U-SHAPE, the first ever large-scale study of its kind, aims to understand the habits, attitudes, and perceptions of undergraduate and graduate students related to eating and body image. U-SHAPE is designed to gather important information about the ways in which individual characteristics as well as the campus environment influence students’ relationships with eating, dieting, exercise, and body image, and how these relationships, in turn, fit into a larger picture of student mental health.

The survey opens at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 2 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 24. Students will be RANDOMLY SAMPLED to participate in this important survey!

For all students - Participate in U-SHAPE!

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.

David C. Turnley is a world renowned photographer, filmmaker, and University of Michigan Alumnus. He received the Pulitzer Prize in photography and filmmaking for his coverage of the Revolutions in 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square in China.

In addition, he was twice awarded the World Press Picture of the Year, the prestigious Robert Capa Award for Courage, and four Overseas Press Club Awards.

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to view these twenty-five iconic photographs by David Turnley from October 4th – November 9th in the Gallery of the International Institute in the School of Social Work Building.

Mr. Turnley is also presenting at the International Institute's Symposium "Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence".

Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

You are invited to the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance’s Annual Meeting, Innovation in Action: Community Health Workers are part of Michigan’s Health Future. MiCHWA is a collaboration of community health workers (CHWs), organizational partners, and other CHW supporters whose mission is to promote and sustain the integration of CHWs into Michigan’s health and human service systems through coordinated changes in policy and workforce development.

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.

Speaker: Gregory A. Keoleian, Professor of Sustainable Systems, U-M

The ultimate foundation of a healthy economy and society is environmental sustainability. This talk will compare EU and US sustainability by analyzing the basic systems for meeting our societal needs including energy, mobility, shelter and food. How do our consumption patterns, products and technology, and energy and environmental policies compare with the Europeans?

Central Student Government, in partnership with University Unions, presents U-M's own MFarmers' Market. Fresh fruits and vegetables direct from local farms will be available for purchase. There will also be chef demonstrations, tips for healthy and sustainable eating, samples, giveaways, plant sale and more.

Blue Bucks, cash and credit cards accepted.

This market offers fresh fruits and vegetables from local farms, cooking demonstrations, free samples, giveaways, recipes, a plant sale and tips for health and sustainable eating.

African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and "NOW."

This exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition "Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire," which features the Clements collection's major painting "The Death of General Wolfe." William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan, Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

The Seoul-based art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained international acclaim for their "net art" productions-mostly black- and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional support provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

Visitors encountering Danish artist Just’s exhibit will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just’s unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended, unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to abandon, and this is the essence of Just’s gift for hypnotic storytelling. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower self-identified 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. Free lunch will be provided.

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

(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) In a recent written work, Professor Glassman provided an illustrated reflection on the gorin no tô, or “five-element pagoda.” This structural object came into being in Japan around 1100 and became a central symbol in medieval Shingon Buddhism. The five-element pagoda is an ideal vehicle for the examination of cultural flows in East Asia. In this presentation, Professor Glassman will enlist the aid of visual resources and focus particularly on the place of the gorin no tô style gravestone in the iconography of a new “Children’s limbo” introduced at the turn of the 17th century.

About the Speaker: Hank Glassman is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. His teaching and scholarly work centers on Japanese history, death and the afterlife, Buddhism, and gender. He has authored works such as "The Face of Jizô: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism" (Hawaii 2012).

A series of dance improvisations for camera by Peter Sparling. Gallery hours 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the Public

Cost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental)

Some medical schools are starting to shift to a new Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format when vetting applicants. Attend this workshop to discuss the differences between MMI's and traditional interviews. Get an opportunity to practice with peers to gain experience with this new format!

Vocalist, producer and songwriter, Joan Belgrave began her musical career like so many others, singing in the choir of the Baptist church. Her versatility as a musical stylist and her classical vocal training allow her to perform in various genres from jazz and blues to gospel and soul. With a powerful voice and her own jazzy/blues style, Belgrave is a touring lead vocalist with Marcus Belgrave's Louis Armstrong & Ray Charles Tribute Jazz Ensemble and Charlie Gabriel’s New Orleans Traditional Jazz Ensemble. Listen closely and find yourself transported on a musical journey from the '30s to the present, including sweet love songs, sorrowful blues and swinging beats.

This continuation of the spring class will emphasize improving competency in conversational French. Major grammatical structures have been covered before, but they will be reviewed as needed. The class will include an interactive TV/response program. Please purchase “Le Rouge et le Noir” by Stendahl. New students who have four years of high school French or equivalent are welcome. Instructor Adele McCarus is a retired teacher of French in the Ann Arbor School System.

