Exhibition:U-M Alumni/Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Exhibition
2010-11-11 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Art and Architecture Building - Slusser Gallery
The University of Michigan School of Art & Design invites submissions of work in all media for a 50th anniversary celebratory exhibition of work by U-M alumni who are Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Creative work should reflect or respond to the Peace Corps experience. Submitted work will be juried by a committee drawn from the School of Art & Design community. Submittal information located at http://art-design.umich.edu/exhibitions/submit/peace_corps_alumni_exhibition

Exhibition:U-M and the Peace Corps: It All Started Here
2010-11-11 00:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Library Gallery (Room 100)
This dynamic exhibit showcases the unique role of University of Michigan students and faculty in the creation and popularizing of the Peace Corps. As Sargent Shriver said, "It might still be just an idea but for”¦those Michigan students and faculty." The exhibit highlights the development of student activism as well as important historical events.

Normal Library Hours: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hours/list.php?singlebuilding=4

Conference / Symposium:UM/ULI Forum
2010-11-11 08:00 - 16:30
November 10, 2010 08:00 AM Riverfront Center One Riverfront Center Flint, MI

The real estate market has seen unprecedented change over the past few years. In order to succeed we must understand how we can continue to serve the market and provide relevant developments for communities and clients. Discover how to thrive and learn the current best practices when real estate professionals from across the industry gather on November 10th and 11th in Flint for the 24th Annual University of Michigan and Urban Land Institute Real Estate Forum. This year's topic, Sparking Reinvention: The Evolution of a Factory Town, focuses on the changing real estate landscape in Michigan and includes topics such as city-center development; urban farming; foundations and cities; and medical centers influence on city growth. The program will include The Urban Land Institute's Annual Emerging Trends Presentation and Report as well as popular roundtable sessions.

Through a combination of presentations by leading local and national real estate practitioners, roundtable discussions, workshops and guided bus and walking tours, the Forum provides valuable lessons in local real estate development and highlights real estate investment and development opportunities throughout the region.

Speakers include:

”¢ Toni Griffin, consultant to the City of Detroit ”¢ Dayne Walling, Mayor, City of Flint ”¢ Daniel T. Kildee, Center for Community Progress ”¢ Chris Leinberger, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Brookings Institution ”¢ Tom Murphy, former Mayor of Pittsburgh ”¢ Neal Hegarty, C.S. Mott Foundation ”¢ Benjamin Kennedy, Kresge Foundation

Exhibition:From Trace to Text: Highlights from the U-M Papyrus Collection
2010-11-11 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
This exhibit provides a behind-the-scenes look at the work of papyrologists: how they conserve scraps of often badly damaged papyri, decipher traces of ink, read and translate the resulting text, edit and interpret its contents, and make this available to both scholars and the general public. Modern technology, such as digitization and multi-spectral imaging, is aiding papyrologists in all of these efforts.

Texts on display are some of the highlights of the collection. They include a wonderful drawing of an elephant, a letter from a newly enlisted soldier to his mother, and, of course, some pages of the oldest manuscript with letters of St. Paul (one of the most famous texts of the collection).

In its 90-year history, the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection has trained more students and scholars in the field of papyrology than any other institution in North America. Founded by the visionary Francis W. Kelsey, the Papyrus Collection has been the training ground for papyrologists from around the world and home to many great resident scholars, such as Herbert and Louise Youtie, Ludwig Koenen, and Traianos Gagos, who died on April 26, 2010.

Papyrology is the field of scholarship that deciphers and studies the texts written –primarily on papyrus– by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world between 2,500 BCE and 1,000 CE. Most of these texts are found in Egypt where the climate is dry enough to preserve this fragile material. It is a highly specialized and technical field, requiring intensive training in language (Egyptian, ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic), history, and the unique set of skills necessary for reading original documents.

The exhibit is open during Audubon Room hours: Sun 1-7pm, Mon-Fri 8:30-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm.

This Exhibit is in Honor of Traianos Gagos (1960-2010).

Exhibition:The View From Below
2010-11-11 09:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Humanities Gallery
Curator: Sara Blair, University of Michigan

Exhibition:On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler
2010-11-11 10:00 | Museum of Art
UMMA's rare and important collection of James McNeill Whistler works on paper represents one of the finest holdings of Whistler's graphic output in North America. This major exhibition features more than 100 works of art from UMMA's Whistler collection, which covers the artist's entire career in Europe, ranging from his student days and exposure to the vanguard artistic movements of the 19th century to the groundbreaking and atmospheric lithographs and etchings of his mature style. It is the first exhibition devoted to Whistler's works at UMMA since 1994.

