Exhibition:Diversity of Nature in North America
2012-09-20 08:00 - 23:30 (America/Detroit) | Pierpont Commons - Wall Gallery (outside Commons Cafe)
Visit the Pierpont Commons Wall Gallery located just outside of the Commons Cafe to see this beautiful exhibit featuring framed photography of nature in North America.

”‹Photographs by Artists: Sue and Dick Rigterink

Artist Statement: These images communicate the diversity, characteristics, habitats, behavior, and beauty of the plants and animals with whom we share the earth. Rather than simply looking, we hope you will pause, observe and really see. By stopping movement, the patterns and grace of those around us are there for us to learn from, enjoy and protect.

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, September 28th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents 25th Anniversary Employee Art Exhibition
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - South Lobby, Floor 1
This year, Gifts of Art celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Employee Art Exhibition! This eagerly anticipated annual event showcases the exceptional talent and creativity of the people who work at the University of Michigan Health System, and for the first time this year, family members too! There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by the votes of visitors to the exhibit. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibition gallery, which will be hosted by Dr. Ora H. Pescovitz, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents A Study in Nature: Gelatin Silver Prints by Darryl Baird
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Darryl Baird is Associate Professor of Art at U-M Flint in graphic design and photography. This body of photographic work is a series of highly magnified plant sections offered as homage to natural life cycles and the inherent potential for beauty in mature forms. These images are a means to explore the cycles of all living things and a way to find understanding through the process. For this series, Baird used antique lenses and the now discontinued Polaroid Positive/Negative 55 film. His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas and U-M Museum of Art in Ann Arbor.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Connections: Linoleum Block Prints by Elizabeth Busey
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
Elizabeth Busey has been inspired by global travel to explore the forces that shape our world – growth, pressure, erosion and decay. Through this exploration, she highlights patterns from many disparate perspectives in order to celebrate their universality in the natural world. Her work is created by printing multiple layers of ink onto cotton rag paper, where a single linoleum block is gradually reduced with each color layer. Busey is a primarily self-taught printmaker who produces her work in Bloomington, Indiana on a press made of recycled steel.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Expressions of Light: Photography by Monte Nagler
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | Cancer Center
A driving force in Monte Nagler’s artist quest is to have others see the world in a finer light and to appreciate life a little more. He has the ability to make visible what others can only sense, sharing with viewers the emotional beauty he experiences. Nagler’s photographs, which have won numerous awards, are found in many private and public collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, the U-M Museum of Art and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. He is also a noted writer, lecturer and teacher of photography and the author of six highly successful photography books.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents French Connections: Polymer Clay Sculpture by Jean-Marc Fontaine
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
By day, Jean-Marc Fontaine is a molecular biologist, and by night and weekend, he is an artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Normandy, France, and his dream of becoming a scientist grew together with his imagination and passion for oil painting and drawing. After moving to the US in 1998, Fontaine became fascinated with sculpting. This self-taught artist explores funny and familiar subjects, with close attention to details in human anatomy. Viewers will meet French, Belgian, British and American characters. Fontaine hopes that “”¦these cartoon characters will bring a smile to patients (children and adults, alike).”

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Love’s Emotion in Chinese Opera: Photography by Xu, Zengquan
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1
Traditional kunqu, a genre of classical Chinese theatre, comes alive in the large scale photographs of Xu, Zengquan. The viewer experiences the personalities of the characters and the spirit of the dance, opening a window into traditional Chinese culture and history. Now a local practicing engineer, Xu was born into a family of 10 brothers and sisters, in Jiangsu, China, and discovered his passion for photography in his teens. His work has been published by the Smithsonian Institution. Gifts of Art is pleased to present this exhibition in partnership with the U-M Confucius Institute.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Right Tool for the Job: Paint & Encaustic on Wood by Valerie Mann
2012-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Valerie Mann has been showing her work professionally throughout the US and in Canada and Germany for 23 years. She grew up on a large family farm in Indiana, went to University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana to earn a BFA in painting, then to MSU to earn an MFA in sculpture. Now working and teaching in Ann Arbor, Mann’s use and study of tools inspired this body of work. Used every day and sometimes taken for granted, tools are indispensable in the making of art. These favorite tools are beautifully designed and well-thought out for their specific job.

Exhibition:Travel Through Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
2012-09-20 08:00 - 23:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
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.

Exhibition:Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope
2012-09-20 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
The exhibit "Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope" includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages. This journey of transmission and interpretation throughout the centuries ends with the first editions of Alexander Pope’s renderings of the poems.

