Auditions:Emcee Wanted!!! Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards
2016-02-17 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
2016-02-17 08:30 - 10:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Abstract and paper not yet available.

Workshop / Seminar:Project Management Fundamentals: Creating Your Roadmap for Success!
2016-02-17 08:30 - 12:30 | Administrative Services Building
You already manage projects in your personal and professional life. Go beyond just getting it done, to getting it done well by producing high quality outcomes that exceed customer expectations with less stress.

You will learn to:

Define a project and its life cycle
Recognize the various roles needed to successfully carry out a project plan
Write a project plan that includes action steps and a work breakdown structure
Construct a network diagram and its sequence to schedule and finalize a project plan
Troubleshoot a project plan for potential contingencies
Develop tangible metrics to assess and evaluate a project’s success
Identify techniques to successfully communicate project needs to stakeholders
Determine how to appropriately respond to project challenges that address time, quality, and cost
Use various tools and templates for successfully managing a project

You will benefit by:

Developing a more comprehensive project plan that includes the input of all stakeholders.
Implementing the project with less stress and angst
Completing projects on time and within budget
Learning some of the technical terminology and most commonly used tools
Applying time-honored techniques used by professional project managers.

Audience:

Anyone with project management responsibilities who wants to be more proactive in their project planning

Program Note:

This program is not intended for those who specialize in or have received training in project management. This course uses a hands-on approach to delivering the material. In between the class sessions, participants will draft a project plan of their own design.

Exhibition:Shakespeare on Page and Stage: A Celebration
2016-02-17 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

Exhibition:A Yemeni Community: Photographs from the 1970s
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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:Extreme Time
2016-02-17 09:00 - 17:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it, too! The exhibit is open!

Exhibition:Magnificent China Exhibition Highlights Natural Wonders
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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
2016-02-17 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:Tell it Like it Is: Feedback That Works!
2016-02-17 09:00 - 12:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
Too often our work productivity suffers because we cannot communicate effectively. However, there are methods for giving feedback to your colleagues that allow you to be authentic without damaging the relationship.

You will learn to:

Determine how to use your emotions effectively
Use a process for giving effective feedback
Consider the essential factors before responding
Structure your feedback for best results
Express your opinion while acknowledging others’ opinions
Find ways to disagree with others without destroying the relationship
Provide feedback based on a real understanding of the other person’s ideas, views and needs

You will benefit by:

Preserving your integrity through honest feedback
Becoming more authentic in your communication
Developing comfort with giving feedback
Improving your relationships at home and work

Audience:

Anyone seeking tools and greater comfort in providing feedback to their colleagues

Exhibition:From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
2016-02-17 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.

Class / Instruction:Wild West Stories
2016-02-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Stories about the American southwestern deserts have been around for ages. But what about desert regions in other parts of the world? Explore desert climate and geography around the world and the plants and animals that live there. Then make a paper craft ‘cactus garden’ to take home. $5.00/child 16-YE-03. Camp Winter-Break, Feb. 15–19. Visit the Botanical Gardens during the school winter break for guided activities and do-it-yourself fun. All guided programs 10 am-noon. Note: Backpacks also available for check out at the Matthaei front desk throughout winter break (Feb. 15–19).

Careers / Jobs:PwC's Aspire to Lead Live Campus Event
2016-02-17 11:00 - 14:30 | Colloquium, 6th Floor Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
What is PwC's Aspire to Lead Event and why should I attend?
PwC’s Aspire to lead series provides valuable insights that will help you accelerate your development during this critical time in your personal and professional life. Our on campus live event, “Aspire to lead: The PwC women’s leadership series,” includes lunch, a live broadcast and discussion panel hosted by PwC to help college students build leadership skills. Please note while this is a Women's Leadership event, men our heavily encouraged to attend as well. This year's theme: "Take your career to center stage. Lessons from the business of Hollywood."

Date: Wednesday, February 17th 2016

Where: Ross School of Business 6th Floor Colloquium

Who: All Faculty, Students and others are welcome!

Agenda: Please RSVP even if you can only attend one of the portions and just note that in your response, please come to any portion you are able
Lunch & networking with PwC Leaders 11:00am-11:30am
Broadcast 11:30am-12:30pm
Panel 12:30pm-1:30pm

Register and RSVP using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YeVZQK_THKCYYP9Uuua5LDLfGcIk-8aCvE17_s3A894/viewform?edit_requested=true

Geena Davis, Award-Winning Actor & Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, will kick off our webcast with a presentation highlighting her experiences and the Institute’s key findings and takeaways. She will join Dawn Hudson, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and other prominent figures to engage in a discussion moderated by Michael Fenlon, PwC’s Global and US Talent Leader. Attendees will receive insights and tips on how to best differentiate themselves, and achieve success in furthering their careers. We will also include men in this dialogue as part of our global sponsorship of the UN HeforShe initiative.
The event will take place Wednesday, February 17th, 11:00am-2:00pm (however the broadcast itself will be from 11:30-12:30, therefore come for any portion you are able)

This event is open to all levels, all majors and for anyone interested in taking part in the dialogue. If you can't attend in person, I hope you’ll tune into the webcast by registering on pwc.to/aspireus. You can read more about PwC's commitment to developing the next generation of women leaders on our Diversity and Inclusion website (http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/diversity.html)

Exhibition:Soviet Constructivist Posters
2016-02-17 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:Circulation and Flow: Acupuncture, Hydraulics, and Finance in Eleventh-Century China
2016-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
During the eleventh century, the central government of the Song Empire (960-1279 CE) minted an unprecedented number of coins and issued the world’s first paper money in order to enable and to regulate a growing trade in goods and services. The uneven supply of currency and goods, however, caused unpredictable fluctuations in prices and in the value of money. In their effort to determine the principles of this complex economy, Song officials made analogies with water and the human body. They assumed that the flow of water and the circulation of vital essences did not merely provide convenient similes for the workings of money, but that money shared crucial physical characteristics with water and with qi, as the health of imperial subjects depended on the robust circulation of all three of these substances. Irreconcilable debates about finance during the 1070s and 1080s forced the realization that the natural principles of finance were not easy to discover or to demonstrate.

Lecture / Discussion:Life as a Woman Judge: A Panel Featuring Judge Levy and Justice McCormack, Moderated by Professor Primus
2016-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | South Hall
The American Constitution Society is pleased to host Justice Bridget Mary McCormack and Judge Judith E. Levy for a panel on their experiences as woman judges, with Professor Eve Primus moderating. Although the number of women judges in the United States is increasing, women are still a minority in the traditionally male-dominated court system. The question of why this pattern persists does not have a simple answer. Please join us on February 17 as Justice McCormack and Judge Levy share their stories, observations, and insights on their careers thus far.

Wednesday, February 17
South Hall 1020
11:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Ali Baba’s Lunch

Justice McCormack joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013. Before her election to the Court in November 2012, she was a law professor and dean at the University of Michigan Law School. Judge Levy, Michigan Law Class of '96, is a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama on July 25, 2013, and the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on March 12, 2014. Professor Primus teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and habeas corpus, and writes about structural reform in the criminal justice system. Her scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as state appellate courts.

This event is co-sponsored by WLSA.

Ceremony / Service:Place your Award Nomination Today!!!
2016-02-17 12:00 - 23:59 | www.studentlife.umich.edu/mdsla
The Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards recognize and celebrate students who are doing remarkable things. We need your help to identify those deserving students and student orgsanizations!Information about award categories and nomination forms can be found on our website: www.studentlife.umich.edu/mdsla

Other:Results Announced
2016-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | TBD
Results for CBC will be announced

Workshop / Seminar:Working With Difficult People and Personalities
2016-02-17 13:00 - 16:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
Overcoming the stress experienced when interacting with "difficult" people is a challenge. By focusing on personalities and behavioral styles, this course outlines a positive approach to working around these personality conflicts.

