We invite you to browse panels about the scripts of ancient Egypt, indigenous languages of Central and South America, languages of Southeast Asia, and more – including the English language and language used in graffiti and comics.

This exhibit highlights the possibilities for exploration and discovery within the library’s collections, which are impressive on many levels. The sheer number of materials, including more than 8.5 million volumes in locations all over campus, and access to millions of digital books, journals and images, makes it one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The collection encompasses ancient documents written on papyrus, electronic journals reporting on the latest advances in science and medicine, and materials from nearly every period, culture, and way of thought in between.

Photo Competition Rules and Criteria

Criteria for entries: -must be a two dimensional image -submitted as a jpeg, gif, or pdf file -resoultion must be at least 300 dpi -image must depict or represent any or all parts of North Campus -Short description of the content and how it represents North Campus

examples of entry:

photograph, photograph/mixed media (2D), photoshop etc..

How to submit entries: -deadline for submission: March 5, 2012 by 11:59pm EST -One entry per person. Up to 3 images per entry, they shall be judged together.

-Submit entries to: NorthCampusPhoto@gmail.com

-add as a jpeg, gif, or pdf file attachment -include Submission Form with entry

Judging Process: The winners shall be selected by a diverse panel of judges. The judges shall select “Honorable Mention” pieces first. Then, from the “Honorable Mention” pool, the judges will select first, second, and third place winners.

Winners/ Prizes: Winners will be notified via email. All Honorable Mention Pieces will be up for display in the Duderstadt connector from March 12 - 16.

Prizes will be as follows:

First Place: $300

Second Place $150

Third Place $75

Honorable Mention will receive a small gift

North Campus

Video installation by Charles Atlas exploring time-based portraiture, the body, fragmentation, and movement of Merce Cunningham.

Related events: Film Screening of The Legend of Leigh Bowery by Charles Atlas: Monday, February 13, 7pm, UMMA Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. (Presented in conjunction with UMS)

Brown Bag Lecture by Charles Atlas: “Video in Performance and Video as Performance,” Tuesday, February 14, 12:30pm, 202 S. Thayer, room 2022

Gallery Reception with Charles Atlas: Wednesday, February 15, 4:30-6pm, U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

The gallery is open Saturday 11am-3pm and closed Sunday.

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.

A one hour drop in workshop. Learn skills for managing your worries.

Please join the Shapiro Science Library for a reception as we celebrate the continuation of our permanent display of book and journal covers, featuring research from the LSA Natural Sciences Departments and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, on Wednesday, February 15, 2012.

With the Science Covers Project, we honor science faculty whose work has been recently featured on the cover of a journal or book. This year we will honor the authors of 26 new covers, which will add to the permanent display of art in the Science Library Shien-Ming Wu Current Periodical Reading Room.

Remarks at 3:15 p.m. by Philip J. Hanlon, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.

We hope you will join us as we pay tribute to the great scientific work accomplished at the University of Michigan!

Light refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP by February 7 to Shannon Szalay at szalays@umich.edu or (734) 764-3577

Few things in your life can have a greater positive impact than learning to feel good about you. In this workshop you will explore some of the earlier-life experiences that may have formed your current "core beliefs" about yourself. We will talk about how these beliefs influence your life, relationships, and behaviors currently. Lastly, you will learn strategies for weakening some of the negative self-beliefs that hold you back in your life.

A unique opportunity to gain insight, ask questions and learn about recovery at U of M directly from students who are in recovery.

Does your nervousness/anxiety significantly impact your academic performance or other areas of your life (e.g., public speaking, test taking, interviewing, athletics, etc.)? This session will provide strategies to help you manage anxiety during these high-pressure situations.

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States.

Rebecca Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, is the University's Henry Russel Lecturer for 2012.

Jean Hebrard is Professeur associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and visiting professor at the University of Michigan.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM 1005 DOW

Learn about the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)! Free Food!

Questions? E-mail shpe.eboard@umich.edu

FREE FOOD!

The Black Psychological Student Association (BPSA) will host a series of film screenings, sponsored by MESA/Trotter, that center on Black history. The films will be a mix of documentaries and cinematic dramas to bring about discussions of justice, race, education, civil rights, and cultural practices relevant to people of African descent. The film screening is following by a moderated discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

About this week’s film “Chisholm '72 Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed”: In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young voters. This film recounts her bid for President of the United States.

How do you translate the skills learned from student employment into effective elements of your presentation to employers? We will talk about drawing out your transferable skills and how to present them in resumes, cover letters, and interviews.

Dept. of Musical Theatre Studio Production. A musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. Directed by Malcolm Tulip, Lynn Shankel, Music Director. Adapted from Frank Wedekind\&##39;s 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tears, and exhilaration of the teen years, Spring Awakening traces the journey from youth to adulthood with power, poignancy, and passion. Recommended for mature audiences due to mature content, including brief partial nudity, sexual situations and strong language. Tickets available at the League Ticket Office, 734-764-2538.

PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE Program includes Mozart’s Quintet in C Major, K 515, Rossini’s Duo for Cello and Bass and the Brahms Sextet in G Major, Op. 36

JT Nero, whom we've seen at The Ark backed by his band The Clouds, is a distinctive new American songwriter who lists Mark Twain and Sam Cooke among his biggest songwriting influences. He is a poet of the everyday and the absurd, of loneliness and hope, and he's a bit of a rock 'n' roll preacher. Allison Russell has contributed her silver and gold tones to the band Po' Girl, and in her voice you'll hear echoes of mountain gospel, classic soul, old R&B, and speakeasy chanteuse music—all backed up by her banjo, ukulele, guitar, clarinet, and amazing whistling skills to boot. She writes gorgeous, unpredictable songs and makes other people's her own with startling ease. This duo got together at the Kate Wolf Memorial Fest last year and generated tremendous enthusiasm. They come to Michigan with their brand new duo album, "Birds of Chicago, Volume 1."

Andrew Bishop is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, educator and scholar comfortable in a wide variety of musical idioms. He maintains an active national and international career and serves as an Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He earned five degrees in music including a DMA in music composition from the University of Michigan. Bishop's two recordings Time and Imaginary Time and The Hank Williams Project received widespread acclaim from the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, Chicago Reader, All Music Guide, Cadence Magazine, All About Jazz–New York, All About Jazz–Los Angeles, and the Detroit Free Press, among others. As a sideman he has recorded over thirty compact discs and has performed with Reid Anderson, Karl Berger, Sandip Burman, Kenny Burrell, Eugene Chadbourne, Ray Charles, Gerald Cleaver, Drew Gress, Jerry Hahn, John Lindberg, Chris Lightcap, The Either Orchestra, Mat Maneri, The Manhattan Transfer, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Jeremy Pelt, Hank Roberts, Craig Taborn, Clark Terry, Matt Wilson and John Zorn, among others. He regularly performs as a member of Gerald Cleaver’s Violet Hour and Uncle June, the Ellen Rowe Quartet, Phil Ogilive’s Rhythm Kings, the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, and the contemporary concert music group Opus 21.

This monthly series, curated by UM Associate Professor Adam Unsworth, presents outstanding local artists in an intimate setting and is made possible by the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

Show your stuff. Be cheered. Come do spoken word,improv, dance, musical theatre, guitar, keyboard, jazz, comedy, juggling ... Anything goes! Open to all. Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/livingartsopenmic or just come to show your support to your friends!

Interested in being an anchor act? (more time, more advertisement for your group!). Let us know!

Come show off your talents and earn a chance to qualify for the Best of the Best Show or just come to relax and enjoy the performances!

Registration for time slots begins at 8:00PM, show begins at 8:30PM