Other:Campus-wide survey: U-SHAPE (open from October 2-24, 2012)
2012-10-05 00:00 - 12:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location - THIS IS AN ONLINE SURVEY
U-SHAPE, the first ever large-scale study of its kind, aims to understand the habits, attitudes, and perceptions of undergraduate and graduate students related to eating and body image. U-SHAPE is designed to gather important information about the ways in which individual characteristics as well as the campus environment influence students’ relationships with eating, dieting, exercise, and body image, and how these relationships, in turn, fit into a larger picture of student mental health.

The survey opens at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 2 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 24. Students will be RANDOMLY SAMPLED to participate in this important survey!

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents 25th Anniversary Employee Art Exhibition
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
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 French Connections: Polymer Clay Sculpture by Jean-Marc Fontaine
2012-10-05 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Love’s Emotion in Chinese Opera: Photography by Xu, Zengquan
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Library
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.

Conference / Symposium:Honoring the Career of Bunyan Bryant: The Legacy and Future of Environmental Justice
2012-10-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location - Ann Arbor Sheraton Hotel
The "Honoring the Career of Bunyan Bryant: The Legacy and Future of Environmental Justice" conference pays tribute to Professor Bryant, who is retiring after 40 years of service to his field, the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the University of Michigan. Throughout his long career, he not only helped define the field and movement but has always advocated for the people behind it. The conference's purpose is to pay tribute to his contributions while offering attendees new thinking from leading activists, academics and government leaders. The event takes place nearly 30 years to the month since the historic Warren County landfill protest in North Carolina, which many consider the start of the modern Environmental Justice movement.

The conference will have keynote speakers and breakout sessions, culminating with the production later this year of a whitepaper spelling out an action plan for the movement. This is Bunyan's clearly articulated goal for the conference: a concrete work product that lives beyond the life of the conference and serves and informs the work of activists and academics in the years ahead.

Exhibition:Travel Through Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
2012-10-05 08:00 - 19:00 | 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
2012-10-05 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
2012-10-05 09:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Exhibition:Canan Tolon Installation: Time After Time
2012-10-05 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.

Presentation:Hazing Prevention Week Event
2012-10-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Members of the Greek Community will be on the Diag passing out literature about hazing.

Class / Instruction:Older Folk in Film–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 10:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
Although movies seem made for young people, you can still find films with sensitivity and insight about the lives of older people in different (but in some ways similar) cultures. While these films deal with the realities of aging, all are thoughtful, engaging and ultimately ennobling. The films we will screen are “Make Way for Tomorrow” (USA, 1937); “Tokyo Story” (Japan, 1953); “Away from Her” (USA, 2002); “Cloud Nine” (Germany, 2009); “After Life” (Japanese, 1999); and “Wild Strawberries” (Sweden, 1957). Bring lunch to the discussion following the screening, if you like. Ira Konigsberg is Professor Emeritus of Film, U of M.

Lecture / Discussion:Optofluidic lasers and their potential applications in bio/chemical analysis
2012-10-05 10:00 - 11:30 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - Room 1500 EECS, 1301 Beal Ave, UM North Campus
Abstract: The optofluidic laser synergizes photonics and microfluidics, and has emerged as a new field with possible applications in both photonics and biology. In this talk, I will first discuss the principle of the optofluidic laser and then highlight its unique characteristics for potential applications in bio/chemical analysis.
Bio: Dr. Fan obtained B.S. and M.S. from Peking University in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and Ph.D. in physics and optics from Oregon Center for Optics at the University of Oregon in 2001. Between 2000 and 2004, he was a project leader at 3M Company on fiber optics and photonic sensing devices for biomedical applications. In August of 2004, he joined the Department of Biological Engineering at the University of Missouri as an assistant professor. In January of 2010, he joined the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan as an associate professor. Dr. Fan’s research includes photonic bio/chemical sensors, micro/nano-fluidics, and nano-photonics for disease diagnostics and bio/chemical molecule analysis. He has about 90 peer-reviewed publications and 16 issued/pending patents. Presently, Dr. Fan serves as Associate Editor for Optics Express, responsible for optical biological and chemical sensors and optofluidics, and as a chair and organizer of numerous conferences for OSA, SPIE, and MRS. He is a recipient of 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2004, 2005, and 2006), American Chemical Society Young Faculty Award, the Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Award (Phase I and Phase II), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, private foundations, and industrial companies.

Class / Instruction:Race and the Constitution--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location - First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Ave
The study group will consider decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment and other constitutional provisions concerned with race. In the course of our discussions, we will necessarily also consider theories about how the Constitution should be interpreted and about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system. Reading materials will be distributed either prior to or at the first meeting of the study group. Terry Sandalow is Dean Emeritus of the Law School and the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Each week, writers will bring in typed copies of their short stories, plays, poems, novels, essays, or freelance magazine articles. Fellow writers will offer friendly and appreciative criticism on all aspects of writing. Participants are asked to provide copies of their essays to share with the group. For 23 years, Joy Rome was a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Class continues Fridays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon September 7 - August 30 at TSRC.

Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
2012-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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).

Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection
2012-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Exhibition:Jesper Just: "This Nameless Spectacle"
2012-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Class / Instruction:Shodo - Japanese Calligraphy–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
Shodo is the art of drawing characters with brush and ink to express spiritual depth through the beauty of the brush strokes. Students will practice the art of Japanese calligraphy with a brush and black ink, learning both Kana and Kanji characters. It encourages a calming of the mind and peacefulness, similar to meditation. Two one-time classes are offered: October 5 and/or December 7. Students may take one or both. Konomi Shinohara taught the first calligraphy class at UM. She has also taught Japanese at UM and at EMU. Note: There is an in-class materials fee of $12. These materials are for classroom use only.

Exhibition:YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2012-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Workshop / Seminar:Drop-in and Draw: Fridays in the Gallery
2012-10-05 11:10 - 13:00 | Museum of Art
This drop-in gallery class offers an opportunity to be more than an observer at the Museum. With the guidance of the instructor, learn to observe the works in the UMMA collections; experiment with proportion, perspective, line quality, value, composition, and personal style. No experience necessary; all are welcome!

$10 one-time drop-in fee (cash only), materials included
Pre-register for all 8 classes: $72 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students / $80 non-members, materials included. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.

Presentation:FIRST talks:
2012-10-05 11:30 - 13:00 | North Quad - 2245
To welcome several new faculty to the UMSI community, join us this Friday for FIRST presentations. One of UMSI's new associate professors, Carl Lagoze, will present "Improving the Quality Of Citizen Science Data." The discussant will be Margaret Hedstrom.

Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, PhD Student, will speak about his recent work, "Understanding how active mobile users decide how to address mobile information needs," with discussant Soo Young Rieh.

Brown bag lunch; drinks and snacks provided.

Film Screening:Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival
2012-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Note: This is a special screening for U-M students and faculty only. Lunch will be provided. RSVP is required! Please follow the website link for details.

The Nam Center and the U-M Screen Arts and Cultures Department, in association with the Museum of Modern Art and The Korea Society, present the Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival 2012 on U-M Central Campus, drawing attendees from U-M, Michigan State, Oakland and Wayne State universities and filmgoers from Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. The premiere film, screened in conjunction with The Korea Society’s Korea Days, on October 4 at 7pm, will be Pung-san-gae (Poongsan). The festival will also feature a screening at the Ann Arbor District Library’s Downtown Branch of Leafie, an animated film.

Please visit the website for the full screening schedule and locations as they are subject to change.

Exhibition:Dance on Screen Exhibition
2012-10-05 12:00 | Off Campus Location - Work Gallery - 306 S. State Street, Ann Arbor
Thurnau Prof. of Dance Peter Sparling’s screendance installation, Clonal Renderings will be shown as part of: I know you’re there, but who am I?: Explorations of Identity and Place. This juried exhibition explores the intersection of identity and place. How does place shape identity? How does identity shape the places we choose to inhabit? Gallery hours 12PM-7PM

Class / Instruction:History of Modern Art: Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
The group will survey modern art, stressing its historical contexts, with slide lectures and discussion. Reading materials will be suggested and sometimes distributed. The class will be given by Roger Green, Ph.D., a former art critic for Booth Newspapers, who is now teaching art history at EMU.

Workshop / Seminar:Working with Images: Photoshop Skills for Practical Use
2012-10-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Faculty Exploratory, 206
Photoshop is not only for photographers and designers! This hands-on intermediate workshop will explore how Photoshop can aid you in your every day tasks. Learn the proper techniques for re-sizing and saving images, understand which image types work best for your project, discover how to remove the white background from an image, and learn how to cut out objects from photos to create unique compositions.

Basic familiarity with Photoshop is required for this session.

