to play (e.g. Tabu)\, all while chatting in German. UID:151750-21912111@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151750 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Games,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Multicultural LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - Common Room - 3110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251028T082420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:141176-21888297@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260707T105258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Tanner Lecture on Human Values | Kieran Setiya DESCRIPTION:Can humour help us cope with hardship without distancing or denial? Does laughter at misfortune manifest what Bergson called “a momentary anesthesia of the heart”—or worse? This talk takes up a puzzle about confessional comedy: why isn’t it vicious to draw pleasure from another’s suffering\, as we do when comics joke about trauma? The answer turns on the fine structure of empathy\; and the upshot is a theory of confessional stand-up as bespoke theodicy: a temporary\, interpersonal solution to the emotional problem of evil. This solution is one we can administer to ourselves\, using humour to confront adversity. Content note: violence and sexual assault.\n\nKieran Setiya is Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT\, where he works on ethics and related questions about human agency and human knowledge. He is the author of Reasons without Rationalism\, Knowing Right From Wrong\,Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way\, which was selected as a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist and The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, the LA Review of Books\, the TLS\, the London Review of Books\, the Boston Review\, The Atlantic\, Aeon\, and The Yale Review\, as well as numerous academic journals. He is working on a book about laughter as a guide to life.\n\nMore information about Kieran Setiya can be found here: http://www.ksetiya.net/\n\nAbout the Tanner Lectures on Human Values\nMichigan is one of nine institutions worldwide that hosts an annual Tanner Lecture on Human Values. Tanner Lectures are funded through the generosity of the late Professor of Philosophy\, industrialist\, and philanthropist\, Obert Clark Tanner\, and his wife\, Grace Tanner. Professor Tanner wrote:I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth\, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.Although the Tanners established the supporting endowment in 1978\, Joel Feinberg's April 1977 lecture at Michigan inaugurated the international series of Tanner Lectures.Each year\, Michigan has a Tanner Lecture combined with an interdisciplinary symposium to which we invite distinguished scholars from around the world. These events are free and open to the public. The complete list of Tanner Lectures at Michigan is available here: \nhttps://lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/news-events/all-events/tanner-lecture/tanner-lectures-on-human-values-at-the-university-of-michigan.html. UID:148434-21904271@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148434 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906310@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Kalamzoo Room (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T092147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Reading through the Double Archival Grain: Yugoslav Socialist Humanitarianism and its Whiteness DESCRIPTION:For the 2026 Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture\, Professor Čarna Brković will consider different forms of affective engagement with humanitarian activities in socialist Yugoslavia\, including irony and nostalgia. Ironic engagement assumes that Yugoslav solidarity with formerly colonized populations during the Cold War was empty rhetoric\, driven by a pragmatic desire to establish the country as a significant player on the geopolitical stage. Nostalgic engagement\, by contrast\, is shaped by the belief that Yugoslavs were motivated by an honest ideological commitment to solidarity and anti-racism that ultimately placed them on the “right side” of history. Both ironic and nostalgic engagements with socialist humanitarianism evaluate the past through contemporary ideas about solidarity\, socialism\, capitalism\, and their interrelations.\n\nTo understand socialist humanitarianism on its own terms\, Brković proposes reading it through the double grain of state socialism and the end of history. Such an analytical approach illuminates the role of racial socialism—socialist ideologies of “race” and local racial projects—and its interactions with global racial hierarchies\, showing how these ideologies were shaped by particular value constellations.\n\nBy discussing a 1961 humanitarian initiative of the Yugoslav Red Cross that brought sixty children and young people from the Congo to Tivat\, Montenegro\, this talk sheds light on the workings of socialist whiteness. This was not a colourist project but rather a normative regime of political value with two key characteristics: it ascribed superiority to Yugoslavs on the basis of their greater socialist experience\, and it overlooked present problems in favour of a future in which “race” would no longer matter.\n\nČarna Brković is professor of cultural studies and European ethnology at the University of Mainz. Dr. Brković has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester and a BA in Ethnology and Anthropology from the University of Belgrade. In her European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant “Racial Socialism” (2026-2031) as well as in her book Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans: From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics (Indiana University Press\, 2026)\, she studies historical projects of integrating the world differently\, such as socialist humanitarianism and Europeanization.\n\nIf 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. UID:151290-21911323@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,yugoslavia LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T155804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Precision Stitch: An Introduction to Suturing Techniques for Pre-Health Students DESCRIPTION:\"Precision Stitch\" is a hands-on workshop specifically designed for pre-health students eager to develop essential suturing skills. In partnership with the Detroit Metro Army Medical Recruiting Station\, this program offers a unique opportunity to learn directly from an experienced Army healthcare provider. Participants will receive instruction on the technical aspects of suturing that are vital for many future healthcare practitioners. This workshop builds foundational surgical skills\, provides invaluable insight into the practical demands of the medical field\, and allows for connecting with Health Professions Scholarship Program recruiters. Ideal for those committed to a career in healthcare\, \"Precision Stitch\" prepares you for the next step in your healthcare journey. UID:149449-21906431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Advising,Newnan,Newnan Academic Advising,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,Newnan Pre-health,Pre Dental,Pre Health,Pre Med,Pre Pa,Pre-health,Pre-med,Pre-professional,Sessions LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interfaith Interviews: Michigan Souls Screening DESCRIPTION:Michigan Souls: Stories of Purpose\, Place\, and People\n6:00–8:00 PM\nMichigan Theater | Ann ArborEvery person carries a story.Some stories are spoken often. Others remain quietly beneath the surface—shaping who we are\, where we come from\, what we believe\, and what gives our lives meaning.Join Religious\, Secular & Spiritual Life (RSSL) for the premiere of Michigan Souls\, a student storytelling project that invites us into the lives of University of Michigan students through honest conversations about identity\, spirituality\, purpose\, belonging\, and the experiences that have shaped them.Through a series of short films\, you'll encounter stories that are deeply personal yet universally human. Whether you identify with a religious tradition\, no tradition at all\, or are simply exploring life's big questions\, these stories offer an opportunity to listen across differences\, discover unexpected connections\, and reflect on what it means to be part of a diverse campus community.Following the screening\, stay for a facilitated conversation with the student filmmakers and participants as we continue exploring the power of story to build understanding\, empathy\, and community.Come ready to listen.\nCome ready to reflect.\nCome ready to discover the extraordinary stories already living all around us.Admission is free. Registration is required. UID:149177-21905887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149177 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:The Michigan Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T102754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T203000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Game Nights at The Connector DESCRIPTION:Do you like board games? Card games? Do you like free popcorn? We welcome all types of players here! Every Tuesday\, the Connector Community Assistants are hosting a game night where we eat delicious popcorn and have a chill (or competitive\, if that’s your energy!) night of joy and connection with one another! Bring your friends and hang! \n\nThe Connector is located in West Quad. UID:150142-21908200@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T132111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Journey DESCRIPTION:Looking for a place to be real\, ask big questions\, and find community? Join \"The Journey\,\" a small group for undergraduate students exploring how to live faithfully in difficult times.\n\nCome for honest conversation\, encouragement\, and a welcoming group of fellow students. You don’t need to have the answers—just bring yourself.\n\nTuesdays at 7:00 p.m. \nEnter through the Wesley Tower doors. UID:151739-21912056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Christianity,Religious,Undergrad LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Kalamazoo (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260902T181718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Mazurka: Dance of a Polish Soul\, Voice of the World DESCRIPTION:The mazurka\, one of Poland’s most distinctive musical dance forms\, continues to inspire composers far beyond its traditional origins. While often associated with Frédéric Chopin\, this recital explores the broader and evolving story of the mazurka through the voices of both celebrated and lesser-known composers from Poland and around the world.\n\nThe program presents a diverse collection of works that reveal how composers have transformed this Polish dance into a vehicle for artistic expression\, cultural identity\, and contemporary creativity. It includes mazurkas by Karol Szymanowski\, whose innovative language expanded the genre in the twentieth century\, as well as works by composers inspired by Chopin’s legacy\, including Zygmunt Stojowski\, Julian and Nathalie Janotha. The program also features mazurkas by lesser-known Polish composers such as Wojciech Kilar and Mikołaj Piotr Górecki\, whose individual musical voices offer new perspectives on the evolution of the genre. Special attention is given to the contributions of female composers\, whose works enrich the mazurka’s continuing legacy.