Calendar of Events

The 2024-25 Jepson Leadership Forum invites scholars and experts to discuss how division and polarization affect American democracy. We will explore how and why divisions have manifested historically and currently in the United States, focusing on their impact on justice, education, politics, culture, technology, and class. 

The Office of Scholars and Fellowships will hold drop-in hours for Gilman Scholarship applicants. Whether you're just starting your application or fine tuning, our advisors can offer feedback, guidance, and support. No sign-up, just drop in! 

The Anzû Quartet is a new collaboration between four internationally renowned performers of contemporary music, Ken Thomson (clarinet/Bang on a Can), Olivia De Prato (violin/Mivos Quartet), Ashley Bathgate (cello/Eighth Blackbird), and Karl Larson (piano/Bearthoven).

The Humanities Center presents the Language of Man Syllabus. Please join us for a Discussion of Audre Lorde’s “Of Survival and Generators” with Alexis Pauline-Gumbs. This event will take place in the Humanities Commons on March 6th from noon to 1:30PM. 

If you’ve been thinking about completing a bachelor’s degree or earning a post-bachelor’s degree or certificate, join us for our Online Information Session.

We are excited to announce our Annual Staff Service Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 6th, 2025 at 2 p.m. in the Modlin Center Camp Concert Hall followed by a reception in Booth Lobby! We hope you will join us as we recognize the hard work of those staff who have achieved 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 consecutive years of service in 2024.

The Office of Scholars and Fellowships will hold drop-in hours for Gilman Scholarship applicants. Whether you're just starting your application or fine tuning, our advisors can offer feedback, guidance, and support. No sign-up, just drop in! 

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of the poetic trilogy of Black feminist study Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M. Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony, as well as the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Life and the forthcoming Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and the editor...

Join the SPCS Student Government Association for its regularly scheduled meeting. The session will be online via Zoom, and all current students are invited to attend to learn more about SGA, SPCS and getting involved. To join, be sure to log into your UR Zoom account using your netID and password. Zoom meeting link

Lecture by Geoff Emberling, associate research scientist at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, presents “Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaborative Future: A Community Project in El-Kurru, Northern Sudan.”