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DTSTAMP:20131121T155916
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:4\,000 Years for Choice
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition combines two projects by graphic designer Heather Ault. \"4\,000 Years for Choice\" is an exhibition of posters about the age-old practice of abortion and contraception as a means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act existing throughout all of human history. The \"Reproductive Roots\" series shines a bright light on the many voices from the abortion care and reproductive justice movements\, using vividly designed social media graphics and notecards to inspire conversations from a breadth of perspectives. \n\nHeather Ault is a visual artist\, pro-choice activist\, and independent scholar creating artwork to shift conversations about reproductive rights and justice. She uses vibrant graphics\, affirmative language\, and historical accounts to transform ugly discord into visual narratives that are beautiful and empowering.\n\nThe exhibition is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Department. It is cosponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice\, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. \n\n
UID:15605-1195201@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:reproductive health,reproductive justice,visual arts,women,women's health
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Lane Hall Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20140113T135919
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T233000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Maps and Mapmaking in India
DESCRIPTION:The Stephen S. Clark Library’s map collection contains a rich variety of historical and modern maps and atlases of India. The exhibit\, which runs through April 22\, highlights many of our earliest maps\, including a facsimile of an Arabic manuscript from 1159 C.E. The exhibit covers the history and evolution of the mapping of India\, colonialism\, modern geoscapes portraying ”˜Mother India\,’ and maps of India today.\n\nMaps of India are presented in conjunction with the winter 2014 LSA theme semester \"India in the World.\"
UID:16019-1196849@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16019
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:exhibit,india,library,maps,theme semester
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher
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DTSTAMP:20131126T144256
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers
DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan.
UID:15646-1195703@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2.
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DTSTAMP:20131126T144049
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography
DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. 
UID:15645-1195653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20131126T143822
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel
DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux.  She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. 
UID:15644-1195603@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20131126T144446
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West
DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world.
UID:15647-1195753@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. 
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DTSTAMP:20131126T143604
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage
DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University.
UID:15643-1195553@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1.
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DTSTAMP:20131126T144829
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass
DESCRIPTION: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. 
UID:15648-1195866@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2.
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DTSTAMP:20131126T143353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper
DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods.
UID:15642-1195503@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1.
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DTSTAMP:20131126T142906
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings
DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. 
UID:15640-1195403@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
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DTSTAMP:20131126T143146
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics
DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. 
UID:15641-1195453@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20140117T154224
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T233000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan’s Story: The History of Race at U-M
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis student-researched exhibit chronicles many “firsts” at the University of Michigan\, including the first African American\, Japanese\, Puerto Rican and Chinese students. Profiles of notable non-white students\, faculty\, and staff are accompanied by stories about race and student life\, including the battle to integrate student dorms and the removal of restrictions on African American players on sports teams.\n\nPart of the University of Michigan’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. observance\, this exhibit is sponsored by the University Library\, the Bentley Library\, University Housing\, the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)\, and the School of Information.\n
UID:16130-1197098@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16130
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:black history,exhibit,history,library,mlk symposium
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
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DTSTAMP:20131216T123721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact:
DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n
UID:15834-1196404@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:architecture
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda
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DTSTAMP:20140115T132655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Other Camera: An Exhibit Curated by Paul Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:The Other Camera explores the world from the standpoint of participatory\, and community photographers. It poses important questions - how do photographers from communities in Africa and specifically South Africa photograph their own people\, environment\, cultures and events? More importantly\, it asks how vernacular photography developed and how it has reframed itself in relation to modernity\, transformation and globalization.
UID:16074-1196984@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:multicultural,social justice,visual arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - #1010
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20131211T182253
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Successful Schools=Successful Citizens: Lessons from Hamtramck High School (a panel discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Barbara Bleyaert\, Ed.D\, Associate Professor\, EMU.\n\nPanel: Rebecca Westrate\, Principal of Hamtramck High School\, plus past and current students. Together Dr. Bleyaert and Ms. Westrate will present a vision of what a truly successful school looks like.\n\nBleyaert was a leader in the Coalition of Essential Schools\, a research-based school reform initiative at Brown University. Her decades-long work there focused on transforming schools from adult-centered organizations into student and learner-centered organizations. Westrate has successfully worked at transforming Hamtramck High School into such a student-centered school for the past four years. She was recently named as a School Superhero by the General Motors Foundation\, United Way for Southeastern Michigan and B.L.A.C. Detroit Magazine. Students will share their own views of the changes that have been made at Hamtramck High School. \n
UID:15797-1196328@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15797
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:education,lifelong learning,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel, 2900 Jackson Ave.
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DTSTAMP:20131204T094245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series - Kyomai and Postwar Japan: Construction of Cultural Memory in Kyoto
DESCRIPTION:“Kyōmai” literally means \"dance of Kyoto\"--the Japanese city known for its cultural tourism. The word “kyōmai” was invented a century after the dance was created\, and was popularized after World War II mainly through the Japanese policy on cultural preservation.   What have people seen and felt in the word\, “kyōmai”? Its popularization was deeply related to the image of Kyoto\, which has been cultivated as an ancient capital. It is also directly connected with Japan’s postwar self-portrait as a country with a long history. I will examine the association between the dance and Japanese identity\, as constructed after 1945.\n\nMariko Okada is currently CJS’s Visiting Scholar and was the 2012-13 Toyota Professor in Residence. She received her Ph.D. from Waseda University in 2011. She won the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities for her book\, The Birth of Kyōmai: Inoue-ryu Dance in Nineteenth-Century Kyoto\, Japan\, (Shibunkaku Shuppan\, 2013).
UID:15707-1196165@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15707
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:japan
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
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DTSTAMP:20140102T163256
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River
DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines.
UID:15934-1196599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019
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DTSTAMP:20131212T141311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T130000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Folk/Rock Trio
DESCRIPTION:Megan Chartier (cello)\, Bob Huffman (guitar and vocals) and Tracy Huffman (vocals) form a dynamic folk/rock trio. Tracy Huffman began her vocal career at the young age of 11 when she was chosen to participate in an all-star choir to back-up Karen Carpenter and Barry Manilow. As an adult\, Tracy has been a vocalist in various R&B/pop bands throughout the Midwest since the mid-eighties. Bob Huffman studied music in Hollywood\, California and Boston\, Massachusetts and is currently a music therapist at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Megan Chartier has been playing cello for thirteen years and is pursuing a master’s degree in Cello Performance at U-M. 
UID:15811-1196342@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15811
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,music
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1.
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DTSTAMP:20131106T135213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T121500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Traditional Jewish Sexual Guidance Through History
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture we will explore some examples of Jewish guides to marital sexuality from various periods. Among other questions\, we will ask what type of written guidance on the marital act was available to Jewish readers through the generations? Did the available guidance regarding the sexual act differ from one generation to the next? If so\, how did the historical and cultural context of each generation impact the prescribed rules of sexual conduct? And can we deduce anything from these texts regarding actual behavior in Jewish bedrooms?
UID:15461-1194842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15461
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:jewish studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022
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DTSTAMP:20140113T103219
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T150000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Great Decisions\, Section 2--OLLI Study Group (50+)
DESCRIPTION:Class meets first & third Thursdays\, 1/23\, 2/6\, 2/20\, 3/6\, 3/20\, 4/3\, 4/17\, 5/1\, 5/15. Facilitated by Stu Simon and Leo Shedden.\n\nWe will discuss eight critical issues facing the U.S. this year. A course briefing book provides background information\, current data and policy options for each issue. The topics are: Defense Technology\, Israel\, Turkey\, Islamic awakening\, Energy Independence\, Food/Climate\, China's foreign policy and U.S. Trade Policy. Briefing book will be available for pick up at the OLLI office.
