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Best Used By Narsiso Martinez’s exhibition "Best Used By" draws upon his experience as a farmworker and honors the people performing the essential labor required to fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country. In the Gallery Nov. 13 - Dec 19.

Translating the Frontier: Just War and Free Circulation on the Roads of Colonial Mexico As part of our Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close series, 2025-26 2025-26 John Rich Faculty Fellow Daniel Nemser will discuss a part of his current project in a short talk followed by Q & A. Jan. 27 at 12:30pm

The Year in Review From poetry, banned books, and small-town America to medieval Europe, digital memories and sculptural boots, 2024-25 was a year of questioning, exploring, and understanding. Read all about it in our Annual Report.

E-News for Humanities Students Through this montly newsletter, we aim to inform students of all things humanities happening on campus – from event announcements and fun facts to academic resources and professional opportunities. Click to read the latest issue!

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An evening of storytelling, memory, and hands-on oral history for ROTC students

"Cadets reflected afterward that this was their first exposure to oral history and that it opened their eyes to how they might preserve their own family or unit’s stories in the future."

Storytelling event blends a festive, spooky atmosphere with thoughtful opportunities for reflection

"The opening performances set a tone of honesty and introspection that encouraged the audience to consider how the stories we tell, and maybe, in particular, the ones we hesitate to tell, reveal who we are."

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Land Acknowledgement

The University of Michigan is located on the territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan, ceded in the Treaty of Fort Meigs, so that their children could be educated. We acknowledge the history of native displacement that allowed the University of Michigan to be founded. Today we reaffirm contemporary and ancestral Anishinaabek ties to the land and their profound contributions to this institution.

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