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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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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Making Michigan

Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX with Sara Fitzgerald

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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U-M and UC Berkeley football players in the 1951 Rose Bowl.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Making Michigan

Michigan Football Game Films, 1930-1986: Digitizing Game-Day History with Brian Williams and Greg Kinney

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Graduate student Kathleen Shortridge pointing to a poster with numbers of female and minority student enrolled at U-M in 1974.

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Making Michigan

Undermining Racial Justice at the University of Michigan with Matthew Johnson

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

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Making Michigan

Pathways to Greatness: How the University of Michigan Became a World-Class University…and What it Cost with Terry McDonald

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