Other:Charity Rose Sale 2016
2016-02-11 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Michigan Union
Need roses for Valentine's Day? FreeHearts and SWE have got you covered. Catch us this week at one of our pre-sale tables, or pre-order online by following this link!https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/1oSo4zYBSAUe-k8bglCcwPzjKodUaOplDJGi9da6l0wY/viewform PRE-SALE DATES AND LOCATIONS:Tues., 2/9:Chem Atrium - 10am-2pmWeds., 2/10:Duderstadt Connector - 11am-2pmHaven Hall - 10am-1pmThurs., 2/11:Union Lobby - 2-5pmFri., 2/12:Haven Hall - 10-11:30am PICK-UP DATES AND LOCATIONS:Fri., 2/12 - Sun., 2/14:1180 Duderstadt - 1-4pmSophia B. Jones Room in the Union - 1-4pm *All* proceeds go directly to The Hope Project and SafeHouse Center. Happy Valentine's Day!

Auditions:Emcee Wanted!!! Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards
2016-02-11 00:00 - 23:59 | http://bit.ly/1VRcx4v
The Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards is looking for a host for their event on March 30!!!Desired Qualifications:
Comfortable speaking in front of large groups
Script Writing
Selfie-taking skills
JOKESIf you're interested or know someone who would be great, please apply:http:/bit.ly/1VRcx4vApplications/Nominations are due on February 21

Community Service:Face Off Blood Challenge 2016
2016-02-11 00:00 - 23:59 | Michigan Union, Michigan League, Pierpont Commons, select residence halls, other buildings on campus
This year's Face Off Blood Challenge will run from January 18th through February 25th, pitting Michigan against Michigan State University. Whether you have never donated before or donate every year, we need your help! Please make an appointment to donate on the American Red Cross website, www.redcrossblood.org, using the sponsor code "goblue". There you will be able to view all of the drives in the Ann Arbor area. The American Red Cross will give all presenting donors a Face Off t-shirt, while supplies last. We want to acknowledge that, due to blood donation eligibility requirements set by the Food and Drug Administration and the American Red Cross, not everyone will be able to donate. However, all of our drives aim to provide an inclusive atmosphere. To learn more about blood donation requirements, please visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements.Please eat iron rich foods and drink plenty of water before you donate blood so that you are healthy on the day of your donation! Thank you once again for giving the gift of life. Please contact blooddrivesunited@umich.edu with any questions, and keep bleeding maize and blue!

Other:Harnessing the Wind to Pump Water: Elementary School Outreach via GradSWE's SWEEET
2016-02-11 00:00 - 23:59 | Adams STEM Academy and King Elementary
Join the GradSWE outreach team in this semester's SWEEET (Society of Women Engineers Elementary Engineering Topics). Volunteers will facilitate weekly hands-on sessions to build a wind-powered water pump over a course of 5-8 weeks. These one-hour sessions will begin in February at two local elementary schools.Please use the Doodle link to sign up and indicate all days/times that you are available. Doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/kpg7qin4fd3dwvd7 We are using this Doodle to determine which DAY of the week, and which TIME to schedule SWEET. Use this as an indicator of the DAY of the week, not the DATE. SWEET is a weekly recurring program for 5-8 weeks. For example, if Monday 9-10am is most popular, volunteers will go to the school every Monday 9-10am for a few weeks. Substitute teachers will be available if you can't make it to one of your assigned weeks.

Other:MIW Application Deadline-Winter 2016
2016-02-11 00:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for MIW Fall 2016 and early admission Winter 2017 is February 19th. Please apply through M-Compass.

Other:CEW offers Funding for Event Co-sponsorship for 2016
2016-02-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Center for the Education of Women
The Center for the Education of Women (CEW) is seeking opportunities to partner with units on campus via its Frances and Sydney Lewis (FSL) Visiting Leaders Fund. This endowment fund brings visiting women leaders to campus who are distinguished scholars and/or practitioners in their fields. Any U-M department, unit or organization (student, staff or faculty) may submit a funding request to CEW via our online Google application form. Requests for event support will be evaluated based on their consistency with the purpose of the FSL Visiting Leaders Fund and should be submitted at least six (6) weeks before the proposed programming. Please note that only those events submitted via the CEW online form will be considered.

DEADLINES:
2016 Winter Semester: December 15, 2015
2016 Fall Semester: August 1, 2016

In addition, CEW can provide promotional support for events by listing on our online calendar. To learn more about how CEW can support your U-M event, please refer to this CEW webpage: http://www.cew.umich.edu/RFP)

Questions about event co-sponsorship may be directed to Janice Reuben, CEW Senior Associate for Programs & Outreach, at 734.764.6005 (reubenjs@umich.edu).

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents A Gathering of Friends: Linocut Prints
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — South Lobby, Floor 1
Laura B. DeLind has been cutting and hand-printing linocuts for over 40 years. She enjoys linoleum as a print medium because it is unpretentious, has no pre-existing texture, and lends itself to bold, spontaneous images. DeLind is fascinated by black and white design and the interactions of positive and negative space. Her prints are inspired by organic shapes, birds providing a ready-made “excuse” to explore pattern. DeLind’s work has been exhibited regionally and nationally.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents A Walk Along the Shore: Digital Imaging
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Inspired by the places where land meets the waters of the Great Lakes, Robert deJonge uses his skills with a camera, computer, and printer to build images that explore our spiritual, emotional, and physical connection to this unique place that defines Michigan. From intimate portraits of wildflowers to the grand expanse of the night sky, it is a rich palette to work with, and deJonge captures it with elegance and intention. In his words, “I’m not just interested in pretty pictures – I’m interested in the story these places have to tell and the questions they ask.”

