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.

Bright colors, strong edges, and intersecting geometric forms are the hallmarks of Patrick Dengate's current studio work. Drawing from the tradition of 20th century Cubism, Dengate presents paintings and woodcuts with subjects ranging from Utah canyons, Costa Rican towns, busy rail yards, and ships on the Great Lakes. His work is featured in the recently published book Eyes On: Landscapes, a compilation of 50 contemporary painters from around the world. Dengate's work is on display in several corporate collections in Michigan and can be found in private collections across the US, Canada and Europe.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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".

After receiving a BFA from Rutgers University, Denise Rohde went on to study photography with renowned photographer Art Sinsabaugh at the University of Illinois. Working for years in a darkroom, the switch to digital allowed her to draw from her painting and printmaking experience. Being able to combine mediums digitally has unleashed her imagination. Denise moved to Ann Arbor eight years ago from Champaign, Illinois, and she has found Michigan to be an "eyeful." Some of her exhibits include the University of Illinois, Roulette NYC, Peachtree Plaza Atlanta and the Kodak Pavilion, Epcot Center.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Farmington Hills, Michigan artist Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan has a portfolio of work that includes trompe l'oeil clay, glass mosaics, printmaking, mixed media, and most recently, sand art. In addition to local gallery exhibitions and community installations, her work has been displayed through the U.S. Arts and Embassy Program and showcased in Norway, Barbados and Brazil. Kaplan presently works at Children's Hospital in Detroit where she creates art with children and adolescent patients to provide an atmosphere for healing. The Brillo Blox sand art sculpture is comprised of 12 cubes and is designed as a puzzle than can be assembled as an abstract sculpture. These puzzle cubes highlight the different pictures used in the advertising of Brillo over the past 100 years.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Born and raised in China, Mingshi Huang studied at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan, where he earned his graduate degrees. Huang travels extensively between the US and China and currently teaches at Nanjing University in Jiangsu Province. Recently, he completed several monumental, museum commissioned sculptures in China. This exhibition is a reminiscence of Huang’s work done while in Ann Arbor. Although his interests spread from representational to expressionist, Huang is rooted in a traditional ground. His figure paintings and landscapes reflect his masterful approach to traditional realism.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

This exhibit features portraits of and stories by Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) who work at the University of Michigan Health System. Stories by these nurses with advanced training overlay their portraits with words. Led by Assistant Professor Laurie Hartman, this collaboration with Gifts of Art shines a spotlight on APRNs, explaining how in their work they conduct evaluations, order and interpret diagnostic tests, deliver various treatments and prescribe medications. Nurses, who tend to treat patients in a holistic manner, viewing humans across the lifespan as biological, psychological, social and spiritual beings, are consistently among the most highly trusted professionals in the nation.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Thomas and Sarah Gelsanliter are full-time ceramic artists creating unique handmade tiles and pottery at their studio, One Acre Ceramics, located in southeastern Michigan. Thomas received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002, and his intricate designs are influenced by historical furniture, industrial plate ware, and classic Arts & Crafts and folk art iconography. Sarah is largely self-taught as a potter and spent a year living in Japan, visiting studio potters throughout the country. She throws all of the pottery on the wheel, finishing and assembling each piece when partially dry. A palette of luminous glazes highlight the hand-carved designs and crisp lines, giving each piece a polished, radiant finish.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

This exhibit features origami artists who enjoy folding fractals, tessellations and corrugations out of paper - an area of origami that explores pattern and texture in art and design. Each artist approaches this in their own unique way, and their work highlights the variety and beauty of this little known branch of origami. The artists hail from around the US, and were selected for their expertise and artistry in folding these beautiful patterns. The show was curated by Beth Johnson and includes work by Malachi Brown, Tom Crain, Rebecca Harris, Beth Johnson, Chad Killeen and Ben Parker.

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Schedule an appointment through the Psychology Department (call or schedule on-line) to meet with a Career Advisor and Psychology Concentration Advisor at the same time. Meet to discuss academic/career questions such as job search, exploring career options, graduate school, internships, etc.

Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this exhibit of memorable campaign posters collected by the Library of Congress and featured in the book “Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art” (Quirk Books, 2012).

The back of each poster includes commentary and additional artwork; when visiting the exhibit, do not hesitate to turn any of the posters over to read more about the election that year.

Enjoy the exhibit and remember to vote on Tuesday, November 6th then join us for an Elections Results Viewing Party at 8pm in the Michigan Union U-Club.

The exhibit will be presented through Nov. 20 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Saturday hours are noon-7 p.m.

The gallery is open noon - 7 p.m. on Saturdays and closed on Sundays. Portions of the exhibit are presented at other campus buildings.