Exhibition:Clip/Stamp/Fold
2012-10-05 14:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Liberty Research Annex, 305 W. Liberty St, Ann Arbor
Researched and organized by a team of Ph.D. candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Professor Beatriz Colomina. The team included: Craig Buckley, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi, Daniel Lopez-Perez, and Irene Sunwoo.

This exhibition tracks the critical function of independent architectural publications that were the engine of an intensely creative period of experimental architectural practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Known as "little magazines," the periodicals that proliferated during this period appeared in response to the political, social and artistic changes of the time. The show includes manifestoes, pamphlets, building instruction manuals, and a survey of magazine covers as well as professional magazines, complemented by interviews with editors and designers of these publications.

Generous support for this exhibition was given by The Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund

Workshop / Seminar:LSAT Familiarization Course
2012-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Location to be determined
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This course, sponsored by the UM Career Center and LSA SG, has been designed to offer University of Michigan students and alumni/ae an affordable opportunity to jumpstart their preparation for the December 2012 LSAT and beyond. Course details and registration at:

http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/article/lsat-familiarization-course

Class / Instruction:Stress Before and After the Death of a Spouse--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Trinity Lutheran Church, 1400 W. Stadium Blvd.
The death of one’s spouse forever alters the life of the surviving spouse, and introduces new and often unexpected stresses to manage. If there is a prolonged illness leading up to the death, there are added stresses. Participants will discuss how these unique stressors affect health and well being socially, emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually. Effective strategies for coping with stress, such as guided imagery, music, writing, diet, humor and exercise will be reviewed and practiced. Individuals in any stage of the bereavement process are welcome. John A. Bayerl is a retired school counselor and adjunct lecturer with the Leadership and Counseling Program at EMU and NMU. He is a recent widower.

Class / Instruction:The Birth & Growth of the American Musical--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr.
The group will look at the roots of the American musical and follow its development to the current time, starting with the European influence, continuing with American Yiddish theater, vaudeville and the African-American contribution. The second section will cover the musical up to about 1930and the last section will cover the mid-twentieth century until today. Please go to the OLLI website for more details. Barbara Mackey, PhD in Theater History, has taught musical theater.

Class / Instruction:"Religion In America: (A Short History)"--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-05 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
The group will read and discuss this book by Jon Butler, Grant Wacker and Randall Palmer, three eminent historians of religion. It traces religious development in the United States from colonization up to the 21st century. While Americans have experienced massive cultural changes, secularization and exposure to a variety of beliefs, most have remained incurably religious. Facilitated by John Cameron.

Lecture / Discussion:Google Lecture Series
2012-10-05 15:30 - 17:00 | North Quad - 2255
David Kochalko, senior vice president at Thomson Reuters, will speak on "Making a Company Attractive as an Acquisition Target."

He will focus on the primary reasons one company acquires another and the myriad ways in which sellers can make their company attractive to the right suitor. With 20 years as a buyer of information companies, Dave will describe the underlying needs of the buyer, how the seller’s assets must align with these needs, and winning strategies that sellers use to attract buyers and close the deal.

Whether the owner of a start-up, a would-be entrepreneur hoping to build a business, or a current employee of an information company, all attendees will find valuable insights to tuck into their playbooks. One day, they may even pitch their ideas to Thomson Reuters.

Dave Kochalko is Vice President, Product and Market Strategy, at Thomson Reuters, Intellectual Property and Science, in the Scientific and Scholarly Research business unit. He joined Thomson in 1992 to lead corporate business development for Thomson Corporation’s Institute for Scientific Information, served as President of Thomson ResearchSoft from 1994 to 2007, and thereafter led Business Strategy for the academic and government unit until 2011.

He has actively worked on a number of Information company acquisitions including Niles Software (EndNote), ScholarOne (ePeer review workflow software), Discovery Logic (data mining and analytics), and Personal Bibliographic Software (ProCite) before working at the Michigan-based start-up Personal Bibliographic Software with founder Victor Rosenberg (now an associate professor at UMSI). He earned an MBA, dual master’s degrees in public policy and applied economics, and a BA–all from the University of Michigan.

The talk is part of the Google Lecture Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The lecture series is sponsored jointly by Google, the School of Information, and the SI CREATE student group at UMSI that encourages entrepreneurship.

