UM*Events

U-M Library Celebrates Language (February 20, 2012 8:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 8:00am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, Room 100
Sponsors: University Library
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/gallery/events/u-m-library-celebrates-language

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.

North Campus Photo Competition (February 20, 2012 8:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 8:00am
Event Type: Recreational / Games
Location: Bursley Hall
Sponsors: Living Arts Programming Board
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/northcampusphotocompetition/

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

Joints 4tet for Ensemble video installation (February 20, 2012 9:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 9:00am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010
Sponsors: Institute for the Humanities
Website: www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities/events

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.

Mardi Gras Sale (February 20, 2012 9:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 9:00am
Event Type: Reception / Open House
Location: Michigan Union - Ground Level
Sponsors: Information and Technology Services (ITS)
Website: http://showcase.itcs.umich.edu/news/mardigras

Celebrate Mardi Gras all week at Computer Showcase. Get great deals on an 11" MacBook Air or Dell Latitude or take advantage of everyday low pricing on any iPad in stock. Special prices also available for printers, cases and covers.

Mardi Gras Sale (February 20, 2012 9:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 9:00am
Event Type: Reception / Open House
Location: Pierpont Commons - Main Concourse
Sponsors: Information and Technology Services (ITS)
Website: http://showcase.itcs.umich.edu/news/mardigras

Mark di Suvero: Tabletops (February 20, 2012 10:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Museum of Art
Sponsors: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
Website: http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-suvero.php

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.

Recent Acquisitions: Curator's Choice, Part I (February 20, 2012 10:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST

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.

Career/Academic Co-Advising at Psychology Department (February 20, 2012 10:00am)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Event Type: Meeting
Location: East Hall - Psychology Undergraduate Office
Sponsors: The Career Center

Sign up for a co-advising session with a Career Advisor and a Concentration Advisor - meet with 2 advisors at the same time. By appointment only, scheduled through the Psychology Department.

Career Advising at Communications Department (February 20, 2012 2:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 2:00pm
Event Type: Meeting
Location: North Quad
Sponsors: The Career Center

Schedule an appointment through the Communications Department to meet with a Career Advisor from The Career Center at North Quad

Chinese—Greek Comparisons in Archaeology and Popular Culture (February 20, 2012 4:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 4:00pm
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Location: Michigan League - Vandenberg Room
Sponsors: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan
Website: http://confucius.umich.edu/

"Archaeology and Popular Culture in the Confucian Landscapes" Talk by LI MIN (PhD '08), Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Archaeology and popular culture often intersect through tourism. By visiting ruins and historical landscapes, the past was experienced and imagined by the visitors. Since early imperial China, visiting the places where Confucius and his disciples lived constituted an important cultural activity of understanding the classical world. With the current revival of traditional cultures in China, journeys through the Confucian landscape once again became important means of embracing the classical tradition. With the development of site parks, museums, performances around the Bronze Age city site, a vibrant popular culture of classical tourism emerged with archeology/ancient world as backdrops. What does archaeology have to contribute to this creation and recreation of cultural experience centered around the Confucian classics? The archaeological inquiry not only illustrates the past through material culture to enrich the popular imagination of the classical world, but also reveals hidden narratives left out by the idealized representation of the past in classical tourism. "Hellas Essentialized: The Gr€€k Economic Crisis, Political Cartoons, and Classical Greece" Talk by LAUREN TALALAY, Curator of Education, U-M Kelsey Museum While the study and interrogation of modern Greek identity has taken many forms over the years, one subject that invariably surfaces in these discussions is the deployment of Greece’s antiquity in framing that identity. As many scholars have noted, images from Classical archaeology and mythology are omnipresent in modern Greek culture; they comprise a major part of its symbolic and cultural capital. This talk provides a case study of one aspect of that symbolic capital, exploring how the Western press has drawn from Greek images and associated ideas of antiquity and manipulated them in political cartoons to provide a view of Greece’s current failure in the world marketplace. Political cartoons, sometimes referred to as the “art of ill will,” provide an ideal laboratory for exploring the stable of images that political satirists believe effectively summarize a culture’s heritage, identity, or what might be deemed its “essence” for a popular audience.

Managing Anxiety (February 20, 2012 4:15pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:15:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 4:15pm
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Location: Michigan Union - 3100
Sponsors: Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
Website: www.umich.edu/~caps

Whether you worry too much about school, relationships, or anything else, these sessions are designed to help you manage your stress and anxiety.

Michigan Political Union: Full Union Meeting (February 20, 2012 7:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Event Type: Meeting
Location: Michigan Union - Parker Room
Sponsors: Michigan Political Union
Website: http://www.michiganpoliticalunion.com

We will be debating the following resolution: Resolved: The U.S. federal government should have the power to mandate religious institutions provide their employees with a health insurance plan that includes contraception, abortions, and other family planning services

Student String Quartet Recital - RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 17 (February 20, 2012 8:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Event Type: Performance
Location: Moore Building (Music, Theatre, and Dance) - Britton Recital Hall
Sponsors: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Website: http://www.music.umich.edu/

Gaelic Storm (February 20, 2012 8:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Event Type: Performance
Location: Off Campus Location - The Ark- 316 S. Main St.
Sponsors: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)
Website: https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=9294004109350f7b755e441d8567dece&t=tix

Gaelic Storm's last album, "Cabbage," held the number-one position on the Billboard World Music album chart for three consecutive weeks in 2010. As many hundreds of thousands of album buyers and live music lovers know, Gaelic Storm tours over two hundred days per year, playing high-energy, foot-stomping, feel-good music. This band combines influences from rock, bluegrass, Jamaican, African and Middle Eastern music that may surprise those expecting purely traditional Celtic music. They make new Celtic music for today's world! And they've been at work on new music, so come on down and join the ruckus!

Third Dissertation Recital: Dan Graser, saxophone (February 20, 2012 8:00pm)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Event Type: Performance
Location: Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Sponsors: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Website: http://www.music.umich.edu/

PROGRMA: Mead - 12 Caprices for Solo Soprano Saxophone; Debussy - Syrinx; Stravinsky - Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet; Messiaen - Abîme des oiseaux from Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Denisov - Sonate for Solo Clarinet