\n\nAlongside these historical works\, the program features newly commissioned mazurkas created for the international 21st Mazurkas project—a visionary artistic initiative conceived\, developed\, and realized by pianist Anna Kijanowska. Bringing together composers from Poland\, Europe\, North America\, South America\, and New Zealand\, the project presents the mazurka as a living international form. These contemporary works demonstrate the remarkable adaptability of the genre\, blending elements of folk tradition\, personal expression\, modern compositional techniques\, and diverse cultural influences. Each composer offers a unique perspective\, transforming the mazurka into a global musical language while maintaining its connection to its Polish roots. Among the contributors is Matthew Bengtson\, Associate Professor of Piano Literature at the University of Michigan\, whose commissioned mazurka forms part of this international collection.\n\nAll of these new works were written especially for pianist Anna Kijanowska and recorded on the award-winning DUX album 21st Mazurkas (DUX 2149). The recording received the Platinum Prize at the Golden European Piano Awards 2025\, together with the Special Regional Representative Award (Cieszyn\, Poland) and the Artist of the Month distinction.\n\nThrough a dialogue between historical voices and contemporary creators\, *Mazurka: Dance of a Polish Soul\, Voice of the World* celebrates the mazurka as a living art form—one that continues to evolve across generations\, cultures\, and continents\, while remaining deeply connected to Poland’s rich musical heritage.\n\n*This event is supported in part by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia\, and partially funded by a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage\, Republic of Poland.* UID:150308-21908999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150308 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260713T124039 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Veterans For Peace Concert DESCRIPTION:This annual concert benefits the Veterans for Peace Chapter 93 Peace Scholarship Fund. Proceeds will go to scholarships for college students enrolled in an accredited peace studies program and for programs to assist combat veterans suffering from serious trauma. Previous performers have included Laith Al-Saadi\, Judy Banker\, Al Bettis\, Chris Buhalis\, Annie & Rod Capps\, Jill Jack\, Shari Kane & Dave Steele\, Billy King\, Pontiac Trailblazers\, Maddy Ringo\, Rollie Tussing\, Matt Watroba\, and many more.\n\nNote early start time! UID:149301-21906205@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:GA - The Ark CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T181706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Arts Chorale DESCRIPTION:The Arts Chorale is the official choir of the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts. It provides a fun and enriching environment for students who enjoy singing. A mixed choir that is open to any U-M student\, the Arts Chorale is a musical and social group that has existed at the University for over 60 years. Although affiliated with SMTD\, most members are not music majors.\n\nKenneth Sieloff\, conductor\n\nPROGRAM\n\n*O Virtus Sapientiae*\, Hildegard von Bingen\, arr. Katerina Gimon\n*Ambe*\, Andrew Balfour \n*Sure on the Shining Night*\, Samuel Barber\n*A New Commandment*\, Thomas Tallis\n*Love Walked In*\, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin\, arr. Steve Zegree\n*Flight Song*\, Kim André Arnesen \nMagnificat\, RV 610\, Antonio Vivaldi\n*The Ground*\, Ola Gjeilo UID:148680-21904596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148680 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T140000 SUMMARY:Other:15's Big Ten Final DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Men's Rugby will face a Big Ten opponent in the playoffs UID:148064-21902904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Kuntz Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T124051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Student Caregiver Appreciation Week DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating University of Michigan Student Caregivers Appreciation Week\, November 9-14\, 2026. Units across campus will host programs and events to celebrate student caregivers at U-M and highlight their experiences. Whether you are a student parent\, caregiver\, or want to support students who are\, please join in this annual celebration! UID:150334-21909094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregiver,Caregivers,Parents,Student Caregiver,Student Caregivers,Student Parent,Student Parents,Studentcaregiverweek2026,Students With Children,Support LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T235959 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Tech Week 2026\, a week-long series of company presentations\, networking opportunities\, coffee chats\, panels\, and hands-on workshops designed to connect members with leaders across the tech ecosystem. The week will bring together students\, sponsors\, alumni\, and industry professionals for recruiting insights\, career exploration\, and practical skill-building.\nTech Week will kick off on Sunday\, November 8 with a keynote presentation\, networking kickoff\, and opening reception. From Monday\, November 9 through Thursday\, November 12\, members will participate in Company Super Days featuring sponsor-led company talks\, cross-company panels\, and functional track sessions across areas like Product\, GTM\, Finance\, Operations\, and more. The week will conclude on Friday\, November 13 with Builder Workshops\, including hands-on sessions and technical deep dives.\nThroughout the week\, members will also have access to ongoing coffee chats\, offered both in person and virtually\, with scheduling coordinated based on sponsor availability. Whether you’re exploring tech careers\, preparing for recruiting\, looking to build practical skills\, or hoping to expand your network\, Tech Week is a signature opportunity to engage with the tech community and learn from companies and peers. UID:149883-21907331@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T103000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Orientation for Clinical Investigators 2026 DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)\, welcome to the University of Michigan. Whether you are an early-career faculty or an experienced researcher new to the University\, the Orientation for Clinical Investigators will provide you with an overview of information\, resources\, and tools necessary to comply with regulations related to clinical research and to help you efficiently navigate the University’s research enterprise. This 3-hour orientation program is comprised of lectures and opportunities to apply new found knowledge and network. We encourage you to attend the whole session as the lectures complement one another. The program will be held in-person in the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)\, Building 10\, Room G063.. A shortcode is required for all participants upon registration. A $52 no-show fee will be applied to the shortcode for those who register but do not attend the course. No fees will be applied to those who attend UID:150117-21908096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150117 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex (NCRC) Building 10, Room G063 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908850@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909231@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T135300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX. UID:149758-21907098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909822@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T124814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"* UID:149763-21907130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260902T133628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Welcome Wednesdays DESCRIPTION:Kick-start your Wednesday with free coffee\, tea\, hot chocolate\, and a breakfast snack! Stop by the Alumni Center from 9 a.m.–noon on select Wednesdays during the fall and winter semesters. Bring your Mcard—and keep an eye out for Bagely\, the beloved bagel mascot! ☕🥯〽️ UID:151404-21911534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Breakfast,food,free food LOCATION:Alumni Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T095458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AI for Physics Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:This seminar series will take place in 340 West Hall\, Bi-weekly\, Wednesdays from 10:00--11:00 am\n\nFor details please see\;\n\nhttps://umich-ai4physics.github.io/) UID:151090-21912210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram UID:138033-21881361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T122814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:ResNavs #SoYF Relax Tips & Techniques for Exams DESCRIPTION:November's #SoYF (Smile on Your Face) well-being break is \"Relax\" tips & techniques for exams. ResNavs come with free fidgets and copyable techniques to get you through the end of the term.\n\nWe focus on areas of Michigan's Model of Well-Being to bring you a fun\, free break each month. Here's a quick peek at the month ahead:\n\n> December | Exams stress? Quick carb fix. (free sugar cookies) UID:152014-21912619@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Mindfulness,Well-being LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T142354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Strengthening Workplace Culture through Dialogue & Community Support DESCRIPTION:Designed for faculty\, staff\, administrators\, and campus leaders\, this interactive session explores a community-informed approach to institutional culture change. Participants will learn how the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability leveraged dialogue\, restorative practices\, shared leadership\, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen organizational culture\, leaving with practical strategies and transferable lessons they can adapt within their own schools\, colleges\, departments\, or campus units. Through facilitated discussion and structured reflection\, attendees will have the opportunity to translate these ideas into action within their own institutional contexts.\n\nDIALOGUE MICHIGAN\nThis event is part of Dialogue Michigan's 2026-2027 faculty and staff workshops. Learn more at https://myumi.ch/dialogue. UID:150971-21910648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150971 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:dialogue,Faculty,Sessions,Staff,Workshop LOCATION:Room 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T120612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Anxiety & Procrastination DESCRIPTION:s procrastination starting to set in? Feeling a little anxious? Join the Anxiety & Procrastination wellness group to hear from students who can relate and learn some skills to cope. Also\, you get free lunch! This FREE in-person educational wellness group is for students only and will include an interactive presentation facilitated by staff from the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and is a collaborative service with U-M Engineering's C.A.R.E. Center and the Newnan Academic Advising Center.