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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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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Friday, April 8, 2022

Making Michigan

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

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

Friday, April 8, 2022

Making Michigan

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

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

Friday, April 8, 2022

Making Michigan

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

  • 2:00 – 3:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Friday, April 8, 2022

Making Michigan

Seeing Anew Symposium 1: The Observatory and 19th-Century Science and Scholarship

  • 12:00 – 1:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Making Michigan

The McCarthy-Era Red Scare in Michigan: Its Meaning, Then and Now with David Maraniss

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A postcard depicting Angell Hall and the Burton Memorial Tower.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Making Michigan

Sing to the Colors: My Complicated Love Song to the University with James Tobin

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