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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Making Michigan

More Than “First Do No Harm”: Modeling Global Engagement with the U-M/Ghana Partnership

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Josephine Gomon talking on a telephone with a pile of packages in front of her.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Making Michigan

A City’s Conscience: The Life and Career of Josephine Gomon

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A yellow typewriter superimposed over a map of the U-M campus.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Making Michigan

Wolverine Writers II: Stories of Fire, Ice, and Rebirth

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Robert Frost is one of America’s most beloved poets, and in the 1920s he spent several years teaching at the University of Michigan.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Making Michigan

Poets at Michigan: Then and Now

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A row of shelved law books in a library.

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Making Michigan

A Library for All: U-M, Google, and the Importance of Having a Copy

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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H. Chandler Davis as a young U-M faculty member.

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Making Michigan

Keeping Resistance Alive: Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at U-M

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Native American U-M students play a drum during a protest against Columbus Day.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Making Michigan

Fifty Years of Native American Student Activism with Bethany Hughes

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Two American colonial officials sitting with a group of Ifugao men in the Philppines.

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Making Michigan

A Difficult Archive: Reckoning with U-M’s Complicity in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines with Deirdre de la Cruz

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Making Michigan

To Put Living Force Into the Symbols: The Journeys of Anatol Rapaport

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A yellow typewriter superimposed over a map of the U-M campus.

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Making Michigan

Wolverine Writers: History and Storytelling Across Campus and through the Years

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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