\n\nRegistration is not required for in-person wellness groups\, but is recommended so there is enough lunch for all attendees. You can register using the link. Learn more at campusmindworks.org UID:149354-21906267@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149354 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anxiety,Campus Mind Works,Food,Free Food,Health & Wellness,In Person,Mental Health,North Campus,Procrastination,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Wellness,Workshop LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library. UID:149541-21906637@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260829T094746 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | DESCRIPTION:tbd UID:151160-21910991@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151160 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260729T130108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/htrYM6lXQH28gjySTQaKIw\n\nJoin us on Wednesdays from 12:15 – 12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows.\n\nMindful meditation is a contemplative practice that\, over time\, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective\, navigate the demands of daily life\, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness\, open and directed attention\, non-judgment\, and self-compassion. CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction\, support\, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly\, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome! UID:109796-21906864@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregivers,first-generation,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Health & Wellness,Mindfulness,Nontraditional Students,Self-care,Student Parents,Students With Children,Support,transfer students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Welcome to Michigan,Well-being,Wellness,women,women's health,Work-life Balance,Zoom LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251124T101915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Disability Navigator Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Stop by and chat with the Disability Equity Office's Disability Navigators. Whether you have questions about supportive resources\, workplace accommodations\, event accessibility\, or general accessibility at the University of Michigan\, we're here to help! You're welcome to pop in for just a few minutes or stay for the whole hour. If you’d like some privacy\, breakout rooms are available for one-on-one conversations.\n\nJoin whenever you're free—no registration required. If you need any accommodations to participate\, please contact the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. We look forward to connecting with you!\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98239842235?jst=2 UID:141988-21890085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Disability,Office Hours LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T121720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Western Sahara: Multi-scalar Struggles\, Recognition and Change in a Thawing Conflict DESCRIPTION:Irene Fernández-Molina is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. She is a scholar of international relations of the Global South and across the Euro-Mediterranean space\, contested statehood and international recognition politics\, and foreign policy and conflicts in the Maghreb. She previously worked as a research fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair of the College of Europe (Warsaw)\, Schuman fellow at the Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament (Brussels)\, and PhD research fellow at Complutense University of Madrid. Her research has been published in journals such as *International Affairs*\, *International Studies Review*\, *Review of International Studies*\, *International Political Sociology*\, and the *Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding*. She is the author of *Moroccan Foreign Policy under Mohammed VI\, 1999–2014 *(2016)\, and co-editor of *Global\, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization* (2017)\, and* Foreign Policy in North Africa: Navigating Global\, Regional and Domestic Transformations* (2021).\n\nJoin on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/7J946\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: warsansa@umich.edu\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme UID:150315-21909006@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150315 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,Lecture,Theme Year LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T100339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday\, November 11 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:149952-21907425@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149952 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Labor,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260729T061726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:149641-21906838@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251028T082420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:141176-21888405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T151707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go DESCRIPTION:Meet at Burton Tower for a 1-hour walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu). This event happens 'rain or shine.' Open to speakers of German at all levels. UID:151752-21912125@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Humanities,Language LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower - Meet Outside the Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T110827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics\, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict\, genocide\, and ethnic cleansing. Drawing on the new co-authored volume\, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*\, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively\, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so\, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics\,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth\, reconciliation\, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University\, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian’s research spans the fields of archaeology\, social anthropology\, and heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Armenia\, the wider South Caucasus\, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity\, including problems of genocide\, deindustrialization\, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. She is the co-author of *Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict* (Cornell\, 2026) and author of Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (UC Press\, 2016). She is also co-editor of *Rethinking Empire: Materiality\, Metaphysics\, and Imperial Politics* (SAR\, 2026) and *Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia *(2017).\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99311308952\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, Department of Middle East Studies\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Classical Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, and NAASR.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu UID:150145-21908256@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150145 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,armenia,Armenian Studies,Discussion,History,Lecture LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21909963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260527T110126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:UM Law and Philosophy workshop: Miranda Fricker (NYU Philosophy) DESCRIPTION:As part of the The UM Law and Philosophy workshop\, Miranda Fricker will be speaking at U-M.\n\nInformation about the location and talk theme will be provided closer to the date.\n\nMore information about Miranda Fricker can be found here: https://www.mirandafricker.com/. UID:148429-21904251@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148429 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Law,Lecture,Philosophy LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T122813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Unpacking the News DESCRIPTION:What in the world is going on? With never ending 'breaking news'\, it's hard to keep up with the news and what it all means. Unpacking the News offers a space to pause\, sort out what’s happening\, and engage in thoughtful\, civil discussion with peers. Bring your questions\, your curiosity\, and your perspective—no preparation required. UID:151250-21911227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151250 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Community Engagement,Democracy,Democracy And Civic Engagement,Democratic Engagement,Discussion,Dissent,Education,Free,Open Inquiry LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Boulevard Room (Pierpont, 1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026-2027 Ginsberg Center Open Workshops DESCRIPTION:Ginsberg Center Open Workshops offers a variety of educational opportunities designed to help University of Michigan students build the knowledge\, skills\, and perspectives needed to engage thoughtfully with communities and create positive social change. Whether students are just beginning to explore community engagement or looking to deepen specific skills\, these workshops provide opportunities to learn\, reflect\, and connect with others.\nWorkshops cover topics such as ethical community engagement\, leadership\, civic and democratic engagement\, social change\, local communities and government\, reflective practice\, and practical skills for working in partnership with communities. Offerings include workshops such as Foundations of Community Engagement\, Exiting a Community-Engaged Project\, Appreciative Interviewing\, Getting Informed: How Local Government Works\, and Welcome to Washtenaw County\, among others.See workshop descriptions for details. UID:150661-21909864@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150661 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:https://umich.zoom.us/j/97648857561 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T111502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Deutschtisch is a weekly event in the North Quad dining hall for Max Kade residents and visitors from outside of Max Kade Haus to speak German during a meal. UID:151889-21912345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151889 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T153227 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Excursion Lab DESCRIPTION:Adventure starts with trying something new. Excursion Lab is a series of approachable outdoor experiences where you can experiment with new activities\, build confidence\, and meet other students. Try things like geocaching\, slacklining\, rucking\, and other outdoor pursuits in a welcoming\, beginner-friendly environment. No previous experience required. UID:151136-21910946@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151136 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Well-being LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building - Adventure Leadership Outpost CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fall Into Wellness DESCRIPTION: UID:151560-21911764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center- Multipurpose Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T115813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations. UID:150176-21908325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lloyd Scholars for Writing DESCRIPTION: UID:149915-21907369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Alice Lloyd Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T102717 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Bible Reading Group DESCRIPTION:We are a chapter of Public Reading of Scripture (PRS) at University of Michigan. We meet with students every week for 1-hour to read the Bible together\, listening to the audio Bible using the official PRS app. Attendees do NOT need to prep or share\, and no one preaches. \n\nNever read the Bible before? No problem\, we welcome any background — no Bible or religious experience required!