UID:16003-1196830@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16003
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:international policy,lifelong learning,politics,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Genesis of Ann Arbor (Temple Beth Emeth/St. Clare's Church), 2309 Packard. 
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DTSTAMP:20131219T092238
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Feminism\, Technology\, and the Body
DESCRIPTION:What difference does \"the body\" make when you are online? A live taping of a DOCC (a feminist alternative to MOOCs) dialogue moderated by Sidonie Smith and Lisa Nakamura between Jessie Daniels of CUNY and Alondra Nelson of Columbia on the topic of Feminism and the Body in the Digital Age.\n\nThese events are part of the larger annual MLK event series that UofM presents in January-February.\n\nReception to follow.\n\nPart of the Feminist Digital Pedagogies series. #FemTechNet\n\nSponsored by Digital Studies at the University of Michigan\, The Department of American Culture\, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender\, and the Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts and Culture. Additional supporters to be named at event.
UID:15903-1196488@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15903
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,feminism,internet,race,social justice,technology
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20140113T103834
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Particle Physics for the Non-Scientist--OLLI Study Group (50+)
DESCRIPTION:January 23 - April 10\nWe will cover the particles of modern physics from a non-specialist point of view. We will view two 30 minute lectures\, each followed by 20 minutes for answering questions and discussion. The study group leader\, Dick Chase\, worked 27 years as an industrial physicist for Ford Motor Company and taught physics from community college to the graduate level. \nTrinity Lutheran Church\, 1400 W. Stadium Boulevard. $40. 
UID:16005-1196831@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16005
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:lifelong learning,physics,retirement,science
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Trinity Lutheran Church
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DTSTAMP:20131217T151816
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Can a Plantation Be Fair? Fair Trade and Darjeeling Tea Production
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Besky\, author of The Darjeeling Distinction\, explores the frictions between fair trade and the plantation system and highlights how\, in India\, fair trade undermines existing state welfare structures.\n\nFair trade\, organic\, shade grown – on a trip to the supermarket\, these labels guide our purchasing and attest to the conditions of production of the products they adorn\; conditions that we believe are better as the result of our purchases. “Fair trade plantation” may seem like an oxymoron\, as plantation workers are not cooperative farmers – they are industrial laborers who have little capacity to make democratic decisions in the face of the plantation’s structural oppression. In the late 1990s\, however\, tea plantations in Darjeeling\, high up in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India\, became the first plantations in the world to receive fair trade certification. Hope was high among certifying agencies that fair trade would alleviate the inequities of tea production. Despite these hopes\, the region’s plantation laborers\, who produce some of the world’s most expensive tea\, remain some of the tea industry’s worst paid workers.\n\nBook sales provided by Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room.
UID:15862-1196447@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:book event,booksigning,library,tea
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
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DTSTAMP:20131218T134200
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe
DESCRIPTION:Mustafa Aksakal\, associate professor of history\, Georgetown University\n\nThe Dutch scholar Snouck Hurgronje famously characterized the Ottoman declaration of jihad against the Entente in November 1914 as a “holy war made in Germany.” Was the jihad declaration really cooked up in Berlin? Did it result from the wishes of the German emperor\, Kaiser Hajji Muhammad Wilhelm II\, as Entente critics sometimes referred to him? This talk explores the Ottoman origins of the 1914 declaration.\n\nWorld War I was a major turning point in world history that brought Europe’s long nineteenth century to a close and ushered in the conflicts of the twentieth century. Beginning in 2014\, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia is sponsoring a series of programs–WWI 1914-2014: Reflecting on the 100th Anniversary of WWI–that examine the many ways that WWI changed Europe’s place in the world.\n\nSponsors: CES\, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies
UID:15876-1196462@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ottoman empire,world war i
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636
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DTSTAMP:20131219T092721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Designing the Virtual Campus
DESCRIPTION:Join Liz Losh of UC San Diego as she talks about technology in educational design.\n\nInstructional technologies are frequently imagined as being new\, cheap\, light\, compact\, invisible\, and laborsaving. Many envisioning digital “reform” in higher education hope to overturn existing practices and values and to ascend to a realm of pure content delivery unfettered by the petty demands of the material and embodied world. Yet technologies function thanks to platforms that rely on physical constraints and affordances\, and they operate in the context of users’ aspirations\, desires\, and fears regarding regimes of labor and property.\n\nPart of the Feminist Digital Pedagogies series. #FemTechNet\n\nSponsored by Digital Studies at the University of Michigan\, The Department of American Culture\, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender\, and the Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts and Culture. Additional supporters to be named at event.
UID:15904-1196489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15904
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,education,social justice,technology
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
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DTSTAMP:20140115T092932
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar
DESCRIPTION:A fundamental theme in ecology aims to elucidate the mechanisms promoting species persistence. Species are respondent to environmental and anthropogenic perturbations\, and have trophic dependences that cascade through ecosystems. Thus\, the ecological communities that form exhibit spatial and temporal heterogeneity. The principle goal of my research program is to evaluate the biogeography of ecological communities by examining three leading questions in vertebrate systems. 1) What abiotic and biotic factors delimit species ranges including those of conservation and human concern? 2) How are species interactions distributed across scales? 3) What are the consequences of extirpations (or expansions) on communities? I employ a variety of tools at macroecological scales and finer resolutions that integrate biogeography\, community and trophic ecology\, parasitology\, and animal behaviour to answer these questions. In my seminar\, I will discuss a diverse portfolio of research projects that include: island foxes and black-footed ferrets in North America\, lemurs in Madagascar\, and small mammals in Ghana. My program will continue to advance our understanding of species interactions and their shifting dynamics under future global change scenarios. Ultimately\, discerning the plasticity of ecological associations is necessary to inform the vulnerability of species to external threats\, and identify integral processes that promote biodiversity and community viability.
UID:16068-1196977@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
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DTSTAMP:20131220T154113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library
UID:15916-1196542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20131217T151059
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T171000
SUMMARY:Other:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION: Michael Graves began his career in the 1960s as a creator of private houses in the abstract and austere style of orthodox Modernism\, his compositions influenced by the work of Le Corbusier. In the late 1970s\, however\, Graves began to reject the bare and unadorned Modernist idiom as too cool and abstract\, and he began seeking a richer architectural vocabulary that would be more accessible to the public. He soon drew remarkable attention with his designs for several large public buildings in the early 1980s. The Portland Public Service Building (usually called the Portland Building) in Portland\, Ore. (1980)\, and the Humana Building in Louisville\, Ky. (1982)\, were notable for their hulking masses and for Graves’s highly personal\, Cubist interpretations of such classical elements as colonnades and loggias. Though somewhat awkward\, these and other of Graves’s later buildings were acclaimed for their powerful and energetic presence.\n\nBy the mid-1980s Graves had emerged as arguably the most original and popular figure working in the postmodernist idiom. He executed architectural and design commissions for clients around the world. In the early 1980s he created a playful and iconic teakettle (as well as a number of additional products) for the Alessi design firm\, and he later created a line of household items\, including kitchenware and furniture\, for the discount retailer Target.\n\nAmong his later large-scale projects were the restoration of the Washington Monument (2000) and the expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts (completed 2007). In 2001 Graves was awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (AIA) for lifetime achievement.
