Community Service:MDonate Fall Drive 2016
2016-12-01 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Mojo, UGo's (Union and League)
MDonate will run its second food drive this fall! Donation bins will be in campus convenient stores from November 21 until December 14. Please consider using your Blue Bucks or Dining Dollars to donate to a fellow Wolverine! Thank you in advance and GO BLUE!

Community Service:Slauson Tutoring
2016-12-01 00:00 - 23:59 | Slauson Middle School
STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride, or 15 min bus ride). The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc. The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with, and course material that they need additional practice with. This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help, special needs help, 1-on-1 tutoring, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule, and there is no long-term commitment. As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way. Start giving back to the community today, and strengthening the education of our youth.

Exhibition:Brazil Initiative at LACS Exhibition. Modern Architecture in Latin America: The Other of the Other
2016-12-01 07:00 - 22:00 | Duderstadt Center - The Duderstadt Gallery
Fernando Lara and Luis E. Carranza present an exhibition to accompany their book, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, which organizes 300 buildings in timeline form. These case studies highlight concepts from the book, including their categorization and their relationships and connections to other important architectural developments and world events. The exhibition is accompanied by a talk by Professor Fernando Lara, at the Helmut Stern Auditorium in UMMA, on November 18, 6:00-7:30 PM.

Sponsored by the Brazil Initiative at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), and co-sponsored by the James and Anne Duderstadt Center and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Other:Call for Art: Redefining Identity
2016-12-01 08:00 - 23:59 | Art and Architecture Building
Stamps in Color announces their call for art for the MLK symposium exhibition. We are accepting submissions from across campus disciplines and both graduate and undergraduate. This judged exhibition is brought to you by Stamps in Color, but students do not need to be a person of color to apply. We will also be happy to consider works in progress. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to us via email.https://form.jotform.com/63144702305951

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Annual UMHS Employee Art Exhibition
2016-12-01 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - SouthLobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Austria: Gelatin Silver Prints
2016-12-01 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — North Lobby, Floor 1.
Howard Bond, who studied with Ansel Adams, made the photographs in this exhibition during multiple trips to Austria with a 4”x 5” film camera, resulting in gelatin silver prints. The time period was 1976-1978, near the beginning of his career as a full time fine art photographer, after having been a Senior Research Associate in the U-M School of Public Health. Bond, whose photographs are in the collections of more than 30 museums in the United States and Europe, has had over 60 one-man and 40 group exhibitions. The recipient of a Michigan Council for the Arts Creative Artist Grant, he has published 2 books and 23 limited edition portfolios of prints.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Avian Vessels: Mixed Media Sculpture
2016-12-01 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - North Lobby, Floor 1
Cincinnati based sculptor Karen Heyl has been professionally sculpting stone since 1984. She is best known for bas-relief limestone sculptures, but in 2011 she developed an interest in sculpting clay using a similar relief carving technique. Out of this came an artistic exploration and refinement of birds using ceramic vessels as the starting point. Whimsical additions such as tails and beaks give each bird an individual personality. Each bird is perched on an individually carved limestone base to enhance the unique qualities that each bird displays. Heyl’s affinity for nature extends from her art to her love of gardening and the occasional golf game.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Beauty Speaks: Acrylic on Canvas
2016-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Saginaw based artist Susie M. McColgan captures the glorious beauty of flowers and peaceful landscapes in her large scale paintings. She is inspired by lush colors and nature's beauty, and she masterfully creates inspirational lighting to emanate warmth, peacefulness and positive strength. Following in her grandfather and parents footsteps, McColgan attended the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, graduating with a BFA in '81. McColgan's works are represented in galleries throughout Michigan and are included in many private and corporate collections.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Divided Images: Fiber
2016-12-01 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Jill Ault is an Ann Arbor studio artist working in fiber, primarily quilts, with a BFA degree in painting from Eastern Michigan University. Her quilts are constructed of multiple copies of an image: a photograph, a graphic design or a painting. She digitally prints variations of the image on fabric and divides the copies into many small squares (no two alike). When she carefully reassembles and sews together the squares, parts of the image seem to move across and down the surface of the quilt. Ault exhibits nationally at fiber and quilt shows, such as Quilt National in Athens, Ohio and Fiberart International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Piecing It Back Together: Mixed Media
2016-12-01 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Candra Boggs is an art teacher and two-dimensional mixed media artist. She has been actively working as a traveling artist and teacher for over twelve years. Her work is constructed from her original two-dimensional drawings, paintings, prints and photography. She cuts the 2-D works into a variety of shapes and then collages them back into quilt-like mosaics. Boggs loves Michigan and has been vacationing and participating in art shows for over ten years in the great state. Up most mornings before 5:00 am, she works in the studio with the birds and the morning light, all before waking three small children.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
2016-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - 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:The Florence Flood, November 1966
2016-12-01 08:00 - 23:59 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher
This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team, headed by Peter Waters, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.

The two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.

Learn more and register for the symposium, The Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, happening November 3-4, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective

Other:The Reading of Names
2016-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
December 1 is World AIDS Day. We will be remembering those we have lost by reading their names from dawn to dusk between Haven Hall and UMMA. Please come to listen and to remember.

