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Hearth Summit Detroit is grounded in the city’s creativity, resilience, and collective spirit and is designed to bring together 200 social entrepreneurs, educators, artists, funders, mental health and holistic practitioners, and more working toward a more just and equitable society. The summit aims to deepen reflection across individual, collective, and ecological wellbeing while centering art as a shared language of healing and connection. To express your interest in attending visit www.hearthsummitdetroit.com/interest. Up to full scholarships are available for anyone in need.

Hearth Summit Detroit is grounded in the city’s creativity, resilience, and collective spirit and is designed to bring together 200 social entrepreneurs, educators, artists, funders, mental health and holistic practitioners, and more working toward a more just and equitable society. The summit aims to deepen reflection across individual, collective, and ecological wellbeing while centering art as a shared language of healing and connection. To express your interest in attending visit www.hearthsummitdetroit.com/interest. Up to full scholarships are available for anyone in need.

Join us at the 4th Global Congress on Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health & Psychiatric Research (GABP 2026), a Hybrid Event taking place on October 15–16, 2026, in Paris, France. Centered on the theme "From Brain to Behaviour: Advancing Integrated Care in Addiction and Mental Health,” this global forum brings together leading experts to discuss the latest developments in behavioral health, psychiatric research, and addiction treatment. Designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals, the conference provides a timely platform for sharing insights, innovative approaches, and impactful clinical findings.

Join us at the 4th Global Congress on Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health & Psychiatric Research (GABP 2026), a Hybrid Event taking place on October 15–16, 2026, in Paris, France. Centered on the theme "From Brain to Behaviour: Advancing Integrated Care in Addiction and Mental Health,” this global forum brings together leading experts to discuss the latest developments in behavioral health, psychiatric research, and addiction treatment. Designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals, the conference provides a timely platform for sharing insights, innovative approaches, and impactful clinical findings.

Historian and author of "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater.

Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the past and present. When historians focus only on performers and plays with artistic "merit," what communities, perspectives, and cultural trends remain invisible? Join us to think through these and other questions.

This episode is sponsored by Christina and Robbi Karas.

The Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.

Dare to think differently about your health.

Join Dr. Patrick Flynn for I Disagree, a live health seminar coming to Bay College in Iron Mountain on Thursday, October 29, 2026.

Dr. Flynn challenges a common way of looking at health and disease with one foundational idea:

The body does not make mistakes.

Rather than viewing symptoms simply as things that have gone wrong, Dr. Flynn encourages people to ask a different question: Why is the body responding this way in the first place?

Our bodies are constantly responding and adapting to the environment around us—including the thoughts, traumas, and toxins we encounter throughout our lives. For a time, the body may be able to adapt appropriately to those stresses. But when they become too intense, too frequent, or too chronic, our ability to remain within healthy physiological parameters can begin to break down. That is when dysfunction and disease may emerge.

I Disagree invites you to reconsider the way you think about symptoms and the human body and to explore a different approach to pursuing better health.

If you've struggled with ongoing health concerns, wondered why you don't feel well even when you've been told everything looks “normal,” or simply want to better understand how your body works, this evening is for you.

In her book, "Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era," Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools.

Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and Ella Deloria, Gere shows how these and many other Indian women teachers subversively resisted assimilation with tribal presence, relationality, connection to land, rejection of victimhood, and maintenance of cultural traditions, art, and languages. Their vulnerable positions in schools directed by Euro-Americans necessitated that their contributions be subversive, nearly invisible. Despite this, they developed policies and practices that were passed to Indian students who in turn became teachers of the next generation of Indian students, and many of their innovations inform contemporary movements toward sovereignty for Indian education.

This episode is sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan Lifelong Learning program and is in recognition of Native American History Month.

The Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.

Bookseller and collector Garrett Scott joins Julia Miller and Clements Curator of Books Emi Hastings to discuss the Garrett Scott Collection of Vernacular Bindings recently acquired by the Clements Library.

Scott’s working definition of “vernacular binding” is “an alteration or addition to the book, pamphlet, or leaf, when this alteration is made by an owner whose vocation is not bookbinding or associated book arts, when this modification is meant to enhance, protect, repair, or reinforce the structure of the item.”

Panelist Julia Miller is a bookbinding scholar and conservator who authored “Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings.” As Curator of Books, Emi Hastings now oversees the Scott Collection. They will discuss different types of repairs and what these traces of ownership teach us.

This episode is sponsored by Bobbi and Sam Chappell.

The Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.

Hello Dear,
Good day!!
We are honored to invite you to participate in the 3rd Global Summit on Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Medicine 2027, which will be held on April 26–27, 2027, in Berlin, Germany.
Under the theme “Healing Heritage: Advancing Traditional and Indigenous Medicine for Global Health,” this summit will bring together researchers, academicians, traditional medicine practitioners, indigenous healers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers from around the world to exchange knowledge, present innovative research, and explore advancements in traditional, complementary, and integrative healthcare systems.
We warmly welcome you to join us as a Speaker, Research Presenter, Delegate, or Session Chair and contribute your expertise to this global scientific platform dedicated to advancing traditional and indigenous medicine.
For more details, please visit:
https://traditonalmedicine.intelliconferences.com/
We look forward to welcoming you to Berlin for this inspiring gathering of traditional medicine and healthcare professionals.
Warm Regards,
Emily Carter
Program Manager
Email: traditionalmedicine@intelliglobalsummits.com
Phone: +1 (470)-916-6880

Hello Dear,
Good day!!
We are honored to invite you to participate in the 3rd Global Summit on Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Medicine 2027, which will be held on April 26–27, 2027, in Berlin, Germany.
Under the theme “Healing Heritage: Advancing Traditional and Indigenous Medicine for Global Health,” this summit will bring together researchers, academicians, traditional medicine practitioners, indigenous healers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers from around the world to exchange knowledge, present innovative research, and explore advancements in traditional, complementary, and integrative healthcare systems.
We warmly welcome you to join us as a Speaker, Research Presenter, Delegate, or Session Chair and contribute your expertise to this global scientific platform dedicated to advancing traditional and indigenous medicine.
For more details, please visit:
https://traditonalmedicine.intelliconferences.com/
We look forward to welcoming you to Berlin for this inspiring gathering of traditional medicine and healthcare professionals.
Warm Regards,
Emily Carter
Program Manager
Email: traditionalmedicine@intelliglobalsummits.com
Phone: +1 (470)-916-6880