\n\nAfterwards\, for those interested we'll go out to grab a bite together!\n\nJoin our announcements group here: https://forms.gle/WZhfwuodC4wzgCGv9 UID:151675-21911937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,In Person,Religious LOCATION:Michigan League - Room C (3rd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260529T010000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Volleyball vs Ohio State DESCRIPTION:Volleyball vs Ohio State UID:148472-21904345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148472 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T181717 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:BFA Dance Concerts DESCRIPTION:Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance majors present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Free tickets will be available in advance of the performance. UID:148681-21904597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Dance,Free,North Campus LOCATION:Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906314@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Boulevard Room (Pierpont, 1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T123111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Hiss Golden Messenger DESCRIPTION:Hiss Golden Messenger is the long-running musical project led by North Carolina-based singer\, songwriter\, and producer M.C. Taylor. The project has evolved over the last decade into one of the most respected and celebrated in contemporary Americana\, blending folk\, country\, soul and gospel influences with deeply introspective\, poetic\, and conscious songwriting. \n\nAcross multiple critically acclaimed\, Grammy nominated albums\, Hiss Golden Messenger has become known for its warmth and emotional clarity\, as well as Taylor’s ability to connect the personal and poetic with the political without losing intimacy or musical grace. \n\nThe forthcoming I’m People continues this trajectory\, offering a reflective collection of songs that speaks to resilience\, community\, radical hopefulness\, and the quiet human moments that animate and illuminate the everyday. It is among Taylor’s greatest and most profound work. \n\nHiss Golden Messenger sits naturally alongside artists and releases that value craft\, storytelling\, and authenticity\, and aligns well with audiences attuned to indie\, folk\, Americana\, roots\, and contemporary country music.\n\nVIP Package includes:\nOne (1) general admission ticket to see Hiss Golden Messenger live\nHear MC Taylor play some songs featured in current setlists\nQ&A: Ask MC some questions (Got questions about gear? Songwriting? Ask away!)\nTake a group photo\nTour poster signed by MC\nCommemorative VIP laminate\nHiss merch shopping before doors open to the public\nEarly entry into the venue UID:145347-21897156@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T124051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Student Caregiver Appreciation Week DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating University of Michigan Student Caregivers Appreciation Week\, November 9-14\, 2026. Units across campus will host programs and events to celebrate student caregivers at U-M and highlight their experiences. Whether you are a student parent\, caregiver\, or want to support students who are\, please join in this annual celebration! UID:150334-21909095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Caregiver,Caregivers,Parents,Student Caregiver,Student Caregivers,Student Parent,Student Parents,Studentcaregiverweek2026,Students With Children,Support LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T235959 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Week 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join Tech Club for Tech Week 2026\, a week-long series of company presentations\, networking opportunities\, coffee chats\, panels\, and hands-on workshops designed to connect members with leaders across the tech ecosystem. The week will bring together students\, sponsors\, alumni\, and industry professionals for recruiting insights\, career exploration\, and practical skill-building.\nTech Week will kick off on Sunday\, November 8 with a keynote presentation\, networking kickoff\, and opening reception. From Monday\, November 9 through Thursday\, November 12\, members will participate in Company Super Days featuring sponsor-led company talks\, cross-company panels\, and functional track sessions across areas like Product\, GTM\, Finance\, Operations\, and more. The week will conclude on Friday\, November 13 with Builder Workshops\, including hands-on sessions and technical deep dives.\nThroughout the week\, members will also have access to ongoing coffee chats\, offered both in person and virtually\, with scheduling coordinated based on sponsor availability. Whether you’re exploring tech careers\, preparing for recruiting\, looking to build practical skills\, or hoping to expand your network\, Tech Week is a signature opportunity to engage with the tech community and learn from companies and peers. UID:149883-21907332@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Camille Ann Brewer\, MFA\, MLIS DESCRIPTION:Camille Ann Brewer lives and works in the City of Detroit\, Michigan. Through the process of textile construction\, Brewer’s artwork intersects cartographic and photographic images that speak to specific spaces and time. Weaving together of physical place\, memory with time is the core subject of this body of work. \n\nThe artwork is built with time-period paper maps\, which illustrate spatial geography and political territory\; along with paper-collaged images of people\, places and things\, which tie directly to the history and human relationships in space. In patterns that support the artwork’s theme\, the two disparate paper elements are then woven together to create a serendipitous making and aesthetic experience. UID:150411-21909396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,ArtsEngine,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Humanities,North Campus,Reception,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T132935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Comics Beyond Sight DESCRIPTION:This exhibit covers a variety of creative approaches to comics visual accessibility\, and by extension visual accessibility broadly. Those approaches range from multimedia (audio and textual descriptions) through multidimensional and emerging technologies strategies (3D printing\, haptics\, and screen-based mobile touch interfaces). It demonstrates that comics can be made accessible. Learn about the international efforts of innovators in the realm of comics accessibility for those who are blind or have low vision\, assembled by the Accessible Comics Collective at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the expertise of blind access professionals. \n\nEmily Beitiks was the accessibility lead for the content creation of the exhibit. She is the co-director for the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center (the first civically funded disability culture center on the planet!)\, and prior to that\, the director of the Longmore Institute on Disability. \n\nNick Sousanis (SFSU)\, the lead creative organizer of the exhibit\, is a Detroit native and was the first person to draw his dissertation in comics format\, subsequently published as the graphic novel Unflattening.\n\nView the exhibit anytime the Hatcher Library is open\, and join us for an opening presentation on Friday\, October 2nd\, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. UID:150276-21908548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Comics,Disability,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260814T155307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Down in Ann Arbor Town: Pictorial Maps\, Campus Traditions\, and the Women Who Made Them DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the centennial of the iconic 1926 “Down in Ann Arbor Town” map by exploring the colorful history\, campus traditions\, and detailed artistry that made it possible. Created by Jessie Horton Koessler (Class of 1901) to help fund the Michigan League building for women\, this celebrated map provides a fascinating view into 1920s campus life and the women who shaped it. Through three distinct exhibit sections\, journey from the campus history that led to the map’s creation to a broader look at early 20th-century pictorial mapmaking.\n\nWhile enjoying the exhibit\, pick up a scavenger hunt at the Clark Library desk that will inspire you to notice whimsical details in the maps discussed. Return your scavenger hunt at the desk for a small prize\, while supplies last.\n\nJoin the curators — Ava Pustulka (’28) and Anna Rohl\, map curator at Clark Library — for a presentation on September 24 (https://myumi.ch/X8y3r)\, where they will share the research that went into creating the exhibit. UID:150290-21908851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260818T114238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Lila Kadaj Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Lila Kadaj received her MFA from Wayne State University. Her work has been shown at numerous institutions\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Cranbrook Art Museum\, and the Arab American National Museum. She spent nearly 27 years teaching art at Detroit Public schools.