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Events
Sep
14
Multi
Art Exhibition. "Between Voice and Silence"
Artists: Ira Bondarenko (ceramics), University of Michigan; Katya Lisova (textiles) and Matvii Vaisberg (prints), Ukrainian Union of Artists BZH-ART
12:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Duderstadt Center
Sep
14
Between Voice and Silence Opening Reception
Artists: Ira Bondarenko, University of Michigan; Katya Lisova and Matvii Vaisberg, Ukrainian Union of Artists BZH-ART
3:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Duderstadt Center
Sep
15
ASC Webinar. UMAPS 2025-2026 Application Info Session
Omolade Adunbi, African Studies Center Director and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
9:00 AM
Virtual
Sep
17
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Labor of Love: The Poor First Son of Bitches
Hanan Hammad, University of Houston
2:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Sep
18
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan
Christine R. Yano, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Hawaii; President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
19
Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz , Assistant Professor of History
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall