Arts & Culture
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December 7, 2015
Don’t Miss: Researcher of alien planets presents Smith Lecture
Shawn Domagal-Goldman, researcher with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will deliver the Smith Lecture, “Is the Universe a Lonely Place? A Plan to Survey our Stellar Neighborhood for Signs of Life.” It is scheduled for 3:30-4:30 p.m. Friday in Room 1528 in the Clarence Cook Little Building.
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December 2, 2015
Film producer, marketer Ira Deutchman donates archive to U-M
Ira Deutchman, who has been making, marketing and distributing films since 1975, will donate his entire archive to the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.
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December 1, 2015
Top strings program for young musicians moves to U-M
The School of Music, Theatre & Dance will be the new home of Center Stage Strings, one of the country’s leading summer training programs for young string musicians.
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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.