\n\nArtist statement: “When looking at a beautiful flower. It’s just itself. Just there......no .....it does not proclaim its purpose for blooming is to make people happy. It just is. Like standing in front of an easel and painting........just is.......no matter......what proclamations may be concluded to sway the viewer. Same thing goes for fine art. It’s not about I am a woman....it’s not about I am a first generation Arab American.....it’s not about being a child of trauma....it’s not about a member of my family being gunned down on the street....it’s about being born a painter.....standing in front of my easel and working to create a \"Piece of Fine Art\". Not standing on some soap box and expecting my words to somehow qualify my painting. It’s the painting\, drawing or sculpture that must speak on its own.......on how the artist......via the intellect and muse uses the elements to create something distinct and first rate. It can be quiet or loud. I see so much very weak work uplifted not for its quality but because it’s in fashion.” UID:150406-21909232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arab Heritage Month,Art,ArtsRx,Culture,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Middle East Studies,North Campus,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery Concourse Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260806T162236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration. \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:149975-21907534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,russia,ukraine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T135300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fashion/Forward DESCRIPTION:Fashion/Forward is an invitational group exhibition celebrating the innovative work by artists with developmental disabilities and/or mental health differences from progressive art studios around the country. Both including fashion and about fashion\, the exhibition features drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, textiles\, wearable clothing\, accessories\, and other fabulous fashion-inspired works and is organized in conjunction with the 2026 Creating Community Conference. Learn more about the conference at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX. UID:149758-21907099@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Michigan Arts Festival,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T165408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year. UID:150658-21909823@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260617T090730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Iberian Cinema\, Media\, and Theory: A Symposium Honoring Marsha Kinder DESCRIPTION:This event will bring together a group of distinguished scholars in Iberian cinema\, film theory\, and media studies to celebrate and reflect on Marsha Kinder's intellectual legacy following her recent passing. UID:148989-21905282@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Media Studies LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T124814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Like the Flowing River DESCRIPTION:Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form\, one echoing the other\, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality\, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away\, for contemplation\, to draw inward\, to come inside\, to ask the question\, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence\, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.\n\nThis exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.\n\n*The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki\, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: \"The flow of the river is ceaseless\, and the water is never the same…\"* UID:149763-21907131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SAPAC GROWE: Engendering Respectful Communities Workshops - SY26 - 27 DESCRIPTION:Engendering Respectful Communities (ERC) is a one session workshop that engages graduate students in meaningful dialogue about various forms of sexual misconduct they may encounter in both professional and social spaces\, and provides resources for intervention or support in such circumstances.The primary goal of the workshop is to address complexities experienced by graduate students as they engage in bystander intervention\, so that participants gain an increase in awareness of barriers to action and familiarity with strategic planning to overcome them. The workshop also introduces participants to on-campus resources and provides knowledge on how sexual misconduct can unfold in graduate-specific settings.The ERC workshop uses small-group circles intended to promote active reflection and space to build community. The procedure of circles is introduced at the beginning of the workshop in order to help participants get used to the process\, which they do through a circle for introductions and value-sharing for the workshop space. These circles depict various\, realistic scenarios related to sexual misconduct within the graduate community. The circle process allows circle members to process the monologues\, reflect on complexities with identity and power dynamics within them\, name potential barriers to intervention\, and think of various ways in which they might respond if faced with similar situations. The circles provide a way to foster collective building of ideas\, where participants learn from one another and all input is equally valued. Participants are encouraged to share but can always pass if desired\, creating an environment where participation is open but not forced. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop\, if you are to arrive more than 20 minutes late\, we will ask you to re-register for another workshop session.If you have any questions about or concerns with taking this workshop\, or are in need of an exemption\, please contact jhippe@umich.edu or fill out this form. We know some students come to campus having already experienced harm. If you have circumstances that make completing this course challenging\, please reach out to the GROWE team. SAPAC GROWE provides exemptions to the ERC workshop (where requirements are set in place) on a case by case basis. The Program Manager will communicate with students requesting exemptions via email and/or meet with students via zoom meetings to discuss their need for exemptions and provide any relevant and necessary resources. UID:150694-21909964@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Rackham Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260701T154911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Giving and Receiving Feedback DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:149206-21905969@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Discussion,Professional Development,Self Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260730T082558 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T103000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Green Teams Coffee Chat DESCRIPTION:Come with your questions\, experiences\, and ideas to help us build a community of practice around sustainable workplaces at U-M! This monthly informal chat is open to all staff who are interested in workplace sustainability. Chats are held over Zoom\, so grab your favorite hot beverage and log in. We share successes\, mishaps\, and learning experiences as well as new opportunities and resources. (In order to encourage candid conversation\, these meetings are not recorded.) UID:149672-21906928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Staff,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram UID:138033-21881362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T131259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“Who Counts? A History of Voting in America” DESCRIPTION:Changes over the course of the nineteenth century in how Americans voted\, from voice vote to public ballot box to private voting booth\, also saw changes in the material culture that surrounded voting. Ballots and ballot boxes\, campaign pins and ribbons\, blank lists and pre-printed party tickets\, lanterns and banners–the creative forces of the American print industry filled the country’s cities and small towns with the ephemera of electioneering.\n\nAs you look at the items in this exhibit\, think about what they tell us about how Americans in the past felt about voting\, and about how voting felt. How did Election Days feel when they were full of parades and music and public drinking? What was it like to vote when everyone around you knew who you voted for? And\, most of all\, who counted as a voter\, and who did the counting?\n\nOn view September 11-December 22\, weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:152024-21912691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,William L Clements LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T144336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accessibility Specialist Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Spend a few minutes to an hour with the Disability Equity Office Accessibility Specialists to ask any questions related to reasonable accommodations\, the interactive process\, general accessibility at U-M\, and more! Registration is not required for this event and break-out rooms will be available for those who wish to ask their questions privately.\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 99281497508 UID:145395-21897242@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Office Hours LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260811T160816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | When Self-Empowerment Goes South (or East\, More Precisely): Gender\, Neoliberalism\, and Romance Fraud in Japan DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person\, we recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and taking the elevator to the 4th floor. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/rwr6E.\n\nBuilding on scholarship on changing gender and intimacy norms under neoliberalism in Japan\, this lecture explores how these transformations are reflected in the realm of romance fraud. Drawing on two contrasting sets of empirical material—interviews with romance fraud victims and publications and interviews with followers and supporters of the fraudster ‘Ririchan the Grantee Gal’—the lecture argues that these seemingly disparate groups are connected by a common underlying dynamic: women's struggle for autonomy and/or recognition within a gendered social hierarchy. It examines how aspirations for self-empowerment and liberation\, often intensified by neoliberal ideals of personal responsibility and self-realization\, can paradoxically lead individuals towards both victimization and offending.\n\nDr. Yutaka Yoshida is a lecturer in criminology at Cardiff University. His research explores romance fraud victimization\, digital vigilantism\, and far-right movements in Japan\, with a particular interest in narratives\, identity\, and technology-mediated social harms. His current work examines how romance fraud victims make sense of their experiences and reconstruct their lives in the aftermath of victimization\, drawing on psychosocial approaches.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:150003-21907802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150003 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,Gender,gender studies,japan,Japanese Studies LOCATION:East Hall - Room 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library. UID:149541-21906638@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260811T094953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Graduate Financial Education: 1:1 Consultation Hours DESCRIPTION:Have questions about managing your finances as a graduate student? Schedule a one-on-one appointment with Heather Moore\, Ph.D.\, assistant director of financial education and engagement\, for personalized guidance tailored to your financial goals and questions.\n\nDuring your appointment\, you can discuss topics such as: Budgeting and saving strategies\, Student loans and repayment options\, Income taxes for graduate students\, Credit and credit cards\, Building healthy financial habits\, Other graduate student financial questions.