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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Making Michigan

The Lost Campus: The University of Michigan’s Vanished but not Forgotten Spaces

  • 6:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person & Virtual
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Staff from the Bentley Historical Library and a group of Chinese archivists in Nanking, China.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Making Michigan

Archiving the World: The Bentley Library and U-M’s International Aspirations

  • 6:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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