Exhibition:Operation AB - Katyn
2013-10-03 07:00 - 22:00 (America/Detroit) | Duderstadt Center - First Floor Connector Hall
Operation AB - Katyn: The Destruction of the Polish Elite at the Beginning of World War II, is divided into several thematic blocks. The first depicts the Soviet-German political and military alliance in the years 1939-1941. The next sections present the two notorious criminal operations of 1940, first the Katyn Massacre, and then the AB Operation. The exhibit also presents profiles of several victims, including families that fell victim to both aggressors. Finally, the exhibit looks at the big picture of these operations, depicting their geographical range and documenting the lack of punishment for the vast majority of the Third Reich and the USSR officers responsible for these crimes.

Sponsored by The Institute of National Remembrance, Poland
The University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Polski Klub and Polish Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor

Exhibition:The Orange Revolution in Ukraine: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia
2013-10-03 07:00 - 22:00 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge, First Floor
The Orange Revolution exhibit includes campaign memorabilia from the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine such as brochures, posters, the ubiquitous orange scarf, t-shirts, bumper stickers, postcards, pins, etc. The exhibit offers a small sampling of campaign rhetoric for and against each of the presidential candidates -- Yushchenko and Yanukovich. Yuschchenko was the pro-democracy and pro-Western candidate, while Yanukovich was backed by the pro-communist, authoritarian Ukrainian regime. The first round of voting took place in November 2004, however, the results were nullified by the Supreme Court when it determined that there was widespread election fraud. Viktor Yushchenko won the presidency during the second round of voting in December 2004. Visitors will also read about the experiences of two election observers from Michigan who were in Ukraine during those heady days of change.

Lecture / Discussion:Terri Murtland Lecture and Scholarship
2013-10-03 07:30 - 08:30 | Mott Children's Hospital - Auditorium
The Annual Terri Murtland Lectureship is held to honor Terri Murtland, a respected and beloved U-M midwife, who died in 2008.

University of Michigan alumna, Amy Romano, MSN, CNM, Vice President of Health Ecosystems, Private Practice Inc., will present "Promoting Physiologic Childbirth: Quality Initiatives and Tool Kits."

Exhibition:Emergent Projects
2013-10-03 08:00 - 18:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Taubman College Gallery
The Emergent Project Student Grant is designed to foster student research and encourage collaboration beyond Taubman College. This unique opportunity supports two juried projects for continuing graduate and undergraduate students in order to recognize the outstanding work of Taubman students and provide financial support for selected projects.

The winners: Graduate students Dillon Erb and John Hilmes, "Michigan Drone Research Lab" will explore aerial drone photography. Undergraduate student Zachary Angles in "In Search of Stillness" will produce a visual essay investigating the phenomena, spiritual stillness, its creation, and some examples of its occurrences (within the Sacred and in other areas).

The Emergent Project Student Grant has been funded by a gift from the Class of 2013.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Annual Employee Art Exhibition
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1.
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It is our pleasure to display the artistic accomplishments and showcase the exceptional talent and creativity of our UMHS family. For this eagerly anticipated annual event, 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 to be held on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2012 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Botanical Watercolors
2013-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1.
Local artist, teacher and floral painter Joanne Porter has always been inspired by the seasonal variations in the garden. In her watercolors, she captures the freshness of spring, the warm palette of summer and the crispness of fall. Using many layers of watercolor paint, Porter conveys the delicate movement of the flowers as well as their richness of color. Her educational background includes a BFA and MFA from the U-M School of Art & Design, and her work has been in one person gallery shows and on permanent display in hospitals, businesses and schools throughout southeastern Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemporary Forged Jewelry
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2
Deborah Fehrenbach believes that jewelry should be fun, bold and exciting. She plays texture against mirror finishes and loves to include movement and dimension to create bold, yet feminine jewelry. She includes Tahitian pearls, natural stones and materials, custom glass, enameling and raku pottery in her designs. Exhibiting her work both nationally and internationally, Fehrenbach also teaches near her studio in southeastern Michigan. Her award winning sterling silver and gold jewelry is all hand fabricated and forged, using traditional goldsmithing techniques combined with unconventional methods.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Nature’s Presence: Macro-Botanical Photography
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
Robert W. Cleveland was an advertising photographer for 30 years after studying botany at Alma College and art at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His macro-botanical landscapes allow the eye to travel beneath the surface of reality into a realm of visual surprises of texture, color, light and design. Cleveland sees his photographs as metaphorical, inviting viewers to experience the totality of nature's presence and the wonderment and tranquility it can evoke. Cleveland resides in Michigan, but also enjoys exploring Hawaii, Japan, Europe, the western United States as well as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass
2013-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2
The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan, and in 1982, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium, including Dominick Labino, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Landscapes: Collage
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2
Ann Arbor artist Cheryl Dawdy received her BA from U-M and then dabbled in different media (printmaking, weaving, natural dyes) until discovering collage. She adores it for its spontaneity and perfect expression of her "make it up as you go along" approach to life. Expectation invites disappointment, she contends, but an open mind offers unlimited potential. With that attitude, she works with old postcards, paper scraps, and pieces of old wallpaper washed with acrylic paint, creating landscape images some have described as "wonderful little worlds you want to climb into" and "the stuff of dreams." Dawdy is also a singer for the Ann Arbor based musical performance group the Chenille Sisters.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Songs of the Birds: Airbrushed Acrylics
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
Mixing science and art, local artist Carol Hanna interprets the songs of birds using visual language that represents the color of the birds and the notes of their songs. The various stripe combinations of vibrating color in each painting represent each individual bird's measure of time or rhythm, the pitch or frequency of its vibrations per second, and the softness or loudness of its call. Hanna works with the U-M Biology Department to match each bird's exact color. Hanna has exhibited both locally and nationally, and her works are in permanent collections at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the C. S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital. She received both a BFA and an MA from Eastern Michigan University.

Exhibition:Sibande On Campus: Exhibit: The wait seems to go on forever (mural, 2008)
2013-10-03 08:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Commons
Rising young South African artist Mary Sibande constructs elaborate visual narratives to consider race, gender, and class in post-colonial South Africa. Rooted in her own family’s history of three generations of women as domestic servants, Sibande’s larger-than-life figures clothed in yards of fabric confront the viewer with the stark limits of cultural heritage as well as the possibility of transformation. Sibande’s Ann Arbor fellowship includes an original installation at the U-M Institute for the Humanities gallery, a Penny Stamps lecture, an open studio at the Stamps School on North Campus, and exhibition of Sibande’s existing work at Gallery DAAS, the U-M Museum of Art, and the Stamps School Slusser Gallery.

Exhibition:Sibande On Campus: Exhibition of New Work
2013-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Rising young South African artist Mary Sibande constructs elaborate visual narratives to consider race, gender, and class in post-colonial South Africa. Rooted in her own family’s history of three generations of women as domestic servants, Sibande’s larger-than-life figures clothed in yards of fabric confront the viewer with the stark limits of cultural heritage as well as the possibility of transformation. Sibande’s Ann Arbor fellowship includes an original installation at the U-M Institute for the Humanities gallery, a Penny Stamps lecture, an open studio at the Stamps School on North Campus, and exhibition of Sibande’s existing work at Gallery DAAS, the U-M Museum of Art, and the Stamps School Slusser Gallery. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/sibandeoncampus

Exhibition:American Foodways: The Jewish Contribution
2013-10-03 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Highlighting Jewish contributions to American culinary history from 1660 to 2013, this exhibit includes Jewish-American charity cookbooks representing all fifty states from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library. Many other treasures will also be on display, including the first Jewish cookbook published in America (1871). Original early works will be on display in the Audubon Room, with examples of 20th and 21st century items in the North Lobby cases of the Hatcher Library.

Curated by Jan Longone, Adjunct Curator in the U-M Special Collections Library, and Avery Robinson, Graduate Student in Judaic Studies, the exhibit is available during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1-7pm.

Please join us for an exhibit lecture and reception on September 24 at 4:00 p.m.

Class / Instruction:Webcast: SI665: Online Searching and Databases
2013-10-03 08:30 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Webcast - visit website
Tune in for a webcast of Karen Markey's SI665 Online Searching and Databases class, one of more than 15 classes being webcast by the School of Information during Homecoming 2013.

Visit website to view the webcast.

Meeting:Career Co-Advising at the Psychology Department
2013-10-03 09:00 - 10:30 | East Hall - Undergraduate Psychology Office
Meet with a Career Center Career Coach and a Psychology Concentration Advisor at the same time in these co-advising appointments. Discuss academic and career related questions at the same time! Schedule your appointment on the Psychology Department's website.

Exhibition:Greetings from Gibraltar
2013-10-03 09:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - 2435
Reception: Friday, October 11 @ 7:00pm in North Quad Space 2435
Exhibition: October 1-18, 9am - 6pm

The exhibition foregrounds the Strait of Gibraltar both as a geographical unit that separates and links lands on either side, as well as a space in its own right with programs such as fishing, swimming, travelling, shipping, and conquering. Greetings from Gibraltar draws on the geographic as a design paradigm, a condition in which designers are being compelled to address and transform larger contexts and address issues, which had previously been confined to the domains of engineering, ecology, or regional planning.

The need to address such ”˜geographic’ aspects has prompted designers to re-examine tools of representation as well forms of the architectural object.

The work was developed in the context of a 2013 University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Travel Studio to the Strait of Gibraltar. Over the four weeks of June 2013, the studio travelled from Madrid through Granada, Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar/La Linea, Algeciras, Ceuta, Tangier, and Fez. The studio was initiated in analytic and cartographic investigations of individual port-cities case studies, subsequently complied to highlight relational geographies, flows, add exchanges across the Strait. The travel journey began with a passion for sensory and aesthetic knowledge anchored by seascapes.

The resultant is a landscape that depicts space and time. The postcard-joiners construct a map of the Strait together with the series of architectural interventions proposed in that geography. It
also creates a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the space, encountering a series of detail views as well as constructing a panorama and a map of the landscape.

Gibraltar Studio 2013
Professors: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Students: John Arnold, Peter Dumbadze, Lyla Feinsod, Phillip Gavrilovski, Monica Griffin, Andrew Ko, Yuan Liang, Yunzhi Ou, Jason Park, Austin Tsai, Adam Wagner, Suo Ya

Special thanks to Andrew Ko for coordinating the exhibition.

Acknowledgments: Monica Ponce De Leon, Dean Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

A note about the travel studio to Gibraltar:
The studio investigates the geographic as a design question. The Strait of Gibraltar is the only natural entrance to the semi-enclosed Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, second only to the Malacca Straits in Singapore. Europe and Africa are separated by 14 km at the narrowest point, and ferries cross between the two continents every day in as little as 35 minutes.

The Strait of Gibraltar has for long stimulated the architectural imaginary. As early as the 1920s the German architect Herman Sorgel proposed damming Gibraltar and draining the Mediterranean to unite Europe and Africa into a new supercontinent. The project aspired to provide a "habitat" in North Africa for an overpopulated Europe. How do contemporary issues of access to water, food, energy, and the rescaling of the political question requalify the megaproject imaginary, regional networks, and the geographic project?

The studio explores the architectural and urban potentials of the territory of Gibraltar addressing its conditions as a spatial enclave, a gateway to the Mediterranean, and a bridge between Africa and Europe. Along the lines of the journal New Geographies, the studio responds to a condition in which designers are increasingly compelled to address and transform larger contexts and to respond to problems that had been confined to the domains of engineering, ecology, or policy.

Exhibition:Harmon of Michigan
2013-10-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Bentley Historical Library - Lobby
The Bentley Historical Library is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibit, “Harmon of Michigan” focusing on the life and career of University of Michigan football legend Tom Harmon. The exhibition, in conjunction with the "unretiring" of Harmon's famed number 98 jersey this season, highlights Harmon’s college career at Michigan, both as a student and an athlete. Using archival documents, photographs, and artifacts, including material recently acquired through Harmon’s son, Mark Harmon, the exhibit traces Harmon’s career as the University of Michigan’s first Heisman Trophy winner, World War II pilot and war hero, and a pioneering radio and television broadcaster. The exhibit is curate by Greg Kinney.

Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Survey Design: Data Collection and Questionnaire Design
2013-10-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor
This workshop will present an overview of available modes and methods of survey data collection as well as an introduction to the survey response process and implications for questionnaire design. Participants will gain an appreciation of the tradeoffs inherent in survey design decisions and how design can affect data quality and survey errors.

Exhibition:Sibande On Campus: Exhibit: ...of Prosperity (sculpture, 2011), Sophie-Velucia (mixed media),murals, and prints
2013-10-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Slusser Gallery

Lecture / Discussion:The Arab Spring
2013-10-03 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
Speaker: Juan Cole, Ph.D. Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U of M; Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, U of M.
The 2011 Arab political upheavals dubbed “The Arab Spring” were a series of youth revolts against governments perceived as brutal, dictatorial and corrupt, as blocking youth aspirations. The lecture will look at the rise of the mafia-like police states that provoked the revolutions and examine the attempts to transition to forms of democracy. It will look at the impact of the upheavals elsewhere in the Arab world, and consider where the region is going. Dr. Cole is the author of Engaging the Muslim World.

Performance:Alumni As Mentors: Qand A with Michael Wayne
2013-10-03 10:40 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2032
Q&A on topics related to winning and keeping a job in a professional orchestra. Michael Wayne, BM ’03 (clarinet), has enjoyed success as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician performing throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Wayne joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2008, after his tenure as principal clarinet of the Kansas City Symphony. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Phoenix Symphony, and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and has been a visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In recent years, has given master classes at the University of Michigan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas. Michael made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2005 with the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s clarinet concerto Brooklyn Bridge, as a featured soloist with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, and is also the soloist on the premiere recording of the work on Equilibrium Records.

Exhibition:"Performing Still Images: David Claerbout and Matthew Buckingham"
2013-10-03 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Hours are noon-5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays.

Class / Instruction:Webcast: SI339 Design of Complex Websites
2013-10-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location - Webcast - visit website
Tune in for a webcast of Colleen Van Lent's SI339 Design of Complex Websites class, one of more than 15 classes being webcast by the School of Information during Homecoming 2013.

Visit website to view the webcast.

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture - A Maidservant's Tale: Japanese History and the Early Modern World
2013-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
In 1839, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo’s service and learn “the conduct and manners of the upper class.” Her brothers, scandalized, demanded that she return immediately. Instead, she made a life for herself in the capital, working a series of temporary maidservant jobs and ultimately marrying a samurai in the service of the Edo city magistrate. This talk places her story of urban migration and service work in a global context. It considers how we might find a place for Japanese women in the history of global early modernity, which tends to emphasize instances of travel and exchange at the expense of the stories of the majority of individuals (particularly women), who stayed within “national” boundaries.

About the Speaker:
Amy Stanley specializes in the history of early modern and modern Japan, with a particular interest in how common people contributed to Japan’s economic, political, and social transformation in the mid-nineteenth century. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2007. Her first book, Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2012), explains how the growing business of selling sex reconfigured women’s places in the household, the marketplace, and the Tokugawa state. Professor Stanley has also written articles on education for geisha in the 1870’s and early modern peasants’ practices of settling adultery cases. Her new project is a microhistory that investigates how a woman in Japan experiences divorce, service work, and urban migration in the context of global early modernity.

Exhibition:Four Decades
2013-10-03 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery (Room 1019)
Four Decades, a new exhibition featuring the work of School of Art & Design Professor Dennis Guastella and Ron Teachworth will present a retrospective selection of each artist’s work from the 1970's to the present.

A public reception honoring the artists will take place in the Gallery on Sunday, October 13, from 3-5pm. (Free parking is available on Sundays.)

Both artists work in a variety of media, and have an ongoing commitment to non-objective painting.The richly developed surfaces of Dennis Guastella's paintings demonstrate his passion for the physical beauty of paint explored through a variety of application methods ranging from squeeze bottles to thick layers of acrylic paint that are dried on a non-absorbent surface, removed, and then cut and collaged onto a final painting panel.

Ron Teachworth's abstractions evolved from his early landscape paintings. These interpretations developed into paintings called "Sky Fields" where the entire canvas became a unified surface activated by thousands of small brush strokes of color.

To learn more about the artists visit their web sites below.

Dennis Guastella: http://theartofdennisguastella.blogspot.com

Ron Teachworth: http://www.ronteachworth.com

Reception / Open House:Reception for Ukrainian Women’s Handiwork Exhibit
2013-10-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Lane Hall - Lane Hall Lobby
Please join us for a reception for the exhibit “Ukrainian Women’s Handiwork,” which provides a glimpse into Ukrainian culture through small artifacts from the Trypillian, Scythian and Kyivan Rus’ civilizations. The display in the glass cases includes pysanky with goddess (berehynia) motifs, a ceramic berehynia, coral jewelry, and embroideries. The exhibit draws from the belief that the Ukrainian spirit endures through women’s intricate handiwork.

The exhibit and reception are taking place in conjunction with President Yushchenko’s visit to Ann Arbor where he has been invited as the guest speaker at the 5th anniversary of UM's Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Exhibit curated by Chrystyna Nykorak and Dzvinka Nykorak Hayda from the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum of Detroit. Exhibit and reception sponsored by UM's Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and also the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Branch 50.

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Traditional, Original & Latin Jazz
2013-10-03 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
Enjoy the uplifting, exciting and inspiring sounds of the Edie Herrold Trio as they explore the world of jazz. You'll hear great grooves from Brazil, the Caribbean and beyond mixed with originals and standard jazz tunes. Herrold studied at the University of Miami, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and for the last several years at the acclaimed Jazz Camp WEST immersion program in northern California. Master guitarist Brian Delaney and exceptional pianist Dale Grisa join bassist Edie Herrold on a journey of jazz inspiration.

Other:CBSSM Panel: What does the Supreme Court ruling on gene patents mean for public health?
2013-10-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Seminar Rooms ABC (across from Kahn Auditorium)
In the recent gene patent case (AMP et al. v. Myriad) the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that human genes cannot be patented. This panel will discuss the ethical, legal, social, scientific, and health policy consequences of this landmark decision on the future of personalized medicine.

Panelists:
-Rebecca Eisenberg, JD, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law
-Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
-Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The panel will be moderated by Edward Goldman, JD, Associate Professor, UM Department of ObGyn Women's Hospital and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy

Exhibition:Marble Fairbanks
2013-10-03 15:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Liberty Gallery, 305 W. Liberty St, Ann Arbor
Marble Fairbanks is an architecture, design and research office in New York City founded in 1990 by Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks. This exhibition will feature models and objects from design projects and some projects in process. Karen Fairbanks is being honored with the "Distinguished Alumna" award in early October.

Sponsored by The Guido A. Binda (B.S.A.A.'31) Lecture and Exhibition Fund.

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
2013-10-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210
My lab has focused on adaptive protein evolution, with a particular focus on the function and evolution of reproductive proteins. The rapid divergence of reproductive proteins could result in speciation due to the mismatch of sperm-egg recognition molecules. Our approach is highly integrative, using proteomics, genomics, biochemical and computational approaches. We work on a variety of taxonomic groups, including abalone, plants, Drosophila and primates. I will demonstrate how the use of proteomics has been invaluable for the study of reproductive protein evolution in these systems. In particular, I will focus on how studies of molecular co-evolution can shed light on the function of reproductive proteins including predicting protein - protein interactions.

Lecture / Discussion:Shades of Orange: A Decade of Ukrainian Democracy
2013-10-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005-10)

Viktor Yushchenko took office after the Orange Revolution, a series of protests and political events that took place in the aftermath of the corrupt and fraudulent 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. The Orange Revolution ended with the election of Viktor Yushchenko over the government-supported candidate Viktor Yanukovich. During his election campaign, Yushchenko was poisoned with hazardous amounts of dioxin and has been recovering since.

He will deliver a major public lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies on October 3 that examines the social, economic, and political debates taking place in Ukraine today; the challenges it faces in building new political and economic institutions; and Ukraine’s evolving relationship with the European Union.

Other:Improving Relationships; A Relationship Enhancement Series
2013-10-03 16:15 - 17:00 | Michigan Union - CAPS Office 3100
Thursdays- Relationship Enhancement Series. Dealing with difficult people in your life can be extremely stressful. Unfortunately, few people ever learn the high-level skills needed to manage difficult relationships. This series will help you do just that.

Improving Relationships. Learn skills to navigate relationships of all types. Topics such as creating boundaries, communicating your needs, and maintaining self-respect in relationships will be explored.

Dates: 10/3, 10/31, 12/5

Each Monday through Thursday from 4:15-5:30 p.m. you and other interested students will meet with a counselor and focus on one of the most frequent concerns of U-M students. These are the very issues that U-M students have told us are the most common issues they deal with every day. The counselor will share some helpful information, talk about strategies and clinical resources, and she or he will also make time for you to share a little bit about your concerns (if you wish to do so).

Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
2013-10-03 17:10 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater 603 E. Liberty St. Ann Arbor
Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities.

Mark Dzierskis an industrial designer, an expert in brand management, innovation and creativity, and head of industrial design initiatives at LUNAR, one of the world's top international Industrial Design firms. Mark also writes a regular blog for Fast Company Magazine, is the current executive editor for IDSA’s Innovation Magazine and speaks frequently in public on the topic of design and design thinking. He has received the Industrial Design Excellence Award, ID Magazine’s Annual Design Review Best in Category, Germany's Red Dot for Excellence in Design, and over 100 international design and functional patents. He is a past president of IDSA, the Industrial Designers Society of America and is an adjunct professor at both the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering, teaching classes on Design Thinking. His Stamps presentation will focus on the fundamentals of creativity and risk taking involved in Design thinking and explore the obstacles that prevent people from reaching their own creative potential.

Performance:Sally Fleming Master Class: Michael Wayne, clarinet
2013-10-03 17:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Michael Wayne, BM ’03 (clarinet), has enjoyed success as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician performing throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Wayne joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2008, after his tenure as principal clarinet of the Kansas City Symphony. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Phoenix Symphony, and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and has been a visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In recent years, has given master classes at the University of Michigan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas. Michael made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2005 with the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s clarinet concerto Brooklyn Bridge, as a featured soloist with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, and is also the soloist on the premiere recording of the work on Equilibrium Records.

Class / Instruction:Webcast: SI523 Information and Control
2013-10-03 18:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location - Webcast - visit website
Tune in for a webcast of John L. King's SI523 Information and Control class, one of more than 15 classes being webcast by the School of Information during Homecoming 2013.

Visit website to view the webcast.

Performance:Chinglish
2013-10-03 19:00 | Duderstadt Center - Video Studio
Chinglish is a sharp and relevant comedy about the challenges of communication across languages and culture. It's about the struggle to connect as people, and the universal human desire to understand and be understood. The play follows an American businessman who's desperately seeking to land a lucrative business deal in China's booming economic market. After many misunderstandings, shady arrangements, and an affair with a secretive Chinese woman, he learns that there is much to be lost, and found, in translation.

Performance:Red Noses
2013-10-03 19:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
Dept. of Theatre & Drama A comedy by Peter Barnes, directed by Malcolm Tulip. A Catholic monk assembles a misfit band of comics to ease the suffering of man in this uproarious and thought-provoking work. League Ticket Office 734-764-2538

Film Screening:A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival--Jiseul (ì§€ìŠ¬) 2013
2013-10-03 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
In 1948, as the government issued the communists’ eviction to the Jeju Island, the military invaded a calm and peaceful village. Running away from the military, the townsfolk get into the cave. They try to hide to survive but there seems no hope like the dark cave. As time goes by, people are suffering from severe cold and hunger staying in the cave. One day, it still seems nothing changed. And a man who worries about his pigs at home, is trying to get back home to feed them but the rest strictly stop him. With nothing but frustration, people start fall apart debating if they should move to the higher mountain or just stay in the cave. Directed by O Muel. 108 minutes.

Cosponsored by the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures

Performance:James Keelaghan & Jez Lowe
2013-10-03 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Dirty Linen calls Britain's Jez Lowe "a songwriter whose music reflects a heartfelt respect and appreciation for the working people who are ground beneath the wheels of corporate and governmental machinery." Jez Lowe tells stories of the people of his native northeast England. He emerged onto the folk scene in his trademark striped shirt in 1980, and since then his songs have been recorded by the Tannahill Weavers, Fairport Convention, Cherish the Ladies, and many other leading lights of folk music in the British Isles.

James Keelaghan is listed in the Canadian Encyclopedia (his entry, he's pleased to note, is longer than the one for the Royal Bank but shorter than the Red Squirrel entry). His art is deeply rooted in his native country, but he has a following all over the English-speaking world. Why? There are lots of reasons, but when you get right down to it, James Keelaghan is a true storyteller–an explorer of North America's history and peoples (including those of Latin descent, who have also influenced him musically), of the natural world, of the dark corners of his own psyche. He seems to tap into the deep roots of folk music even as he forges a style that's all his own.