Visitors to the exhibit will hear a series of readings from the poems in the original Greek and in several other languages, including Latin, English, Dutch, and Spanish.

The exhibit is part of the LSA Fall 2012 theme semester, Translation.

Exhibition:Architecture+Adaptation: Designing for Hypercomplexity
2012-09-20 09:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Exhibition:Back to School Poster Sale
2012-09-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Pierpont Commons - Atrium
Are your walls looking a little bare? Check out the Back to School Poster Sale - the largest of its kind on campus all year. With the start of the school year, now is the perfect time to add some color to your walls. We have thousands of posters to choose from!

Exhibition:Beautiful Michigan
2012-09-20 09:00 - 23:30 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge
Visit the Michigan Union Art Lounge to see this art exhibit featuring landscape oil on canvas paintings from some of the most beautiful places in Michigan.

Exhibit: “Beautiful Michigan” - Landscape Paintings, Oil on Canvas

Artist: Anil Dhir

Artist Statement:
For a painter, Michigan offers one of the most beautiful landscapes, whether here in Ann Arbor, up-north or anywhere else. These paintings are my attempt to capture some of the Michigan beauty. I believe that a great painting is a like a beautifully composed piece of music. My wish is to create a painting with a simple aim of honestly capturing the very essence of what I saw, and be able to make the viewer feel what I felt. (To read the full artist statement, please visit campusinvolvement.umich.edu, it is also posted with the exhibit.)

The exhibit will be displayed until Friday, October 5th.

All pieces in the exhibit are for sale. Please contact the Center for Campus Involvement (uminvolvement@umich.edu) if you are interested in purchasing art from this exhibit.

Please note: The Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) provides opportunities for student and professional artists to display work suitable for a general audience. CCI hosting an artist’s work does not mean we endorse the artist’s point of view; we recognize the free speech rights of our exhibitors.

Exhibition:Canan Tolon Installation: Time After Time
2012-09-20 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 1010
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.

Workshop / Seminar:Live Your Story-How to Present Your Story as Dance Majors
2012-09-20 09:00 - 10:00 | Burton Memorial Tower - Burton Tower
Learn about how to reflect on your own story to create your presentation to employers in the field of your choosing. How do you connect your story as a Dance Major to you communities?

Fair / Festival:2012 Earthfest: Party for the Planet
2012-09-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Find out about all things related to sustainability at the University of Michigan.

Come to Earthfest: Party for the Planet on Thursday, September 20, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Diag on Central Campus.

Browse dozen's of booths with information on how to get involved in sustainability on campus and beyond. There will be free food, live entertainment and games with prizes!

Know Where to Throw -- Try your hand at our recycling and composting game and possibly win a prize.

Pedal Power -- Use the UM engineered bike to create your own power.

T-shirt craft projects -- Check out the many ways you can convert that old worn out shirt into something else-no sewing required!

Meet and greet with Rufus, the campus's recycling mascot!

Water Refill station/Bottle fillers -- See one close up and see the map to find a bottle filler near you!

Photo Booth-Sustainability Pledge -- Get your picture taken with your personal sustainability pledge. The picture will be emailed to your umich address and will be highlighted by the Planet Blue Ambassadors.
Get your own ”˜Be a Green Wolverine’ sticker!

Blue Bike Rental -- Check out our new Blue Bikes and learn how you can rent one for the day, weekend or for the whole semester!

Sustainable Computing -- Learn how to save power (and battery life) on your computer!

Sustainability: Learn It - Live It -- quiz yourself on living lightly.

Chef Demos start at 1:00 -- Every half hour will have a Chef demonstration featuring our amazing U-M chefs!

Live music at Noon.

Lecture / Discussion:How Fragile is the Euro?
2012-09-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
Speaker: Jim Adams, Ph.D, Professor of Economics, U-M

When should a group of countries use the same currency, and when should they use different currencies? What ails the Euro? Will the Euro be around a decade from now? These are some of the questions that Europeans are asking themselves that will be addressed regarding the economic challenges now facing the European Union in general and the Euro Zone in particular.

The First 2012-2013 Thursday Morning Lecture Series, "Europe in Crisis: Issues Behind the Headlines", September 13 – October 24, will help us think about and make sense of the E.U.'s present political, social, and economic challenges in the current crisis.

Next Thursday lecture series (Nov-Dec): "The Supreme Court: Impact of Current Decisions on our Society"

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series
2012-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) In this presentation, Professor Morioka will introduce the concept of “persona” that he has come to understand through the process of examining ethical issues in brain death and organ transplants in Japan. A persona is something that sometimes appears to exist on the body of a brain-dead patient, and people who have had a close relationship with the patient can perceive its existence. Interestingly, we can find a similar concept in Tetsuro Watsuji’s essay “Mask and Persona” published in 1935. Utilizing the perspectives of Watsuji’s philosophy, Professor Morioka aims to pursue an analytical discussion on current topics in bioethics.

About the Speaker:
Masahiro Morioka is a Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, and is also the Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Philosophy of Life." He specializes in life philosophy, life studies, bioethics, gender studies, and criticism of contemporary civilization. His books include "Brain Dead Person" (1989 in Japanese) and "Painless Civilization" (2003 in Japanese).

Lecture / Discussion:Jewish/Muslim Interpenetrations & Interdependenices
2012-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Room 2022

Other:The Public's Love/Hate Relationship with Epidemiology: The Burden of Being Relevant
2012-09-20 12:00 | School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 3755 SPH I
David A. Savitz, Ph.D. Joining us from Brown University

The public's interest and responsiveness to epidemiologic findings has many advantages for the discipline and for public health but also poses challenges to managing expectations. The ways in which epidemiology's home in the real world affects the discipline will be discussed, along with revisiting the relationship of epidemiology to public health policy and practice. A detailed case study from a National Research Council committee that was formed to address health effects of contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina illustrates the complexity that arises when epidemiology intersects with a range of interested parties.

Sponsored by Department of Epidemiology
Contact Information: Stacy Babcock (babcockk@umich.edu)

Workshop / Seminar:Wikipedia Education Program
2012-09-20 12:00 - 15:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - http://www.lib.umich.edu/location/clark-library/unit/555753
Faculty around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments. This information session introduces the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program and shows how faculty can use Wikipedia as a platform for students to publish and edit articles based on course assignments. A workshop will follow and participants will get hands-on experience editing Wikipedia and designing Wikipedia-based assignments. The information session and workshop will be lead by Jami Mathewson, an Education Program Associate at Wikimedia Foundation.

Performance:Solo Guitar
2012-09-20 12:10 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
There’s a reason guitarist Jake Reichbart has been asked to perform for two US Presidents. The virtuoso has been delighting audiences across the Midwest with his romantic and disciplined techniques for the past 20 years. His seemingly effortless abilities have delivered striking guitar performances at the governor’s inaugural ball, and he has received numerous praises and accolades for his performances and recordings. A respected bandleader, Reichbart’s forte lies in his instrumental solo work, tastefully interpreting classic jazz and pop standards in his unique style.

Class / Instruction:Advanced French–OLLI Study Group
2012-09-20 12:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location
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

Lecture / Discussion:Choices for Federal spending and taxes
2012-09-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre
Policy Talks @ the Ford School.
Free and open to the public.

Doug Elmendorf is the eighth director of the Congressional Budget Office. Before he came to CBO in January 2009, he was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, he served as co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth.

Doug Elmendorf was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, he worked on budget policy, Social Security, Medicare, national health care reform, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and other topics.

He earned his PhD and AM in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University.

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Economics

Workshop / Seminar:M+Google Accessibility Support
2012-09-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Shapiro Library - 1128 (ground floor)
What: Drop-in sessions to get one-on-one assistance with accessing Google Apps using assistive technology, exploring Google features that may provide accommodations, and any other topic of interest.

Who: For students, faculty, and staff with disabilities or others with accessibility-related questions. Registration with the SSD office not required. Please bring your laptop or mobile device.

Class / Instruction:The Windward Shore--OLLI Study Group
2012-09-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Off Campus Location - Trinity Lutheran Church, 1400 W. Stadium Blvd.
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.

Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Biweekly Seminar
2012-09-20 15:00 - 16:30 | East Hall - 4448
The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) sponsors a biweekly seminar series focusing on a variety of topics related to bioethics and social science research. Visit the website for more information at www.cbssm.org and the CBSSM facebook page.

