The 2012 Fauri Memorial Lecture addresses the timely and contested topic of U.S. immigration policy which includes in its mission to identify, arrest, and remove illegal aliens, and the goals of the child welfare system, which are to ensure child safety, permanency, and well-being.

The Fauri Memorial Lecture will inform participants about dilemmas experienced by families and children when immigration policy is enforced but also to generate feasible solutions.

Elizabeth Busey has been inspired by global travel to explore the forces that shape our world – growth, pressure, erosion and decay. Through this exploration, she highlights patterns from many disparate perspectives in order to celebrate their universality in the natural world. Her work is created by printing multiple layers of ink onto cotton rag paper, where a single linoleum block is gradually reduced with each color layer. Busey is a primarily self-taught printmaker who produces her work in Bloomington, Indiana on a press made of recycled steel.

By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “…these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

A driving force in Monte Nagler’s artist quest is to have others see the world in a finer light and to appreciate life a little more. He has the ability to make visible what others can only sense, sharing with viewers the emotional beauty he experiences. Nagler’s photographs, which have won numerous awards, are found in many private and public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, the U-M Museum of Art and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. He is also a noted writer, lecturer and teacher of photography and the author of six highly successful photography books.

By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “…these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

Traditional kunqu, a genre of classical Chinese theatre, comes alive in the large scale photographs of Xu, Zengquan. The viewer experiences the personalities of the characters and the spirit of the dance, opening a window into traditional Chinese culture and history. Now a local practicing engineer, Xu was born into a family of 10 brothers and sisters, in Jiangsu, China, and discovered his passion for photography in his teens. His work has been published by the Smithsonian Institution. Gifts of Art is pleased to present this exhibition in partnership with the U-M Confucius Institute.

Valerie Mann has been showing her work professionally throughout the US and in Canada and Germany for 23 years. She grew up on a large family farm in Indiana, went to University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana to earn a BFA in painting, then to MSU to earn an MFA in sculpture. Now working and teaching in Ann Arbor, Mann’s use and study of tools inspired this body of work. Used every day and sometimes taken for granted, tools are indispensable in the making of art. These favorite tools are beautifully designed and well-thought out for their specific job.

Darryl Baird is Associate Professor of Art at U-M Flint in graphic design and photography. This body of photographic work is a series of highly magnified plant sections offered as homage to natural life cycles and the inherent potential for beauty in mature forms. These images are a means to explore the cycles of all living things and a way to find understanding through the process. For this series, Baird used antique lenses and the now discontinued Polaroid Positive/Negative 55 film. His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas and U-M Museum of Art in Ann Arbor.

This year, Gifts of Art celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Employee Art Exhibition! This eagerly anticipated annual event showcases the exceptional talent and creativity of the people who work at the University of Michigan Health System, and for the first time this year, family members too! There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by the votes of visitors to the exhibit. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibition gallery, which will be hosted by Dr. Ora H. Pescovitz, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs.

Travel, an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new places, some existing solely for the vacationer. This exhibition highlights changes in travel including information on early pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library collections.

The exhibit "Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope" includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages. This journey of transmission and interpretation throughout the centuries ends with the first editions of Alexander Pope’s renderings of the poems.

Visitors to the exhibit will hear a series of readings from the poems in the original Greek and in several other languages, including Latin, English, Dutch, and Spanish.

The exhibit is part of the LSA Fall 2012 theme semester, Translation.

Michigan Advisors for the Health Professions Conference Pre-registration REQUIRED.

Sponsored by UM The Career Center, Newnan Academic Advising Center, and UM Medical School.

Pre-registration REQUIRED

Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this art exhibit featuring landscape oil on canvas paintings from some of the most beautiful places in Michigan.

Exhibit: “Beautiful Michigan” - Landscape Paintings, Oil on Canvas

Artist: Anil Dhir

Artist Statement: For a painter, Michigan offers one of the most beautiful landscapes, whether here in Ann Arbor, up-north or anywhere else. These paintings are my attempt to capture some of the Michigan beauty. I believe that a great painting is a like a beautifully composed piece of music. My wish is to create a painting with a simple aim of honestly capturing the very essence of what I saw, and be able to make the viewer feel what I felt. (To read the full artist statement, please visit campusinvolvement.umich.edu, it is also posted with the exhibit.)

