Happening @ Michigan

’A GREAT LIBRARY EASILY BEGETS AFFECTION’: THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY

J. Kevin Graffagnino, Director of the William L. Clements Library

Dr. Graffagnino grew up in Vermont and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in American History. In a 39-year professional career, he’s...

Psych/BCN Honors Program Info Session

Dr. Priti Shah, Honors Program Director

Interested in completing a Psychology or BCN Honors Thesis? Come to this session!

Great Lakes Seminar Series: Looking at Lake Erie Hypoxia From a Different Point of View

Mark Rowe, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), University of Michigan

Abstract: Hypoxia in the central basin of Lake Erie is a well-known phenomenon that has been studied since the 1980s, and even earlier. Low...

Wieseneck Symposium: "Multilingualism in Israeli Literature"

Until fairly recently, Israeli literature was understood as essentially monolingual, created exclusively in Hebrew. In the last few years,...

International Economics: The Role of Trade Costs in the Surge of Trade Imbalances

Ricardo Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Board

Abstract and paper not yet available.

Department of Biological Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar

Ryan Baldridge

Dr. Ryan Baldridge, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, will be presenting a faculty candidate...

Tuần lễ Việt: Celebration of Vietnamese Studies: Book Launch and Author Discussion

Sophie Quinn-Judge, Emeritus Associate Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society; Temple University

Sophie Quinn-Judge will discuss her book forthcoming by I.B. Tauris, entitled The Third Force in the Vietnam Wars: The Elusive Search for...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | What is Rakugo? Invitation to the 400-year-old Art of Japanese Storytelling

Yanagiya Sankyo 柳家さん喬, Yanagiya Kyonosuke 柳家喬之助, Rakugo Storytellers

Please note: the performers will speak Japanese with a translator interpreting in English....

Gifts of Art presents Musical Theater & Cabaret

Katharine Ball with Andrew Meagher

Katharine Ball is a professional singer and graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She has performed...

Student Arithmetic

Visible elements in the Tate-Shafarevich group

The Tate-Shafarevich group, Sha(E), of an elliptic curve E defined over the rational numbers plays an important role in the Birch and...

The Gender Leadership Gap: Barriers and Bias in the Academy and Beyond

Kevin Miller, Senior Researcher at the American Association of University Women (AAUW), gives the February Emergent Research lecture. About...

Psychological and Mental Health Consequences of the Japanese American Incarceration

Public Lecture by Prof. Donna Nagata.

Commutative Algebra

Symbolic powers of sums of ideals

Let k be a field and let A and B be Noetherian k-algebras. Let I be an ideal of A and J be an ideal of B. We shall discuss properties and...

LACS Lecture. Looking for Inca Presences and Local Strategies for Rearranging the Territory: New Excavations in Cerro Azul, Peru

Giancarlo Marcone, Qhapaq Ñan Project

With the goal of exploring how the Inca Empire transformed the Andean territory, the Qhapaq Ñan project initiated a research project at the...

Roundtable: Women in War

Wartime Posters of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1950-1970s)

In conjunction with the exhibit, Women in War: Wartime Posters of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975, join this roundtable to...

Tuần lễ: Vietnamese Studies Week

Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross; Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University

Scholars who specialize in Vietnam lead a roundtable discussion to accompany the exhibition "Women & War: Wartime Posters from the...

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

Norms of random matrixes: local and global problems

I will present an overview and some proofs from our work with Roman Vershynin....

Being Killable: Precarization, Violence and Neoliberal Labor in Contemporary Mexico

Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis

Over the past two decades, the question of violence in Mexico has occupied a considerable amount of attention in different disciplines...

EEB Thursday Seminar: Unexpected responses of disease to global change

Erin Mordecai, Stanford University

With the threat of changing climate, species invasions, shifts in land use, and other anthropogenic changes, ecologists are increasingly...

EIHS Lecture: "Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800"

Rudolph Ware, University of Michigan

Oxford’s Advanced Learners Dictionary gives the following two primary definitions of the term "visionary":...

FAST Lecture: A Karanis Collaboratory

David Stone, Arthur Verhoogt, Alexandra Creola, Elizabeth Nabney, and Mollie Fox

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION!...

Foundations of Belief & Decision Making Lecture: Entropy and Indifference

Anubav Vasudevan, University of Chicago

Abstract: The Judy Benjamin problem has often been cited as grounds for rejecting the use of entropy maximizing (or information minimizing)...

Law & Economics: Public Information on Past Bankruptcy and the Stigma of Failure for Entrepreneurs

Augustin Landier, Toulouse School of Economics

Abstract:...

Logic

L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in two cardinalities, part II

This will be part II of the talk on complete L_{omega_1,omega}-sentences with maximal models in (at least) two cardinalities. The talk will...

Rubin Series on Migration and Immigration

Held in the Eldersveld Room

Sexual Assault on UM Campus: Challenges, Policy, & Prevention

Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow....

WINTER 2017 COMMUNICATION & MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES The Difficulty around Diversifying Hollywood's Labor Force and its Circumventions

Kristen Warner, Associate Professor, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama

With less than substantial improvement to its exclusionary hiring practices, the television and film industries have nevertheless become...

Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Continuous valuations

Speaker(s): Takumi Murayama (UM)

Carrigan Lecture in Music Theory: Judith Lochhead, Stony Brook University

Professor Lochhead will present a paper titled "Chaotic Mappings: Analyzing Recent Music"

World Tour of International Flavor Markley Dinner

Come to Markley Dining Hall for dinner on February 16th and taste flavors from Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Rim, and North...

Ping Chong: Beyond Sacred

Ping Chong is an internationally acclaimed director, playwright, and pioneer in the use of media in the theater. A recipient of a USA Artist...

February Meeting

All are invited to the February meeting of the Child Welfare Student Association! 

Planters NUTmobile Brand Specialist Information Session

Must attend info session to be considered for interviews....

R Programming Session sponsored by WISE

Registration is required: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/wise-r-programming-session/...

Summer APA Info Session

The Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center is hiring 15 students to work over the summer as Academic Peer Advisors for Summer Orientation....

Terrance Hayes and Jamaal May

ZVWS In Conversation

Terrance Hayes, our Winter Distinguished Poet in Residence, is the author of Lighthead (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book...

Career Competencies and Resume Workshop

This a closed event for Alpha Chi Sigma (professional chemistry fraternity)

Energy BBDO Executive Presentation

Jeff Adkins (EVP, Managing Director) and Larry Gies (EVP, Chief Strategy Officer) from Energy BBDO will give a presentation on the...

Info Session

Come to our Info Session Thursday, February 16, at 6 p.m. in the League to learn more about the Biological Station and meet professors who...

Intercultural Workshop: Learning across Differences

Learn about varying communication styles across cultures, and practice effective skills to navigate communicating across cultural...

Morgan Stanley Virtual 101 Series: Investment Banking

Morgan Stanley believes capital has the power to create positive change in the world. The biggest and most impactful changes come from...

U-M Biological Station Information Session

Greetings from the University of Michigan Biological Station!...

Love Day

love inclusivity | affirmations | body positivity

Valentine's Day. Some people love it, and some people... don't....

ArtsX UMMA presents Spectra: Voicing Our Experience A Night of Spoken Art & Music

This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served....

Author Event – Paul Brandus – Under This Roof: A History of the White House and the Presidency

Paul Brandus

Join us as the Ford Library welcomes Paul Brandus, author of Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency - - 21 Presidents, 21...

Michigan Men's Basketball vs. No. 11 Wisconsin

Michigan Men's Basketball vs. No. 11 Wisconsin

Zouk Thursdays

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...

Detroiters Speak: Detroit Public Schools - Race, History, & Purpose

Details to follow

MAS Lecture | In Search of Ancient Egyptian Gemstones

Dr. James Harrell, Professor Emeritus, University of Toledo

The Michigan Archaeological Society invites you to a free lecture at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology....

Senior Recital: Aaron Kurz, piano

PROGRAM: Bach - Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Major, BWV 858; Beethoven - Sonata in C Major, op. 2, no. 3; Prokofiev - Sonata no. 7 in B-flat...

Tuần lễ Việt: Celebration of Vietnamese Studies. Đừng Đốt! (Don't Burn)

Vietnamese Film Night

The film Đừng Đốt! (Don't Burn) will be screened as part of the Celebration of Vietnamese Studies. This 2009 film directed by...

2017 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture

Steven M. Holland, PhD, Professor, Department of Geology, University of Georgia

62nd Annual Case Memorial Lecture

Contemporary Directions Ensemble

PROGRAM: Stockhausen- Kreutzspiel; Ligeti- Chamber Concerto; Hearne- Cordavi and Fig; Cerrone- Remembering; Needham- Urban Sprawl

The Vegabonds

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