The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library welcomes renowned reporter, journalist and author Marvin Kalb, to discuss his new book, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.

Marvin Kalb, moderator of the highly acclaimed public television and radio series, The Kalb Report, has a distinguished 30-year broadcast career, having served as chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS News and NBC News, and as moderator of Meet the Press.

Join us for this look at Vietnam’s long shadow, and the war’s impact on U.S., foreign and military policy.

Seating is open and free of charge. A reception and book sales and signing will follow the talk.

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.

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

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.

The U-M eTextbook Initiative is hosting demonstrations by four etextbook vendors to give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to preview and evaluate the various platforms. The feedback collected at these sessions will inform the initiative’s selection of an etextbook platform for the campus, which will be implemented in select courses in the coming fall semester.

The four vendors—CourseSmart, Courseload, Lecture Tools, and Vital Source—will each make a one day visit to campus, offering features demonstrations for faculty and students in morning sessions at the Hatcher Graduate Library, and afternoon sessions on North Campus (coffee and tea will be served). The morning sessions on each day include an overview and introduction from 8:30 am-9:00 am. The demonstrations are open to everyone on campus, though the group is particularly interested in input from students and faculty.

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, March 20th: CourseSmart 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, East Room, Pierpoint Commons Friday, March 23rd: Courseload 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, 2150 Dow

Tuesday, March 27th: LectureTools 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, East Room, Pierpoint Commons

Wednesday, March 28th: VitalSource 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, 2150 Dow

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.

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

The war in Afghanistan is entering its eleventh year with the debate over continuing or withdrawing often reduced to little more than bumper sticker phrases. Former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann will discuss what is at stake, what may be possible and the political and strategic costs of both continuation and withdrawal.

The argument of this paper is familiar, but hopefully developed in an unfamiliar way: that reproduction and commodification eliminate the need for aesthetic experience, even as they are the only way for a work of art to achieve immortality in a technological society of spectacles. They are the means of turning works of art into celebrated spectacles and artists into marketable celebrities. Two points of departure are Max Frisch's remark that "technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it," and Daniel Boorstin's notion of the pseudo-event. I will argue that works of art have become pseudo-events and artists aspire, consciously or unconsciously, to become celebrities, who are pseudo-people. The result is a sort of psychotic artworld in which depersonalization and derealization are rampant. They are the inevitable outcome of what Ortega y Gasset famously called the "dehumanization of art."

The U-M eTextbook Initiative is hosting demonstrations by four etextbook vendors to give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to preview and evaluate the various platforms. The feedback collected at these sessions will inform the initiative’s selection of an etextbook platform for the campus, which will be implemented in select courses in the coming fall semester.

The four vendors—CourseSmart, Courseload, Lecture Tools, and Vital Source—will each make a one day visit to campus, offering features demonstrations for faculty and students in morning sessions at the Hatcher Graduate Library, and afternoon sessions on North Campus (coffee and tea will be served). The morning sessions on each day include an overview and introduction from 8:30 am-9:00 am. The demonstrations are open to everyone on campus, though the group is particularly interested in input from students and faculty.

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, March 20th: CourseSmart: 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery; 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, East Room, Pierpoint Commons Friday, March 23rd: Courseload: 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery; 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, 2150 Dow

Tuesday, March 27th: LectureTools: 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery; 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, East Room, Pierpoint Commons

Wednesday, March 28th: VitalSource: 9:00 am – 10:45 am, Hatcher Library Gallery; 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm, 2150 Dow

Time is not easy to manage, especially for students with assignments and commitments to balance. This workshop will help to identify some of the barriers to effective time management, as well as determine strategies for managing your time in a way that works for you.

Students of Professor Stephen West. PROGRAM: Schumann - Waldesgespräch, Op. 39, no. 3; Handel - Comfort ye/Ev’ry valley from Messiah; Brahms - Ständchen, Op. 106, no. 1; Strauss - Ich trage meine Minne, Op. 32, no. 1; Herman & Fierstein - I am what I am from La cage aux folles; Strauss - 2 Gesänge, Op. 51; Lerner & Loewe - If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot; Menken & Feldman - Santa Fe from Newsies; Mozart - Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni; Britten - From Les Illuminations; Rodgers & Hammerstein - Soliloquy from Carousel; Brooks - We can do it from The Producers; Legrand & Sams - An Ordinary Guy from Amour; Brahms - Mein Wundes Herz, WoO23, no. 3; Puccini - Mi chiamano Mimi from La Boheme; Verdi - Confutatis from Messa di Requiem; Respighi - Un sogno from 4 Liriche

One Voice is an international grassroots movement that amplifies the of voice of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, empowering them to propel their elected representatives toward a two-state solution. The movements works to forge consensus for conflict resolution and build a human infrastructure capable of mobilizing the people toward a negotiated, comprehensive and permanent agreement between Palestine and Israel that ends the occupation, ensures security and peace for both sides, and solves all final-status issues in accordance with international law and previous bilateral agreements. The 1967 borders form the basis for the establishment of an independent, viable Palestinian state, with permanent borders and any modification to be agreed upon by both parties. The movement recognizes that violence by either side will never be a means to end the conflict.

Annual sing and dance competition of Greek Week. Also acts as culmination of Greek Week events and awards presentation ceremony.

Former UM undergraduate student and current UM professor Brian Arbic will describe his experience as a United States Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Liberia and Ghana, West Africa. He will also describe a surprise reunion with his prize pupil from Ghana, Joseph Ansong, 20 years later, and how it led to Ansong's hiring by Arbic’s lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Sponsored by: The University of Michigan Library, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the African Studies Center

A recital of repertoire featuring woodwind students performing in a variety of small ensembles. PROGRAM: Nielsen - Quintet for Winds; Mozart - Divermento Die Zauberflöte; Reicha - Quintetto Op. 100, no. 2 in D Minor; Mozart - Duo no. 2 from ^ Duets for Two Clarinets; Hayden - Janus; Barber - Summer Music Op. 31

In the mid-1970s, nine engineering students at the University of Havana came together to form a new musical group, naming it Sierra Maestra after a mountain range in their native eastern Cuba. At the suggestion of the father of two of the brothers in the group, they began to play in the son style, the ancestor of salsa and lots of other dance music of the Caribbean. By 1980 they were a success all over Cuba, and ever since then, they've been a living link to the Golden Age of Cuban music. They've always mixed classic pieces with newly written material, and it's often been their new songs that have become their most popular. When members of the press ask Sierra Maestra, "What will happen in Cuba to traditional music when the old guys, the 'originals,' have all gone?" they have a ready answer: "It will continue."

PROGRAM: Brahms - Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Violoncello in A Minor; Mozart - Piano Concerto in D Minor