Workshop / Seminar:Business Process Mapping
2016-12-01 08:30 - 17:00 | Administrative Services Building - LPD
In order to successfully improve work processes, you first need to understand them. Visually representing work processes with something called a “process map” can make it much easier to follow complex flows.

You will learn to:

Apply the six-step Process Mapping Methodology to visually map out processes, identify waste, and analyze gaps and formulate action plans
Identify who should be involved in process mapping to ensure success
Employ the tools and best practices needed to launch a successful process mapping initiative

You will benefit by:

Knowing how to take the first steps toward improving your internal processes
Learning the tools and methodologies that are critical to successfully mapping processes in your organization
Having a better understanding of how things work within your organization

Audience:

Anyone wishing to improve the efficiency of their organization’s business processes

Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75
2016-12-01 08:30 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.

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

Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT
2016-12-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Gallery
Exhibition on view: December 1, 2016 - December 20, 2016
Presentations and reception Wednesday, November 30
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2016 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Three winning projects will be exhibited:
“Mapping Conficts” James Howe, Gideon Schwarzman, Yuong Wu
“This and That” Andrew Barkhouse, Carlos Pompeo
“Synesthesia in Architecture” Anthony Gonzalez, Po-Jen Huang, Olivia Lu-Hill

Workshop / Seminar:IT4U Live Webinar on Box and Google Shared Accounts
2016-12-01 09:00 - 09:45 | Off Campus Location
Do you have files in your Google Drive or Box folders that really belong to your department or project team? Learn to use shared accounts to manage your team’s data—from Box folders to Google email and calendars. Level: Intermediate. Register in My LINC: https://goo.gl/7aN2je

IT4U is a regular series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information & Technology Services. Learn and apply tips and techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. Visit the IT4U YouTube playlist for recordings of previous webinars. https://goo.gl/wwPVod

Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural
2016-12-01 09:00 - 18:00 | Art and Architecture Building
Free and open to the public
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
Chairs:
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR
Cathryn Dwyre, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
Chris Perry, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio
David Salomon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.
Keynotes:
Liam Young, urbanist, designer and futurist; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com); the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc
David Gissen, author, historian, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)
For a full list of speakers and bios, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page.
Ambiguous Territory Symposium Schedule
All events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted
Thursday October 5th
5:00pm
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition Reception
(Taubman College Gallery)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: Liam Young
(Art + Architecture Auditorium)

Friday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Welcome: Dean Jonathan Massey
Introductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün
Symposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov
10:00am
Atmospheric Mediations Panel
Introduction: Kathy Velikov
Speaker 1: Christopher Hight
Speaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti
Speaker 3: Sean Lally
Respondent: Meredith Miller
Roundtable Discussion
12:00pm
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
1:00pm
Biologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: David Salomon
Speaker 1: Jennifer Peeples
Speaker 2: Linsdey french
Speaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos
Respondent: Ellie Abrons
Roundtable Discussion
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm
Geologic Mediations Panel
Introduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
Speaker 1: Alessandra Ponte
Speaker 2: Bradley Cantrell
Speaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
Respondent: Mark Lindquist
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Break
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture: David Gissen
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition
September 27th – October 18th 2017
University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery
December 2018 – January 2019
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together
2016-12-01 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs, colors, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation, sustainability, textiles, colors, and design. Also included are "living dresses" made from plant material such as bark, evergreen boughs, moss, succulents, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm.

Workshop / Seminar:Duderstadt Center Video Studio Open Lab
2016-12-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Video Studio - Room 1356
Positioned in the heart of the University of Michigan's North Campus, the
Duderstadt Center operates at the nexus of art, architecture, music,
performance, and engineering. We support students, faculty, and staff in
continually pushing the frontiers of emerging technology and media arts.
Please join us in the Video Studio for the Open Lab, a dedicated week of
presentations, workshops, and practice sessions exploring a range of
forward-looking topics.

Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun
2016-12-01 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.

The exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event "Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.

Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
2016-12-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment, AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours
2016-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | LSA Building - 1100
Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad.

Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
2016-12-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art.

Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement
2016-12-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement, and its practitioners, among them Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, James McNeill Whistler, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.

In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists, including Stieglitz, Steichen, Käsebier, Clarence White, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask
2016-12-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.
Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely, and in great detail, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.

Workshop / Seminar:International Economics
2016-12-01 11:30 - 13:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract and paper not yet available.

Lecture / Discussion:Advancing Understandings of Past Cultural Landscapes with Geospatial Technologies
2016-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building - Room 2009
Over the past few decades, geospatial technologies have cemented themselves as critical tools for analyzing and synthesizing archaeological data. The number of geospatial techniques currently used in archaeology are numerous and wide ranging in their functionality. Within the ever expanding array and seeming accessibility of these technologies, it is important to ask, are we using these tools to bring new insights to bear on past social, economic, and ideological processes? In this talk, Dr. Howey explore this question through the context of her ongoing research in the northern Great Lakes region using geospatial technologies to advance nuanced examinations of past socioecological landscapes.

Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Against the Mystery of Kabuki Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering
2016-12-01 12:00 - 13:30 | School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
"Why are we made to remember Yamada Isuzu (1917-2012) exclusively as a film star? Certainly, Yamada was an internationally renowned actor featured in films by such directors as Mizoguchi, Naruse, and Kurosawa. She also worked, as an onnagata, with topnotch kabuki-theater actors. One of the Japanese traditional theater forms, kabuki is an all-male theater, and onnagata actors play women's roles in it. Yamada performed alongside mainstream, male kabuki actors, and her performance was praised by kabuki-theater critics very highly, sometimes even described as having 'considerable presence as the leading onnagata.' Why does Yamada's outstanding stage career have to be hidden from our eyes? Behind it is a long-lasting mystery about onnagata."

MAKI ISAKA teaches Japanese theater, premodern literature, and gender studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has published on the the philosophy of premodern Japanese arts, the “New Theater” movement in modern Japan, and gender and onnagata on the kabuki stage. She is the author of Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge (Palgrave, 2005) and Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater (University of Washington Press, 2016).

Presentation:GFP Brown Bag
2016-12-01 12:00 - 13:30 | East Hall - 4448
When, Why, and How to Talk to Children About Gender: Research-Based Advice for Parents and Teachers

Most children endorse gender stereotypes and prefer same-gender peers well before they enter kindergarten. Importantly, children’s gender attitudes affect their cognitive, social, and emotional development, often in ways that serve to limit (rather than maximize) their potential. In this talk, I will summarize findings from psychological science concerning the causes and consequences of children’s gender attitudes, with the goal of providing concrete recommendations to parents and teachers for how best to address gender issues with preschoolers, children, and adolescents. New trends in gender socialization, including the sexualization of girls and use of single-sex programming and classrooms, will be discussed.

Other:Sleep dialogue workshop
2016-12-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Duderstadt 1180
Wanna learn useful sleeping tips?Join us for a dialogue around SLEEP: How sleep fits into our overall well-being & success as graduate students while also acknowledging and attending to the layers of different cultural expectations surrounding sleep.Please RSVP here:https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTBceiDmXEBU8kKAU6aIxy6E-BXFhJbZrSiJkCU3hxqmr0lg/viewform

Performance:Gifts of Art presents University Music Majors
2016-12-01 12:10 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art - Main Lobby, Floor 1
This performance is a part of the U-M Community Outreach Performance Series. As an engaged-learning initiative of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), this series exists both to provide high quality cultural experiences for the surrounding community and for the educational benefit of participating students. Performers prepare repertoire and interactive presentations with assistance from SMTD faculty and staff for different age groups in various venues throughout the community. Live stream video and event subscriptions available on UMHS Gifts of Art Facebook.

Well-being:Weekly Drop-in Meditation/Gentle Yoga Sessions
2016-12-01 12:30 - 13:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2032
Open to all U-M students, faculty and staff. No mats required.

Questions? E-mail Paola Savvidou (savvidou@umich.edu)
Wellness Coordinator, School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Class / Instruction:Our Citizens Behind Bars:
2016-12-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
American jails and prisons are filled with 2.2 million people, who are layered in stereotypes and prejudice. The consequences of mass incarceration cast a wide and ugly net of damage and trauma to people behind bars, their families and communities.

This study group for those 50+ will meet for 90 minutes on Thursday, December 1 and be led by instructor Judy Wenzel who has taught high school completion classes at the federal prison in Milan and has written a book called Light from the Cage: 25 Years in a Prison Classroom.

Other:UMSI Design Clinic
2016-12-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - Zell Lurie Institute: 3rd fl., Rear Meeting Space
At the Design Clinic, we provide design advice and services to local start-ups, non-profits, and cultural institutions. Our committed group of students work with clients directly to conduct user research and testing, create wireframes for websites and mobile applications, and to provide recommendations for process and workflow design. Our students are available for consultations by appointment at our Help Desk hours.

The Design Clinic follows an apprenticeship model that focuses on hands-on-learning, and mentoring. Students are assigned a role based on their level of experience, and work in teams to support and learn from each other, while receiving support and guidance from Design Clinic staff, and alumni mentors.

For questions about the Design Clinic, please contact us at designclinic@umich.edu

Schedule an appointment here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nstaONMm_JEA1FTw5-UZj6mh6lpaEiaOG5JPVtzBCeg/viewform?edit_requested=true

Performance:Carillon Recital
2016-12-01 13:30 - 14:00 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Wonderland Gems & Jewels
2016-12-01 14:00 - 15:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Main Corridor, Floor 2
Betsy Lehndorff’s jewelry is influenced by her life in Hubbard Lake in northeastern Michigan. Using her stone cutting and silversmithing skills, she takes on six subjects that impact her isolated world: water, winter, plants, critters, rocks and the heavens. Her work, often representational and sometimes narrative, challenges the idea of jewelry as a status symbol. Lehndorff was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and lived in Colorado until 2012. She is a granddaughter of renowned architect Albert Kahn (Hill Auditorium and the “Old Main” U-M Hospital) and daughter of Dr. Edgar A. Kahn, who headed the neurosurgery department at the U-M Hospital in the 1960s.

Workshop / Seminar:Econometrics
2016-12-01 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 301
Abstract:
The accuracy of particle filters for nonlinear state-space models crucially depends on the proposal distribution that mutates time t − 1 particle values into time t values. In the widely-used bootstrap particle filter this distribution is generated by the state-transition equation. While straightforward to implement, the practical performance is often poor. We develop a self-tuning particle filter in which the proposal distribution is constructed adaptively through a sequence of Monte Carlo steps. Intuitively, we start from a measurement error distribution with an inflated variance, and then gradually reduce the variance to its nominal level in a sequence of steps that we call tempering. We show that the filter generates an unbiased and consistent approximation of the likelihood function. Holding the run time fixed, our filter is substantially more accurate in two DSGE model applications than the bootstrap particle filter.