You will learn to:

Identify categories of difficult people and why you perceive them that way
Find coping strategies to effectively deal with difficult people and personality conflicts
Prevent the development of problematic relationships
Identify the source of a dispute and determine what to do about it
Identify ways to effectively deflect the hostility of others

You will benefit by:

Expanding your knowledge of personality types and interpersonal relations
Utilizing skills acquired to diffuse personality conflicts that may arise
Gaining confidence in handling tough situations
Maintaining composure and professional language in “hot” situations

Audience:

Anyone wanting to be more effective at handling their emotions when dealing with challenging people and situations

Program Note:

Participants will receive a copy of the bestselling book Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner.

Workshop / Seminar:Macroeconomics
2016-02-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract and paper not yet available

Lecture / Discussion:The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
2016-02-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom
About the book:

We live at a time of the greatest progress amongst the global poor in human history. Never before have so many people in so many developing countries made so much progress in reducing poverty, improving health, increasing incomes, expanding health, reducing conflict, and encouraging democracy. The Great Surge tells the story of this unprecedented progress over the last two decades, why it happened, and what it may portend for the future.

Lecture / Discussion:A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
2016-02-17 16:10 - 17:10 | Lane Hall - 2239 Lane Hall
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness; and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed, postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history.

Nancy Rose Hunt is a professor of History (and Obstetrics/Gynecology) in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. A specialist of history and anthropology in Africa, Dr. Hunt focuses on matters medical, therapeutic, and gender, while paying attention to material objects, everyday technologies, visual culture, and violence. Her fields of study include: Africa, health, medicine, violence, religious studies, humanitarianism, gender, psychiatry, theory, ethnographic history, global history, and visual culture.

Careers / Jobs:Project Outreach: Building Your Resume
2016-02-17 16:10 - 17:00 | 260 Weiser Hall 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
This presentation will be a closed workshop on crafting a strong resume for a Psychology Project Outreach class.

Other:International Studies Orientation and Q&A Session
2016-02-17 16:15 - 17:15 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Orientation and Q&A

Students considering a major or minor in international studies are strongly encouraged to attend an orientation and Q&A. The program academic advisors will discuss:

Prerequisties; Degree requirements; Sub plans; How to declare; Additional majors/minors offered at the II; Study abroad, grants, and internships: Relevance of an international studies degree

All sessions are held in Room 1644, International Institute, 1080 South University/SSWB.

A half hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare major or minor at the info session. For more information e-mail is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information please e-mail us at is-michigan@umich.edu.

Careers / Jobs:Get to Work!
2016-02-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Multipurpose Room Couzens Hall 1300 E Ann St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
From exploring options to landing your first internship, your career journey begins now. Attend this 50-minute interactive workshop for first year students to assess your interests and skills and explore future opportunities.

Session will include:
Fun, informal career activities to help you generate ideas
Valuable career and major resources to keep your journey going
Tips and tricks for making the most effective use of The Career Center

This session will be offered:
Tuesday, January 19/5:00-6:00 PM/West Quad Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, January 26/6:00-7:00 PM/ West Quad Multipurpose Room
Thursday, January 28/5:00-6:00 PM/West Quad Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, February 3/6:00-7:00 PM/Couzens Multipurpose Room
Thursday, February 4/5:00-6:00 PM/ The Connector Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, February 17/5:00-6:00 PM/Couzens Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, February 23/ 6:00-7:00 PM/The Connector Multipurpose Room

Presentation:Ready, Set, Go Global
2016-02-17 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Study Tables hosted by the Leaders and Best Program
2016-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 | 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.

Lecture / Discussion:"Freedom Seders and Matzohs of Hope: Ritual and Politics in the American Movement for Soviet Jews"
2016-02-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location
West Bloomfield Lecture Series on Wrestling with Angels: The Struggle Between Sacred and Secular in Jewish Life

The American Jewish campaign for Soviet Jewry not only paved the way for a mass exodus from the USSR, it also shaped the culture of American Jews in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. In homes, in synagogues and on the streets, the movement mobilized Jewish holidays and rituals to make protest a mitzvah, framing political action as a religious imperative. This talk will look back at a time of great cultural creativity as it explores the whats, whys and hows of American Soviet Jewry movement rituals.

