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Events
Feb
04
Multi
CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
10th Floor Gallery, Weiser Hall from February 2 to April 30, 2026
8:00 AM
Feb
04
Multi
LACS Exhibition. Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador
February 2-26, 2026 | International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall
8:30 AM
International Institute Gallery, Room 547
Weiser Hall
Feb
04
Dancing with the Dragon | Meet the Artist | Rewriting Power: Zhen Guo's Journey to Feminist Art
Zhen Guo, Artist in Residence, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
4:00 PM
Room 2239
Lane Hall
Feb
05
CAS Workshop. Photographic Genres, in and Beyond Archives
Organizer: Hazal Özdemir (Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History, U-M)
9:30 AM
1010
Weiser Hall
Feb
05
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Feb
05
Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Immigration Policy and Lived Experience: Perspectives on the First Year of Trump 2.0
4:30 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
(for II staff and faculty; requires SSO login)