“It’s been said that life is a sexually transmitted condition with a terminal prognosis.” (Ira Byock, MD) It helps to think ahead about what options you have and make choices for your quality of life. Topics will include: death and dying, dealing with how our minds work, the problem of pain, and considering how to lovingly say “goodbye.” Abby Wilson taught adults from Lamaze method to leadership development. She is retired clergy in the United Church of Christ.

John Milton stated that his purpose is “to assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to men,” while William Blake claimed that “Milton ... was a true poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” We will read and discuss about five complete books of "Paradise Lost", and excerpts from others. Recommended edition: "John Milton, Paradise Lost", ed. David Kastan, Merritt Hughes, Hackett, 3rd edition (2005). Frances McSparran is an emerita member of U-M’s Department of English.

This lecture/discussion will focus on major areas of human endeavor in which ethical issues play a role: personal ethics, health care, business, government and war/violence. Please read a book or long article on ethics to prepare for class discussion. Ken Phifer is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who has taught ethics courses for over 40 years.

There are four generations in families and in the workplace. They are the Traditionalists, the Baby Boomers, the Generation Xers, and the Millennials. Learn about your own generation and how it compares to other generations. What are the attitudes, values, work styles, and life skills of each generation? Peggy Clough was a supervisor at University Hospital. She has studied and taught on the topic of Generational Diversity for over 15 years.

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.

Cynthia Buckley (MA REES ‘87, PhD Sociology ‘91), professor of sociology, University of Illinois.

Cynthia Buckley is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and a senior consultant for Eurasia at the Social Science Research Council. Her research examines the cumulative effects of institutional and cultural change on individual demographic decision-making and the implications of demographic change for human security. Publications from her previous research projects cover issues of rural development, population aging, maternal and child health, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. For this lecture, part of Rackham’s Centennial Lecture series, Professor Buckley will draw on the research she has collected while serving as Primary Investigator of the project, “People, Power and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System,” a government initiative that examines the geopolitical implications of Russia’s emergence as an international migration destination state.

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

Open to the Public

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

Designed for skating and stick-handling with traffic flowing in one direction.

Full hockey gear required!

Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm

Students will have informal discussions covering a variety of topics such as: adjusting to U of M, cultural adjustment, making friends/relationships, and managing academic stress. Staff from CAPS, International Center, and other invited guests will facilitate these discussions.

We will read and discuss the title book by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. “Mothers and Others” lays the foundation for a new hypothesis about human evolution. “A book you read, pausing regularly to consider the full import of what you just read.”– From the review by Claudia Casper (Globe and Mail). The discussion will be led by Hazel Rood, who became acquainted with the author during field work in Africa in the 1970’s.

Participants will write about memories of times, people and places important to them. The stories will be read aloud to the group, discussed, and suggestions made. The discussions are lively, helpful, and they elicit additional memories. The class will be guided by Zibby Oneal, who has published books and stories based on her memories of earlier times.

Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. September 12 - December 12

This discussion group is for people interested in what’s happening at the local, national, and global level. All opinions receive a courteous hearing. No materials or special expertise required. Just bring an open mind and a good sense of humor.

Wednesdays, September 12 - December 19, Norm McIver

This is a class for those who want to review the Spanish that they have studied and want to increase their ability to speak, read and understand the language. We will have oral practice, grammar exercises and reading. Please bring to class the following texts: “Complete Spanish Grammar” by Gilda Nissenberg (first edition, 2004) and “Better Reading Spanish” by Jean Yates (2003). Jeanne Van Ochten taught high school Spanish.

No class 11/7, 11/14, 11/21

We will read and discuss the title book by Dr. Michael Sandel of Harvard University. He writes about justice, equality, democracy and citizenship by posing questions such as: What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? In addition to discussing the book, we will watch video of Dr. Sandel speaking about his book and have a practical debate exercise on issues raised in the book. Facilitator: Richard Galant.

Since the late 1980s, South Korea has become a prime destination for migrant workers and marriage migrants, mostly coming from developing Asian countries. It is fascinating to observe the growing cultural diversity in Korea despite the fact that Korean society is still struggling with race due to its dominant ideology of a “one-blooded ethnic nation.” This presentation examines the representation of South Asian migrant workers in three South Korean films – Bandhobi (Shin Dong-il, 2009), Where is Ronny (Shim Sang-gook, 2009), and Banga? Banga! (Uk Sang-hyo, 2010) – against the larger contexts of political, economic, and social transformation in South Korea. It explores how growing ethnic diversity and demographic changes in South Korea have impacted the transformation of modern Korean identity and cinematic imagination of Korean nationhood, citizenship, kinship, and racial and ethnic identities.

Mina Shin earned her Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California. She is currently working on a book project that examines the politics of multiculturalism and the representation of ethnic otherness in South Korean cinema, including the images of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers and marriage migrants, as well as Korean diaspora, such as Chosunjok (Korean Chinese), Zainichi Koreans (Korean Japanese), and North Korean refugees.