\n\nHow to Register:\nRegister for your preferred appointment date through Sessions.\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to Heather's Google Booking Calendar.\n\nOpen the Google Booking Calendar and select your preferred appointment time from the available times listed for the date for which you registered.\n\nAppointments are typically 15 minutes\, though longer appointment times may be available depending on Heather's availability.\n\nTo make the most of your appointment time\, please come prepared with one or two questions you would like to discuss. You are also welcome to bring a budget or other financial information you would like to review. Appointments are brief\, so arriving prepared will help you maximize your time and get the guidance you are looking for.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding registration and booking your appointment\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu. UID:150110-21908024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150110 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rgs Events,Rgs-events,Sessions LOCATION:West Council Room, 2nd Floor (West Side) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T164018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Strength-focused suicide prevention: Building evidence for innovation in partnership with Indigenous communities DESCRIPTION:Suicide is an extreme act\, not a mental health disorder\, which disproportionately impacts marginalized groups. In the U.S.\, most prevention focuses mainly on psychological distress\, ignoring the patterns that emerge when considering the larger context of that tragic action. For Alaskan Native (AN) communities\, youth suicide is a striking health inequity that arose within the past century\, as colonization interrupted protective cultural resources and practices that shaped young people’s lives. Informed by decades of work with AN people\, the presentation features studies from the Research to Practice Lab at ISR’s Research Center for Group Dynamics that illustrate a broader scope of suicide prevention interventions. These projects focus on family and community strengths\, build onto local resources\, and share evidence-based research and practices that participants can use on their own terms to reduce suicide risk and promote wellbeing. Highlighting innovation in both focus and outcome measurement\, the interactive talk aims to generate questions\, dialogue and ideas for addressing the complex issue of suicide. UID:148107-21902963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Science LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260902T121719 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us to enjoy a 30-minute organ recital.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting.\n\n*There is no recital on November 26.* UID:151391-21911481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151391 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T112612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Econometrics Seminar: Thursday\, November 12 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:151824-21912232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Econometrics,Economics,Metrics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260825T134040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Graduate Student Arts Research Grant - Info Session and Q&A (Winter Cycle) DESCRIPTION:Thinking about applying for the Graduate Student Arts Research Grant (GSARG)? Join the University of Michigan Arts Initiative for a virtual open house to learn more about this funding opportunity for graduate student-led arts research across U-M.\n\nGSARG provides grants of up to $3\,000 to support graduate student-led research projects that incorporate artistic practices\, methods\, or approaches. Open to graduate students across the university\, the program supports innovative and interdisciplinary research that integrates the arts into scholarship and inquiry. Learn more here: https://arts.umich.edu/gsarg\n\nDuring this informal session\, we’ll introduce the grant program\, discuss eligibility and the application process\, share practical tips for developing a competitive proposal\, and highlight the kinds of projects GSARG is designed to support. You’ll also have plenty of time to ask questions directly to Arts Initiative staff.\n\nApplication deadline: Friday\, January 22\, 2027 UID:150892-21910383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150892 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts Initiative,Funding Opportunities,Graduate Student LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MADS Application Tips Webinar DESCRIPTION:We want you to have all the information you need to make informed decisions about your education and your future.\nMADS Admissions & Recruitment coordinator Kelly Barger leads an application tips webinar with a live Q&A. Attendees will hear about the MADS program\, the skills-based admission process\, what's required as part of the application\, and how the placement process works. Please join us to get your questions answered\, and benefit from the curiosity of like-minded peers! UID:144393-21907916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T192152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Disability Awareness & Inclusion\, Part 2 DESCRIPTION:This guide expands the Part 1 Disability Awareness and Inclusion training into practical learning content. Participants will explore digital accessibility\, physical accessibility\, effective communication\, and strategies to challenge ableist language and actions. The workshop will also include discussion sections where participants can reflect\, ask questions\, and apply concepts to real-world scenarios.\n\nLearning Objectives:\n-Apply core digital accessibility best practices to documents\, slides\, websites\, media\, and meetings.\n-Recognize practical physical accessibility standards and inclusive space-planning choices.\n-Use effective communication practices that support multiple ways of receiving and sharing information.\n-Challenge ableist language\, microaggressions\, and inaccessible defaults with concrete scripts\n-Navigate current Disability Equity Office services\, resources\, and request pathways. \n\nParticipants are strongly encouraged to complete Part 1 prior to engaging in this session. Part 1 will take place on November 5. Register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1hhcnO5XRo-AQ-Y87LqMpg#/registration\n\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning services will be provided. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this webinar\, please email the ADA Coordinator at ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:150523-21909559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Accommodations,Communication,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T200248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Development Seminar: Thursday\, November 12 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:152050-21912767@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152050 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260827T145348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accessible Canvas Pages and Quizzes DESCRIPTION:Learn practical ways to make your Canvas course content\, such as pages and quizzes\, accessible for all learners. We'll explore strategies to create accessible Canvas content\, and demonstrate how to use tools such as Panorama to make your content accessible. Zoom meeting will include automatic captions.\n\n10/13 Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/lgqGuy4hQoqUzBN2ah1R2w#/registration\n\n11/12 Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/lgqGuy4hQoqUzBN2ah1R2w#/registration UID:151029-21910746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151029 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,access,accessibility,assistive technology,Digital Accessibility LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260910T134907 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and refreshments in a beautiful\, book-filled space. Check out a book from the Hopwood library or engage with other readers and writers. All are welcome. UID:148903-21905163@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260904T130152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Search Workshop DESCRIPTION:Internship or Job Search\n\nWhether you have applied to internships or jobs before or are just getting started\, this workshop is helpful in determining the preparation\, search\, and application process of locating an internship or job.\n\n \n\nThis workshop typically addresses questions like:\n\nHow can you prepare before the search? (identifying goals\, values\, must-haves)\n\nWhere can you search for opportunities? (U-M affiliated sites and beyond)\n\nWhat application material may be required? (résumé /CV/cover letters)\n\nHow can the Hub assist you with these materials?\n\nNote: For those attending in-person as part of this hybrid workshop\, seating is first come first served. We anticipate a full room\, so please plan accordingly. \n\n \n\nThe 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 which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor as well\, and places to sit or stand during the event. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements. UID:151597-21911805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Career,Internship,Lsa Opportunity Hub LOCATION:LSA Building - Hub Space First Floor Room 1250 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T134254 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM- Exploring Your Career Possibilities DESCRIPTION:Join UM WISE and our partners from the Science Learning Center and Newnan Pre-Health Advising for this career-oriented part of the Thriving in STEM series. Come for a workshop designed to help you turn your skills\, interests\, and values into a career. You'll learn to identify fields and roles that are right for you and walk away with three potential post-grad job options. UID:151010-21910716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151010 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Newnan Lsa Academic Advising Center,science learning center,Sessions,Undergraduate Students,Women In Science And Engineering LOCATION:WISE Office- 3236 Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T145538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Battery SoX Intelligence: Millivolts Unlocking Gigawatt-hours DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nScaling grid storage with repurposed EV batteries requires precise degradation tracking. For LFP\, a flat open-circuit voltage curve obscures cell aging. This presentation demonstrates how monitoring millivolt-level behaviors extracts gigawatt-hours of latent capacity. By combining physics-informed models with electrochemical state estimation\, we resolve LFP and graphite phase-transitions. Operational data shows how these voltage signatures drive predictive aging forecasts and anomaly detection\, unlocking safe operation beyond industry-standard warranties. \n\nBiography:\nDr. Kandler Smith is Technical Fellow for Energy Storage Modeling at Moment Energy\, a second-use battery energy storage company. He previously worked for 19 years at U.S. DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory as Team Lead for Electrochemical Modeling & Data Sciences\, developing multi-physics models of battery performance\, lifetime\, safety and technoeconomics. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Penn State University (2006) where his research focused on electrochemical modeling\, estimation and control of lithium-ion batteries.\n\nFor the most up to date information on the location\, please check the related link the week of this event UID:147951-21902586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAEN,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Law,Materials Science,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,North Campus,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Science,seminar,Social Sciences,Sustainability LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - FXB1012 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251028T082420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:141176-21888406@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152157 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T164500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Arts Initiative Graduate Student Arts Research Opportunities - Info Session and Q&A DESCRIPTION:Sign up here for one of our info sessions about grad student arts research opportunities UID:150231-21908429@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150231 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260821T133337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Tribute: The 1963 March on Washington and the Gendered Politics of Freedom DESCRIPTION:The 1963 March on Washington has become the standard bearer in American public memory for non-violent\, political demonstration. With Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” as one of the most recognizable moments of the event\, the depth and the nuance of the March on Washington and the movement that shaped has rarely surfaced among and academic and popular discourse. With attention to widening the frame in which to analyze the 1963 March on Washington\, historian Marcia Chatelain offers a new reading of the March from the vantage point of the gender dynamics that undoubtedly shaped it.\n\nMarcia Chatelain is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African-American life and culture\, Dr. Chatelain has taught at the University of Oklahoma and Georgetown University. She is the author of three books: South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America\, and How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. Dr. Chatelain has received awards for her writing and teaching\, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n\nThis 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. UID:150722-21910003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Women's Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260824T100734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Water@Michigan Coffee Talk: Blue Economy: Building Michigan’s Next Economic Engine DESCRIPTION:Michigan’s freshwater resources are more than an environmental asset—they are an economic opportunity. This panel will explore the emerging Blue Economy and the growing efforts across Michigan to harness the Great Lakes as a catalyst for innovation\, entrepreneurship\, research\, talent development\, and economic growth.\nMelissa Zaksek\, Dr. Britany Affolter-Caine\, and Matt McDonough bring complementary perspectives from sustainable business\, Michigan’s leading research universities\, and the growing freshwater innovation ecosystem. The conversation will examine how universities\, businesses\, entrepreneurs\, nonprofits\, and communities can work together to translate Michigan’s research and freshwater advantages into new companies\, technologies\, jobs\, and investment.\n\nPanelists will discuss the infrastructure and partnerships needed to support a thriving Blue Economy\, the role of universities in driving innovation and talent\, and opportunities to better connect research with industry and economic development. The discussion will also consider how Michigan can position itself as a national and global leader in freshwater innovation while ensuring that economic development and environmental stewardship advance together.\n\nThe session will highlight emerging initiatives\, including RU4M’s Livable Futures Initiative and the Freshwater Research & Innovation Center\, and explore what it will take to move Michigan from recognizing the economic potential of its freshwater resources to fully realizing it.\n\nModerator: Melissa Zaksek\, Managing Director\, Erb Institute\n\nPanelists: Matt McDonough\, CEO\, Discovery Pier and Board Member for Freshwater Research & Innovation Center and Britany Affolter-Caine\, Executive Director\, Research Universities for Michigan\n\nAbout Coffee Talks: Coffee Talks provide a monthly opportunity for U-M faculty\, staff\, and students interested in water\, and water-interested people in southeast Michigan to connect with colleagues\, learn about pressing and/or emerging water-related issues\, and meet new partners.\n\nThis academic year\, we are excited to Envision Resilient Great Lakes Futures—examining the future opportunities\, challenges\, and innovations shaping the region's water resources\, communities\, and ecosystems.\n\nCoffee Talks are in-person convenings designed to build connections as part of the U-M Water Center's mission and programs\; we are not recording sessions at this time. \n\nYou can register here: https://graham.umich.edu/wateratmichigan/coffee-talks UID:150767-21910146@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Blue Economy,Economic Development,erb institute,freshwater,great lakes,Industry,Research,Water LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152118 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CPR/AED/First Aid Certification DESCRIPTION:The American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid blended learning course will help prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults\, children and infants as well as prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aid emergencies. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate for CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid valid for two years.\nThis is a blended learning course that requires roughly 4 hours of online work prior to the first day of the course.\n**There is no fee for current Michigan Recreation employees. The fee for community members\, faculty\, staff\, or students who are not employed by the Michigan Recreation Dept. is $90. You can use the link here to complete payment.** UID:102122-21911995@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Conference Rooms A & B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Hussey Room (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T154226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Make Space DESCRIPTION:Life moves fast. Make Space is an invitation to slow down\, reconnect\, and spend time outside. Each week brings a different experience centered on creativity\, nature\, restoration\, and community. Try nature journaling\, art\, mindful movement\, or another hands-on outdoor activity while making room to pause and recharge. No previous experience required. UID:151137-21910960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151137 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Mindfulness,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Well-being LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building - Adventure Leadership Outpost CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260821T154602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Voices of Dissent DESCRIPTION:\n\nDirected by Anthony Arnove\, Voices of Dissent combines dramatic readings with live musical performances to bring the words of ordinary people throughout U.S. history to life. The performance features acclaimed actor David Strathairn\, an Academy Award nominee for his portrayal of Edward R. Murrow in Good Night\, and Good Luck. and an Emmy Award winner for Temple Grandin\; acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer\, an Oscar and Grammy-nominated artist known for her Americana songwriting and powerful storytelling\; and Thornetta Davis\, the award-winning Detroit vocalist known as the \"Queen of Detroit Blues.\" Drawing from letters\, diaries\, speeches\, and songs\, Voices of Dissent includes accounts from Ann Arbor\, the University of Michigan\, and across the state. Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Inclusive History Project\, the production incorporates archival materials and local histories from the University’s archives at Bentley Historical Library and the Labadie Collection that illuminate the experiences of people who have fought for justice\, equality\, and freedom. \n\nInspired by the work of historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010)\, the production is based on A People’s History of the United States\, which has sold more than five million copies\, and Voices of a People’s History of the United States\, co-edited by Zinn and Arnove. By connecting these powerful historical voices to the present day\, Voices of Dissent reminds audiences that the struggle for justice is ongoing and that democracy depends on the participation of everyday people.\n\nAnthony Arnove is the editor of several books\, including Voices of a People’s History of the United States\, which he co-edited with Howard Zinn\, and Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century\, which he co-edited with Haley Pessin. He also wrote the introduction to the 35th anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States. Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States\; co-wrote\, co-directed\, and co-produced the documentary The People Speak\; and has directed stage and television versions of The People Speak in Dublin with Stephen Rea\, in London with Colin Firth\, and across the United States with various arts groups\, including Lincoln Center\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and the Sundance Film Festival. He also produced the Academy Award–nominated documentary Dirty Wars.\n\nIn partnership with the Inclusive History Project\, with and support from the U-M Ford School of Public Policy\, U.S. at 250 and the U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment. \n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n UID:150485-21909508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American History,Art,Dissent,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T110815 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading\, Q&A\, and Book Signing with Tony Tulathimutte DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26\n\nZell 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.