The OpenEnded Group residency with the U-M Institute for the Humanities encompasses two installations. Loops, in the Institute for the Humanities gallery on central campus, is a 3D representation of Merce Cunningham’s solo dance for his hands. The choreography is accompanied by a recording of Cunningham reading excerpts from his journals. These sensory elements serve as artifact and capture the labyrinthine relationship between reminiscence, erasure, and re-invention. See event listing for related exhibit by the OpenEnded Group: "plant," a 3D investigation of the abandoned Packard auto plant in Detroit.

Face of Our Time examines more than 100 works by five photographers—Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, and Richard Misrach—who operate within what Walker Evans referred to as the "documentary style." Sharing an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like, they observe the sometimes volatile civil and political transformations facing society and look reflectively at contemporary culture, recording history as it unfolds slowly over time. Aue Sobol's gentle and sculptural pictures reveal the hardships of life in the Arctic; Goldberg's multilayered series includes fragmented narratives from the migration of illegal immigrants from Africa to Europe; Muholi commemorates and celebrates the histories and struggles that black lesbians face in her native South Africa; Schwartz reveals the overlapping narratives between the Silk Route's ancient history and the military and economic power struggles that it faces today; and the Richard Misrach photographs, from his recently published book, Destroy This Memory, are an informal, yet personal collection of pictures taken in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in New Orleans.

Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Generous support is provided by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

Face of Our Time at UMMA is made possible in part by the Lois Zenkel Photographic Exhibitions Fund, the University of Michigan Health System, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Image caption: Jim Goldberg, Making Fire, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2008; chromogenic print; 30 in. x 40 in. (76.2 cm x 101.6 cm); Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson; © Jim Goldberg

Preeminent American sculptor Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) is best known for his dynamic and monumental works made of industrial steel and salvaged materials that populate museum grounds, landscapes, and urban environments around the world. In addition to countless exhibitions and awards, in March 2011 di Suvero was honored with the National Medal of the Arts by President Obama in a White House ceremony. This exhibition, organized by UMMA and on view exclusively in Ann Arbor, features approximately 15 of di Suvero's rarely exhibited smaller scale pieces, or tabletops, from the 1950s to the present. The tabletops are not maquettes of larger-scale works but an expressionistic and engaging genre all their own, an outlet for exploring ideas relating to the calligraphic nature of form, balance, proportion, and movement. Drawing from numerous private collections as well as the artist's studio, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience this intimate work in the Museum's ground level, glass-walled Irving Stenn, Jr, Family Project Gallery, adjacent to the two di Suvero outdoor steel sculptures on the Museum's grounds–Orion (2006) and Shang (1984–85).

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Office of the President of the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Health System, and Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson.

This is the first part of a two-part exhibition introducing exciting, recently acquired works from UMMA's collections gifted to the museum during the past five years. Recent Acquisitions: Curator's Choice, Part I presents a first look at artworks, mostly prints, drawings, and photographs by artists as diverse as Annie Leibovitz, Edward Steichen, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Carole McNamara, Senior Curator of Western Art, chose works that focus on some of the enduring and compelling themes that have occupied artists in Europe and America. One is the preoccupation with the human form as an expression of ideas, feelings, and sensations. This selection begins with the tradition of the academic nude study and progresses to embrace different genres, from both secular and religious contexts. Another selection-landscapes and cityscapes-are each opportunities for artists to speak to our relationship to the natural world-both in how we experience landscape as well as how we construct our own urban environments.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

The tiny dramas that comprise Robert Wilson's Video 50 contain aspects of his hallmark aesthetic: surreal or dream-like imagery, the absence of a linear narrative, the conflation of seemingly unrelated characters and micro-stories, and a mesmerizingly slow pace. Video 50 consists of a randomly arranged set of 30-second "episodes," a few of which feature notable French personalities of the 1970s-perfumier Hélène Rochas stares down a mugger, culture minister Michel Guy struggles to open a dresser drawer-and Wilson thought of these as miniature portraits or character studies. The creator and director of aggressively experimental theater, Wilson first came to prominence with works from the mid-1970s such as The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973) and Einstein on the Beach (1976). These lavish, unusually long productions broke and then redefined every convention of theater. In Video 50 his shorter time-based portraits explore the intersection of narrative and still-life, seductively dissolving the distance between viewer and subject.

Are your walls looking a little bare? Check out the Beyond the Wall Poster Sale - the largest of its kind on campus all year. With the start of the semester, now is the perfect time to add some color to your walls. We have thousands of posters to choose from!

Participants will walk away with a stronger understanding of their Myers-Briggs Type, and learn how to use their results to navigate the career decision making process.

Each workshop will provide knowledge and experiential practice of basic mindfulness skills. Mindfulness can help to reduce daily stresses, cultivate greater awareness of the present, and accept life's difficulties. Workshops may include: introductory principles of mindfulness, sitting and walking meditations, emotion awareness, and relaxation breath work. Students are welcome to attend any week.

Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower women of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, and health and wellness that affect them in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan women of color – undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff. This special session of Nourish is co-sponsored by the Coalition for Queer People of Color and will feature a panel of diverse women discussing the topic of feminism. Free lunch will be provided.