Shaul Kelner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, and past director of VU’s Jewish Studies Program. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, he is the author of the award-winning Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism (NYU Press, 2010). He is currently a Fellow of the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, where he is writing a book on the culture of the American Soviet Jewry movement.

Sponsored by: Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and JCC's Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment

Other:Beginner Charleston with Connor & Lauren
2016-02-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union
Series Descriptions to come!

Film Screening:CJS CINEMANGA FILM SERIES | Bunny Drop (Usagi Doroppu)
2016-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
Presented by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies with additional support from Vault of Midnight.

Celebrated Japanese actor turned writer/director SABU delivers this live action drama, based on the manga of the same name by Yumi Unita. Daikichi (played by Japanese Academy Award-Winner Matsuyama Ken’ichi) is an unmarried office worker who ends up living with the six-year-old illegitimate child of his dead grandfather. This girl then helps bring a new definition to family while her family comes together to determine her fate.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

2011 | Live Action | 114 min | NR

Social / Informal Gathering:Peer-led Support Group
2016-02-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Michigan Union - Room 1551
SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities, ages, and genders are welcome to participate, as long as they are University of Michigan students.

Performance:Protea – Crossing the Equator
2016-02-17 19:30 - 21:15 | Off Campus Location - Pool Room
The Fair Lane Music Guild is delighted to continue the season at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, with Protea, in a performance called Crossing the Equator. Hailed as a "new trio of top-drawer local musicians" (Detroit Metro Times), Protea is a wind trio known for their versatility, engaging repertoire, and collaborative spirit. Dennis Carter (flute), Lisa Raschiatore (clarinet), and Mariah Boucher (piano) focus on works that blend jazz, Latin, and contemporary music influences with classical woodwind standards. Their eclectic program at the Fair Lane Music Guild will take audiences on a musical tour throughout North and South America, including works by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Connesson, Gabriela Lena Frank, Catherine McMichael, and Valerie Coleman's Portraits of Langston, featuring the poetry of Langston Hughes. The concert will include a dessert table sponsored by Park Place Catering of Dearborn. The season poster is sponsored by the Drusilla Farwell Foundation.

The Guild’s weeknight concerts continue with its popular format of café seating (which gives us the opportunity to offer dessert concerts). Doors will open and service will begin one half hour prior to the concerts.

All Fair Lane Music Guild concerts are held at the Henry Ford Estate- Fair Lane, on the campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, located at 4901 Evergreen Road. (The Henry Ford Estate is currently closed for renovations, but thanks to the generosity of the Historic Ford Estates and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, the Guild is being allowed to use the Pool Room for these concerts.) Tickets are $15/person, $14 for senior citizens and $9 for students. Free lighted parking. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information about season tickets or individual concert ticket sales, please call the Fair Lane Music Guild at (313) 593-5330, or go to http://flmg.umd.umich.edu/

Presentation:Washtenaw Audubon Society
2016-02-17 19:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
A monthly program featuring guest speakers on a wide variety of natural history and birding topics.Info: washtenawaudubon.org.

Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble
2016-02-17 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Oriol Sans, Conductor

Introductory remarks by Kathy Velikov, associate professor, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

This CDE concert will feature music from the 20th and 21st centuries inspired by architecture. Works by Kristin Kuster, Harold Meltzer, Erik Sven-Tüür, Andrew Norman, and Xenakis.

PROGRAM: Kuster- folded Planes : frosted panes; Meltzer- Aqua; Sven-Tüür- Architectonics I; Norman- Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House; Xenakis- Atrées

Other:Free Beginner Swing Lesson
2016-02-17 20:30 - 21:00 | Rogel Room
FREE Drop In lesson for those NEW to swing dance! The social dance at 9pm is also FREE if you attend this class!

Performance:Swing Dance
2016-02-17 21:00 - 22:00 | Rogel Room
Wednesday Night Swing, 9-11 PM in the Vandenberg Room, Michigan League. Price: $3 students, $5 community members. We hope to see lots of new and familiar faces!
