Michigan Classics is an adult summer softball league run by the Department of Recreational Sports. Anyone and everyone is welcome to play!

March 12-16: Team Registration May-July: 10-week summer season

Sign-up online! Games played at Mitchell Field

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.

Winning photographs from the North Campus Photography Competition will be displayed in the Duderstadt Connector Gallery.

Catalog Confessions launches the week of March 5 to coincide with the 10th annual Depression on College Campuses Conference.

Submissions will be gathered via selected Library bookdrops March 5th-16th and then digitized and displayed on the Shapiro Lobby screens during the month of April.

Cards and envelopes will also be provided at the following drop-off locations, Hatcher Graduate Library, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Taubman Health Sciences Library, and the book drop on the first floor in the School of Art & Design.

Share your secret beginning March 5th.

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.

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.

Fluxus emerged in the early 1960s as a loose, international network of artists, composers, and designers-"led" by Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (1931-1978)- that was noted for blurring the boundaries between art and life. Fluxus artists like Maciunas, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, and Yoko Ono, among many others, challenged the notion of high art by creating unassuming, often humorous objects and performances that redefined the terms of artistic production by demonstrating the idea that "anything can be art and anyone can do it." Because of their disregard for traditional artistic media, many of the objects in the exhibition are-often by design-acutely resistant to conventional forms of museum display. Variously conceived as carriers of ideas, absurdist send-ups of consumer products, and invitations to direct, playful participation by the viewer, these works attempt to undermine the idea that art is separate from the activity of living one's life. Through 116 works, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life will introduce visitors to the study and appreciation of art as an exciting and intellectually rewarding experience, and to the notion that art is something that can play an active role in their own approaches to life's essential questions.

This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by Constance and Walter Burke, Dartmouth College Class of 1944, the Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund, and the Ray Winfield Smith 1918 Fund. UMMA's installation is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Arts at Michigan, and the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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

Join us at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the dedication of the gardens in 1962. Travel back in time to view images of the conservatory, buildings, and grounds as they were 50 years ago; learn about how faculty and students have been using the Botanical Gardens for research, teaching, and learning for decades, including exciting current work by Associate Professor of Architecture Moji Navvab; and catch a breath of warmer weather in the conservatory with a spring flower display. Free conservatory admission.

A safe, open space for ALL Men of Color to converse over free lunch.

Lunch provided

We all have patterns or "grooves" in our thinking. Thought patterns that are distorted or overly negative can contribute to anxiety, mood problems, and other difficulties. In these sessions you will identify some of your own particular thought patterns and explore some strategies for re-formulating those problematic thoughts.

Increasingly PhD students in the social sciences and humanities are looking outside of traditional tenure track faculty positions for career opportunities after completing their PhDs. Join us as we explore how to execute a job search outside the academy. Together we will examine how story informs our decision to pursue diverse career paths, how to utilize presentation strategy for industry employers, and how to build a non-academic community to explore options and leverage connections.

To register go to: https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Events/wssel.php

Only Grad Students/ Register Required

Paul Rosenthal is the Artistic Director of the Sitka Music Festival, and Linda Rosenthal is the Artistic Director of Juno Jazz & Classics and the Lake Placid Chamber Music Institute

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies is pleased to present The Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities featuring Farah Griffin who is a William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Griffin will be giving a lecture entitled “Pearl Primus: Dancing Democracy, Dancing Freedom (1943-1953).” Griffin is the author of Who Set You Flowin’: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001) and Clawing At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne, 2008). Co-sponsored by the Center for the Education (CEW) of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Jazz Department, the Program in American Culture the Depts. of English and History and the University Library

Leaders who fail to enact the preferences of their constituents risk defeat in elections. The risk seems to be real—legislators receive more votes when they adhere to district sentiments—but how citizens learn about the quality of the representation they receive is less clear. In a two-part study exploiting variations in state-level newspaper issue content as well as facts about legislative behavior in a randomized national survey experiment, we find that the information environment helps Americans re-elect officials who act in their interests. Specifically, across a dozen domestic and foreign policy issues, we observe double-digit changes in incumbent support when citizens encounter information about the roll-call behavior of their Senators or House members. The provision of legislative behavior information well helps citizens reward politicians who vote as they would have and punish those who do not. Our findings underscore the role the mass media plays in promoting political representation.

Dr. Barabas studies how citizens learn about policy issues from the mass media and interpersonal deliberation.

This session will give students information on what depression is and is not. It will also explore ways to help students feel more energized and well equipped to navigate through their difficult situation or depressed mood.

Testing conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Screening for sexually transmitted infections will also be available, with a request for donation.

Supported by: Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Washtenaw County Public Health Department, University Health Service, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, CoitusLove, and the Student Planning Committee

No testing on February 28th (spring break)

PROFS is a once monthly event where professors give a short lecture on some of their current research! PIZZA and REFRESHMENTS are provided and it's a great way to earn brownie points with professors, get extra credit, have a free dinner and learn something new!

Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) partners with Mortar Board Honor Society for these events.

Future dates include: 1/17 - Michigan League, Michigan Room 2/7 - Michigan Union, Pendleton Room 3/13 - Michigan League, Michigan Room 4/3 - Michigan League, Michigan Room featuring Professor Ralph Williams

Details about the professor speaking the discussion topic will be advertised closer to the events.

LSA faculty members Maria Cotera, Matthew Countryman, Kristin Hass and Phil Deloria will reflect on the relation between upbringings in activist households, their own commitments to social justice, and the role of the university in advancing the social good.

The Tartan Terrors are not a band but, in the words of the organizers, "North America’s premiere Celtic Event, features the best in music, comedy and dance." Amazed by the blistering chops of a two-time World Champion Bagpiper, the driving tones of drums from around the world, and a guitar played unlike any you’ve ever heard, standing-room-only audiences come to understand why Dig This magazine declares the Terrors "one act to keep an eye on!” Combine all the music with championship-caliber Highland Dancers and internationally recognized comedic performers, and this Celtic Group goes beyond the ordinary. Members of the Tartan Terrors have performed on four different continents; in some of the most prestigious festivals, Highland Games, and theaters in North America, for President Bill Clinton and Queen Elizabeth II, and on Good Morning America. Experience the phenomenon of the Tartan Terrors and see why Celtic Beat hails them as “the heirs apparent to the mayhem”!

PROGRAM: Bizet - Au fond du temple saint from Les pêcheurs de perles; Duprac - Extase; Soupir; Lehár - Dein ist mein ganzes Herz; Strauss - Nacht; Allerseelen; Hundley - My Master hath a garden; Come ready and see me; Weil - Lonely house from Street Scene; Morely - Fire, fire my heart!; Weelkes - As vesta was; Pearsall - Lay a garland; Brahms - Drei Quartette; Copland - Zion’s Walls; arr. Erb - Shenandoah; arr. Hogan - Abide with me; Dawson - Ain’-a That Good News!