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, October 5th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Please note: The Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) provides opportunities for student and professional artists to display work suitable for a general audience. CCI hosting an artist’s work does not mean we endorse the artist’s point of view; we recognize the free speech rights of our exhibitors.

Canan Tolon’s paintings and installations serve as visual records of the passing of time. Each swipe captures the gesture as well as the memory of the gesture, now already in the past. Each panel appears to duplicate itself beyond any final tally, proliferating in the room.

Upon first glance, Tolon’s constructs evoke a sense of freedom in their repetition. They appear infinite, suggestive of vast open spaces, like the modern landscapes viewed out of a train window, or the documentary film reels from the mid- twentieth century. They draw us in, inviting our dreams and interpretations. In this momentary introspection, we contemplate our own histories.

Then, like the first day of any highly anticipated tomorrow, after the proverbial summer full of expectation…expecting things to change, to be different, to be new again, we are struck with a profound disillusionment, stranded in a place full of promise that never delivers. In a turn, the world of photographic familiarity Tolon has created collapses in on itself. — Amanda Krugliak, arts curator

This Institute for the Humanities original installation was made possible by the generosity of the 2012 Kidder Residency in the Arts. The installation is based on Canan Tolon’s observations and experiences during her time in Ann Arbor, and many of the materials used are salvage materials from her visits to Detroit architectural yards.

Each week, writers will bring in typed copies of their short stories, plays, poems, novels, essays, or freelance magazine articles. Fellow writers will offer friendly and appreciative criticism on all aspects of writing. Participants are asked to provide copies of their essays to share with the group. For 23 years, Joy Rome was a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Class continues Fridays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon September 7 - August 30 at TSRC.

The study group will consider decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment and other constitutional provisions concerned with race. In the course of our discussions, we will necessarily also consider theories about how the Constitution should be interpreted and about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system. Reading materials will be distributed either prior to or at the first meeting of the study group. Terry Sandalow is Dean Emeritus of the Law School and the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Semiconductor nanowire is a very useful platform for nanoscience and engineering research. The capability of rational synthesis and band engineering allow control over the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties at nanoscale, and thus enable enormous opportunities in electronics, optoelectronics, renewable energy, biosensing, and nanomedicine. In this talk, I will first present the ultrahigh sensitive nanowire photodetectors and the use of nanoengineered artificial photoreceptors for prosthetic device applications with sensitivity beyond human eyes. Then I will discuss results of nanowire photovoltaic devices (solar cells and photoelectrochemical cells) with significant potential for enhanced device performance and energy conversion efficiency at reduced fabrication cost.

Tania Israel, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Presentation and discussion of privilege, which consists of unearned advantages that are conferred on individuals based on membership or assumed membership in a dominant group, in mental health and student affairs settings. Lack of awareness of privilege has costs to individuals, to communities, and to society. When and how is it appropriate for mental health practitioners help therapy clients explore privilege? What challenges arise helping people who identify with target identities explore privileged aspects of their experience? What strategies for exploring privilege can be applied in individual and group contexts? This presentation will describe the construct of privilege, elucidate the costs of privilege, and identify barriers and strategies for helping individuals and groups explore privilege.

CE's available for Social Workers

This drop-in gallery class offers an opportunity to be more than an observer at the Museum. With the guidance of the instructor, learn to observe the works in the UMMA collections; experiment with proportion, perspective, line quality, value, composition, and personal style. No experience necessary; all are welcome!

$10 one-time drop-in fee (cash only), materials included Pre-register for all 8 classes: $72 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students / $80 non-members, materials included. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.