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art from My Heart: Ceramics
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — North Lobby, Floor 1
Daria White Paik grew up in Seoul, Korea where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1983. In 1988, she moved to the US where she gained her foundation in ceramics at the University of Alabama. When she works with clay, she starts with a blank state of mind, and her work comes from her heart. She feels that creativity cannot be learned; only the techniques can be taught. When she touches clay, she forgets time, seeing the only prerequisite for art as a spark of creativity. Paik now teaches at the Ann Arbor Art Center, is a student advisor at Washtenaw Community College, and is a member of the Ann Arbor Potter’s Guild.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Found Object Fish: Mixed Media
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Steve Palmer was born in Berkeley, California and raised by a poet and a painter, so it was in his blood to
become an artist. Now located in Traverse City, Michigan, Palmer creates fish sculptures using crutches and paddles for bases. He then makes fins, teeth, tails, and eyes from unique items and fills in the form with found objects. Before retirement, he was a teacher and school administrator, and he holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. Early in Palmer’s artistic career, he worked in pottery, batik, photography and glass before finally settling on mixed media sculpture.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fresh Water Michigan: Oil Painting & Photography
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Michigan native Karin Wagner Coron is an artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University who works in oil, oil pastel, graphite and mediums on paper and canvas. As a child, Wagner Coron often played outside, ran in the woods and fields, and developed a deep inward connection to the land. Her work reflects that relationship. Her husband Steven Coron, also with a BFA from EMU, is an artist with a deep affinity for the Great Lakes who teaches fine arts at Community High school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In his current photographic work, he captures single digital images, which he edits and joins to create digital panoramic photomontages.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden Inspired Art Pottery
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — South Lobby, Floor 1
Maggie Bandstra uses stoneware, black wax and matt glazes to create her garden inspired pottery. These designs begin by sketching flowers from her garden and then abstracting interesting shapes from the sketches. These sketches are used when designing the pottery. Bandstra lives and has her studio in Grand Haven, Michigan. She teaches art for Hudsonville Public Schools and serves as curator for community art events.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Scenes in Fabric
2016-02-11 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Lenore Crawford uses fabric to express her love of French architecture and flowers. The pieces are inspired by photos she has taken, and she creates her fiber art with an eye for color and realism using a raw edged fusing technique. Small amounts of fabric paint provide detail and shading. The texture and warmth achieved from the fabric itself lends the work an impressionistic softness. Capturing the beauty of everyday life and her surroundings in fiber is her passion.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Splits & Music: Snowflake Paper Cuttings
2016-02-11 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — North Lobby, Floor 1
This year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite, hand-cut paper creations highlights work from his book Splits as well as a collection of snowflakes about music. Each of these exquisite designs are intricate works of art, yet as a group, they tell stories that encompass much more than the sum of their parts. In addition to their pictorial detail, the perfect symmetry of snowflake design contributes to the metaphorical meanings. 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 7 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
2016-02-11 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000), for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States, a founder of the profession, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates, her New York–based studio, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances, glassware, and pieces in silver, plastics, wrought iron and wood.

Exhibition:Jon Onye Lockard: Celebrating His Life and Legacy, 1932-2015
2016-02-11 08:00 - 22:00 | Tappan Hall - Fine Arts Library
This exhibit, on display in the Fine Arts Library, honors the life and work of the late U-M Professor Jon Onye Lockard, who was instrumental in the development of African-American arts and culture in Michigan. His distinctive style of artistic expression captured the spirit of civil rights and black pride.

As an artist and educator, Lockard was a mentor to many on the University of Michigan campus and beyond. Among other accolades, he was a founder of the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. His paintings can be viewed across the U-M campus, including many of the murals in residence hall multicultural lounges.

Hours: Sun 1-10pm, Mon-Thurs 8am-10pm, Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 1-6pm

Join us for a reception on Tuesday, February 23, 3-6pm in the Fine Arts Library, with honored guest Mrs. Leslie Kamil, the artist's widow. Light refreshments will be served.

Exhibition:Recent Acquisitions and Hidden Treasures from the Clark Library's Map Collection
2016-02-11 08:00 - 23:59 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher
The Clark Library's Map Collection continually acquires maps, atlases, and works on cartography. Thanks to library support and the generosity of many donors we actively add hundreds of titles annually, including Nolli's incredibly detailed map of Rome (1748), a restored edition of Taylor & Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland (1777), an 1881 astral lantern used for astronomy teaching, and many current international works. These and many other items will be on display.

Exhibition:Shakespeare on Page and Stage: A Celebration
2016-02-11 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
This exhibit is a historical journey through different versions of Shakespeare’s plays as they were edited for publication or interpreted for the stage. Starting with the Second Folio (1632), our display includes a selection of landmark editions by authors and scholars like John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Edmond Malone. It explores the staging and costuming of productions such as Charles Kean’s archaeologically-informed, elaborately-costumed 1856 production of The Winter’s Tale, and Maurice Browne-Ellen Van Volkenburg 1930 production of Othello casting Paul Robeson as the first black actor to play Othello in a century.

Most of the titles included in this display come from the McMillan Shakespeare Library. Materials are also displayed from the Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg Papers, 1792-1968 and the Zelma Weisfeld Archive, 1954-2006. All these books and artifacts are held in the Special Collections Library.

Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

Conference / Symposium:#UMBlackout: Mobilizing Black Communities for Radical Transformation in the Digital Age
2016-02-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall, 4 floor
In honor of Black History Month the #UMBlackout: Mobilizing Black Communities for Radical Transformation in the Digital Age symposium invites your participation in a working session about contemporary black activist leadership for transformative change through digital forums. Through workshops, lectures, and a panel discussion, a wide variety of scholars, campus and grassroots organizers will engage in diverse reflections about the role of the internet in social change efforts through strategic mobilization. Join us in a collective discussion to advance discourse and direct action in community practice in the digital age.

Collective Working Goals
Unpacking the role of the internet in community mobilization
Building bridges among scholars, national and campus activists
Learning from black activist leadership for transformative change
Establishing coalitions through solidarity across social identities
Promoting youth engagement
Facilitators & Presenters

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Ph.D - Community accountability scholar, activist and organizer
Andre Brock Ph.D - Department of Communications and Digital Studies, faculty, University of Michigan
Austin McCoy - Department of History Doctoral Student, and Campus organizer, University of Michigan
Desmond Patton Ph.D - Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Jamie Moshin Ph.D - Communications and Discourse Scholar, Staff at the National Center for Institutional Diversity
Jonathan Jackson - Co-founder of urban activist news and blog webspace, Blavity
Kim Katrin Milan - Human rights educator, activist, organizer, artist
Mark Anthony Neal Ph.D - Professor of African and African American Studies, & Director for the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE)
Morgan Willis, Allied Media Conference Program Director, Detroit - based activist and organizer
Muniba Saleem Ph.D - Department of Communications and Digital Studies, University of Michigan
Zellie Imani - National community activist, Black Twitter contributor, organizer, and youth educator

Exhibition:A Yemeni Community: Photographs from the 1970s
2016-02-11 09:00 - 16:30 | Detroit Center - Monts Hall
Before the decline of its industrial landscape, Lackawanna, New York was a lively steel city that employed more than half its population at the Bethlehem Steel plant. In this city was a small, but unique community of immigrants from the country of Yemen.

When photographer Milton Rogovin visited the city in 1977, he was fascinated by the people’s interest in embracing modern-day American experiences while embracing their old-world Yemeni traditions.

Now this unique blend of culture and identity can be experienced at the University of Michigan Detroit Center with the photo exhibition, “A Yemeni Community: Photographs from the 1970s,” an exhibition of the Arab American National Museum.

Born in 1909, Milton Rogovin was raised during the Great Depression and became politically active as a direct result of his childhood experiences with poverty. He studied optometry at Columbia University and opened a shop in Buffalo, New York in 1938. He purchased his first camera in 1942 and, in 1958, spawned a lifelong passion for documentary photography when he collaborated with a music professor to document music at churches. Rogovin began to photograph coal miners from across the world in 1962. These photos were ultimately used in his first and one of his most popular books, “The Forgotten Ones.”

Located in Monts Hall, “A Yemeni Community” runs from January 15 – February 27, 2016. The gallery is open to the public Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., and 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, including complimentary parking and admission.

Exhibition:Converging Paths: The Photography of Pawel Figurski
2016-02-11 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Converging Paths: The Photography of Pawel Figurski explores the invisible boundary between the sacred and profane and the people who pass through those spaces, leaving one world to enter another. Figurski focuses his gaze on the ways in which his subjects’ relationship to faith are transformed through the act of pilgrimage and through the encounter with sacred spaces. He is particularly interested in the intrusion of the quotidian into the realm of the sacred.

While the exhibition deals primarily with religious life in Figurski’s native Poland, the artist brilliantly captures Eastern Europe’s diverse religious worlds, tracing a plurality of spiritual paths, whether in the pilgrimages of Hasidic Jews to Lezajsk, or those of Orthodox Christians in Romania and Moldova..

Religious life in that part of the world is sociologically interesting and aesthetically arresting. It is this intersection of the social and aesthetic domains that make Figurski’s photographs so captivating.

Pawel Figurski is a graduate of the prestigious Lodz film school. He has shot and directed music videos, television serials and documentary films, for which he received several awards, including an Emmy (2005). For almost a decade (2002-2011), he documented Jewish life in Eastern Europe as part of the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories at Indiana University. Figurski's photography, in Converging Paths, explores the invisible boundary between the sacred and profane and the people who pass through those spaces, leaving one world to enter another.

Presented in conjunction with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies.

Exhibition:Exhibition On-View: AGG Lab
2016-02-11 09:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Gallery
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...Exhibition On-View: AGG Lab.

Exhibition On-View: January 16 – February 21

Identity—human, animal and architectural—can no longer be defined by a singular character. It is a complex behavioral hybrid, in the process of responsive and adaptive change, a state of Deleuzian “becoming”, expressing plastic identity through the territorializing of behavioral traits. This differentiated identity becomes an instrument for spatializing innovative lineages, as it reconstitutes ideas of space and time and reshapes the cultural landscape through morphogenetic means.

The work scrutinizes the notion of the generic through the process of recombining physical members, growing new appendages and intensifying the human perception of normality. Regenerative bodies develop through differentiation from singular cells. These differentiated assemblages with multi coded surfaces act as malleable bilateral collectives with a varied capacity for new growth possibilities.

AGGLAB/LABORATORIA. www.agglab.com Agg lab is a San Francisco based design collaborative and interdisciplinary research practice led by Alexandra Neyman and Monica Tiulescu. Agglab is interested in production of generative tectonic languages which diverge from specific typological classification established in singular design fields.

LABORATORIA is a research practice led by Alexandra Neyman focusing on experimental research which is invested in the development and production of an array of affective architectural environments through generative architectural tectonic languages, both formal and methodological, that is fluctuating between growth and regeneration through digital and analogue algorithmic techniques of design and fabrication.

In collaboration with AAU Architecture students:

Yi Wang, Saraswati Sri Lalitadewi Latumahina, Sami Almidani, Rapeepong Tanmanee, Ke Wang, Jesus Gutierrez, Si Beck Nam, Alnofai Amany, Andrade Anderson, Andreas Christina, Arabshahi Alireza, Baker Ryan, Chen Chao, Conrad Nathan, Duarte Kenia, Fabelhaft, Nasira, Gao, Yuan, Jean, Rodly, Jiang, Dinghong, Liu, Yaxin, Liu, Yumin, Mead, Matthew, Wan, Jane Gee-Yeng, Wang, Ximai, Zhu, Jiongyu, Domingcil Rhonuel, Kanamori Fernanda, Ameziane, Lamiae, Li Yu-Hsin, Ma Cheng, Sathawarintu Chayakorn, Ela Edjang, Imelda, Ghimire, Verna, Ingle Dylan, Mlynar Lyndsay, Oye Kenta, Rojas Naomi, Ruiz Alvaro.

About University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice, advancing global engagement, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.

Exhibition:Magnificent China Exhibition Highlights Natural Wonders
2016-02-11 09:00 - 16:30 | Detroit Center
Kick off the New Year with the latest Monts Hall exhibition, “Magnificent China: A Photography Exhibition,” January 15 – February 20.

Featuring breathtaking landscapes and cultural scenes captured by photographer Xu Zengquan, "Magnificent China" highlights the numerous natural wonders of the eastern world.

An electrical engineer from Dexter, Michigan, Zengquan has a unique perspective to the world of photography. “When I take pictures, I feel as if I could look through a window of limitless space and time. I feel a spiritual kinship with nature’s beauty and splendor," he says. A number of Zengquan’s photos have been exhibited by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan and were once requested for use by the Smithsonian Free Gallery of Art.

The gallery is open to the public Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., and 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, including complimentary parking and admission.

For more information, contact the Detroit Center at (313) 593-3584 or detroitcenter@umich.edu.

Exhibition:Niklaus Troxler: 40 Years of Jazz Posters
2016-02-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
January 15 - February 20, 2016
Public Lecture: Friday, January 15, 5-6 pm at Chrysler Center Auditorium
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-8 pm at Work and Slusser Galleries

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce Niklaus Troxler: 40 Years of Jazz Posters, on view from January 15 - February 20, 2016. This exhibition spans two galleries, Slusser Gallery on U-M’s North Campus in the Art & Architecture Building (2000 Bonisteel Blvd) and Work Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor (306 S. State St., Ann Arbor). Both locations will host an exhibition reception on Friday, January 15 from 6-8 pm, following a public lecture with Niklaus Troxler at 5 pm in the Chrysler Center Auditorium (2121 Bonisteel Blvd.). The exhibition, talk, and reception are free and open to the public.

Curated by Stamps professor Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Niklaus Troxler: 40 Years of Jazz Posters explores work by designer Niklaus Troxler, a Swiss-born professor and design consultant widely known for his founding of the annual Willisau Jazz Festival in 1975. His pioneering design pieces for Willisau Jazz Festival have been benchmarks in the field of graphic and poster design for about forty-five years and are now in important museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Modern Art Toyama, Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg, the German Poster Museum in Essen and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Troxler’s work centers on the enrichment of the human experience and quality solutions to visual communication design. Troxler continually seeks to better the means of human communication by teaching and designing for the modern world. Niklaus Troxler: 40 Years of Jazz Posters is on view through February 20, 2016.

Exhibition Venues

Slusser
Open during exhibitions Monday through Friday: 9 am - 5 pm, Saturday: 12 - 5 pm. Closed Sundays and Holidays. Free Admission, Handicapped Accessible.
2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069

Work: Ann Arbor
Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Saturday, 12 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sundays, Mondays and Holidays. Free Admission.
306 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Exhibition:Scent of a Beaver: An Installation by Kent Monkman
2016-02-11 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Based on the rococo masterpiece The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Scent of a Beaver is a sculptural installation that features the artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle dangling on a swing between a French and English general. With Miss Chief dressed in an opulent silk and fur gown, the work functions as a metaphor for the power relationships between the major players that shaped the social fabric, political structures, and economy of North America. True to Monkman’s modus operandi, Scent of a Beaver takes on white-washed, colonialist notions of history and overturns them, employing kitsch as a path toward self-determination and veering away from painful, misrepresented histories. It is this sort of conversion that is at the crux of Monkman’s powerful work—the transformation from age-old traditional stories which distort and oppress into something a little fantastical, a bit cathartic, and ultimately redeeming.

About the artist:

Kent Monkman is well known for his provocative reinterpretations of romantic North American landscapes. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Native American experience—in a variety of mediums including painting, film and video, performance, and installation.

Monkman’s glamorous diva alter-ego Miss Chief appears in much of his work as an agent provocateur, trickster, and supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze, upending received notions of history and indigenous people. With Miss Chief at center stage, Monkman has created memorable site-specific performances at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Compton Verney, and most recently at the Denver Art Museum. His award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various national and international festivals, including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale, and the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

Workshop / Seminar:Spark the Leader Within: How to be Better than Average
2016-02-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
There is no such thing as a natural-born leader. We all have the potential to be a leader. Leadership is about taking responsibility for your actions, your inactions and most importantly, your faults.

You will learn to:

Identify opportunities for leadership inside and outside of your profession
Discover your inner leadership strengths
Embrace the gift of a leadership experience to further stretch your abilities
Recognize new leadership challenges and determine the best ways to exceed at meeting them
Apply the “lessons of leadership” to your work and personal life

You will benefit by:

Discovering opportunities for leadership that transcend your current position
Developing the confidence to accept new leadership challenges
Understanding how you can take your actions and turn them into leadership opportunities
Using the “lessons of leadership” to realize the power of the leader within you

Audience:

Anyone who does not currently hold a formal leadership role, but desires to move into one

Program Note:

Participants will receive a copy of Todd’s book: Better than Average: Excelling in a Mediocre World.

Meeting:Web Editors Group Monthly Meeting
2016-02-11 09:00 - 10:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Join Web Services staff and Web Content Managers from throughout the college to discuss content management issues and trends in Higher Education in general and the here within the College of LSA.

Other:Charity Rose Sale 2016
2016-02-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Need roses for Valentine's Day? FreeHearts and SWE have got you covered. Catch us this week at one of our pre-sale tables, or pre-order online by following this link!
https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/1oSo4zYBSAUe-k8bglCcwPzjKodUaOplDJGi9da6l0wY/viewform

PRE-SALE DATES AND LOCATIONS:
Tues., 2/9:
Chem Atrium - 10am-2pm
Weds., 2/10:
Duderstadt Connector - 11am-2pm
Haven Hall - 10am-1pm
Thurs., 2/11:
Union Lobby - 2-5pm
Fri., 2/12:
Haven Hall - 10-11:30am

PICK-UP DATES AND LOCATIONS:
Fri., 2/12 - Sun., 2/14:
1180 Duderstadt - 1-4pm
Sophia B. Jones Room in the Union - 1-4pm

*All* proceeds go directly to The Hope Project and SafeHouse Center. Happy Valentine's Day!

Exhibition:From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
2016-02-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
Selected papyri from the University of Michigan's Papyrology Collection illustrate the government, society, and religious culture of Egypt during its transition from Byzantine Christian to Arab Islamic rule (4th to 8th centuries AD). Texts Greek, Coptic Egyptian, and Arabic, many never before on public display, further highlight the richness and diversity of the U-M Collection.

On display Monday through Friday, 10am to 5pm.

Lecture / Discussion:THE DECISION TO GO TO WAR IN A DEMOCRACY
2016-02-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Dr. Saxonhouse will discuss the question of responsibility or who should be held accountable when states decide to go to war. She will use specific incidents from Athenian history and from Shakespeare’s play, "Henry V." She will address the implications of various answers to the question for our understanding of justice and democracy.

Dr. Saxonhouse is the Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies and former chair of the Department of Political Science, U of M. She earned her doctorate at Yale University and has published widely in the area of classical and early modern political thought and women in the history of political thought. Her current research is devoted to what it means for states to be responsible for the actions they take in relation to other states.

This is the last in the six-lecture series, "Violence: Its Roots and Reasons."
The next OLLI Thursday Lecture Series is "Biomedical Breakthroughs: The Future is Here," and the first of six lectures will be, "Research Breakthroughs in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Alzheimer's."

http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/3rd_Lecture_Series.pdf

http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/4th_Lecture_Series.pdf

Exhibition:Soviet Constructivist Posters
2016-02-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
During the 1920s the Soviet Union emerged on the world stage. The first decade was full of hope for a new social order that would reject the values and traditions of Tsarist rule. Centered in Moscow, a group of young artists, spearheaded in part by Vladimir (1899-1982) and Georgy Stenberg (1900-1933), championed an art that promoted the egalitarian ideals of the New Order and contributed to the growth of the Soviet Union. Known as the Constructivists, they advocated for utilitarian art that was easily accessible and spoke to the masses. Among their most provocative and visionary works were posters advertising Soviet films.

UMMA’s exhibition, Soviet Constructivist Posters: Branding the New Order features a selection of posters by the Stenbergs and other Constructivists for some of early cinema’s most inventive films including, Sergei Eisenstein’sOctober and Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera.

Using dynamic compositions, bold colors, and emblematic images, these posters announced that the Soviet Union was a progressive nation that could propel society into a utopian future. Their revolutionary aesthetic became associated with the workers’ movement and helped to shape how it was understood both at home and abroad. Though Constructivism went out of favor in the 1930s with the rise of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Constructivist designs continued to have an influence abroad. Today, their legacy can be seen in advertisements and other promotional materials made for the public eye.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Workshop / Seminar:International Economics
2016-02-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract and paper not yet available

Exhibition:BFA Design & Production Portfolio Exhibit
2016-02-11 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
An exhibit of BFA (theatre) design & production students’ work showing both class work and designs from realized productions. Scenic models, costume renderings, costumes, lighting plots, prop designs, and production photos from SMTD productions including dramas, musicals, opera, and dance. This exhibit runs Sunday through Friday.

Careers / Jobs:Career Crawl: Exploring Careers in Financial Services
2016-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Pond Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Are you curious what a career would be like in the financial services industry? Are you interested in helping others? Are you looking for employers who help you be your own boss?

Join us and four wonderful Michigan Alumni who work for organizations within the financial services industry! You will have the opportunity to hear about their work and what skills are required to be successful in their industries!

**Please note, clicking 'attending' on this event does not guarantee a space at the Career Crawl. Seats are available on a first come basis and doors will open at 11:40am the day of the event.**

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series
2016-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
Speaker: Tomomi Yamaguchi, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Montana State University

An issue of intense controversy in the past few years in Japan is “comfort women”, with many in the right wing relentlessly attacking the accepted historical narrative and denying that there was any government involvement in, or corresponding responsibility for, a system of sexual slavery. Right-wing media and intellectuals have begun to use the term “history wars” to refer to this development. Based on extensive fieldwork with right-wing individuals and organizations, this lecture reviews this ongoing controversy, and discusses how this issue functions as an important rallying point to tie together disparate right-wing elements and the Abe government. This lecture will also address the recent diplomatic agreement between South Korea and Japan, and subsequent reactions.

Tomomi Yamaguchi is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Montana State University – Bozeman (Ph.D., University of Michigan). She is a cultural anthropologist and studies social movements in Japan, especially regarding feminist and right-wing movements.

Other:Fulbright Fellowship Information Session
2016-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building
Fullbright fellowships are available to approximately 1,900 U.S. students annually to study, conduct research, teach English or train in the creative arts in more than 140 countries worldwide.

A U-M Fulbright Program Advisor will describe the application and selection process and provide suggestions for making your application more competitive. Laptops are welcome and encouraged.

Performance:Gifts of Art presents Love Songs
2016-02-11 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
Gemini, Ann Arbor’s nationally known folk duo, will perform a set of love songs for this pre- Valentine’s Day concert. Accompanying themselves on a number of instruments – guitar, fiddle, pennywhistle and hand percussion – the twin brothers will sing from their award-winning original repertoire, as well as performing traditional and contemporary classic love songs. They will be joined by U-M Music School trained drummer, Mike Morrison.

Careers / Jobs:Emerging Wolverines
2016-02-11 13:00 - 15:00 | The Career Center office The Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Emerging Wolverines is an exciting and interactive 5 week-long group experience for first year and transfer students who want to:

*Learn about themselves in a small group environment with other students
*Explore career and campus opportunities, using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality assessment tool
*Gain clarity about present and future goals

Emerging Wolverines will use MBTI theory and work in small groups, exploring how personality influences campus involvement and major/career choices.

Students will meet approximately once a week in small groups, and will engage in thought provoking activities during their time together. Through active participation in group meetings and activities, students will gain a greater understanding of themselves and their future goals as Wolverines!

Submit an Application here: goo.gl/N8qa12
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Winter 2016 Program Dates:

Two Sessions Times:

First Session- 1-2pm on (Thursdays) January 28th, February 4th, February 11th, February 18th, and February 25th

Second Session- 2-3pm on (Thursdays) January 28th, February 4th, February 11th, February 18th, and February 25th

To participate, please complete our application. Deadline for to apply for either group is Friday, January 22nd at 5pm.

Questions? Please email at Joelle Fundaro, jfundaro@umich.edu or The Career Center (734-764-7460).

Workshop / Seminar:INTERMEDIATE TOPICS IN SPSS: ADVANCED STATISTICAL MODELS
2016-02-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Modern Languages Building - 2001A
Instructor: Brady West. Coursework in linear regression analysis, or the equivalent of CSCAR’s workshop on Regression Analysis, is required. Experience using syntax in SPSS to perform data analysis and data management is also required, as syntax will be frequently discussed. Please phone the instructor with any questions about the prerequisites.

Workshop / Seminar:No-Fail E-Mail
2016-02-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
E-Mail has become the most commonly used form of communication in the workplace; it is also the most frequently misunderstood. Learn how to use e-mail to enhance, not sabotage, your communication.

You will learn to:

Compose clear and concise messages to enhance your readers’ comprehension
Identify “hot buttons” and avoid using them when sending email
Recognize and use proper e-mail “etiquette” in your daily communication
Determine when to use and NOT to use e-mail to communicate

You will benefit by:

Improving your overall productivity
Gaining control over your e-mail inbox and limiting interruptions
Upgrading your communication and professional image

Audience:

Anyone interested in using e-mail to communicate more effectively

Program Note:

Participants will receive a copy of April Callis' book, No Fail E-Mail: Creating the Message you Intent, Before you hit Send.

Workshop / Seminar:Undocumented Traces, Hidden Powers: The Eighth-Century Hokkedō Hall and Its Statues
2016-02-11 13:00 - 16:30 | Tappan Hall - 210
Professor Cynthea Bogel (author of With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icons and Early Mikkyō Vision, 2009) from Kyushu University will lead a seminar for graduate students on Thursday, February 11th. The class will focus on the 8th century Hokkedō of Tōdaiji temple in Nara. Readings for discussion will be sent to registered participants.
Although this seminar will be particularly relevant for those interested in Japanese Buddhist art, history, and religious studies, it is open to graduate students in any discipline working on any geographical area. More detail about the topic and the readings are available upon inquiry. Lunch will be provided.
Graduate students from UM and nearby universities are welcome to attend. Those who are interested should contact Chun Wa Chan at gchanart@umich.edu for registration.

Lecture / Discussion:NoViolet Bulawayo Q&A
2016-02-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Angell Hall - Hopwood Room
NoViolet Bulawayo won the 2014 PEN-Hemingway Award, the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, and the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014. We Need New Names was a finalist for numerous other awards, including the Man Booker Prize. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.

Lecture / Discussion:UM Retirees Association (UMRA) Social Hour
2016-02-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Banquet Hall
Presenting a discussion, "Give a Person a Chance"

Workshop / Seminar:Preventing and Addressing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom
2016-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
Disrespectful treatment of other students, interruptions of faculty presentations, viewing of inappropriate websites during class: many faculty have felt that such student behaviors are on the rise in recent years. How can you set up a learning environment that prevents such incivilities--and respond effectively as a teacher if they do occur? This workshop, co-facilitated by experts from CRLT, CRLT-Engin, and the Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), will focus on specific research-based strategies for setting up and maintaining respectful classrooms and provide opportunities to practice these approaches.

Workshop / Seminar:Study Tables hosted by the Leaders and Best Program
2016-02-11 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-02-11 18:30 - 20:30, 2016-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Student Activities Building - 3009 Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives
Looking for some assistance in your courses, or just a productive space to get work done? These daily study tables are hosted by the Leaders and Best Program in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives.

Our mentors (Academic Success Partners) are available for tutoring help! Study Tables are free and will cover various subjects - see notes under the date for the subject that will be covered during that time.

Open to the community! Bring a friend! Computer and whiteboard work spaces available.

Class / Instruction:Mah-Jongg
2016-02-11 15:15 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Mah-Jongg is a Chinese game resembling Gin Rummy, but played with colorful tiles instead of cards. It is easy to learn and it can become quite addictive. Classes start with a brief lecture, followed by actual playing of the game, with continuous guidance from the instructor.

Instructor Stuart Baggaley has taught his modified and simplified version of the game to numerous groups at many different venues. Sets for playing will be provided.

This class for those over 50 meets Thursdays, February 11 through March 17.

Lecture / Discussion:Draw a Black Line through It: On the Surveillance of Blackness
2016-02-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness—the historical, the present, and the historical present— can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance.

Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches surveillance studies, biometrics, airport protocol, popular culture, and black diaspora studies.​

Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Speaker Series with Dr. Scott Page
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
The Value of Diversity in Prediction, Problem Solving, and Knowledge Integration.

Careers / Jobs:Interview Preparation for MAPS
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 | The Career Center office The Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
This is a session for the Multicultural Association of Pre-health Students focused on how to prepare for interviews.

Presentation:WCEE Summer Funding Information Session
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Learn about summer funding opportunities from the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia for research, internships, and study in Europe and Eurasia. Details at http://bit.ly/1DJUKTq.

Registration requested at https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/1Sc9ObQD25Evj-abVSO-MfWn5N5qL_gI8IouTYARxLno/viewform.

Other:International Programs in Engineering Mixer for Study Abroad
2016-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Duderstadt Center
Attention Engineers:

Join past participants for cookies and hot cocoa to learn more about upcoming IPE study abroad programs for Summer and Fall 2016.

- Learn which IPE study abroad programs still have space for Summer 2016. Applications are due February 24.

- Hear from CoE students who studied abroad last Summer; get all your questions answered!

- Learn more about IPE Fall 2016 program options. Applications are due March 1.

Presentation:Ready, Set, Go Global
2016-02-11 17:00 - 17:30 | Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155
Take a big step toward a study abroad experience at UM by attending a Ready, Set, Go Global session. Learn more about study programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer.
RSGG sessions are offered Monday through Friday from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS office in G155 Angell Hall. Attending an RSGG session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program.

Conference / Symposium:Sexpertise
2016-02-11 17:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League - Hussey Room, 2nd Floor
How can I communicate about what I want and don't want?
What can I do to improve my sexual health and wellness?
How do identies, the media, and policies shape our sexuality?
Find the answers to these and other questions at Sexpertise 2016!

Sexpertise is a three-day conference from February 9th to 11th, 2016. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships. Through a diverse group of sessions, we'll explore topics of interest to the U-M student community including pleasure, culture, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

Thursday, February 11
Hussey Room*, 2nd Floor, Michigan League

5:00 - 6:00 PM: Myth Busters: The Stigma Edition
Dr. Terri Conley
Ever wondered which gender experienced desire most? Ever hear a fact about sex or stigma and think to yourself that it just can't be true? This session, led by Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies Dr. Terri Conley, will explore those myths and how they get perpetuated.

6:00 - 7:00 PM: Creating Complex Characters: LGBTQ Persons in Film
Dr. Candace Moore
Are you a fan of Will and Grace, Modern Family, or the L word? Or just curious to see the evolution of the representation of sexual minorities in film and media? This session will broadly examine LGBTQ sexuality in moving image media. Dr. Candace Moore, Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and instructor in Screen Arts & Cultures, will guide participants through historical perspectives and help dissect the messages we see every day.

7:00 - 8:00 PM: Sexual Trafficking and Slavery: A U.S. Legal Perspective
Katie Reyzis, U-M Law School student
The sale and shipment of human beings is an ancient practice that unfortunately continues today. Human trafficking is common throughout the world and is often strongly connected to sexual trafficking and sexual slavery. Join us to hear more about sexual trafficking and the US legal system from Katie Reyzis, a University of Michigan Law School student working with the Human Trafficking Clinic. Participants will gain insight into the system of sexual slavery, the difficulties of prosecution of offenders in the US and actions we can take to help end this practice

8:00 - 9:00 PM: Sexcapade: A Skill-Building Carnival!
Presented by Sexperteam - *2nd Floor Concourse, outside Hussey Room
Come one. Come all! Step right up and get your tickets to experience hands-on learning and fun about sexuality and wellness! Fabulous raffle prizes are an added bonus for attending our concluding event! Join us to win some great knowledge and gifts as we celebrate the end of Sexpertise 2016!

Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presents: Louise Fili
2016-02-11 17:10 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
Louise Fili is director of Louise Fili Ltd, a New York City design firm specializing in brand development for restaurants, specialty food packaging, and book design. The co-author of over twenty books on design and typography with her husband, Steven Heller, Fili has also written and designed books on Italian design and culture. She is a member of the Art Directors Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the Medal for Lifetime Achievement from both the AIGA and the Type Directors Club. A best-selling monograph of her work, Elegantissima, was published in 2012. Panorama Magazine in Milan wrote: “Few designers from the other side of the Atlantic understand Italian art and culture better than Louise Fili.”