Careers / Jobs:The Career Center's Law Day
2012-09-20 15:00 - 18:00 | Michigan Union - Second Floor
Law Day is a great way to connect with a large number of law schools right here on campus! Typically, 100+ schools and over 300+ students participate in the event. Law Day offers something for everyone:

Juniors/Seniors
”¢ Learn about specific programs from law school representatives
”¢ Collect application and financial aid information
”¢ Get tips on personal statements, applications and reference letters

1st year students/Sophomores
”¢ Ask questions about undergrad coursework and extra-curricular activities
”¢ Explore law school options
”¢ Build networks for the future

Registration
”¢ Registration is on-site the day of the event

There is no registration fee. Bring your student ID
Students from other universities/colleges are welcome to attend

Workshop / Seminar:Upcoming CBSSM & Decision Consortium Seminar, September 20th: Ellen Peters, PhD
2012-09-20 15:00 - 16:30 | East Hall - 4448
Please join us for the next Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine seminar in conjunction with the Decision Consortium, scheduled for September 20, 2012, at 3-4:30 pm, 4448 East Hall (Main Campus, corner of S. University Ave & Church St.). Ellen Peters, PhD, will present a talk entitled, “Informed choice and the construction of preferences.”

Abstract: Having consumers and patients actively involved in making informed choices is good. However, the effects of increased patient involvement are not well understood. Because preferences are sometimes constructed, unintended consequences can ensue. I will briefly discuss what is needed to make an informed decision and some of the barriers that exist to effective communication of critical information. Understanding the psychological mechanisms that underlie how people understand and use information is key to developing general principles concerning how to improve decision making.

Dr. Ellen Peters is Associate Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University and studies decision making as an interaction of characteristics of the decision situation and characteristics of the individual. She focuses on how affective, intuitive, and deliberative processes help people to make decisions in an increasingly complex world. She has three major strands of research. First, her research interests in decision making include number processing and the study of individual differences in numeracy and an intuitive sense of numbers. A second central strand of research concerns how affect and emotion influence information processing and decisions. Third, she is interested in how information processing and decision making change in complex ways across the adult life span. She is also generally interested in issues of risk perception and risk communication in health, financial, and environmental contexts, including how to present information to facilitate its comprehension and use.

Light refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe. “How Fragile Is the Euro?”
2012-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
William James Adams, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of economics, U-M.

Jim Adams received his three degrees in economics (AB summa cum laude, AM, and PhD) from Harvard University. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where his current title is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics. Adams has won numerous prizes for his teaching, including the Amoco Foundation Award and the Golden Apple Award. The University of Michigan nominated him in 2007 for the U.S. Professors of the Year Award, bestowed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and then in 2008 for the Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award, sponsored by the Presidents’ Council of the State Universities of Michigan. In his research, Adams has ranged broadly, from public policies toward business in the United States to economic integration in Europe. His monograph, Restructuring the French Economy: Government and the Rise of Market Competition since World War II, is cited by economists, historians, and political scientists on both sides of the Atlantic. Adams has served the University of Michigan in numerous administrative capacities, including as Director of the Center for West European Studies and as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Aix-Marseille, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, the European University Institute in Florence, Basel, and Paris Dauphine. He has been affiliated with the Brookings Institution in Washington, the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago, and the Jean Monnet Foundation in Switzerland. He has advised the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Ambassador to France, and several foreign policy departments of the U.S. government. In 2007, he delivered the Guido Carli Lecture at LUISS in Rome.

Sponsors: CES, WCED. Part of the "The European Economic Crisis and its Political Dimensions."

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
2012-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210
Modern vertebrate faunas are dominated by ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), tetrapods and sharks (Chondrichthyes). However, biotas at the origin of tetrapods, during the Devonian period (420-359 million years ago, My) were defined by now-extinct or depauperate groups such as lobe-finned fishes (lungfish and coelacanths). It was long thought that this turnover was caused by gradual forces and the greater fitness of living lineages. A comprehensive global database for early vertebrate diversity, analysed using methods from community ecology, has pinned this turnover to the supposedly minor end-Devonian Hangenberg mass extinction event (359 My). Global vertebrate faunas were destroyed and 44% of major clades lost, restructuring ecosystems and permitting the rise of the modern vertebrate biota from scarce survivors. However, recovery from the Hangenberg event was long and arduous, coincident with “Romer’s Gap,” a previously unexplained lull in tetrapod diversity. While some groups thrived and radiated (e.g., actinopterygians), members of once-diverse groups became “dead clades walking,” the extinct equivalent of “living fossils.” In addition, there was little replacement of lost lineages: survivors tended toward novel forms and niches. Thus, conditions during aftermath of the Hangenberg extinction had as much of an impact on subsequent biodiversity as the event itself. The new challenge is explain this record of differential success. The new opportunity is to re-examine the impact of other, perhaps neglected external events on vertebrate biota past and present.

