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.

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

Recent discussions situate cosmopolitanism in two emerging discourses: first, social integration of new migrants and ethnic minorities, and second, the “right to the city” as a surrogate of citizenship. In both cases the site of cosmopolitanism is understood to be the urban street—but it is not clear whether this is a specific geographical space or just a social trope.

Professer Zukin’s focus is on the social space of a local shopping street—a space so taken for granted that it hardly appears as a subject of social or cultural research. But local shopping streets are not just sites of economic transactions; they are social spaces where cultural identities are continually reproduced. These are both local and global identities, for in the shopping street both traditional ethnic homogeneity and new ethnic diversity become embedded in a bounded geographical terrain. An everyday, “bread and butter” shopping street carries the DNA of local identity but infuses it with products, people, and practices that come from everywhere. Thus the social space of the street is a crucible of both localization and globalization, a very specific space for producing cosmopolitanism and belonging.

Through bodily movement, a pantomime artist creates a sense of co-presence of objects, persons, etc. in a surrounding envelope of goal-directed social activity. Just so, in any communicative use of language the interacting individuals create a framing sense of “who” they are – sociologically, what social identities they bring to and create in the situation– as well as the “what”—“where”—“when”—“why” of the occasion of their interaction, all through the magic of the “how” of their use of language and its surrounding signals. In every interaction, this at first invisible socio-cultural frame that comes into being is the experienced “reality” of life-as-lived at that moment; its coded regularities, pervading all language, are denoted by the term ‘culture’.

The composition and relative abundances of tree species in forest communities are fundamental attributes, but rarely have multiple processes causing these community-level patterns been considered together. Kobe will report on mechanisms that govern these community properties in wet tropical forest in Costa Rica as well as northern hardwood forest in northwestern lower Michigan. In wet tropical forest, seedling limitation does not constrain the recruitment of more common species. There also is little evidence to support that more common species are more susceptible to density dependent natural enemies. However, across species, there is strong covariance in seedling mortality responses to local conspecific density and shading, suggesting density-dependent natural enemies could exaggerate species differences in low-light seedling survival. Nevertheless, species that survive poorly under low light and that are susceptible to density-dependence also are more growth responsive to soil nutrients (N, P, and base cations), even in the shaded understory. In Michigan northern hardwood forests, dramatic variation in species composition across glacial landforms can be explained by an interspecific trade-off between growth under high soil resources and survival under low soil resources. The species that survive well under low soil resources likely are excluded from higher fertility sites because of increasing competition for irradiance. Overall, these studies support that the multiple mechanisms governing forest community dynamics can be understood from the perspective of individual seedling / tree responses to resources and interactions with neighboring individuals.

Being able to successfully navigate uncomfortable conversations is one of the highest level and most important relationship skills a person can possess. In this workshop you will learn how to share your thoughts and feelings in a clear, respectful, and persuasive manner, even when the other person is on the defensive.

Join Interfaith Action for our Dialogue Dinner, at 5:00 pm in the Ginsberg Center dining room, 1024 Hill St. (on the corner of Hill and E. University).

"Politics of Heritage in the Middle East" description: The Middle East today looks back at a heritage of multiple layered pasts, some of them as conspicuous as the Pyramids, others hidden in the ground like the works of the Hittites, some ephemeral like the lifestyle of the dwindling nomadic population of Turkey, some apparently permanently engraved like the rituals of churches and mosques. Since the colonial period, social and cultural change has been accelerated in an unprecedented way, and has thus added new layers to the past, and new forms of envisioning and reconstructing it. Keynote Address: Margaret Root, Curator at the Kelsey Museum/Archaeology and Core Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology Margaret Cool Root is Professor of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan, holding teaching appointments inthe Department of the History of Art and in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. She is also Curator of Near Eastern and Greek Collections at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, where she has mounted many exhibitions on a wide range of topics (with accompanying publications). Her many awards include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her research focuses on issues of art, social history, and historiography particularly involving studies of iconography, style, and identity politics. Specialist realms of analysis are the Achaemenid Persian empire and its complex interactions with ancient Greece. More broadly, she pursues studies both in traditions of monumental art, in traditions of seals as vehicles of stylistic and symbolic agency, all with special attention to problems of understanding intersecting circles of cultural engagement across time, place, and historiographically-charged perception.

In July 2008, Andee Scott began “Gay Ballet” in Austin, Texas, in response to a need for an alternative to traditional adult ballet classes. The class is open to all, but Scott especially invites queers into the beginning-level class. At the heart of this inclusive practice is accessibility: it is designed for those new to ballet, class cost is always minimal (and will be free at the conference), and there is no dress code. Bring your camouflage cargo pants. Or your tutu.

