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Events
Mar
17
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
17
Multi
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
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
Mar
17
Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon
6:00 PM
Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center). Ann Arbor
Duderstadt Center
Mar
19
ASC Winter 2026 UMAPS Research Colloquium Series: Innovations and Methods for Advancing Health and Reproductive Justice in Africa
Tata Coulibaly, Kassim Tawiah, Brigitte Irankunda
12:00 PM
1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
19
When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars
Kai M. Thaler, University of California Santa Barbara (speaker), Justine Davis, University of Michigan (respondent)
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
(for II staff and faculty; requires SSO login)
