Arts & Culture
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November 23, 2015
Don’t Miss: Matthaei holiday exhibits celebrate contributions of plants
“The Gift of Nature — 10 Plants that Changed the World” is a new holiday exhibit at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens. It features select plants in the conservatory that reveal the many ways plants benefit our lives.
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November 16, 2015
Don’t Miss: Author explores issues of racial identities, solidarities
Deepa Iyer, author of “We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future,” explores issues of racial identities and solidarities as the demographics in America quickly change.
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November 9, 2015
Don’t Miss: ‘Stories of Mothers Lost’ exhibit in Lane Hall
Every minute of every day, a woman dies of pregnancy related complications. “Stories of Mothers Lost” is an exhibit of handmade quilts that honors and remembers them.
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November 2, 2015
Don’t Miss: Photo exhibit celebrates people of Iran
In May 2015, Sally Bjork, photographer at the U-M Department of the History of Art’s Visual Resources Collections, joined a 16-day tour through Iran with the support of the Department’s Freer Fund. Bjork’s images are celebrated in the exhibit “This, too, is Iran.”
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October 21, 2015
Students engage with the American South as they live the blues
Students in an interdisciplinary course on American roots music traveled throughout the South last spring, experiencing the sights, sounds and locales that form America’s blues heritage.
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October 19, 2015
Don’t Miss: Event explores role of Soviet Jewish combatants in WWII
They were not what one might consider to be typical Holocaust victims. Soviet Jewish soldiers had experienced Nazism first-hand. They were determined to fight. Their story of perseverance will be explored through events organized by the University of Michigan’s Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. They begin with a symposium from 1:30-5 p.m.… -
October 14, 2015
Global M-Prize music competition will award $100,000 grand prize
U-M has announced M-Prize, a new international chamber music competition that will present a grand prize of $100,000 — the largest award of any competition of its kind.
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October 12, 2015
Don’t Miss: ‘Orange is the New Black’ author speaks at Rackham
Piper Kerman, whose book “Orange is the New Black, My Year in a Women’s Prison” sparked a popular Netflix series, presents the Vivian R. Shaw Lecture at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday at Rackham Auditorium.
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October 5, 2015
Don’t Miss: ‘Global Heritage At Risk’ series opens at Kelsey Museum
Terrorism. Looting. Political factionalism and more. The oasis city of Palmyra in Syria is pictured in 2011. The city was captured bu ISIS in May 2015. (Photo by Geoff Emberling) The news is full of threats to heritage sites and museums around the globe. In the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program Fall 2015 Lecture… -
September 29, 2015
Department of Theatre & Drama celebrating its centennial
The Department of Theatre & Drama celebrates its centennial this year along with the 100th anniversary of the birth of distinguished playwright and U-M alumnus Arthur Miller.