Don't forget to buy your MBgAy tickets in the Winter Garden this Mon-Thurs (2/13-2/16) between 11am-2pm. Tickets are $15 if purchased in advance and $20 at the door. What: MBgAy, Ross' annual drag show fund raiser Where: Necto (516 E. Liberty St.) When: Thursday, February 16th

Happy Hour's @7pm | Show starts @7:30pm After party will be in Necto's Red Room

Why You Should Come: Besides seeing Rossers in drag? A portion of sales will benefit the Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. In addition to operating a crisis and suicide prevention lifeline, The Trevor Project provides online support to young people through the organization's Web site, as well as lifesaving guidance and vital resources for educators and parents.

Chenyi Xue, UM bioinformatics grad student from China, will tell us what it means to have a balance of Yin and Yang in the body and mind. Learn about the flow of Qi energy along the body’s meridians. TCM theory is the basis for acupuncture, acupressure/Shiatsu massage, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Chinese herbal therapy, and other! But TCM is more than just treatment and cures; like Ayurveda, it is a way of living healthfully.

Dept. of Theatre & Drama. A comedy by Michael Frayn. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong in this delightful farce about putting on a play. Directed by John Neville-Andrews The play contains some mild sexual innuendo. Recommended for ages fourteen and up. Tickets available at the League Ticket Office, 734-764-2538.

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.

The Tallis Scholars add a new dimension to UMS’s 11/12 focus on artistic renegades, presenting music of the wealthy Italian prince Carlo Gesualdo (b.1566). Gesualdo’s infamy relates to his obsessive double murder of his wife and her lover, but he was also a maverick Renaissance composer whose eccentric approach to creating music — and whose colorful life story — inspired both Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky several hundred years later. His music contains wild gesticulations and abrupt surprises, and contemporary Renaissance scholars now regard him as perhaps the most forwardthinking, expressive, and sensual composer of his time. Consumed by guilt after murdering his wife, Gesualdo devoted himself to composing church music. At the centerpiece of this program is the Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday, part of the liturgy for the final three days of Holy Week. Works by other “maverick” Renaissance composers round out the program.

Program · Gesualdo : Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday (1611) · Lassus : Timor et tremor · Gallus : Mirabile mysterium · de Wert : O mors, quam amara est · Appenzeller : Musae Jovis · de Rore : Calami sonum ferentes · Hassler : Ad dominum · Zielenski : Vox in rama · Monteverdi : Adoramus te

PROGRAM: Gabrieli - Canzona per sonare no. 4 William Campbell & Kevin Maloney (trumpets), David Jackson (trombone), Fritz Kaenzig (tuba); Foss - "Come, my beloved" from Song of Songs, Cantata for Soprano and Orchestra Carmen Pelton (soprano), John Elam (piano); Rush - Far Away and It\&##39;s Okay Stephen Rush (piano and toys), Jeremy Edwards (percussion); Ginastera - Pampeana no. 2 for Cello and Piano Yeonjin Kim (cello), Christopher Harding (piano); Reynolds - Calls and Echos William Campbell (trumpet), Kevin Maloney (trumpet); Umezaki - \&##39;for zero\&##39; Joseph Gramley (percussion/laptop); George - Aria and Dance David Jackson (trombone) Jason Cash, Li Kuang, (tenor trombones), Matthew Karatsu, John Lambert (bass trombones); Ginastera - Sonata no. 2 in G-sharp Minor (Sonata-Fantasy), Op. 19 Alberto Ginastera Arthur Greene (piano); Liszt - Liebestraum (Notturno no. 3), Benjamin - From San Domingo; Mendelssohn - Song Without Words (Sweet Remembrance); Kreisler - Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3 Yizhak Schotten (viola), Katherine Collier (piano); Strauss - Traum durch die Dämmerung, Hogan - He never said a mumbalin\&##39; word, Gershwin - I got plenty o’ nuttin\&##39; Daniel Washington (baritone)

Jill Sobule's work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic. Over five albums and a decade of recording, this Denver-born songwriter/guitarist/singer has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, and the Christian right. Not to mention kissing a girl, well before Katy Perry came along. And did we mention love? Love found, love lost, love wished for, and love taken away. Jill often writes satirical songs plotted through the eyes of women in the news or her own fictional female creations, and she has been compared with the late Warren Zevon, with whom she often performed. Jill recently released an album, "A Day at the Pass," with X founder John Doe, and she's at work on two new albums and a musical. So expect lots of new songs!

Want a new way to escape the hustle and bustle of college life? Let Images of Identities Improv Comedy group provide laughter that is good for your soul. One Thursday each month, join us for a night of laughs, food, fun, and surprises.