Nearly all of the Whistler works came to the Museum through the bequest of Margaret Watson Parker, an early collector of both Whistler's prints as well as Japanese art. The exhibition explores Whistler's illustrious life and career; his artistic themes and concerns, including portraiture and his well-known series from England, Italy, and France; the interests and legacy of early-20th-century Whistler collector Margaret Watson Parker; and the tools and techniques that Whistler employed as a printmaker.

Exhibition:Out of the Ordinary: Selections from the Bohlen Wood Art and Fusfeld Folk Art Collections
2010-11-11 10:00 | Museum of Art
This exhibition, which runs from September 11 through Spring of 2011, allows visitors to explore two extraordinary collections of art–the Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Collection of Wood Art and the Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection. The Bohlen collection presents an astonishing range of contemporary artworks fashioned from wood and includes works that explores traditional and non-traditional vessel forms as well as works that are more purely sculptural. The outstanding objects that make up the Fusfeld collection are both geographically and historically wide-ranging, including work by early nineteenth-century itinerant folk portraitists as well as late twentieth-century sculpture and painting by “outsider” artists from the American South, Midwest, and Northeast.

Exhibition:UMMA Projects: Simon Dybbroe MÃ¸ller
2010-11-11 10:00 | Museum of Art - Projects Gallery
Things are not always as they seem in the work of Simon Dybbroe MÃ¸ller. Indeed, the Danish artist's works can at times appear to have been teleported from a slightly askew, alternate version of the past. Seemingly familiar forms often appear in unexpected configurations and objects we think we recognize turn out to be something else entirely. An abstract wall painting emerges from beneath a layer of peeling plaster. A group of minimalist sculptures turn out to be the pieces of an enlarged Soma cube. This uncertainty is central to the experience of Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's work, where an initial misrecognition leads to a moment of aesthetic discovery.

Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's penchant for puzzles and paradoxes reflects his interest in modernism's theoretical aspirations as well as its practical failings. Similarly, his frequent adoption of “outmoded” media both provides him with a diverse artistic palette and a means of questioning the past century's faith in progress through technology and the avant-garde promise of continual artistic development.

For Dybbroe MÃ¸ller's first solo exhibition in a North American museum, UMMA will present a new body of work that continues his ongoing engagement with and critique of the modernist paradigm of transparency.

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Fall 2010 Noon Lecture Series
2010-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University

Lecture / Discussion:Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the US Secretary of State
2010-11-11 16:00 - 17:15 | Hutchins Hall - 220
The Law School is pleased to inform you that on Thursday, November 11, at 4 pm in Room 220 Hutchins Hall, Harold Koh, the current Legal Adviser of the Department of State, will give the William Bishop Lecture. Legal Adviser Koh (formerly Dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton administration) will speak on the topic of "An American International Law?" It's a special occasion for the Law School and, in light of Legal Adviser Koh's outstanding accomplishments in both academia and government service, an honor for the Law School that he is delivering the Bishop Lecture.

Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Presents: IÃ±igo Manglano-Ovalle
2010-11-11 17:00 - 18:30
IÃ±igo Manglano-Ovalle investigates diverse subjects such as technology, climate, immigration and the global impact of social, political, environmental, and scientific systems. Often working in partnership or employing technical experts across multiple disciplines including engineering, architecture, genomics, and climatology, Manglano-Ovalle produces objects that are often technically complex, formally captivating, and conceptually engaging. His early work focused on collaborative explorations with young people in his hometown of Chicago, which led to the founding of Street-Level Youth Media, a community arts organization for youth in 1993. Across multiple independent projects executed during the same period, Manglano-Ovalle explored a multi-faceted and socially-focused approach to art making, blending layered concepts with a variety of materials both typical and unorthodox. Incorporating objects such as identification cards in Assigned Identities (1991) or automobile tires in Flotilla (1991), Manglano-Ovalle made reference to the difficulties surrounding illegal immigration into the United States. In the sculptural works Bloom (1995–96) and Subwoofer (1995), Manglano-Ovalle utilized ballistic gelatin, firearms and car sound systems to explore notions of violence and division. His noted film trilogy Le Baiser/The Kiss (1999), Climate (2000), and In Ordinary Time (2001) focused on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and the implications of Modernism. More recently, he has employed genomic and meteorological methodologies to explore issues of race, identity, and the promise and threat of technology in works such as Cloud Prototype No. 1 (2003) and Portrait of a Young Reader (2006)