The Coalition for Queer People of Color is a group of Michigan students, faculty and staff all committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer people of color. Click the following link for updates and more information about the Coalition for Queer People of Color: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Coalition-for-Queer-People-of-Color/304344932958637

Located on the 3rd Floor

Presented by: Robert H. Bartlett, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Medical School, University of Michigan

Jens Alber, professor of sociology, Freie Universität Berlin.

The notion of a European social model assumes that European societies have certain features in common that distinguish them positively from the United States, most notably the social partnership in labour relations, redistributive welfare state schemes, and cohesive societies with a low degree of social inequality. The lecture examines to what extent the social reality in the EU conforms to this normative image and which challenges imperil the sustainability of the European social model. Special attention is drawn to the influence of supranational decision-making in the European Union and to the role of the European Court of Justice. Professor Alber argues that Court rulings imperil the viability of national social programs, because they open schemes that continue to be exclusively financed by national tax payers to transnational access. This introduces not only unfunded mandates for the member states, but is also in tension with the solidarity concepts of European citizens, which continue to be framed in terms of national citizenship. To learn about possible solutions, the EU might benefit from turning to the U.S. experience where the reasoning behind Supreme Court rulings is publicly accessible and thus made more transparent; where single states usually make a difference between in-state and out-of-state students in calculating tuitions; and where unfunded mandates of the federal government are likely to meet state resistance and a tax-welfare backlash.

Individual phenotypes may be influenced by the social environment, which is itself a function of the phenotypes of a set of socially-interacting individuals. We have been using theoretical models and experiments with a cooperatively-breeding African cichlid fish, Neolamprologus pulcher, to examine social behavior, and selection on social behavior, in the context of interacting phenotypes. I will present results from two sets of studies. In the first, we tested the general hypotheses that, in N pulcher groups, there is conflict between the dominant male and female over the presence and behavior of subordinate “helpers” that provide care for all group offspring but may be reproductive competitors, and that, as a consequence, the behavior of subordinate helpers in the group depends, in part, on the resolution of conflict between the dominant pair. We also examined whether individual variation in subordinate male behavior (or subordinate ‘personality’) indirectly influenced conflict between the dominant pair. We found that consistently helpful subordinate males were associated with reduced conflict between dominant males and females. In a second set of studies, we used evolutionary dynamic models to investigate the role of partner control on the phenotypic make-up of groups and selection on behavior that is costly to social partners. We find that, when individual variation in behavior exists or when behavior is plastic with respect to the social environment, strategies of partner control can result in non-random association between costliness and willingness to engage in partner control. This non-random association results in social selection for increased investment in partner control and reduced costliness relative to a well-mixed model.

If you struggle to form connections with new people, then this session will be helpful to you. We will explore strategies for meeting new people and forming new friendships. Depending on the needs of the participants, we may also talk about ways to deepen the friendships that you already have.

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered and Matadora. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence, and other journals. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the Creative Writing Program at Brown University. Her honors include the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative, and the MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. Together with Joseph O. Legaspi, she co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell ('64). For more information, please see www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp.

The Ring of Steel Action Theatre, a U of M student group, welcomes all those who want to join us for a free intro to theatrical swordplay. Anyone, student or not, is welcome to attend and learn the first steps (literally) of swordplay and stunt work. All you need to bring are clothes appropriate for moving in and a readiness to learn. But bring a friend, too!

Take Commuter South- we're right across from the Big House

“Opera in America: Stories, People, Places” Mr. Zaretti’s presentation will include photos, musical performances by University of Michigan voice students, and stories of Italian composers and their ties to America, including Mozart librettist Lorenzo da Ponte’s time in America, connections between Verdi’s music and Abraham Lincoln, and the links between The Civil War and I Puritani by Bellini and much more! In cooperation with the Italian Consulate of Detroit PROGRAM: Mozart - Madamin, il catalogo è questo from Don Giovanni; Mozart - Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro; verdi - Re dell’abisso from Un ballo in maschera; Gounod - Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust; Puccini - Che gelida manina from La Boheme; Donizetti - Ah mes amis from La fille du Regiment; Verdi - O patria mia from Aida; Gershwin - Summer time from Porgy and Bess

Please join us for a showing of "The Narcotic Farm", an hour-long historical documentary of the world famous drug research program. The film makers and historical consultant will be at the event for questions/discussion with the audience.

A documentary about young, gay, homeless New Yorkers

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**Open to all.** **Free admission. Free food. FreeT-shirts** **7-9pm @ Michigan League Vandenburg Room**

Intro by Spectrum Center. Q & A will follow the film.

An Dro plays a blend of traditional and original melodies from across the globe, reaching back to the past, with an eye to the present and the future. You'll hear traditional Irish melodies, medieval French songs, Breton dance tunes, Scandinavian refrains, Appalachian influences, Arabic rhythms, and African grooves all performed with joy and freshness. This is dance music but it's also listening music. This band's original works have a feel that is both ancient and modern with a dynamic range that takes you from crazy dance grooves to delicately orchestrated waltzes and airs to blazing improvisational assaults. The band takes the name An Dro from a folk dance of Brittany where the dancers link fingers as they move in a spiral line dance. An Dro translates literally as "The Turn," and that's an apt description of music that is alive and ever-changing.

RESCHEDULED FROM JANUARY 14. Six violin sonatas by Corelli.