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Earlier this week, SMR members (and friends) gathered for the February edition of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student-Faculty Reading Group. This time, Claude M. Steele's Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do was the topic...

Earlier this week, SMR member Kristen Clough successfully defended her dissertation, entitled "Opera in Crisis? Reinterpreting and Revealing the Cultural and Political Impact of French Fourth Republic Opera, 1945–1958" (abstract below). Congratulations, Kristen, and all the best with final revisions!...

Last week, members of SMR met over sandwiches to discuss many recent and exciting developments pertaining to the future of the group. The General Assembly was well attended by both new and seasoned members, and all contributed great ideas to...

Earlier this month, SMR co-sponsored a visit to U-M by Gaelynn Lea, a singer-songwriter and violinist who is also an advocate for disability rights, finding inner freedom, and accessibility in the arts. Lea's time in Ann Arbor was full: she...

Recently, SMR members Kristen Clough, Michaela Franzen, and Jessica Grimmer presented papers at “Within and Without: ‘Les Six’ at 100” at Princeton University, a conference held in celebration of the centennial of the group’s coalescence. (For titles and abstracts of...