BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T000000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit of Recent Aquisitions DESCRIPTION:This exhibit includes an extraordinarily wide variety of primary source material collected to support current and future research. Among the items on display are: a watercolor “portrait” of a railroad bridge built in Prague in 1850\, original artwork by local artist Tom Pohrt for a children's book written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor\, a diary and photographs from a female UM student who hitchhiked from Ann Arbor to San Francisco in 1923\, a Spanish text from 1693 for those studying to be soldiers\, and Dante's Divine Comedy with illustrations by Salvador Dali. \n\nNew archival collections with samples on display include the papers of film director Robert Altman and writers Nicholas Delbanco and Richard Tillinghast\, as well as four separate women involved in radical causes such as Clarence Darrow's 1907 defense of union leaders accused of murder and the ecological costs of technology. This is the first opportunity for the public to see materials from the Altman Collection\, which is estimated to be 1\,000 linear feet in size and is now being sorted and processed for use. UID:748-911431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Special Collections Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T000000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Permanent Exhibits at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History DESCRIPTION:The Hall of Evolution houses Michigan's largest display of prehistoric life. More than 600 million years of life on Earth are traced through fossils\, models and dioramas. The Michigan Wildlife Gallery has a large collection of native Great Lakes birds\, mammals\, reptiles\, and amphibians\, with taxidermy mounts\, habitat scenes\, and the largest mastodon trackway on display in the world. There are also displays about some of the environmental problems faced in this region today. The Anthropology Displays feature artifacts from human cultures around the world. The Geology Displays on the fourth floor offer a large selection of rocks\, minerals and gems. These displays are updated periodically. For more information go to www.lsa.umich.edu/exhibitmuseum/exhibits/permexhibits or call 734-764-0480. UID:452-910592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/452 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:History of Dentistry exhibits at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry DESCRIPTION:Exhibits at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry include Dental Operatories of the 1860s to 1930s\, St. Apollonia-Patron Saint of Dentistry and more. Call 763-0767 or go to www.dent.umich.edu/museum for more information. UID:3856-917701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/3856 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20100111T160124 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T080000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Their Journey: Vietnamese in Michigan DESCRIPTION:Imagine chaotically and permanently leaving your homeland for another country and a completely different life! This exhibit includes photos from Vietnam and Grand Rapids\, MI\, along with political\, cultural\, and personal perspectives of the journey of Vietnamese immigrants to Michigan following the Vietnam War. It augments the Great Michigan Read\, the Michigan Humanities Council's statewide reading program\, and provides additional historical context to its book selection\, \"Stealing Buddha's Dinner.\"\n\n\"Stealing Buddha's Dinner\" is a memoir chronicling author Bich Minh Nguyen's migration from Vietnam in 1975 and her coming of age in Grand Rapids in the 1980s. Along the way\, she struggles to construct her own cultural identity from a menagerie of uniquely American influences.\n\nThe University Library is one of only six sites chosen to host this exhibit.\n\nAccessible during library hours\; see http://www.lib.umich.edu/hatcher-graduate- library UID:2556-920172@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:multicultural LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100/Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20100329T161307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A History of the Bible from Ancient Papyri to King James DESCRIPTION:This exhibit\, from the Special Collections Library\, shows a path of documents that led to the creation of the 1611 King James Version of the Bible – from ancient Egyptian manuscripts on papyrus to Medieval manuscripts to the printed book.\n\nThe earliest documents on display are Egyptian papyri\, including examples of a census record from the year 119 and the oldest known copy of part of the New Testament. Medieval manuscripts document the preservation of the text until the invention of movable type printing by Gutenberg around 1450. The early printed Bibles include versions in Latin and Greek\, and several that show the struggles among various political factions and church reformers to control the translating of the Scriptures into the language of the people. See the King James Bible of 1611 that became the accepted standard.\n\nFor Audubon Room hours\, see https://www.lib.umich.edu/audubon-room UID:2220-918622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room/First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Santu Mofokeng's Chasing Shadows DESCRIPTION:Santu Mofokeng\, one of South Africa's most prominent photographers\, began his work as a documentarian of the anti-Apartheid struggle. Eventually deciding to leave the field of straightforward photojournalism\, he focused instead on isolating the simple gestures of everyday life in South African townships. His work explores landscape imbued with memory\, loss\, and spirituality\, and forces us to examine any preconceived notion we have regarding exact locations of faith\, identity\, or community. The photographs serve to “reclaim landscape\,” examining themes of ownership\, and the relationship between the land\, power\, and money. In his extraordinary series Chasing Shadows\, displaced people reclaim their spirituality and sustenance even in the midst of relentless transition. His most recent urban landscapes go beyond social and political commentary\, meditating on the profound absurdity of living. Billboards cruelly highlight the impoverishment of the citizenry they importune.