Thurnau Prof. of Dance Peter Sparling’s screendance installation, Clonal Renderings will be shown as part of: I know you’re there, but who am I?: Explorations of Identity and Place. This juried exhibition explores the intersection of identity and place. How does place shape identity? How does identity shape the places we choose to inhabit? Gallery hours 12PM-7PM

Featuring Karl Schlögel (History, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)), Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Ph.D. Student, Classical Studies), Adam Johnson (Ph.D. Student; History), and David Spreen (Ph.D. Student, History). Chaired by Helmut Puff (History).

Dr. Shah's presentation will focus on innovation and technology in reaching new communities in the developing world, related to food security and agriculture. The format of the event will include a 20-minute presentation by Rajiv Shah followed by a 20-minute Q&A session. Attendees will have the opportunity to write their questions for Dr. Shah directly prior to the event.

PUBLIC is the third installment of a series of conferences exploring present predicaments in architecture and urban planning. This conference will focus on the relationships between planning, architecture, and the public while exploring the social impact of designs and decisions. Questions to be considered include: What role should public space play? What is the public definition of beauty? What forces enable planning and architecture to redefine culture and serve as a catalyst for change?

A diverse group of experts who actively shape the public opinion of architecture and planning will respond through informal discussion to a series of four "provocations." These free-ranging conversations will underscore the complexities and contradictions inherent in each provocation as well as suggest potential solutions to such predicaments. Open discussion at the end of the afternoon will encourage the audience to take part in the conversations.

Food is offered. Lunch begins at 12:00pm

This hands-on class will cover how to use the free software Mendeley to better organize and access your electronic article library. Mendeley can locate, rename, and organize your PDFs. It includes a PDF reader/annotator and your library can be synced to the cloud and easily shared with others. It can also create bibliographies in any of hundreds of styles. Come and learn more about this great tool.

All sessions are free, but registration is required.

The group will survey modern art, stressing its historical contexts, with slide lectures and discussion. Reading materials will be suggested and sometimes distributed. The class will be given by Roger Green, Ph.D., a former art critic for Booth Newspapers, who is now teaching art history at EMU.

No class 11/23

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This course, sponsored by the UM Career Center and LSA SG, has been designed to offer University of Michigan students and alumni/ae an affordable opportunity to jumpstart their preparation for the December 2012 LSAT and beyond. Course details and registration at:

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/article/lsat-familiarization-course

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

The group will look at the roots of the American musical and follow its development to the current time, starting with the European influence, continuing with American Yiddish theater, vaudeville and the African-American contribution. The second section will cover the musical up to about 1930and the last section will cover the mid-twentieth century until today. Please go to the OLLI website for more details. Barbara Mackey, PhD in Theater History, has taught musical theater.

Researched and organized by a team of Ph.D. candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Professor Beatriz Colomina. The team included: Craig Buckley, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi, Daniel Lopez-Perez, and Irene Sunwoo.

This exhibition tracks the critical function of independent architectural publications that were the engine of an intensely creative period of experimental architectural practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Known as "little magazines," the periodicals that proliferated during this period appeared in response to the political, social and artistic changes of the time. The show includes manifestoes, pamphlets, building instruction manuals, and a survey of magazine covers as well as professional magazines, complemented by interviews with editors and designers of these publications.

Generous support for this exhibition was given by The Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund

Open Friday - Sunday

The group will read and discuss this book by Jon Butler, Grant Wacker and Randall Palmer, three eminent historians of religion. It traces religious development in the United States from colonization up to the 21st century. While Americans have experienced massive cultural changes, secularization and exposure to a variety of beliefs, most have remained incurably religious. Facilitated by John Cameron.

(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) CJS's Fall Film Series of 2012 features silent films by Yasujiro Ozu with professional benshi (narrator), Ichiro Kataoka, performing theatrical narration at each screening. Most films will also include a live music accompaniment.

AN INN AT TOKYO (Tōkyō no yado) Kihachi is a father of two boys with neither a job nor a place to live. While wandering around Tokyo during recession, Kihachi and his sons encounter a woman named Otaka and her daughter. The kids are quick to make friendly acquaintances. Watching them play together, Kihachi and Otaka feel happy, as though they’d returned to their childhood days. (80 min, 35 mm, 1935)

LIVE Music: Performance by Little Bang Theory.

