Exhibition:U-M Alumni/Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Exhibition
2010-11-12 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
2010-11-12 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

Exhibition:From Trace to Text: Highlights from the U-M Papyrus Collection
2010-11-12 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
2010-11-12 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
2010-11-12 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
2010-11-12 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
2010-11-12 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:Pelvis Floor Disorders
2010-11-12 13:00 - 14:30
This talk is part of the series Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Global Perspective. Dr Fenner's presentation will review the epidemiology, impact and pathophysiology of three major pelvic floor disorders: urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and fecal incontinence. An emphasis on birth and aging as contributing factors to these conditions will be highlighted. A description of preventative measures and treatments will be discussed.

Lecture / Discussion:J. Robert Swanson Lecture: Jeff Kipnis
2010-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Art and Architecture Building - 2104
http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/news_and_events/events/?event=0000c0a8de10000007e205030000012a9cffdd5faed488f8

For more than two decades Jeffrey Kipnis's work has shaped the thinking, imagination and creative work of architects and critics. From seminal studies of the work of such key practitioners as Philip Johnson, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind, to theoretical reflections on the intellectual, cultural and political role of contemporary architecture in such essays as Toward a New Architecture, Twisting the Separatrix and Political Space I, as well as his award-winning film on the work of Frank Gehry, and his exhibitions on architectural drawing and design, Kipnis has brought a restless, generous and provocative originality to bear on the issues that have defined contemporary architecture.

Performance:Samasti: The Elements of Illusion
2010-11-12 19:00 | Hill Auditorium
The annual IASA Cultural Show is the largest run student production in North America. Every year the show uses vivid colors, songs, and dance to show the intricate workings of the Indian culture. This year's show entitled, Samasti: The Elements of Illusion, emphasizes the elements of dance that compose the makeup of India.

With humble beginnings more than 20 years ago, the IASA Cultural Show has grown from an unknown University of Michigan campus event held in East Quad Dormitory Theatre to the largest student run cultural show on the continent held in critically acclaimed Hill Auditorium. Proceeds from the show are donated to an Indian charity in hopes of improving the lives of people in India. This year, proceeds will be going to One World Health, a group dedicated to providing medicine to those in developing countries who currently may not have access.

This event will take place on Friday, November 12 of 2010 at Hill Auditorium. Students, families, and local metro-Detroit citizens are welcome to enjoy a night of Indian culture and diversity. Tickets are now available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) located in the basement of the Union, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Get them before they sell out!

Film Screening:Sanjuro
2010-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Lorch Hall - Askwith Auditorium
1962 / 96 min. / 35mm / In Japanese with English subtitles

In another comedy with swords, the masterless samurai of Yojimbo returns to impose his brand of justice on a corrupt clan, in the process teaching a group of youngsters what it really means to be a samurai.

Performance:Enter the Haggis
2010-11-12 20:00
A haggis is a tasty Scottish dish consisting of sheep heart, liver, and lungs, mixed with oatmeal, onion, suet, and spices, and then boiled inside a sheep's stomach. The Canadian-Scots band Enter the Haggis (bagpiper Craig Downie is from Scotland) has just about as much variety in their style -- a high-speed collision of Celtic music, rock, bluegrass, funk, and world music. An Enter the Haggis live show is a musical feast -- dynamic, emotionally uplifting, and intellectually stimulating. The band's music darts effortlessly from the traditional strains of the Chieftains and the Pogues to the frenetic pop of early Elvis Costello and even to Latin and African sounds. Enter the Haggis appeared last January at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, and their busy schedule since then has included a tour of Ireland.