Exhibition:Robert Boswell: Janey Lack Fiction Reading
2010-11-11 17:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a story collection recently chosen by Oprah for her summer reading list, "25 Books You Can't Put Down." He is the author of the novels Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts; the story collections Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies; and the nonfiction books The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His cyberpunk novel, Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson.

Presentation:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Robert Boswell
2010-11-11 17:15 - 18:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a story collection recently chosen by Oprah for her summer reading list, "25 Books You Can't Put Down." He is the author of the novels Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts; the story collections Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies; and the nonfiction books The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real- life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His cyberpunk novel Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Best Stories from the South, Esquire, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, and many other magazines. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson.

The Janey Lack Readings in Fiction and Poetry are curated by students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, and are sponsored by Janey Lack.

Rally / Mass Meeting:University Mentorship Mass Meeting
2010-11-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Pond Rooms
Open meeting for undergraduate students ONLY who are interested in applying to be peer mentors with the University Mentorship Program. All disciplines and interestd welcome, must be a current student who will be enrolled at UM during the 2011-2012 academic year. Facilitated by the program director and student staff, this informational session runs about 40 minutes and is designed to inform future applicants about program expectations, timeline and program benefits and explain the program structure. Applicants must apply online to be considered (applications open from November 12 2010-January 14, 2011)

Class / Instruction:Michigan's Best Dance Crew: Auditions!
2010-11-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League - Underground
Come try out to be in Michigan's Best Dance crew in the Underground of the League! Any crew with 3+ dancers will be accepted. Crews will perform for 3 judges that will decide who makes it into the final performance on Thursday December 9th at the Michigan League Ballroom, where the audience will determine the top three dance crews. Prizes this year are: 1st place- $200, 2nd place- $100, and 3rd place- $75.

If you have a dance crew that wants to try out, or has any questions, please email mibestdancecrew@umich.edu.

Workshop / Seminar:My GPS Died!: Map and Compass Clinic
2010-11-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Elbel Field Locker Building - Outdoor Adventures Rental Center
Orienteering – just a fancy way of saying land navigation – is not as specialized or difficult a skill as it is often made out to be. You too can be a wilderness navigation pro with just a little bit of instruction with map and compass. Join Outdoor Adventures for the “map and compass” MOLS clinic to see for yourself!

Film Screening:Screening of Ask Not
2010-11-11 19:00 | Michigan Union - 3909 MSA Chambers
It's one of the biggest hot button issues of the moment: the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. The film Ask Not does a great job of discussing the policy and its effects on those who are actually serving or have been discharged under the policy. Please join us for a screening of the film and a short discussion after with some amazing panelists who can share their personal experiences having served under the policy and give you an update of where the policy stands right now. Light refreshments will be served.

A film that reveals the personal stories of Americans willing to risk their lives for a country that criminalizes the act of coming out. Current and veteran gay soldiers reveal how "don't ask don't tell" affects them during their tours of duty, as they struggle to maintain a double life. The film also follows gay veterans and young organizers turning to forms of personal activism to overturn the policy. (Written by Johnny Symons )

Lecture / Discussion:Tony Collings, “Capturing the News”
2010-11-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery in Room 100
Media bias, excessive use of commentary, conflicts of interest -- Tony Collings talks about things that get in the way of journalists gathering and reporting the truth. "Capturing the News" is a combined memoir and critique of journalism based on Collings' experiences over the course of 34 years as a print and broadcast reporter, mostly in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Washington. Collings includes funny stories about the crazy early days at CNN and stories about hair-raising adventures in Russia, Poland, and the Middle East. Book sale and signing to follow.

Collings is currently a faculty member in the U-M Department of Communication Studies in LSA, and teaches Ethics Issues in Journalism, Supreme Court News Coverage, and Foreign News Coverage.

Free and open to the public.

Performance:Mindy Smith
2010-11-11 20:00