Performance:Music Theory Lecture: “Bonner Zeit Transitions: Rhenish Things Not Put Away” - Walter Everett
2012-10-05 16:45 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2058
In his Bonn works, Beethoven presents a Galant sensibility by gathering short phrases based on stock melodic events for courtly amusement. At the same time, he wrestles with the evolution of sonata form as a vehicle for serious personal expression. To promote an understanding of these conflicting goals, this lecture contextualizes transitional points in Beethoven&##39;s Bonn works with those of his closest mentors (Neefe, Luchesi and Sterkel) and shows how these early approaches leave marks in some mature sonatas.

Performance:Dissertation Presentation: Alison DeSimone, musicology
2012-10-05 17:00 | Burton Memorial Tower - Rm 506
The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early Eighteenth-Century London This dissertation explores how female opera singers transformed the production and reception of theatrical music in London between 1703 and 1720 by collaborating with other performers. My project uses previously unstudied musical and archival sources to challenge the dominant perspective of the female performer as “diva,” and argues instead that female singers were essential to the artistic process of opera production. Their performances of English masques, Italian and English operas, public concerts, and benefits capitalized on their professional relationships with composers, male performers, English actresses, and patrons in order to shape their the musical and dramatic content of the productions in which they starred.

Film Screening:Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival
2012-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location - Ann Arbor Downtown Library Multipurpose Room
The Nam Center and the U-M Screen Arts and Cultures Department, in association with the Museum of Modern Art and The Korea Society, present the Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival 2012 on U-M Central Campus, drawing attendees from U-M, Michigan State, Oakland and Wayne State universities and filmgoers from Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. The premiere film, screened in conjunction with The Korea Society’s Korea Days, on October 4 at 7pm, will be Pung-san-gae (Poongsan). The festival will also feature a screening at the Ann Arbor District Library’s Downtown Branch of Leafie, an animated film.

Please visit the website for the full screening schedule and locations as they are subject to change.

Performance:ComCo presents: Paula Deen Sex Machine
2012-10-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Angell Hall - Auditorium A
ComCo is U-M's oldest improv comedy group. They perform 4 shows per semester ending in the "Big Show".

Film Screening:Silent Ozu: CJS Fall Film Series - Free Friday Screenings
2012-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Kraus Natural Science - Natural Science Auditorium
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) CJS's Fall Film Series of 2012 features silent films by Yasujiro Ozu with professional benshi (narrator), Ichiro Kataoka, performing theatrical narration at each screening. Most films will also include a live music accompaniment.

LADY AND THE BEARD (Shukujo to hige)
Ozu’s 20th film.Okajima, a well-known fencing master, thanks to his menacing beard, frightens everyone and makes it difficult for himself to find a job or meet women. One day, he rescues a girl named Hiroko while she is being threatened by hoodlums. Following Hiroko’s advice, Okajima shaves his beard, which reveals his handsome face. The change in his appearance helps him to find a job; he even gets asked out by three women.
(75 min, 35 mm, 1931)

DJ performance by Arwulf-Arwulf.

Performance:Almost, Maine
2012-10-05 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
A comedy by John Cariani, directed by Jerry Schwiebert. A funny, warm and whimsical romantic comedy set in the mythical town of Almost, Maine. League Ticket Office 734.764.2538

Performance:Chris Smither
2012-10-05 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Superb folk songwriting meets extraordinary guitar blues

Having distilled his own signature sound of blues and folk for over 40 years, Chris Smither is truly an American original. A profound songwriter, Chris continues to draw deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers with "Hundred Dollar Valentine," the 14th record of his lengthy career. From his early days as a New Orleans transplant in the Boston folk scene, through his wilderness years, to his reemergence in the 1990s as one of America’s most distinctive acoustic performers, Chris Smither continues to hone his distinctive sound. He has always traveled his own road, eschewing sophisticated studio tricks and staying true to his musical vision. He has developed and maintained loyal friendships over the years with kindred-spirited musicians like Bonnie Raitt and the late Stephen Bruton, while at the same time throughout his career being inspired by and inspiring to today's new generation of musicians. Reviewers continue to praise his dazzling guitar work, gravelly voice, and songwriting. In the words of the New York Times:" With a weary, well-traveled voice and a serenely intricate finger-picking style, Mr. Smither turns the blues into songs that accept hard-won lessons and try to make peace with fate."

Performance:Recital: Italian Vocal Music
2012-10-05 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Performance in conjunction with the Romance Languages Dept&##39;s week long "La settimana della lingua italiana"