Jeremy Lazarus, M.D., current president of the American Medical Association, will deliver the 17th Raymond Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine. This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and is free and open to the public.

Open Data is an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

George M. Cohen, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, University of Virginia, will give a talk about the leadership crises at UVA.

Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis, is a pioneering historian of gender and society and an award-winning journalist. The recipient of the University of California Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983 and many national fellowships, she is the editor of the The Maimie Papers, a New York Times Notable Book in l978 and author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America (1982) and of The World Split Open: How The Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (rev. ed., 2006). Her hundreds of opinion essays can be found at www.ruthrosen.org. She was not at Port Huron, but has been an activist in all the social movements of the sixties. She is currently Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California, Berkeley.

Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis, is a pioneering historian of gender and society and an award-winning journalist. The recipient of the University of California Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983 and many national fellowships, she is the editor of the The Maimie Papers, a New York Times Notable Book in l978 and author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America (1982) and of The World Split Open: How The Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (rev. ed., 2006). The World Split Open was named a Book of the Month and Quality Paperback Selection, Los Angeles Times Best Books published in 2000, and a finalist for the Non-Fiction Award of the Bay Area Reviewers Association. A former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, Rosen serves on the editorial board of Dissent Magazine, is a regular contributor to Talking Points Memo, and OpenDemocracy, and has been published on TomDispatch.com, History News Network, Religious Dispatches.com, Common Dreams.org, AlterNet.org, Open Democracy.com, DoubleXX, and other online magazines. Her hundreds of opinion essays can be found at www.ruthrosen.org. She was not at Port Huron, but has been an activist in all the social movements of the sixties. She is currently Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California, Berkeley.

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“A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement in its Time and Ours” brings together world-renowned activists and scholars to mark the 50th anniversary of The Port Huron Statement , the historic manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) first issued in June 1962. Tapping the viewpoints of those present at the creation of the Statement as well as those historians, humanists, and social scientists who have studied that period, “A New Insurgency” draws attention to the complex scene of social-justice and leftwing activist movements that laid the seed-bed for The Port Huron Statement —and then helped spread and amplify its visions of social change.

The legacy of those movements, and the ideals of The Port Huron Statement, have returned to center-stage amid the stunning sweep of mass protest in pursuit of democracy and social justice over the past two years, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street and continuing collective action against the hardships of austerity. This gathering at the University of Michigan will test the significance of the new insurgency of the early 1960s for the new insurgents of 2011-2012. We welcome a broad audience to the conversation.

SDS’s Port Huron Statement offered the most comprehensive analysis of American society and most eloquent vision for radical reform to be generated by the emerging movement known as the New Left. Young radical intellectuals—including, in crucial leadership roles, undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Michigan—produced the document, but their inspiration stemmed from the energy and moral example already set by activists in the civil rights and peace movements, anticolonial struggles abroad, new signs of dissent from Latin America to Eastern Europe, and older leftwing ideas in need of renovation.

Drafters of The Port Huron Statement were keenly aware of many of these forces; in 1962, they may not have recognized others that were stirring as well. Speakers at the conference will examine the open, and sometimes hidden, elements of the new insurgent spirit of that time—including trends in feminism, Black nationalism, Latina/o and Native American struggles for recognition and power, rebellious currents around the world, gay liberation, and developments in the arts that tracked the course of rising protest.

“A New Insurgency” will engage today’s generation of students and activists in all the conference proceedings. Following this year’s summer-reading programs focused on The Port Huron Statement (for incoming UM first-years in several special college programs), the conference will feature an all-student panel on the meaning of the Statement’s New Left principles today. A concluding panel on Friday, November 2, will feature representatives of current campus activist groups discussing the present and future course of movements for equality, social justice, and democracy. Lunch-time sessions on Thursday and Friday will provide “open mic” discussion by veterans of the “Port Huron” moment and newcomers to the history of that time.

“A New Insurgency” runs from Wednesday, October 31, 7:30 pm, through the evening of Friday, November 2. Daily panels are held in the Pendleton and Anderson Rooms of the Michigan Union on S. State St. Wednesday's Keynote Address (Ruth Rosen) will be held in Angell Hall Auditorium B, 7:30-9:00pm. Thursday's Keynote Address (Tom Hayden) will be held in East Hall 1324, 7:30-9:00pm.

PROGRAM: Almenräder - Introduktion und Variationen über das Thema "Es eilen die Stunden des Lebens dahin"; Orselli - L\&##39;Abbandono: Romanza per Fagotto; Jancourt - Duo sur La Sonnambula de Bellini; Jancourt - Allegretto de la Symphonie en La de Beethoven; Jacobi - Quartet in B-flat Major