Class continues Thursdays, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. at TSRC. September 6 - November 8, no class 9/27 and 10/4

No class 9/27 and 10/4

If you enjoy the natural areas at Matthaei-Nichols and would like to help maintain them this is a great service learning opportunity. Volunteers are on call for weekday, afternoon burns (1-4 pm) during the spring and fall. The training will provide basic information about the use of prescribed fire as a restoration tool and the basic volunteer duties. A tour of past burn sites and hands-on demonstration will be provided, weather permitting.

Thursdays, September 13 - October 11 Dick Chase, Trinity Lutheran Church, 1400 W. Stadium Blvd. The group will read and discuss "The Windward Shore," a new book by Jerry Dennis. The author uses walks along the lakeshores and winter on the Great Lakes to meditate “on the ancient questions about mind and matter, time and attention, wildness and wonder.” Please read to the end of Chapter 1 for the first class. Dick Chase has logged several thousand miles of nature walking, and volunteers for the Huron River Watershed Council.

Thursday, October 11, 2012 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Join the conversation: #umbettyford

This event will be live web-streamed; a link to the web-stream will be posted here on the day of the event at least 30 minutes prior to the start time.

A trailblazing First Lady who brought candor and integrity to our national conversation.

A passionate advocate of women's rights, Mrs. Ford engaged challenging social issues at great political risk and with a rare personal vulnerability. Her considerable impact on American life and culture has only deepened with time.

>> Keynote policy lecture by Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure

>> Performance by Miki Orihara, principal dancer, Martha Graham Dance Company: Letter to the World excerpt -- "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door"

>> Tribute remarks from President Mary Sue Coleman, Michael Ford, and other special guests

Special thanks to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum for archival assistance and photographs. www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov

Annual meeting, Board elections and Social Meeting

Doing research or preparing a dissertation? We’ll cover the basics of creating and managing a personal bibliographic database, including importing citations from online resources and generating formatted bibliographies. In addition, you’ll also learn more about EndNote’s Cite While You Write feature for editing citations in Microsoft Word.

All sessions are free, but registration is required.

Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia

Lecture Abstract: It has become commonplace to claim that contemporary wars are fought from a distance: the iconic version is the drone missions flown over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere from the United States. Yet wars have been waged at a distance throughout history, and we need a surer sense of the historical curve through which military violence has shaped (and been shaped by) the friction of distance. But we also need a sharper calibration of war’s geography, including changes in military logistics, weapons systems, and the emergence of new media to convey the theatre of war to distant audiences. Yet for all these changes the ‘death of distance’ – and the distance of death – in today’s liquid world has been greatly exaggerated, and there remains a stark intimacy to many killing spaces that requires careful reflection. I will then become clear that the claim registered by Thomas Friedman's "brief history of the 21st century" – that "the world is flat" - is purblind and premature, even for the US military.

Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Originally published in 1997, it was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries. Continuing the investigation begun in Living Downstream, Steingraber’s book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood and the extent to which environmental hazards threaten each stage of infant development. An enthusiastic and sought-after public speaker, Steingraber has keynoted conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada and has been invited to lecture at many universities, medical schools, and hospitals. She is recognized for her ability to serve as a two-way translator between scientists and activists. Sandra Steingraber is married to the artist Jeff de Castro, and they live in a 1000-square-foot house with a push mower, a clothesline, a vegetable garden, and two beloved children.

Riedl discusses his hypothesis that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to choose their interaction neighborhood.

David Shields is the author of twelve books, including Jeff, One Lonely Guy, which was co-written by Jeff Ragsdale and Michael Logan; Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Utne Reader; he’s written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington.

Booksigning to follow

Seoul-based artist duo YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) have become known for their online and installation video work that questions contemporary social and cultural conditions, using black and white text and upbeat music. To coincide with their solo exhibition at UMMA, YHCHI will deliver a Penny Stamps talk designed especially for students interested in an artistic career. These internationally acclaimed artists, whose works have been shown at the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will share their creative secrets: “What we have to say will change your lives... you’ll never be the same.”

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the School of Art and Design's Penny Stamps Speaker Series.

David Shields is the author of twelve books, including Jeff, One Lonely Guy, which was co-written by Jeff Ragsdale and Michael Logan (forthcoming from Amazon Publishing NYC on March 20, 2012); Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Utne Reader; he’s written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MFA Program for Writers, in Asheville, North Carolina.

The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.

September 27 - Documentalist Jennifer Karady has received acclaim for her large-scale staged portraits telling Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. She is joined by the Founding Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Paul Rieckhoff.

October 4 - Silicon Valley executive Peter Hirshberg is an innovative thinker with interests and expertise at the intersections between media technology, art, and the civic sphere.

October 11 - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), a collective of web artists from Korea, is featured in a UMMA solo exhibition, through December 30. The Penny Stamps presentation will be “designed especially for students interested in a career in the arts.”

October 18 - The beautiful yet dark visions in Alexis Rockman’s paintings show worlds where civilization and nature have collided. They are fictions but based on a lot of scientific understanding of the natural world.