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends—a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

Two Aussie brothers and an underground NYC hand drummer

The Kin is an eclectic band composed of Australian brothers Thorald and Isaac Koren and the New York drummer Shakerleg. They were first introduced to Ann Arbor last June, when they came here to perform for Pioneer High School graduate Will McGuckin, who was recovering from surgery. Stowaways from Adelaide, Australia, they found a new home in downtown NYC in their early musical years after high school and eventually ended up running into underground performer Shakerleg. The trio has been touring the world with their co-led soaring vocals, wrenching melodic guitars, and Shakerleg's explosive hand drumming. They're total originals; they sometimes do dinner theater of a sort; and you should check them out!

Michael Haithcock, conductor Jonathan Caldwell, graduate conductor Edward Goodman, concerto winner, soloist The music of Ann Arbor’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, William Bolcom, serves as the motivation for an evening of musical pairs. Two works by Russian masters named Dmitri (Shostakovich and Kabalevsky), two by European masters (Mozart and Varèse), two by Pulitzer Prize winners (Bolcom and Harbison), and two inspired by the imagery of locations (Three City Blocks and Rocky Point Holiday) stack the deck for a winning hand. Come enjoy the “two of a kind” evening with Ann Arbor’s “ace” composer and be inspired by the “dealing” of concerto competition winner Edward Goodman as saxophone soloist and host of other talented young musical “sharks.” Pre-concert lecture with William Bolcom and Michael Haithcock at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby. For more information, see the Symphony Band YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/umsymphonyband PROGRAM: Shostakovich - Prelude in E-flat Minor; Kabalevsky - Overture to “Colas Breugnon”; Varèse - Intégrales, Jonathan Caldwell, graduate conductor; Bolcom - Concert Suite for Alto Saxophone and Band, Edward Goodman, saxophone soloist; Mozart - Divertimento in E-flat Major, K.166; Harbison - Three City Blocks; Nelson - Rocky Point Holiday

In 2001, UNESCO declared kunqu, the 600-year-old grand opera of China, a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” The declaration not only affirms the artistic and cultural distinctions of the genre, which is known for its perfect blending of dramatic literature, soulful singing, and elegant dancing, but also creates a context for its revival in contemporary and globalized China. The genre is now enjoying a revival, attracting audiences inside and outside China with performances that judiciously blend classical stories and performance practices with contemporary staging interpretations and technologies. Kunqu is recognized internationally for being both authentic and yet fresh and updated. In its own way, it is similar to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s fresh, yet authentic, interpretations of classical English plays.

To experience kunqu is to encounter artistic and classical China interpreted for the globalized present. To experience kunqu is to see Chinese characters/roles, historical and contemporary, come alive on stage, revealing their Chinese emotions and values.

Program “Qintiao” (Zither Seductions) from Jade Hairpin “Huozhuo” (Captured Alive) from All Men Are Brothers “Xiaoyan” (Garden Banquet) from Palace of Everlasting Youth

MTango is a student organization dedicated to spreading the joy of Argentine tango in the University of Michigan community and beyond. We pride ourselves in providing outstanding teachers at affordable prices, and we look for instructors who are not only excellent dancers and experienced teachers but are also articulate and personable people. We also host social dance parties and share our talents through performances. MTango offers a popular intensive beginner's series in Argentine tango (no partner or experience required), as well as classes for more advanced dancers. It's a great way to meet people, listen to awesome music, relax, share a few dances, and have lots of fun!

Please arrive 15 minutes before the first class starts to complete sign in for the series.

PROGRAM: Bach - Prelude and Fugue no. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873, from The Well Tempered Clavier, Book II; Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 23 in F Minor, op. 57, (“Appassionata”); Chopin - Nocturne no. 17 in B Major, op. 62, no. 1; Brahms - Piano Sonata no. 1 in C Major, op. 1

Annual event hosted by the National Panhellenic Council and its member organizations. This dance/party is an opportunity to welcome students to campus, for students to socialize, and to learn about the NPHC fraternities and sororities.