Careers / Jobs: Savvy Workshop Series: Interview 101
2016-02-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Room 2105A Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
This event, co-sponsored by the Center for Campus Involvement, is part of the "Savvy Workshop Series". The workshop will focus on everything you need to know to ACE any job interview!

Presentation:NoViolet Bulawayo Fiction Reading
2016-02-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
NoViolet Bulawayo won the 2014 PEN-Hemingway Award, the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, and the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014. We Need New Names was a finalist for numerous other awards, including the Man Booker Prize. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (’64). For more information, please see
lsa.umich.edu/writers/readingsevents/zellvisitingwritersseries

Presentation:NoViolet Bulawayo Reading & Book Signing
2016-02-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium

Careers / Jobs:Savvy Workshop Series: Interview 101
2016-02-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - 2105A
Join us Thurday, Feb. 11th from 5:30-6:30PM in the Michigan Union Room 2105A for Interview 101! A representative from the Career Center will present about how to conduct yourself in an interview (i.e. what to wear, what to bring, questions to ask, etc). This workshop is aimed to help students successfully land an internship or job.

Workshop / Seminar:Savvy Workshop Series: Interview 101
2016-02-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Michigan Union

Workshop / Seminar:Intercultural Communication Program Suite Event: UBUNTU
2016-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Student Activities Building - 3009 Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives
The Intercultural Communication Program Suite (ICPS) is hosted by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) and is an engaging flow of programs that increase your intercultural communication skills through reflection, cultural knowledge, courageous conversations and intentional workshops that will connect your skills to your personal leadership vision and academic path.

At this workshop, through engaging activities and speaking with others you will learn more about how to see those from different cultures than your own. Have fun, relax and meet new friends!

FREE NOODLES AND COMPANY!

This is the first workshop in the Winter Semester ICPS Series. We hope you can make it to all the events throughout this semester!

Class / Instruction:Detroiters Speak - (Re) Discovering Detroit: From Oppenago to Wawiatanong to Detroit
2016-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
In the first of two historical sessions, our moderators (Lolita Hernandez and Melba Boyd) and speakers (Ogichidaakwe Mona Stonefish, Todd Duncan, Orlin Jones, Dave Goldberg) will help lay important background for the entire course. Oppenago and Wawiatanong are Native American words used by different tribes to describe the area that became known as "Detroit" in 1701. An important part of this first session will focus on the Native perspective, including methods that were used to displace Native populations for the benefit of early white settlers. Other areas that will be covered include the great black migrations to Detroit, industrialization, and how/why the labor movement has such an important place in Detroit's history.

More about this week's speakers:

Ogichidaakwe Mona Stonefish (Endangered Species-Potawatomi of the Three Fires Confederacy, Mohawk of the Haudenosaunee)

Todd Duncan (Teaching Faculty, WSU English Department and Department of African American Studies.)

Orlin Jones (Retired General Motors foreman and the President of the Conant Gardens Property Owners Association.)

Dave Goldberg (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University)

Free bus transportation via the MDetroit Connector Bus will be provided for this class. The Bus (Indian Trails) will depart the Central Campus Transit Center at 5:40pm, and stop directly outside of the Cass Corridor Commons right around 7pm. At the end of the class (no later than 9pm), the Bus will depart the Cass Commons Corridor and return to the Central Campus Transit Center by no later than 10pm.
***Wifi is available on the bus.***

Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Wisconsin
2016-02-11 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Wisconsin

Lecture / Discussion:Who Is Responsible For the Crisis In Flint? - A Socialist Perspective
2016-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room (2nd Floor)
The crisis in Flint, Michigan is a horrific social crime. Flint residents have been poisoned by lead from the city’s water supply, with permanent and devastating consequences for thousands of children.

The policies and decisions that led to this crisis were the result of Democrats and Republicans working together to defend the interests of the financial elite. The same players who poisoned the drinking water in Flint were also involved in the bankruptcy of Detroit, with the same cold indifference about the consequences of their decisions. The University of Michigan law school had originally planned to celebrate four of those responsible: Republican Governor Rick Snyder and Democrat and Obama supporter Kevyn Orr were among those directly involved in the water crisis in Flint. Federal Judge Gerald Rosen played a major role in gutting the pensions and health care benefits of Detroit retirees. Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes, who presided over the bankruptcy hearing, notoriously stated regarding the water shutoffs in Detroit, that there is “not…a fundamental enforceable right to free or affordable water. Just as there is no such affordable right to other necessities of life such as shelter, food and medical care.”

In Flint and Detroit, workers confront the consequences of policies that have laid waste to the social infrastructure. Decades of de-industrialization and massive cuts to social programs have boosted corporate profits and the wealth of the financial elite, while trillions of dollars have been wasted in wars. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic Party officials are saying the crisis in Flint is a racial issue. Socialists reject this. It is not a question of black or white, suburbs vs. the city. It is a class question.

The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan urge all students and workers to attend this meeting, which will review the political background to the crisis in Flint and Detroit and discuss the necessary response.

Performance:Faculty Showcase
2016-02-11 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
A star-studded "collage" concert of SMTD faculty. Professors Timothy McAllister, Jonathan Ovalle, Amy Porter, Arthur Greene, and more perform.

This concert will be live-streamed at http://www.music.umich.edu/live-stream/

Other:First BSA Meeting
2016-02-11 20:00 - 21:00 | Mason Hall
Everyone is invited to the very first meeting of the newly restored BSA! We will be introducing ourselves and want to hear what you want to see from this organization as it becomes more active.

Performance:My Folky Valentine
2016-02-11 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Check back soon for more information.