UID:15856-1196441@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15856
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:architecture,art,penny stamps speaker series,penny w stamps,taubman college
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
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DTSTAMP:20130930T173536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:James Hill
DESCRIPTION:We've heard the incredible ukulele feats of James Hill at The Ark and at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. With the release of \"Man With a Love Song\,\" James\, recognized as one of the world’s foremost ukulele players\, stands poised and ready to take his place in the ranks of today's best young songwriters. Here\, seemingly in a single blast\, James's songwriting has grown to rival his awe-inspiring prowess as a musician. From the soulful big-band jazz of “What Would You Have Me Do?” through the barrelhouse-bluegrass of “Hand Over My Heart” and impeccable barbershop of “Lying In Wait” to the spoken-word-and-junkyard-percussion of “Soap and Water\,” James's new music fills you up and keeps you coming back for more. It's been some years since we last heard this amazing virtuoso at The Ark–come on by and renew old acquaintances!\n
UID:14921-1193421@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14921
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:james hill,music,the ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI
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DTSTAMP:20140123T000016
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140123T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:S is for Screendance (and Shakespeare\, Strauss\, Stravinsky...)
DESCRIPTION:New and Recent Screendances by Peter Sparling  Special guests: RusCa Piano Duo: Ilya Blinov and Christian Matijas-Mecca- Pianos\, Ralph Williams\, and Vince Castagnacci    Thurnau Professor of Dance Peter Sparling presents four new and recent screendances\, works featuring his own dance performance for the camera and edited specifically for the screen. Joining him on screen and for live performance are Ralph Williams\, UM Prof. of English\, Christian Matijas-Mecca\, UM Prof. of Dance and pianist Ilya Blinov\, Susquehanna University.  Inspired by the poetry of T. S. Eliot and Shakespeare and the music of Richard Strauss\, Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky\, the works represent a culmination of Sparling’s 40-year career as dancer/choreographer and more recent transition from stage to screen.     He Was Locked in a Race Against Time takes a radical departure from the over 200 dance productions created to Stravinsky’s monumental 1913 score\, Le Sacre de Printemps. Sparling’s screendance features Stravinsky’s original arrangement for piano four-hands\, performed by Christian Matijas-Mecca and Ilya Blinov. Their performance provides an intimate scale\, a striking counterpoint to the rhythms of the movement and editing\, and a nod to the tradition of keyboard music accompaniment for silent film. Sparling’s work tracks a man’s turbulent\, soulful journey across four lives\, and through four distinct landscapes that are both inner and outer. Day Tripper finds him rising fitfully from his rocking chair to stumble through his suburban neighborhood as if negotiating a confused daydream. In Uncommon Night\, he dances spellbound under a full moon. Priest’s Dance reveals a turbulent soul just beneath a monk’s somber composure. Bedlam\, shot in the empty\, decrepit Traverse City State Mental Hospital\, evokes the final undoing of a lost man.     Last Man at Willow Run is an elegiac tone poem for the post-industrial age\, shot in the Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti\, Michigan just months before its demolition. A lone figure (Sparling) maps the cavernous spaces of the abandoned plant with his dancing body. The camera charts his progress down mile-long corridors\, as he wrestles with forgotten spirits and is cloned into assembly lines of workers past. Set to Richard Strauss\&##39\;s dramatic orchestral score\, Death and Transfiguration\, the work has a tragic\, ironic edge while serving as an epic-scale memorial.    In The Death of St. Narcissus\, Sparling splits his screen persona between that of narrator and Narcissus in this danced dramatization of T.S. Eliot’s vivid\, homoerotic mash-up of a St. Sebastian-like martyr and the doomed figure from Greek mythology. Shot against greenscreen\, the work features paintings of Elyse Radenovic as sets and backdrops and the voice of tenor Nicholas Phan performing Benjamin Britten’s haunting setting of the Eliot poem.     Ralph Williams\, beloved UM professor and renowned scholar\, is the inspiration for Sparling’s Six Sonnets. Sparling dances solos\, duets and trios to readings by Williams of Shakespeare sonnets\, set against the evocative drawings and paintings of UM Thurnau Prof. Emeritus of Art & Design\, Vince Castagnacci.
UID:15554-1195009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:dance,music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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