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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, October 19, 2023
  • 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.

Making Michigan

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

  • Thursday, September 14, 2023
  • 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 II: Stories of Fire, Ice, and Rebirth

  • Thursday, June 8, 2023
  • 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.

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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