\n\nMofokeng has been the recipient of numerous awards. In 1991\, he won the Ernest Cole Scholarship to study at the International Center of Photography in New York. He was also awarded the first Mother Jones Award for Africa in 1992\, and more recently the Kunstlerhaus Worpswede Fellowship and DAAD Fellowship\, both in Germany\, and was the Prince Claus Laureate for Visual Arts in 2009. UID:2510-919207@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2510 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:multicultural,visual arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - #1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090722T143534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ida: Darwinius masillae DESCRIPTION:\"Ida\,\" a new exhibit in the Exhibit Museum's Rotunda\, displays a high-resolution cast of an extremely rare fossil discovered in 1983 near Messel\, Germany\, but only recently made available for study. The fossil has proven to be a “link” between the prosimian and simian (\"anthropoid\") primate lineages. It has \"advanced\" front teeth (incisors and canines) and second toes like those of monkeys\, and is broadly representative of what human primate ancestors may have looked like during the Eocene epoch 47 million years ago. Ida (prounded \"eeda\") is named after after the daughter of Dr Jørn Hurum\, the Norwegian vertebrate paleontologist who secured one section of the fossil from an anonymous owner\, and led the research. Ida was about eight months old\, or the equivalent of a six-year-old human. Publication of a paper on the discovery was accompanied by a book\, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestors by Colin Tudge\, and a documentary shown on the History Channel (US)\, BBC One (UK)\,and various stations in Germany and Norway. U-M paleontologist Philip Gingerich and U-M anthropologist B. Holly Smith were two members of the \"dream team\" invited to study Ida. The exhibit will be on display through May 2010. UID:2124-918227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2124 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:multicultural,visual arts,welcome week LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175600 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stearns Collection of Music DESCRIPTION:The Stearns Collection at the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance is one of six major collections of musical instruments in North America. The 2\,500-piece collection is internationally known and is a resource for musical and cultural education. UID:3790-909217@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/3790 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Harnessing genomics for evolutionary insights DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The most exciting scientific questions are those at the crossroads of different disciplines. Genomics has revolutionized the study of biology and has reinforced the significance of Dobzhansky's famous quip\, \"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.\" My research combines computational and experimental approaches to investigate: (i) the factors influencing phylogenetic accuracy and their usefulness in obtaining more robust phylogenies\, (ii) the molecular origins of multicellularity in fungi and animals\, and (iii) the molecular foundations of the fungal lifestyle. In my talk\, I will concentrate on describing recent work on the last of the three aims. Fungi exhibit a remarkably diverse array of physiologies and eating habits\, suggesting that metabolism is of high ecological and evolutionary significance. We have conducted population genomic\, functional and phylogenomic analyses to better understand the evolutionary origins\, maintenance and demises of the galactose assimilation pathway across the fungal kingdom. I will discuss the implications of our findings for the maintenance of complex variation in natural populations and for shaping genome architecture. UID:1856-916015@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1856 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175713 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How to Be Gay DESCRIPTION:What's the relation between male homosexuality as a sexual practice and male homosexuality as a cultural practice? What explains the cultural object-choices of gay men? What can we find out about gay male subjectivity by studying gay men's cultural preferences instead of their sexual preferences? And what are the sexual meanings of specific cultural forms? That is the topic of David Halperin's new book\, How to Be Gay. In this lecture\, he will present a few insights from it. UID:1483-914564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20100215T030002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T184500 SUMMARY:Other:Voice Department Recital DESCRIPTION: UID:1103-913057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1103 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20100208T101353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20100215T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Strategizing to Overcome Legal Discrimination in Michigan DESCRIPTION:Stand up! Speak out!: Strategizing to Overcome Legal Discrimination Against LGBT Families in Michigan\n\nA discussion featuring renowned Human Rights lawyer Deborah Labelle and Jay Kaplan\, staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU LGBT Project.\n\nIn 2008\, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling that Proposal 2\, passed by Michigan votes in 2004\, prohibits public employers from offering domestic partner benefits thereby enshrining legal discrimination into our state law. Our speakers will discuss the pros and cons of the different legal strategies being considered for challenging this injustice. Monday February 15th\, 2010: 7:00p.m.\n\nRoom 250 Hutchins Hall\, University of Michigan Law School\, 625 South State St [corner of Monroe St.\, one block north of Hill St.\, 2 blocks north of Packard]\n\nSponsored by: ACLU of Michigan U of M Law School Chapter\, ACLU of Michigan Washtenaw Branch\, Oasis TBLG Outreach Ministry\, Inclusive Justice Program\, Equality Now Michigan.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.\n\nFor further information\, visit www.aclumich.org or call (734)846-3578 UID:420-911580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social justice LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR