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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.

Making Michigan

Poets at Michigan: Then and Now

  • Thursday, May 25, 2023
  • 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.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, March 9, 2023
  • 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.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, February 2, 2023
  • 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.

Making Michigan

Fifty Years of Native American Student Activism with Bethany Hughes

  • Thursday, January 19, 2023
  • 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.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, October 13, 2022
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, September 29, 2022
  • 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.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, June 30, 2022
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Making Michigan

Seeing Anew Keynote: Astrophysicist Brian Nord in conversation with Gary Krenz

  • Friday, April 8, 2022
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Making Michigan

Seeing Anew Symposium 3: The Observatory as an Historic Site for Contemporary Education

  • Friday, April 8, 2022
  • 3:30 – 5:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Making Michigan

Seeing Anew Symposium 2: The Observatory in the History of Astronomy

  • Friday, April 8, 2022
  • 2:00 – 3:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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