October 25 - Famous and controversial film director Oliver Stone joins the Penny Stamps series to give a presentation entitled “Untold,” his current project being a 10-part TV documentary on American history entitled “The Untold History of the United States.”

November 1 - CANCELED, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. (This lecture has been rescheduled for April 4, 2013.) Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. A visionary in design, according to Time Magazine, she is also an accomplished writer and editor.

November 8 - Designer and Typographer Stefan Sagmeister has had a successful career designing for big clients, from Rolling Stone to HBO, to musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. For his Penny Stamps presentation, he will explore “how to achieve happiness as a designer.”

November 15 - Artist and activist Chris Jordan’s photographs will be featured in a U-M campus-wide exhibition, Running the Numbers, which look at “contemporary western culture through statistics.” It will run October 26 to November 20.

November 29 - Janine Antoni, a sculptor, photographer, and performance artist, explores the body and its everyday activities through her acclaimed artworks.

Live Your Story to Find a Meaningful Career...This workshop is designed to help students reflect on what factors are important to them when deciding on a career. This will also help participants figure out how to explore their interests in greater depth. Through various exercises, students will be able to more clearly define the things that are important to them, and learn how to make connections between the different pieces of their story.

In this presentation, Graham Beal addresses the multiple purposes behind the creation of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as its changes in meaning within a city that went from being "the arsenal of democracy" to a poster child for urban decay. Beal will also discuss how individual works of art, conceived as being rare and singular, retain their power as visual objects when contextualized and confronted with increasingly sophisticated reproduction techniques.

A comedy by John Cariani, directed by Jerry Schwiebert. A funny, warm and whimsical romantic comedy set in the mythical town of Almost, Maine. League Ticket Office 734.764.2538

A musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Mark Madama, music direction by Cynthia Kortman Westphal. A compelling story about inspiration - in art and in life. League Ticket Office 734.764.2538

Rhinocéros was initially a short story written in 1957 by Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), who was influenced by his time in Romania as a young man when nearly everyone around him converted to fascism. Alongside Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Harold Pinter, Ionesco was a major figure of the “Theater of the Absurd.”

Rhinocéros begins in a small town square where Jean meets his apathetic friend Berenger for a drink. A rhinoceros runs through the square, shocking all except Berenger. The square is soon overrun as people in the town begin to transform into rhinos. Berenger, on the other hand, transforms from being indifferent and aimless to a having something to believe in and fight against: the tyranny of the rhinos. A parable about French collaboration with the Nazis, Rhinocéros serves as a metaphor for people resisting the crowd and standing up for their own ideas.

The Théâtre de la Ville production of Rhinocéros has been hailed for its illuminating and insightful approach to Ionesco’s celebrated play, skillfully setting astonishing moments of physical theater and movement in a staging that showcases both the haunting beauty of Ionesco’s words and his singular vision for the stage. Remaining true to the spirit and letter of the play, the production rekindles the staggering sense of urgency and risk conveyed by the script, as it depicts the struggle of one man to maintain his individual identity and integrity in a world where others have successively yielded to the inevitable domination of brute force. When the play was first presented in Paris, critics were ecstatic. “A masterpiece,” raved Le Monde. “A veritable tour de force on the part of the director… [and] a magical embrace between the show and the spectator.”

Joyful rebellion, funky and horn-fueled"—Entertainment Weekly

The Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland recognized his daughter Shemekia's talent early on, and he brought her on stage at Harlem's Cotton Club when she was eight. She felt only embarrassment then, but at 15 she felt the calling. "It was like a switch went off in my head," recalls Shemekia, "and I wanted to sing. It became a want and a need. I had to do it." Shemekia's blast-furnace voice has brought plenty of comparisons to Etta James, Tina Turner, and other vocal greats. But really Shemekia is an independent artist --a young woman with not only a great voice but an ear for songs with insight and emotional honesty. If there's a blues song for our times, it's her rendition of her father's composition "Circumstances," a crushing depiction of job loss and economic powerlessness. Shemekia comes to The Ark with a hot-off-the-burners new album, "33 1/3."

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor. A colorful array of American orchestral music with a taste of jazz, rock, and Broadway. Bernstein\&##39;s lighthearted and whimsical broadway classic, Candide Overture opens the concert. Soprano, Ariel Halt, 2012 Concerto Competition Winner, performs "Honey and Rue," a song cycle with lyrics by Toni Morrison and music by Andre Previn. The USO will also perform Michael Daugherty\&##39;s Metropolis Symphony (based on the Superman comic book series). Now one of the most often performed pieces of American music, its latest recording recently brought the U-M composer two Grammy Awards. PROGRAM: Bernstein - Overture to Candide; Previn - Honey and Rue Ariel Halt, soprano (2012 Concerto Competition Winner); Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 in the Lower Lobby.

Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the public!

Cost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff, Students, Youth and Seniors) ($2 additional cost for skate rental)