Other:ZEAL Law Clinic office hours
2016-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLINIC, part of Michigan Law's Zell Entrepreneurship and Law (ZEAL) Program, is a clinical law program focusing on advising U-M student entrepreneurial ventures. The first of its kind in the United States, the clinic provides law students with unique, real-world experience in representing early-stage ventures while offering valuable legal services to the University entrepreneurial ecosystem. The clinic has provided no-cost legal services to a significant number of student-led startups since its inception in 2012, meets with hundreds of student entrepreneurs each year, and has provided hundreds of hours of legal information to individuals and organizations throughout the U-M community.

Workshop / Seminar:Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar
2016-12-01 15:10 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
We will discuss the proof and applications of a recent result of Friedland and Youssef, who utilize the solution of the Kadison-Singer problem by Marcus, Spielman and Srivastava to deal with the following question: given an n by m matrix A, can we ignore but only a few of the columns of A and still approximate well how A acts on R^m?
Friedland and Youssef show that, through Kadison-Singer, one can provide an optimal bound for the number of retained columns in terms of the stable rank of A.

One application of this result is to John decompositions of the identity: Friedland and Youssef, improving/complementing previous results of Rudelson and Srivastava, show that, arbitrarily close to any convex body K in R^n (even not necessarily symmetric), we can find another convex body Q that has only linear in n contact points with its John ellipsoid. Speaker(s): Beatrice Vritsiou (University of Michigan)

Meeting:Working Group on Modeling Health and Economic Outcomes
2016-12-01 15:30 - 17:00 | Palmer Commons - Boardroom 5 (6th floor)
This working group brings together faculty, research staff, students and trainees who are using decision science and economic evaluation modeling methods to inform public health, health policy, and clinical decisions. These methods include cost-effectiveness analysis, state-transition (Markov-like) modeling, microsimulation, agent-based modeling, health utility valuation, discrete choice experiments/conjoint analysis, and related topics.

Workshop / Seminar:Adobe Premiere Pro CC – An Introduction
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center Mac Classroom, 2001-B
In this introductory hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:
- Edit video with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
- Import and organize your footage
- Use editing tools for added precision
- Export footage to sharable formats
- Transfer your work between computers

No prior experience with Adobe Premiere Pro CC is necessary. If you are new to video editing, we strongly suggest that you attend one of our iMovie workshops prior to attending this workshop.

If you are unable to attend one of our sessions – we have video versions of our workshops!
Premiere Pro CC – https://vimeo.com/album/4118072
Final Cut Pro X – https://vimeo.com/album/4123227
iMovie – https://vimeo.com/album/4118403

Register for this workshop at
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=Adobe+Premiere&submit=Search

Workshop / Seminar:Differential Equations
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4088
The wall-to-wall optimal transport problem asks for the design of an incompressible flow between parallel walls that most efficiently transports heat from one wall to the other, given a prescribed intensity budget. In the energy-constrained case, with a given kinetic energy budget, optimal designs are known to be convection rolls in the large energy limit. In the enstrophy-constrained case, numerical studies performed by P. Hassanzadeh, G. Chini, and C. Doering, and also by A. Souza in his PhD thesis, indicate a much more complicated flow structure is favorable in the large enstrophy limit. In particular, these authors observe the presence of recirculation zones near the walls whose existence is left unexplained. After a brief introduction, we describe in this talk a useful reformulation of the wall-to-wall optimal transport problem inspired by related questions in homogenization theory. This leads to an unexpected connection between the wall-to-wall problem and questions from the study of energy-driven pattern formation in materials science. We illustrate this connection with a few key examples. The result is a new construction for the enstrophy-driven wall-to-wall problem which goes beyond the complexity observed in the numerical studies, and achieves the optimal rate of transport in the large enstrophy limit up to possible logarithmic corrections. We discuss implications for the problem of finding the best absolute upper limits on the rate of heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bernard convection. This is joint work with C. Doering. Speaker(s): Ian Tobasco (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Development
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
Abstract:
We evaluate three labor market policies (vocational training, on the job training and firm-worker matching) in a representative sample of urban labor markets in Uganda. The evaluation is based on a four year panel of workers and firms and exploits a randomized control trial and structural model. The reduced form impacts comparing on-the-job and vocational training show that: (i) both forms of training have significant impacts on the extensive margin of finding wage employment (by around 25% relative to the control group); (ii) both treatments have significant impacts on hours workers, hourly wages and total earnings (by at least 30%). Bounds estimates of the productivity impacts suggest both forms of training have positive productivity impacts, with vocational training having the larger impact on worker productivity. We verify the impacts on hourly earnings and productivity bounds by implementing a practical skills test to workers in all treatment groups: in line with the earlier evidence, this shows vocational training to significantly raise practical skills, both relative to the control group and relative to the workers that were assigned to on-the-job training. We find little evidence that there are informational frictions in these urban labor markets relating to firms not having information on workers willing to work, or on workers willing to work and being trained. The final part of analysis develops and estimates a structural model of worker job search, where workers make two endogenous choices: (i) search effort; (ii) their reservation wage. Using monthly data on labor market histories for workers in our evaluation, we use the experiment to identify the structural model and shed light on how training impacts these two endogenous outcomes through two mechanisms: (i) worker beliefs over the arrival of job offers; (ii) the distribution of offered wages. We use these structural estimates to estimate the lifetime benefits of these various training and matching routes into the labor market.

Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: "Love, Friendship, and Jihad in the Age of Crusades"
2016-12-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
The period of the Crusades in the history of the eastern Mediterranean is usually purveyed by its historians (medieval and modern) as a period of fierce military conflict or cultural exchange. Yet given the intense, and in some cases unprecedented, human relationships that formed as a result of these conflicts, it would seem to form an ideal laboratory for the study of medieval emotions. This talk will probe the advantages and limitations of such a study by examining the concepts of love and friendship as expressed in first-person sources, particularly those written by Muslim authors, whose works are not as widely available as those of their Latin Christian counterparts.

Paul M. Cobb is Professor and Department Chair in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a social and cultural historian of the pre-modern Islamic world. His areas of interest include the history of memory, historiography, Islamic relations with the West, and travel and exploration. He is, in particular, a recognized authority on the history of the medieval Levant and of the Crusades in their Islamic context. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including White Banners: Contention in ‘Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (2001); Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (2005); and The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades, a translation of the “memoirs” and other works of Usama ibn Munqidh (2008). He is also the co-editor (with Wout van Bekkum) of Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2003) and (with Antoine Borrut) of Umayyad Legacies: History and Memory from Syria to Spain (2010). His latest book is The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades (2014).

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Lecture / Discussion:FALL 2016 COMMUNICATION & MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES Racializing Redemption: The Content and Characters of White Savior Films
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | North Quad - 2435
Recent research on the intersection of race and media representations describes a trend of progressive, even antiracist, narratives that showcase close inter-racial friendships and camaraderie on the silver screen. Films in which one character saves or helps another from some unholy or disastrous plight are common in films like Dangerous Minds (1996), Amistad (1997), The Last Samurai (2003), Freedom Writers (2007), Gran Torino (2008), Avatar (2009), The Blind Side (2009), The Help (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Free State of Jones (2016) and the list goes on. While these films present a stark change from the patently racist and on-screen segregationist history of Hollywood cinema, these films are neither racially neutral nor without racist meanings. In specific, many of these films are what critics call “White Savior Films"—cinema in which implicit and explicit racial stereotypes are employed to structure the inter-racial interactions where one character labors to redeem another. In analyzing this genre, Professor Hughey will provide an framework for understanding both why and how modern cinema naturalizes the supposed cerebral rationality, work ethic, and paternalistic morality of select white characters while it normalizes people of color as primordially connected with nature, spiritually attuned, carnally driven, and/or possessive of exotic and magical powers.

Matthew W. Hughey, PhD is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut where he also serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Africana Studies Institute and the American Studies Program. Over 2016-2017, he is a Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

His work focuses on the relationship between racial inequality and collective understandings of race through empirical examinations of (1) white racial identity; (2) racialized organizations; (3) mass media; (4) political engagements; (5) science and technology, and; (6) public advocacy with racism and discrimination.

Professor Hughey has published over sixty scholarly articles and seven books, which include The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption (Temple University Press, 2014), which received the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award from the Southwest Sociological Association and White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race (Stanford University Press, 2012), which was co-winner of the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2014. He is also co-editor of 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today (The New Press, 2010), which received the 2011 Prevention for a Safer Society Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and in 2015-16 was reimagined as a theatrical performance for The Billie Holiday Theatre at The Center for Arts & Culture in Brooklyn, NY.

He is the recipient of both the 2014 Distinguished Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities and the 2016 Mentoring Excellence Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Professor Hughey is a frequent expert witness for legal disputes involving discrimination, is an active voice in national media (such as NPR, ABC, and CNN) and has been a contributing writer to outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. He also serves on the editorial boards for Social Problems, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and he is a co-founding Associate Editor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity—the first race-focused official journal of the American Sociological Association.

Workshop / Seminar:Labor Economics
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240

Lecture / Discussion:Law & Ethics Lecture: Professor Joseph Raz on "The Democratic Deficit"
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | South Hall - 1020
Please join the Law & Ethics Program as we welcome Professor Joseph Raz give a talk on "The Democratic Deficit." This lecture is free and open to the public.

Joseph Raz is the Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is a leading expert in the areas of legal, moral, and political philosophy. From 2006 to 2009, Raz served as a research professor at the University of Oxford. He was named the British-Hispanic Professor at Complutensa University in Madrid in 2007. From 1985 to 2006, Raz was both a Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford, as well as a fellow of Balliol College.

Raz’s numerous visiting professorships include Rockefeller University, the Australian National University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Toronto, Yale Law School, and the University of Southern California.

Raz has delivered countless lectures worldwide, including the Quain Lectures at University College London in 2013; the Kellogg Lecture In Jurisprudence at the Library of Congress in 2011; the Plenary Lecture at the World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held in Beijing in 2009; and the Minerva Lecture on Human Rights at Tel Aviv University in 2006.

In addition to being a fellow of the British Academy since 1987, Raz has been an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1992.

Among Raz’s publications, his 1986 book, The Morality of Freedom, won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize from the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom and the Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize from the conference for the Study of Political Thought in New York. He also received the First International Prize for Legal Research “Hector Fix-Zamudio” from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 2005.

Raz obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford and a Magister Juris from Hebrew University.

Presentation:LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series | From America's Presidential Election to China's 19th Party Congress: Where Do US-China Relations Go From Here?
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium, Room 1120, Ford School of Public Policy
US-China relations are, once again, at a turning point. Among the many variables affecting the future evolution of the relationship is the newly-elected administration in Washington and the prospect of a new leadership in Beijing next year. In this Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series presentation, Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University will consider the overall state of US-China relations, the major issues on the agenda, the policy inclinations and likely approaches of the new Trump administration, the prospects for China's new leadership and its orientation towards the United States, and likely evolution of Sino-American relations in the coming years.

Professor David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is presently Professor of Political Science & International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was previously Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), where he also served as Editor of The China Quarterly. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. A prolific author, Professor Shambaugh has published more than 30 books, including most recently “China’s Future” and “The China Reader: Rising Power” (both 2016).

Workshop / Seminar:Math Club
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - Nesbitt Room
Speaker(s): David Fernandez-Breton (UM)

Presentation:Situating Brecht's Antigone Project
2016-12-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Angell Hall - 2175
Brecht’s ‘The Antigone of Sophocles’ (1948) was considered a marginal and transitory piece by the artist himself, a mere experiment and practical testing ground during the brief final period of his 15-year exile (in Switzerland, from November 1947 to October 1948) before Brecht’s return to Berlin and its cultural scene which was slowly re-emerging from the ruins of World War II and Nazi rule. But contrary to authorial self-perception, the project - which manifested itself in a few performances in Chur (Switzerland) in early 1948 and the first of Brecht’s ‘model books’ (Antigonemodell 1948, published in 1949) - is a landmark in Brecht’s work and in 20th-century theatre history as a whole while also making a distinct contribution to the long and diverse reception history of Sophocles’ Antigone. Focusing on select aspects of the project, this paper attempts to situate the importance of Brecht’s Antigone (the script, the production as well as the 'model book’) by integrating the disciplinary vistas of Classics, Theatre Studies and Comparative Literature.

Lecture / Discussion:Situating Brecht’s Antigone Project
2016-12-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Angell Hall - 2175, Classics Library
Brecht’s ‘The Antigone of Sophocles’ (1948) was considered a marginal and transitory piece by the artist himself, a mere experiment and practical testing ground during the brief final period of his 15-year exile (in Switzerland, from November 1947 to October 1948) before Brecht’s return to Berlin and its cultural scene which was slowly re-emerging from the ruins of World War II and Nazi rule. But contrary to authorial self-perception, the project - which manifested itself in a few performances in Chur (Switzerland) in early 1948 and the first of Brecht’s ‘model books’ (Antigonemodell 1948, published in 1949) - is a landmark in Brecht’s work and in 20th-century theatre history as a whole while also making a distinct contribution to the long and diverse reception history of Sophocles’ Antigone. Focusing on select aspects of the project, this paper attempts to situate the importance of Brecht’s Antigone (the script, the production as well as the ‘model book’) by integrating the disciplinary vistas of Classics, Theatre Studies and Comparative Literature.

Workshop / Seminar:Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar
2016-12-01 16:10 - 17:30 | East Hall - 1360
Speaker(s): Dohyeong Kim

Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace: Trans, Genderqueer, Intersex, Non-Binary
2016-12-01 17:00 - 18:30 | Michigan Union - Spectrum Center
CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer & trans life at the University of Michigan. Tuesday CenterSpace creates space for trans, genderqueer, intersex, and nonbinary folks, and those who are questioning or of similar identities, to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. There will be a CenterSpace host each evening who identifies within the community being centered, as well as light refreshments. All students are welcome to join us for one or many meetings throughout the Fall 16 semester!

Careers / Jobs:Getting Started: Exploratory PhD Process Group for Nonacademic Career Paths
2016-12-01 17:00 - 18:15 | Rackham Graduate School, W Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA
Are you a PhD student with an open-mind and enthusiasm for self-exploration? Are you ready to actively participate and share thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around your nonacademic career options? If so, this may be the group for you!

The Getting Started Group, facilitated by The University Career Center and CAPS, will meet three times this semesterto explore interests, feelings, goals, and opportunities around nonacademic career paths. This is a group for students beginning to explore options, at any point in their PhD process.

There is an expectation that group discussions will remain respectful and confidential, and we will limit group size to 12 participants. It is important for group integrity that those interested are committed to attending all 3 sessions from 5-6:15pm at Rackham, on November 10, November 17, and December 1.

Students will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. When the group is full,we will give participants first priority for our Winter Group.

To register for the upcoming Fall 2016 Getting Started Group, click the link below:
https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJFb7bGDIokMtGzCRxvCwIheok2SnwBTOvBFSP4-HLvcOVig/viewform?usp=send_form

Questions? ContactAmy Longhi at amyhoag@umich.edu or call The University Career Center at 734-764-7460.

Other:Ig.Nite
2016-12-01 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Mary Student Parish
Come out for our Ig.Nite evening of dinner and discussion, starting with 5:10pm Daily Mass!

Lecture / Discussion:Roland Graf: From the Ground Up
2016-12-01 17:10 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location
Austrian artist, architect, and designer Roland Graf crosses many disciplines to design objects, intervene in public spaces and develop experimental human interfaces. Since 1997, he has co-directed the artist collective Assocreation, best known for its award-winning interactive installations that often manipulate the ground the public walks on, such as the telematic sidewalk Bump (Prix Ars Electronica Distinction 2001) or the street video game Solar Pink Pong (Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival, Nomination for the New Technological Art Award 2016). Graf’s eclectic individual and collaborative creative work is all rooted in the same interest in space, technology, and human interaction. It has been shown internationally at art festivals, museums, galleries, design fairs, film festivals, conferences and computer expos, including the Bienal de Valencia, The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, CENTRALE for contemporary art in Bruxelles, Milan Design Week, AVIFF Art Film Festival in Cannes, Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, CeBIT in Hannover, TEI’15 in Stanford, as well as in the streets of New York, Detroit, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Kathmandu.

Other:BLUElab Design Review and Expo
2016-12-01 17:30 - 20:30 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 109 FXB with poster fair in the EECS atrium
The first part of the event will consist of our project teams presenting their design work with a Q&A to field technical questions and receive advice. The second part will be a dinner/poster session where teams can further discuss project focus and design for additional networking and audience feedback. Our audience will include technical experts, sponsors, professors, graduate and undergraduate students, and external stakeholders, and we’d be happy to have you at the event.

Please fill out this form to RSVP for the event by Friday, November 11: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkexQ_SIOevNBlQIHOrdBUOpmlq_-gjYKNHzPE_FblFzrXrg/viewform

We also plan on live streaming the event if you cannot attend in person.

If you have questions, please email dnaidoff@umich.edu

Workshop / Seminar:China Reading Group
2016-12-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Haven Hall - 5664
Open to doctoral students and faculty in the social sciences. Please email blakeapm@umich.edu if you would like to attend.

Meeting:Impact Corps Info Session
2016-12-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Ross School of Business - R1240
Learn about our signature program that allows students to work on high-level, sponsored projects for social impact organizations. If you are a Ross School of Business MBA or BBA junior looking for a challenging, high-level, paid summer internship in a mission-driven organization, then this is your first step in applying for an Impact Corps summer internship.

Workshop / Seminar:Parenting in Busy Times
2016-12-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Suite 100
With more distractions and obligations than ever — for both parents and children — it can be difficult to stay connected in real time. This free workshop presented by the University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) explores ways to better attune to and engage with your children. You will learn keys to help you foster a nurturing and cooperative relationship as your children grow and change.

Register at http://mari.umich.edu/parenting_keys

Details:
- Free workshop, but registration is required. Registration closes on Nov. 30.
- Free childcare is offered during the workshop.
- Light dinner is provided for all attendees.
- Presented by Eileen Bond, LMSW, a social worker at UCCF with more than 30 years of experience working with families.

This workshop is geared toward graduate students, but others are welcome too!

Lecture / Discussion:Central Asia in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
2016-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Modern Languages Building - 3308
The theme of this Slavic Studies Graduate Colloquium is "Central Asia in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union."

Olga Maiorova, Associate Professor of Russian
"Exploring the Russian Self in Oriental Lands: Nineteenth-Century Travels to Central Asia"

This talk focuses on the nineteenth-century explorers of Central Asia who shaped Russian public discourse on the Orient. It examines their visions of the exotic Other in the context of Russia’s own shifting national self-perception and offers insights into the ideological constructs underlying Russia’s unfolding imperial project.

Christopher Fort, Ph. D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
"Uzbekistan: Dual Mimicry and Archival Research"

The Soviet Union encouraged its subjects to perform not only Soviet identities but also national ones, according to the formula "national in form, socialist in content". I posit that non-Russian litterateurs of the 1930s were under the influence of "dual mimicry," a concept which I adapt from post-colonial theorist Homi Bhabha's colonial mimicry. In the particular context of Socialist Realism, "dual mimicry" took on a particular form. While non-Russian authors were instructed to imitate Russian Socialist Realist texts - the first form of mimicry – they were also expected to mercilessly attack their literary predecessors, producing parody as the second form of mimicry. Focusing on the first novel, Mirage (1934), of celebrated Uzbek author Abdulla Qahhor (1907-1968), I am asking why the novel, despite its obvious ideological loyalty to the state, was not declared the first Uzbek Socialist Realist novel. This talk also integrates some new archival findings about Qahhor and notes about work in the Uzbek archives.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Carolyn Dymond, dymond@umich.edu or 734-764-5355, at least 3 days in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Fair / Festival:CSP Graduate Resource Fair
2016-12-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League - Hussey and Vandenburg
Explore graduate school options from Eastern, Western, Michigan State and more!

Conference / Symposium:Global Operations Conference | New Frontiers in Operations
2016-12-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Ross School of Business - Colloquium
This annual conference is organized by the students of the Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The main objective of the Global Operations Conference is to bring together global leaders in industry and academia to share, debate and strategize to advance the worldwide practice of operations.

Thursday evening keynote speaker is Somesh Nigam, Vice President of Information & Data Governance and Health Informatics. He holds a Ph.D. and a master of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Exercise / Fitness:Yoga Class
2016-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
As part of our Health & Wellness initiative, Trotter offers FREE hour long fitness classes twice a week. Join us on Thursdays where Trotter will host a calm and relaxing yoga class from 6:00-7:00pm taught by Elizabeth Gonzalez, the Assistant Director of Clinical Services for CAPS here at UofM. All are welcome!

Conference / Symposium:2016 History of Art Honors Symposium
2016-12-01 18:30 - 21:00 | Tappan Hall - 180
History of Art honors students give twenty-minute presentations followed by Q & A.

Katie Fleckenstein, Day-Glo Nightmare: Raunch and Reprobation in Peter Saul’s Saigon (1967)

Mo Zhang, Double Exposure: Ink and Emulsion in After Huang Gongwang

Oona Nicholas, Art and Entrepreneurship in the work of Takashi Murakami

Isabella Achenbach, Race and Rhythm in Beauford Delaney’s Jazz Club (1951)

Workshop / Seminar:EXCEL Trainings
2016-12-01 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - EXCEL Lab
Led by Career Center Representative. Employers are looking for recent graduates with these “7 Career Readiness Competencies.” Give ‘em what they want! Come dive in with The University Career Center as we talk about what the competencies are, how to talk about your areas of strength, and how to build up your areas of growth!

All participants must watch this video before the session: https://careercenter.umich.edu/career-readiness

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Trainings: Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies ArtsEmployers are Looking For and How to Get Them
2016-12-01 18:30 - 19:30 | EXCEL Lab (1279) Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Employers are looking for recent graduates with these 7 CareerReadiness Competencies. Give ‘em what they want! Come dive in with The University Career Center as we talk about what the competencies are, how to talk about your areas of strength, and how to build up your areas of growth! All participants must watch this video before the session: https://careercenter.umich.edu/career-readiness

Other:Weekly Bible Study - The Book of John Ch 10
2016-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Michigan League, 3rd Floor, Room D
Weekly group gathering for fellowship, worship and a Bible Study. This year we will be working our way through the book of John.

Exercise / Fitness:Zouk Thursdays
2016-12-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Angell Hall
A time to practice and learn Zouk. If you know absolutely nothing about Zouk or dancing, we'll help you through the basics. You'll have an opportunity to practice with other people. Get there whenever you can, there is no such thing as being late for these practices. And of course... leave whenever you want.7-9pm: Zouk practica in Angell Hall Entrance9-10pm: Mini Social in Mason Hall Room #3437

Lecture / Discussion:Harold Haugh Lecture Recital: Louis Nagel
2016-12-01 19:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
This year’s recipient of the annual Harold Haugh Award, for excellence in private studio teaching in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, is Louis Nagel, who taught piano at SMTD for 47 years.

Performance:Pre-Candidate Recital: César Cañón, Piano
2016-12-01 19:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Program: Debussy - Fêtes galantes I & II; Chansons de Bilitis; Trois ballades de François Villon; Mendelssohn - Sextet for Violin, two Violas, Violoncello, Double Bass and Piano, op. 110.

Other:Restore
2016-12-01 19:30 - 21:00 | St. Mary Student Parish
Restore is a new undergraduate faith sharing group with a focus on building a faith community with real friendships and authentic conversation while discussing the upcoming Sunday readings.It consists of a drop-in, open group format. There are three days that we offer, with the same content on each day so come when you are free!

Performance:Jen Cass
2016-12-01 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Born to unusually hip parents in the suburbs of Detroit, singer-songwriter Jen Cass was raised on a healthy mix of folk music, homegrown vegetables, spontaneous dancing, black licorice and Motown. Jen writes beautifully crafted songs that draw comparisons to songwriting legends Bob Dylan, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls, and Dar Williams, as well as playwright Eugene O'Neill. In the words of Suzanne Glass of Indie-Music.com, “Cass’ songs are lyrical gems. She weaves fables with her words that would make Aesop jealous.” Jen has appeared twice at the Kerrville New Folk festival (2010 and 2011) and has played the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. She comes to The Ark for the first time in several years with new music and her new band, The Lucky Nows.

Performance:Trombone Ensemble with guest soloist Randy Hawes, DSO
2016-12-01 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Featuring members of the U-M Trombone Studio performing trios, quartets, sextets, octets and full ensemble.

Exercise / Fitness:Mswing open Swing
2016-12-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Koessler 3rd Floor Michigan League
Come and learn to swing dance if you don't know how. If you do come and meet new people and have a great time. It will be a swinging good time!

Film Screening:Years of Living Dangerously
2016-12-01 20:30 - 22:30 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1040
Please join us on Thursday, December 1st at 8:30pm in Room 1040 Dana to watch the newest episode of the Emmy award-winning climate documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously. Actress and activist Nikki Reed highlights efforts in the U.S. to solve climate change by putting a price a carbon pollution, and former “Daily Show” correspondent Aasif Mandvi sets off to Kenya to demonstrate the need for immediate action, with compounding threats to species across the world.

After-- learn about the recently-launched Put A Price On It campaign, which mobilizes those most affected by climate change (students and young people) to put a price on carbon pollution. The campaign is led by Years of Living Dangerously and Our Climate, a Millennial-led climate policy advocacy organization.

The event is free, and food will be served!
