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Events
Mar
14
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CAS Exhibit. Հմայարան / Hmayaran by Levon Kafafian (Detroit-based Artist)
International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall from March 12-30, 2026; Exhibit Opening: March 12, 2026
8:00 AM
International Institute Gallery, Room 547
Weiser Hall
Mar
14
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
Mar
14
CREES Co-sponsored Event. TedXUofM 2026
Baktygul Chynybaeva, First-year student in the Masters in Regional Studies - Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies specialization, and CREES Alumni Klementina Sula, MA Public Policy 2011
3:00 PM
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Mar
16
ASC Winter 2026 UMAPS Research Colloquium Series: Materials, Resources, and the Just Energy Transition in Africa
Yetunde Ajayeoba, Bahati Kayaga, Janet Munakamwe
12:00 PM
1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
16
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights and LGBTQ Love: Art and Fiction as Resistance
4:00 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
17
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Globalizing Chinese Theatre: Chinese Dramatists and Transnational Media Ecologies
Sophia Tingting Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
(for II staff and faculty; requires SSO login)
