Institute for the Humanities

Worlds Within: Exploring the Intersection of the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine A lecture-discussion exploring how humanities and medicine inform, fuse with, and co-create each other, featuring writer and U-M alumnus Dusting Cummings, MD.

An Evening with Aneesa Strings Storytelling through jazzy-soulful melodies that mesh classical influences, R&B, and heartfelt lyrics, March 17.

Angkorian Homecoming Informed by her experience as a refugee, artist Phung Huynh’s exhibition explores the complexities of displacement, assimilation, and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States. March 20 - May 2 in our gallery.

Scholars in Exile Our new program Scholars in Exile will provide a one-year residency with the institute at U-M Ann Arbor to a scholar focused on humanities research who is living in exile due to war or persecution as the result of their academic work and/or civic engagement.

On The World With The World A pop-up exhibition featuring the work of over 24 artists from Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) in Detroit, on view in the Osterman Common Room from Feb 1 - 28.

Chimera Rashaad Newsome's exhibition "Chimera" reflects a bold shift in his practice toward sci-fi filmmaking, layering the architecture of film, movement, and world-building to probe themes of identity, resistance, and creation. Jan 16 - Feb 28 in the gallery.

E-News for Humanities Students Through this montly newsletter, we aim to inform students of all things humanities happening on campus – from event announcements and fun facts to academic resources and professional opportunities. Click to read the latest issue!

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Samantha Adams and Water Shaping African American Life and Literature Beyond the Atlantic Ocean

As a PhD candidate in English and Women’s & Gender Studies, Adams focuses on how bodies of water are central figures in shaping Black subjectivity.

New Program Supports Scholars in Exile

“In partnering with Academy in Exile, the Institute for the Humanities affirms its commitment to academic freedom, excellence in research, and global justice."

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Land Acknowledgement

The University of Michigan is located on the territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan, ceded in the Treaty of Fort Meigs, so that their children could be educated. We acknowledge the history of native displacement that allowed the University of Michigan to be founded. Today we reaffirm contemporary and ancestral Anishinaabek ties to the land and their profound contributions to this institution.

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