Lecture / Discussion:Panel Discussion on Canan Tolon Exhibition
2012-09-20 16:00 | North Quad - 2145
Conversations about real and imagined space, visual deceptions, in relationship to the Canan Tolon exhibit. With former Institute for the Humanities fellows/U-M faculty Amy Kulper, Claire Zimmerman, and Keith Mitnick and visiting artist and Kidder Resident in the Arts, Canan Tolon.

Lecture / Discussion:Port Huron Statement Preview Lecture and Film Series
2012-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Tisch Hall - 1014
Finn Brunton, assistant professor of information, School of Information, will discuss how mass protest was organized by the simple communications technologies of mimeograph machines and telephone calls. For more information on series lectures and films, go to www.lsa.umich.edu/phs/events.

Social / Informal Gathering:Postdoc Appreciation Picnic
2012-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location - Island Park
Come out and celebrate National Postdoc Appreciation Week! This is a great event that all postdocs and their families are invited to. Drop in at Island Park any time between 4-6pm. Come out and enjoy the food and drinks provided by the Postdoc Association and the Office of Postdoctoral Studies.

RSVP Online: https://umichumhs.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4NG6EhMNEpXznff

Performance:Robin Hemley Reading
2012-09-20 17:10 - 18:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Robin Hemley is the author of ten books of nonfiction and fiction and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago Tribune, The Story Magazine Humor Prize, an Independent Press Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and many others. The BBC is currently developing a feature film based on his book Invented Eden that tells the story of a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines. His third collection of short stories, Reply All, is forthcoming in 2012 from Indiana University Press (Break Away Books) and The University of Georgia Press recently published his book A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel. He currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and is the founder and organizer of NonfictioNow, a biennial conference that will convene in November 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.

Performance:Zell Visiting Writers Series
2012-09-20 17:10 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Robin Hemley is the author of ten books of nonfiction and fiction and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune, the Story Magazine Humor Prize, an Independent Press Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and many others. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and elsewhere and he frequently teaches creative writing workshops around the world. He has been widely anthologized and has published his work in such places as The New York Times, The Believer, The Huffington Post, Orion, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, and many of the finest literary magazines in the U.S. The BBC is currently developing a feature film based on his book Invented Eden that tells the story of a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines. His third collection of short stories, Reply All, is forthcoming in 2012 from Indiana University Press (Break Away Books) and The University of Georgia Press recently published his book A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel. He is a Senior Editor of The Iowa Review as well as the editor of a popular online journal, Defunct (Defunctmag.com), which features short essays on everything that’s had its day. He currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and is the founder and organizer of NonfictioNow, a biennial conference that will convene in November 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.
The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.

Exhibition:Canan Tolon Installation: Time After Time, Opening Reception
2012-09-20 17:30 - 19:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 1010

Other:International Employment & Myths & OpportunitiesAre you interested in working, interning, volunteering or teaching abroad? Do you want to explore international careers? This session will introduce t
2012-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Student Activities Building - Maize & Blue Auditorium
Are you interested in working, interning, volunteering or teaching abroad? Do you want to explore international careers? This session will introduce the International Career Pathways series, how to research options and timing of applications – note that some deadlines are in the fall!

Other:International Employment Myths & Opportunities
2012-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Student Activities Building - Maize & Blue Room
Are you interested in working, interning, volunteering or teaching abroad? Do you want to explore international careers? This session will introduce the International Career Pathways series, how to research options and timing of applications – note that some deadlines are in the fall!

Sponsored by the International Career Pathways Committee

Film Screening:Film
2012-09-20 19:30 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Agnieszka Holland, director. In German and Russian with English subtitles. (112 min., 1990)
Based on the true story of a young German Jew, Solomon Perel, who survived the Holocaust by joining the Hitler Youth. After his sister is killed, Solomon flees with his family to Soviet-occupied Poland. When the Nazis invade, Solomon is taken for a German hero and sent to the elite Hitler Youth Academy, but he lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered.

Performance:Lori McKenna
2012-09-20 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Performance:Performance Showcase: Images of Identity
2012-09-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Michigan League - Underground
Want a new way to escape the hustle and bustle of college life? Let the Images of Identities Improv Comedy group provide laughter that is good for your soul.

One Thursday each month, join us for a night of laughs, food, fun, and surprises.

FREE ADMISSION