\n\nTony Tulathimutte is the author of *Private Citizens* and *Rejection*. A graduate of Stanford University's Symbolic Systems program\, he took creative writing classes with Adam Johnson\, ZZ Packer\, and Elizabeth Tallent. After graduating\, he published a handful of stories\, one of which won an O. Henry Award\, as he worked for a small Bay Area UX firm. He got accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop the same week he was laid off in 2010. \n\nAt Iowa he finished most of a draft of his debut novel *Private Citizens*\, which was called \"the first great Millennial novel\" by *New York Magazine* after its publication in 2016\, and received a Whiting Writers' Award. In 2017 he founded CRIT\, an independent class he teaches out of his apartment in Brooklyn\, whose alumni have gone on to publish 34 books to date. He has written for *The Paris Review\, N+1\, The New York Times\, The New Republic\, The Believer\, Playboy\, The Nation\,* and others. \n\nTony's second book is a novel-in-stories\, *Rejection*\, published in 2024. *Rejection* has been translated into seven languages\, and was nominated for the National Book Award\, the Story Prize\, and the Clark Prize\, and received a Jack Galef Literary Arts award. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@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 zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-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). \nFor Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor). All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:150547-21909586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,book discussion,book event,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Lecture,literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Rackham,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA,Undergraduate,Writing,zell visiting writers series LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T163613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Marching with the First Female Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy DESCRIPTION:Just over fifty years ago\, a groundbreaking moment changed the course of history. On\nOctober 7\, 1975\, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106\, opening enrollment\nto women at all US service academies.\n\nHear how that moment impacted Kathleen Kornahrens and her fellow graduates\, as she relays her experience as a member of the first class to include women at the US Air Force Academy\, over half a century later. She will be joined by her classmate Colonel Gail Colvin\, USAF (Ret.) to examine the legacy of President Ford’s signature.\n\nFollowing the talk there will be a sale and signing of Kornharen’s book\, \"“Bring Me Men…”\nBrought Women: Marching with the First Female Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy\". UID:152031-21912748@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American History,American Story,Author Talk,Us Air Force LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T120114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session DESCRIPTION:\"Ninpo is the essence of goshinjutsu (self-protection).\"\n \nDuring the Fall 2026 semester\, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Thursdays from 19:00 - 21:00 (7-9pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class\, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com. Beginners welcome\; we train with people across all levels of experience!\n \n- Learn self defense and physical coordination through Bujinkan taijiutsu (unarmed combat)\;\n- Training at the Michigan Bujinkan Dojo is supportive and non-competitive\, emphasizing relaxed but spirited and disciplined practice\;\n- Receive mentoring through the senpai/kohai (senior/junior) relationships fostered in the dojo.\n \nWhat to bring: comfortable workout clothes\, socks\, and a water bottle!\n-----\nFor more information\, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website (www.michiganbujinkan.com)\, which also includes a training schedule! UID:149832-21907239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149832 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T101439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T203000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Movie Nights at The Connector DESCRIPTION:Wanna watch a movie and eat free popcorn? Join the Connector Community Assistants and watch a new movie or a classic while meeting new or familiar faces! Settle-in for a cozy night with us every Thursday as we enter into comfy Fall weather. \n\nThe Connector is located in West Quad. UID:150143-21908233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T181718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:BFA Dance Concerts DESCRIPTION:Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance majors present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Free tickets will be available in advance of the performance. UID:148682-21904598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Dance,Free,North Campus LOCATION:Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T152155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T213000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FYRST Workshops 2026 - 2027 DESCRIPTION:If you are only seeing one workshop\, please SIGN-IN and refresh the Sessions page! If still having issues\, click this link. \nFirst-Year Relationship and Sexuality Talk (FYRST) is a required\, in-person\, and peer-facilitated workshop that came directly from feedback and listening sessions with current University of Michigan students. Our goal is to create an accessible\, supportive space for student-driven conversations where all identities and experiences are welcomed and in which students can build skills and tools around identifying goals and values and then communicate effectively about those. Workshops will be offered at multiple locations and times throughout the fall semester\, so please sign up for the workshop that works for you!! First-Year Relationship Sexuality Talk (FYRST) FAQ:\n“How many workshops do I have to sign up for?”\nYou only need to sign up for 1 workshop. Attending 1 workshop will fulfill the requirement for the training. \n“I see that there is more than one session\, does it matter which one I sign up for?”\nIt generally does not matter which workshop you sign up for. There will be a few that are designated for specific groups such as transfer students or for students looking for accommodations. If you do not fit these groups please try to save these workshops for those that do and you are free to choose among any of the other workshops. \n“Is this workshop required?”\nThis workshop is required for all transfer and first-year students at the University of Michigan.\n“I’ve experienced harm around relationships or sexual experiences in the past and I am worried that attending this workshop may be harmful for me.” \nOur team is aware that students who are coming into the university that have experienced harm in the past. Our workshop is specifically designed to respect and validate the experiences of survivors and has been carefully constructed to avoid any specific descriptions of violence and focus instead on themes of empowerment\, communication\, and boundary setting. However\, if you still have concerns about programming and would like to request alternative programming\, please feel free to reach out at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“What if I struggle to learn in a presentation setting? I’m an active learner.”\nOur workshop is built to meet a variety of learning styles\, including time for self-reflection\, small group sharing\, and resources to take with you to work through on your own time! This workshop is meant to be interactive and inclusive. \n“Can I request accommodations?”\nWe considered accessibility in creating this workshop and selecting the locations in which the workshops are help. However\, we recognize many places at the University are inaccessible and we've set an * next to workshops that are on the first floor and lack stairs. These workshops also will have a presentation (other workshops we do not) and are a good fit for those who might need a large font. Please sign up for those if you feel that accommodations would assist you and reach out to SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu if you are concerned or have questions. \n“I missed my workshop\, what should I do ?”\nOur team tracks attendance at each workshop by having participants swipe in with their MCard. If you are not able to attend the workshop you signed up for\, our team will continue to send reminder emails until you have completed a workshop. In this case\, please sign up for another workshop as soon as you can as the workshop is required and may fill up especially near the end of the semester. No need to contact SAPAC unless you are not able to reschedule. \n“I have had gender-based violence training before\, can I get this requirement waived?”\nAs this workshop was designed with University of Michigan student feedback in mind\, our workshop is unique to the UM community. Our curriculum focuses on individualized reflection and because of its interactive nature\, each workshop will be unique to the people attending. Although we are excited you already have familiarity with the subject\, this workshop is required for every first year and transfer student. \n“I’m a commuter/non-traditional student\, do I still have to attend?\"\nYes\, this workshop is required for every first-year and transfer student - not only do we want every student to benefit from having this time to connect with peers\, but we also want to make sure your peers benefit from what you bring to our community. If you have any concerns or questions about being able to participate\, please contact SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu.\n“I still have questions! Who should I contact?\"\nPlease contact us at SAPAC-FYRST@umich.edu. UID:149176-21906316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Hussey (League, 2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260609T181651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Oboe Studio Recital DESCRIPTION:Students from the studio of Professor Nancy Ambrose King perform a recital. UID:148722-21904664@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T121555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Great Lake Swimmers DESCRIPTION:Artist presale 6/18 10am\nPublic on sale 6/19 10am\n\n“A stunning variety of tones and textures… nothing less than both cerebral and sublime” –American Songwriter \n\nFeaturing a blend of acoustic instruments\, rural soundscapes\, and wistful vocals\, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group led by Tony Dekker. Based in Southern Ontario\, the group emerged in the early 2000s with a succession of heavily atmospheric albums recorded in old silos and rural country churches. The music developed in that pastoral warmth\, performed and recorded in acoustically resonant and historical locales with a revolving cast of personnel. They are renowned for homespun folk and lush\, intimate Americana in their live shows. \n\nTheir newest album\, Caught Light\, released in October 2025\, is their most immediate and instinctive album to date. Recorded in just five days in Ontario’s Ganaraska Forest with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo)\, it draws warmth from early ’70s folk-pop while embracing a new spontaneity and directness in Dekker’s songwriting. \n\nGreat Lake Swimmers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and nominated twice for Canada’s Juno Awards\, with the CBC calling them “a national treasure.” UID:148959-21905250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148959 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR