Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2017-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Jewish Family Services
Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client. Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked, taking notes for the patients to reference. Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members. Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months. Must fill out application, background check, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here

Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network
2017-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 | Bryant Community Center
Volunteers help distribute food from the truck, "shop" with families, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families. Sign-Up Here

Auditions:IMPROV COMEDY AUDITIONS!
2017-09-20 00:00 - 23:59, 2017-09-21 00:00 | Angell Hall
Wednesday September 20th at 9PM in the Angels Hall Auditoriums Come audition for Images of Identities Improv Comedy Group! Everyone is invited to come show your skills on your feet, get crazy, and have fun!If this date has a conflict, feel free to email: madjones@umich.edu to reschedule your audition.

Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network
2017-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 | Community Action Network
Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework, reading, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success. Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application, background check, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here

Other:Recruiting New Members for Fall 2017!
2017-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Michigan
The LSA Honor Council is an undergraduate student organization dedicated to developing initiatives that aid in the promotion of respect, integrity, and personal responsibility. We also attend meetings hosted by the Office of Student Academic Affairs for students accused of academic misconduct. In our recruitment efforts, we prioritize the importance of forming a council composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. This spectrum of varied perspectives enables our council to more effectively address issues of integrity on our campus. This upcoming year, we are recruiting a group of motivated and dedicated LSA students who are interested in working closely with the deans, faculty, and fellow students to promote a campus culture that values integrity. This past year, we have accomplished this goal by hosting faculty department presentations, tabling events, and discussions of current ethical issues. Most recently, we hosted Dr. Victor Strecher from the School of Public Health to present a talk on “Designing a Happy Life.” Given the breadth of our activities, it is crucial that we incorporate students with diverse skill sets to maximize our council’s potential. We hope that you will join us next fall! Link to application: http://lsastudenthc.weebly.com/become-a-member.html

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-09-20 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

Exhibition:Enter the As I See It Literary Competition!
2017-09-20 08:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Arts at Michigan is seeking student literary works for the As I See It Literary Competition! Tell us about your University of Michigan experience in 200 words or less. Looking for inspiration? Check out the UpstART 200 archive (https://www.lib.umich.edu/upstart200/collections/show/) of historic or culturally significant work that is held by or related to U-M. A winner will be selected and will receive a $200 gift card to Literati Bookstore! First and Second Runners Up will also receive prizes. The deadline to submit works is September 21, 2017. Learn more and submit here: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit/

Exhibition:Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University
2017-09-20 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments
2017-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world that is housed in a North American university. Known internationally as a unique collection, it is not only a precious heritage from the past, but also a rich resource for musical, educational, and cultural needs of the present and future. This exhibition features a selection of Americana musical instruments with origins from around the world.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003, she has primarily been a landscape artist, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in oil. In November 2016, following a trip to Mexico, birds unexpectedly started migrating to her canvases and an entirely new body of work began to take shape. The current exhibit, Flights of Fancy, features birds in colorful, light-filled works. The birds represent the lightness she associates with qualities of joy, hope, healing and inspiration she sees as a source of personal well-being.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine 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 on-site ballot box. 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 Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Steve and Ann Loveless both grew up in northwestern lower Michigan and love the nature and beauty of the outdoors. Steve is a fine art photographer, and Ann is a textile artist. After exhibiting some of Ann’s textile designs inspired by Steve’s photography, they had the idea to create works that morph a photograph into a textile. One aspect of the process is that it can trick the viewer into questioning what they are seeing and invite them to engage more with the work. Northwood Awakening, a 25 by 5 foot piece that was the ArtPrize 2015 Public Vote Grand Prize winner, will be on display.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Laura Cavanagh is a Michigan native who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BFA in Art & Design and a minor in Art History. Cavanagh’s work consists primarily of cut paper and mixed media. Working with these materials allows her to approach her work in much the same way a sculptor does: adding to and cutting away from. Cavanagh finds the artistic process to be deeply meditative. Cavanagh lives and has her studio in a historic home in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Cat Crotchett’s current work combines elements of eastern and western cultural patterns in fragments that together form something different than their individual parts. These images represent an intersection of information as well as ideas of cultural appropriation, assimilation, fragmentation and alteration. Crotchett uses wax because it is relevant to both eastern and early western artistic cultures. A professional artist for over 30 years, Crotchett has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a professor at Western Michigan University and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting
2017-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Professional artist and instructor Gregory Potter believes that anyone can develop artistic skill if they put the work into it. Potter’s teaching helps with that, but he also shows his paintings in art fairs, galleries and even Army barrack walls, anywhere people enjoy art and laughing out loud. A flightless bird, his flamingo isn’t deep or subversive, but it does have a top hat and is riding on the back of a zebra that is standing in a nest powered by a propeller. Nothing unusual for a man who served four tours in the Middle East. Working in his home gallery in Franklin, Indiana, he is amused as viewers sometimes see his animals as “above all the B.S.” or “leaving without knowing where [they’re] going.”

Exhibition:Michigan Past & Present
2017-09-20 08:00 - 21:00 | Pierpont Commons
Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Exhibition:Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger
2017-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Common Room
Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

Exhibition:Reverberations of Rebellion: 1967 in Detroit and Ann Arbor
2017-09-20 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby (off the Diag)
The 1967 Detroit rebellion was a pivotal event in the history of the Motor City. While Ann Arbor may seem far removed from Detroit, the themes of 1967—housing segregation, media bias, student activism, and police violence—resonated here as well.

This exhibit, on display in the Hatcher Graduate Library North lobby through September 15, 2017, highlights the extensive archival resources of the Bentley Historical Library and the U-M Library’s Labadie Collection. These materials place the rebellion in the context of 1960s activism against racism and inequality in Detroit and Ann Arbor, and illustrate the significance and range of press coverage.

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-09-20 08:00 - 20:00 | Nichols Arboretum
Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

Exhibition:Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion
2017-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

Exercise / Fitness:Rec Sports Equipment Orientation: Dumbbell Elite
2017-09-20 08:30 - 09:30 | Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - CCRB Strength 2
Using dumbbells is a great way to mix up your mode when selecting your exercise, but knowing what to do can sometimes be overwhelming. Don’t worry! We’ve got you covered. Come check out basic to advanced exercises using dumbbells. This workshop will also show you how to handle your dumbbells throughout the whole exercise.

Exhibition:Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context
2017-09-20 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Highlighting manuscripts and early printed books from the Special Collections Library, the exhibit commemorates the 500th anniversary of a pivotal transformation in world history. In 1517, Martin Luther, a professor of theology and a monk, published his scathing critique of indulgences, a church practice that allowed Christians to buy off time from suffering for one’s sins in the afterlife.

Issued in the provincial town of Wittenberg, Luther's call for academic debate and reform unleashed a series of events that led to the break-up of Latin Christianity. The Reformations that followed forever altered the lives of those in early modern Europe and beyond.

The late medieval German lands teemed with innovation. Novel forms of piety emerged, the demand for practical learning grew, more universities competed for students, and wealth from both trade and mining transformed social relations. The dissemination of texts and ideas on an industrial scale via the printing press reshaped communication, knowledge, and belief. In this context, reform—the renewal of a lost standard of the past in the present—became a battle-cry for religious, economic, and political change.

Audubon Room hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-6:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 1:00-6:00pm

Careers / Jobs:ALA 375
2017-09-20 09:00 - 12:00 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
This is a closed session for the students of ALA 375.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Exhibition:Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa
2017-09-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Taubman College Gallery
Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

Careers / Jobs:Baxter Product Demo & Virtual Reality
2017-09-20 10:00 - 16:00 | GG Brown Laboratory - GG Brown Galleria
M-HEAL is excited to welcome Baxter to campus on Wednesday, September 20 for a Product Demo & Virtual Reality experience. Baxter representatives will be networking (resumes accepted) with students all day in the GG Brown Galleria. Stop by to check out Baxter products, experience VR, and grab some Baxter swag! Light refreshments will be provided.

Meeting:Become an Arts Ambassador!
2017-09-20 10:00 - 15:00 | Student Activities Building
Want to share your love of the arts? Arts at Michigan is seeking students for our Arts Ambassadors program who live in a Residence Hall or living community (fraternity or sorority house, co-op, etc.) and are eager to share their passion for the arts with their peers! Arts Ambassadors meet regularly to learn about and experience the arts both on campus and in the community. Through these experiences and planning their own events Arts Ambassadors build student awareness of, and encourage student involvement in, the arts on campus and in Ann Arbor. Interested? Apply online today! Do you know a student who would be a great fit? More information: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/ambassadors/ Deadline extended: 9/28

Class / Instruction:Glimpses of Spirit in Story
2017-09-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Spirituality is the path of knowing ourselves and finding our place in the world. Stories are a window for insight and revelation!

In this study group for those 50 and above we will read and discuss titles like these looking for breakthroughs of insight and spirit: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (Section XXI); Hyemeyohsts Storm, Jumping Mouse; Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Chapter 7); Ray Bradbury, Bless Me, Father, For I Have Sinned; C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle; and selections suggested by class members.

Instructor Abby Wilson loves dancing with life’s hard questions and finding a place of healing and balance and will lead these 90 minutes sessions on Wednesdays from September 20 through October 25.

Careers / Jobs:IOE Career Fair
2017-09-20 10:00 - 15:00 | Duderstadt Center - connector
IISE is hosting the 5th annual IOE Career Fair in the Duderstadt Connector.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty
2017-09-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Exhibition:Legacy: Art across Generations
2017-09-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - G648 GalleryDAAS
Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

Exhibition:Moving Image: Portraiture
2017-09-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
2017-09-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

Meeting:Roundtable discussion on graduate student training
2017-09-20 11:00 - 12:00 | East Hall - 4464
Roundtable discussion on graduate student training with Hans Hofmann.

Fair / Festival:So Cool So Just Student Org Fair
2017-09-20 11:00 - 14:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Join us for the So Cool So Just Student Organization Fair!

Interested in getting involved in social change on or off campus? Come and visit the diag September 20th 11:00AM - 2PM to join a community of social change agents!

The So Cool So Just Student Organization Fair is sponsored by the School of Social Work, Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor, the Ginsburg Center, and CEAL as a space for students to learn, connect, and network with social justice organizations. Each year, more than thirty student organizations and departments gather to inform students about ways to get involved, share resources, and build community. Whether you’re interested in community-based action, educational justice through dialogue, service-learning, or policy, the So Cool So Just fair invites your participation.

**If you are a part of a student organization that would like to partake in the So Cool So Just Student Org Fair, please submit your application via the SCSJ Student Org Fair Application no later than September 11th.

For questions about the fair email scsjplanningteam@umich.edu.

Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-09-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.

Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Weiser Hall - 110
It’s easy to be confused by the rhetoric of the current political struggle in Poland. On the one hand, the ruling party presents itself as the most uncompromising opponent of communism and its legacy, but on the other hand, many liberal critics see a resurrection of the communist state. Although these two claims seem mutually exclusive, both are partly correct. The current government’s ostentatious Catholicism, as well as its glorification of the armed resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s would not suggest hidden communist sympathies. But just below the surface of this undeniable anticommunism, the current government has indeed perpetuated a strand of Polish politics with roots stretching back to the period before 1989. Recognizing this historical context not only helps us understand the current regime, but retrospectively casts a new light on the whole postwar era.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of several books including: "Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom" (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and "Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland" (Oxford UP, 2010), which won the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2012). His research has been supported by grants from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Fulbright Association, the United States Institute for Peace, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Porter-Szűcs received his doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He blogs about Polish politics, culture, society, and history at http://porterszucs.pl/.

Workshop / Seminar:Cultivating Well-being for Busy Graduate Students
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, 4th Floor
This workshop will focus on helping graduate students to examine the holistic dimensions of well-being, and identify specific tools to enhance the dimensions that may need more attention. We will discuss the positive elements of stress, along with ways to prevent and work through the negative elements of stress. Please join us for an opportunity to fine-tune your efforts to align personal well-being with your academic and professional success.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=460.

Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag | Worldsheet CFTs for Microstate Geometries
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Randall Laboratory - 3481
In string theory, black hole microstates at finite coupling give rise to horizon-scale structures that might solve the information paradox. Explicit constructions of these solutions are based on configurations of branes puffed up by the supertube effect. In an appropriate duality frame, we can construct the simplest supertube by adding momentum to a symmetric distribution of NS5 branes on their Coulomb branch. This suggests an exact worldsheet description of the supertube as a null gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model. Such exact treatment in worldsheet string theory also describes BPS and non-BPS three-charge microstate geometries. This construction reveals stringy structures that are invisibile in the supergravity approximation, and that play a crucial role in understanding the constituents that carry most of the entropy.

Workshop / Seminar:How to Publish with IEEE
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
Learn how to:
Select an appropriate IEEE periodical or conference
Organize your manuscript
Improve your chances of a successful peer review

The discussion will include:
Insights into what editors look for
Reasons why editors and reviewers reject papers
Recommendations for how to avoid common mistakes and ethical lapses that will prevent your manuscript from being accepted
Tools & resources to help authors including IEEE's AuthorLab, Publication Recommender, Graphics Checker, and Reference Preparation Assistance
Strategies for using IEEE Xplore effectively for a literature review

Sponsored by IEEE; UM Library; CoE Government Relations

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFYucVfmzyIFgEgKsLPWXBRCHhrKuB06_AxX4dv8cQEQ0zhg/viewform

Lecture / Discussion:Kunqu Singers and their Performance of Ci Songs
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
~Presented in Chinese with English translation~

Despite that ci songs from Song Dynasty of China (960-1279) are mostly enjoyed as poetry nowadays, they were sung as songs when the genre first emerged. The Song dynasty tradition of singing ci songs is now lost, but since mid-Qing, there is a tradition of avocational performers singing ci songs with kunqu or operatic vocal styles. This lecture introduces this performance tradition by clarifying differences between commercial performers (xigong) and non-commercial performers (qinggong) in the context of their artistic preferences, social functions, and repertories.

Professor Zhou Qin is a professor at Suzhou University, as well as the associate director of the Kunqu Research Center of China, the associate director of the Chinese Association of Kunqu and Gunqin Research, and a researcher at the Research Center of Jiangsu History and Culture. He was the principal coach for traditional singing and chanting practices for Peony Pavilion, the Young Lover’s Edition (2004). Currently, he hosts and teaches Kunqu yishu (The Art of Kunqu), a nation-wide online course in China. Devoted to promoting kunqu domestically and internationally, Professor Zhou has extensively toured China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, France, Japan, and the US. In 2004, the Suzhou municipal government awarded him a prize to acknowledge his efforts of preserving kunqu. In 2009, the Cultural Ministry honored him as a distinguished researcher on kunqu theory and history. Professor Zhou has published Cunxin shuwu qupu (Annotated Anthology of Kunqu Aria from the Cunxin Studio), Suzhou kunqu (Kunqu in Suzhou), Kunxi jicun (A Collection of Preserved Kunqu Scripts), and Fengying wunong (Five Kunqu Scripts).

Careers / Jobs:Roland Berger Atrium Hours
2017-09-20 12:00 - 16:00 | Davidson Winter Garden Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Please join us in the Atrium of the Ross building and get to know more about Roland Berger!

Other:Soros Fellowship Brown Bag Info Session
2017-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Mason Hall - 1330
What? The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans provides up to two years of graduate study in any field and in any graduate degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support (not to exceed $40,000), as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for two years.

Who Should be Interested? The fellowship defines “new Americans” as either (a) naturalized US citizens or (b) US citizens both of whose parents were born outside the US as non-citizens. The fellowship is extremely competitive. Applicants should be among the top incoming or current students in their graduate programs with excellent academic and co-curricular records of achievement.

Deadline? November 1st
More Information? Go to: http://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/us-scholarships/the-paul---daisy-soros-fellowships
RSVP in Web & Social Links

Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series- Hurricanes: What's Next?
2017-09-20 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season has produced incredibly destructive storms, and has raised many questions. What drives a hurricane? How accurate are hurricane models? How do authorities prepare for hurricanes and, when destructive events like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma happen, how do we respond? Is this hurricane season a fluke, or should we start planning for more/similar storms? In this Teach-Out, we will explore the science of hurricanes, hurricane forecasting and monitoring, and with what confidence can we attribute these storms to a warming ocean.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Exhibition:The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
2017-09-20 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
On view from September 8-October 14, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor), The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is a group exhibition including image and video work by Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Shelagh Keeley, and Zineb Sedira. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Co-curated by Gaëtane Verna, Director of The Power Plant, and Mark Sealy, The Unfinished Conversation is grounded in the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who devoted his life to studying the interweaving threads of culture, power, politics, and history.

Taking Hall’s essay Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse as a point of departure, viewers will be invited to think about how meaning is constructed; how it is systematically distorted by audience reception; and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives. Hall’s interdisciplinary approach drew on literary theory, linguistics, and cultural anthropology in order to analyse and articulate the relationship between history, culture, popular media, cold war politics, gender, and ethnicity.

By presenting the work of artists who bring into play time, memory, and archives so as to construct new readings of the past, the exhibition will lay emphasis on the idea that the “visual” is an assimilatory process continuously at work in the construction of cultural, political, personal, and national identities.

Co-curators Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy state that it is their curatorial intention to build a multiple moving/still/audio archive, an image map, a visual vehicle that will ferry the audience across the choppy waters of memory, images, and politics to an undeterminable, obscure, and un-chartable destination, where people often meet with a fatal end. The exhibition aims to take viewers on a journey in time, to bring them to encounter images, which act as both objects of art and ideas in flux, circulating in and out of the archive through the corridors of cultural re-construction.

This image map will be drawn by the work of Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Shelagh Keeley and Zineb Sedira, four artists whose practice is devoted primarily to commenting on recent socio-political events and situations and relating them to the not so distant past in order to help us understand the world we live in.

By stimulating our personal and collective memory, these works will show us how history agitates and causes anxiety in our personal lives and in the political realm as they will reveal the fact that national identity is not an essence or a state of being, but a “becoming,” a process whereby subjectivities are formed in the interstices between such binary oppositions as us/them, black/white, or native/foreigner, and that it is in those in-between spaces that marginalized people are the agents and subjects of many possible futures, imagined or real.

The thread that connects all these art works is the artist’s involvement with the significant social issues confronting humanity today and their profound desire to push formal boundaries in order to tackle them.

The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto in partnership with Autograph ABP, London. The exhibition is co-curated by Gaëtane Verna, Director, The Power Plant and Mark Sealy, Director, Autograph ABP.

Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Exhibition:Vital Signs for a New America
2017-09-20 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
On view from September 8-October 14, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor), Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner, Sheryl Oring, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner, Oring, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories; listening and re-learning; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.

Active public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring; and a tactile, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out, listen, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.

Dylan Miner: Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore
Saturdays, September 9-October 14, 1-3 pm

Dylan Miner, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University, is an artist, activist, and scholar. Miner identifies as a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis), the Ojibwe designation for a Native male of mixed ancestry. While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers, elders shared the idea that “we don’t visit as much as we used to” due to the limitations of urbanizations, wage labor, and settler colonialism to name a few. In response, Miner was inspired to explore the methodology of visiting with an art gallery or museum context. Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore is a creative action where the public is invited to share tea and conversation with the artist, creating new friendships and maintaining social relationships within a specific time and place.

Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say
Friday, September 8, 5-6.30 pm and 7-8 pm (two engagements)
Fridays, September 15-October 13, 5-7 pm

Nationally renowned artist Sheryl Oring’s belief in the value of free expression guaranteed by the American constitution propelled her to initiate I Wish to Say (2004-ongoing), a public platform that invites people to voice their concerns about the state-of-affairs in the country to the President of America. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office — complete with a manual typewriter — and invites viewers to dictate postcards to the President of the United States, prompting with a simple phrase: “Do you have a message for the president?” Over the last decade, Oring has toured this project across the country and more than 3,000 postcards have been mailed to the White House. Taking place for the first time in Michigan, Oring will be working with students and volunteers at the Stamps Gallery and in the city of Ann Arbor to spark dialogues not just among artists and academics but also among the diverse public of Ann Arbor on their notes to the President.

The Hinterlands: The Radicalization Process Papers
Tuesday, October 3, 6-7.30pm: History is a Living Weapon (performance)

The Hinterlands delve into the past to remember and re-learn the cultural memories and collective histories of Detroit and Ann Arbor. A collection of boxes is discovered in the basement of a house on the border of Detroit and Hamtramck. In them, a rich personal archive of publication clippings, which appear to chronicle radical U.S. histories of the 60s and 70s. Using the archive as a performative platform, the artists invite audiences to engage with the materials contained in the boxes that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, real and imagined. The ephemera and memorabilia in the The Radicalization Process Papers takes audiences on a journey that navigates layers of historical accounts, art, politics, and cultural artifacts and asks audiences to examine the assumptions of freedom and democracy in popular American culture. Created and compiled by The Hinterlands in collaboration with historian and poet Casey Rocheteau and designer Ben Gaydos.

Meeting:Become an Arts Ambassador!
2017-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location

Careers / Jobs:Finance Track: Expo Resume Review
2017-09-20 13:00 - 16:00 | University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
PLEASE NOTE: Selecting "Join Event" does not schedule a consultation appoint. Please follow the directions below.

Meet with the Finance Career Track manager for a 1-1 Resume Review to prepare for the upcoming Consulting and Finance Career Expo.

To schedule an appointment, go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/appointments/new
--Select One-on-One Consultations
--Under Appointment Type, select One-on-One Consultations
--Under Staff Preference, select "Finance Track: Resume Review"

Note: PLEASE SIGN UP ONLY IF YOU ARE 100% COMMITTED TO HONOR YOUR APPOINTMENT. Your name will be shared with the representative prior to their visit. Students canceling less than one business day prior to the appointment and students who fail to show up for the appointment will be blocked from further use of Handshake and other University Career Center services accordingto our policies (https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/handshake-policy-statement).

Class / Instruction:German Lab
2017-09-20 13:00 - 16:00 | North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500)
German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.

The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility).
Go to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231), if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.
For more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html

Careers / Jobs:Kraft Heinz Coffee Chat
2017-09-20 13:00 - 17:00 | Room 2105A Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109,USA
Come network with Kraft Heinz representatives in a casual setting and learn more about our Manufacturing Intern and Trainee Programs

Class / Instruction:On Civil Disobedience
2017-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
What is the role of civil disobedience in a democracy? Can non-cooperation be a powerful means of social change? Under what conditions is it acceptable for a
minority to passively resist a law passed by the majority? What is the role of individual conscience when it conflicts with the law? When is breaking the law the right thing to do?

Join us to read classic defenses of civil disobedience by Socrates, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, and others that will guide our exploration of a citizen’s moral relationship to the law.

Instructors Larry Berlin and John Rowntree will lead this two hour study group for those 50 and above on Tuesdays from September 20 through November 8.

Careers / Jobs:Consulting Track: Case Interview Prep
2017-09-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Do you need to practice for case study interviews?
Are you looking for practice partners?

Join us for Consulting case study practice sessions. This hands-on session is designed to connect you with other students preparing for case interviews. Practice cases and get insights fromyour peers.

Note: No actual case experience is necessary. Make sure though, to familiarize yourself with case interview concepts visit the career sections of consulting firm websites.

Because this is an interactiveworkshop, plan to arrive on time (2pm) and stay for the full session (3:30pm)

SPACE IS LIMITED. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ADMITTED ON A FIRST COME,FIRST SERVE BASIS.

Class / Instruction:Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors
2017-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - 6501
Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

Exhibition:Enter the As I See It Photography Competition!
2017-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Michigan Union
Arts at Michigan is seeking student photos for our Fall 2017 As I See It Photo Competition! The theme for this round is Black and White Photography. Submit up to two black and white photos you've taken and you could win great prizes, like an iPod Touch! Deadline to submit: September 21 at 10pm

Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde
2017-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 | North Quad - Language Resource Center
Schokoladenstunde will take place twice per week: Tuesdays between 5-6 p.m. with Mary Gell, and Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m. with Silvia Grzeskowiak, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad. The group will meet in the seating area between the two computer classrooms.

As the name promises, chocolate will be available. Silvia and Mary will be bringing games to the Schokoladenstunde. The hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu). Students at all levels are welcome.

Exhibition:Exhibition Presentation and Opening: The Future Needs..Something Blue
2017-09-20 15:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Could anyone have foreseen the technical, social, and conceptual issues that have confronted the University of Michigan since its founding 200 years ago, or the challenges it has faced in the last 100, 50, or even five years? In the marshaling of knowledge and expertise, the greatest achievement of the University lies not in its continuity, but in its ability to address the unforeseen. Drawing on the student work from the Taubman College Architecture Program, “The Future Needs…Something Blue” addresses an idea of the future that lies not in the answers to questions we now know, but in possibilities we are only now beginning to imagine. Sited at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Liberty Research Annex, the display is simultaneously shop window, gallery, and salon. Organized around a series of emergent themes it is an interactional space in which to view (in perspective, parallax, parallel, and contrast) the multiple points of view that constitute the future.
“The Future Needs…Something Blue” is curated by Associate Professor of Practice Julia McMorrough and Associate Professor John McMorrough of studioAPT (Architecture Practice Theory).
On Tuesday, September 19 at 6:00pm there will be an opening reception at the Liberty Research Annex (305 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor). Exhibition on view September 20 - October 29.

Careers / Jobs:Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking for and How to Get Them
2017-09-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Room 1544 CC Little 1100 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
This presentation is for the College of Pharmacy Program

Give ‘Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking Forand How to Get them Employers are looking for recent graduates with these7 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:Ross 1st Years: Preparing Your Resume for Fair Season
2017-09-20 15:00 - 16:00 | R2240 Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
If you are in Handshake, Click "Join event" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/87398

The Consulting/Finance Fair and the Fall Career Expo are right around the corner, and bringing a resume to the fairs is a must. Did you know some recruiters (people paid to hire talented folks like you) look at resumes for only 6 seconds? How do you make yours stand out? Join the University Career Center to find out.

You should come if you…
- Kinda freak out whenstarting or editing your resume
- Did a Google search on resumes and gotall the feels
- Want to improve the basics of your resume

What you’ll do...
- See the value of a first impression by being a recruiter and evaluating some sample resumes
- Learn one way to write an awesome bullet-point and actually write one (or a few!)
- Share your resume with a peer to get their perspective and opinions -- we’re all friends here

Note: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number ofU-M students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com, locate the event, and then click the 'Join Event’ button.

Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar: Nanosecond Pulsed Power-Generated Transient Plasma for Energy and Environmental Applications
2017-09-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1005 EECS
The use of short (5-50 ns), high voltage unipolar pulses for plasma initiation in atmospheric and higher pressure environments will be reviewed for applications including ignition, combustion, and emissions remediation, and, if time allows, wine. These plasmas are transient – the plasma is generated in times short compared to the equilibration of the plasma electron energy distribution. Transient plasmas substantially reduce ignition delay under a variety of engine and fuel/air conditions, show promise for improving engine efficiency, and efficiently reduce emissions from various sources. Results for studies of plasma enhancement of internal combustion and pulse detonation engines will be reviewed. Emissions remediation (e.g., NOx, SOx, and particulate reduction) have been obtained with ns plasmas, and will also be reviewed. Transient plasmas for these applications typically require only small pulse energy (10 mJ to < 1 J) which significantly and beneficially affects energy efficiency. However, they require fast rising rates (≤ns). The pulsed power technology used to generate these plasmas is therefore important and that technology will be reviewed.

Lecture / Discussion:A Taste of the Nation: Regional Cuisines in the New Deal Era
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched writers to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten across the United States.
Dr. Camille Bégin shapes a cultural and sensory history of New Deal-era eating from the FWP archives, describing in mouth-watering detail how Americans tasted their food. Bégin explores how likes and dislikes, cravings and disgust operated within local sensory economies that she culls from the FWP's vivid descriptions, visual cues, culinary expectations, recipes and accounts of restaurant meals. She also illustrates how nostalgia, prescriptive gender ideals, and racial stereotypes shaped how the FWP was able to frame regional food cultures as "American."

Lecture / Discussion:ASP Lecture | Armenian Riddles: Learning How to Read with Medieval Poetry
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Weiser Hall - Room 110
The 12th century catholicos Nerses Shnorhali faced a crisis: how would he address his flock, seemingly scattered to the ends of the earth, in an accessible and enticing language? And how would he combat popular forms of entertainment, such as the "useless" songs and poetry that circulated in medieval Cilicia, that had no didactic value at a time when he felt Christianity under siege from within and without?

This talk will examine the large body of riddles that Shnorhali composed in Middle Armenian, which had only recently developed as a literary or poetic language. Although Shnorhali's poetic compositions in Classical Armenian depict an absolute opposition to the Islamicate world, his riddles, themselves riddled with Arabic and Persian loan words, tell a more nuanced story. This story would have unfolded at wedding feasts and in wine taverns: boisterous affairs where riddle-reciters playfully teased, corrected, offered hints, and guided their audience to seize upon a correct reading of ambiguous, versified language. Such performances served as popular exercises in hermeneutics, teaching an audience to extract hidden correspondences in the Book of the World. These riddles stand at the threshold of a broader sea-change in Armenian letters: a new poetics, and a covert hermeneutics, that would spread everywhere Armenians lived.

Michael Pifer’s research and writing focus on the connective tissues that run through Armenian, Persian, and Turkish literary cultures, particularly in medieval Anatolia, but also beyond. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in 2014, which awarded him the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. His current book project, tentatively titled "Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia, 1250-1350," seeks to uncover shared cultures of poetic adaptation across Christian and Muslim communities in the pre-modern Mediterranean, as well as to reexamine the manner in which we approach literary history today. This project was supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2016-17.

Photo: Nerses Shnorhali instructing his student. Matenadaran, Yerevan, Ms. 7046.

Social / Informal Gathering:Celebrate Bisexuality Day - Color Me Bi
2017-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
Come celebrate the richness and diversity of bi/pan/fluid communities with tie-dye, snacks, and good company at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Wednesday, September 20th from 4pm to 6pm. One free white t-shirt will be provided to the first twenty (20) participants.

To register for the event and guarantee a free t-shirt, please go to this link: https://tinyurl.com/yapubyhy

Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Numerical Methods for the Many-Electron Problem
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 340
Quantum systems with many strongly correlated degrees of freedom are fundamentally different from systems with only a few particles. This is evident in many condensed matter systems, where the interplay of many degrees of freedom leads to the emergence of theoretically interesting and practically useful quantum phases such as superconductivity, charge order, and magnetism. Because of the absence of small parameters and the large number of degrees of freedom, understanding these phases with traditional tools of many-body theory has proven to be challenging. This talk will show how numerical methods can be used to simulate strongly correlated quantum systems and explore the connections to simple analytical theories and experiment. In particular, we will show quantitative simulations for lattice model systems and their comparison to ultracold atomic gas experiment, and an analysis of the interplay between superconductivity and the so-called pseudogap phase in high-temperature superconducting materials.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: Christian Doyle & Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | 2415 Walgreen Charles R Jr Drama Center 1226 Murfin Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Join EXCEL for a discussion on independent film production with Christian Doyle & Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Targeted Undersmoothing
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 5670 (Eldersveld Room)
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a post-model selection inference procedure, called targeted undersmoothing, designed to construct uniformly valid confidence sets for functionals of sparse high-dimensional models, including dense functionals that may depend on many or all elements of the high-dimensional parameter vector. The confidence sets are based on an initially selected model and two additional models which enlarge the initial model. We apply the procedure in two empirical examples: estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in a job training program and estimating profitability from an estimated mailing strategy in a marketing campaign. We also illustrate the procedure’s performance through simulation experiments.

BIO: Christian B. Hansen studies applied and theoretical econometrics, the uses of high-dimensional statistical methods in economic applications, estimation of panel data models, quantile regression, and weak instruments. In 2008, Hansen was named a Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, and he was named the Wallace W. Booth professorship in 2014. Hansen's recent research has focused on the uses of high-dimensional data and methods in economics applications. The papers “Sparse Models and Methods for Optimal Instruments with an Application to Eminent Domain” with A. Belloni, D. Chen, and V. Chernzhukov (Econometrica, 2012) and “Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection amongst High-Dimensional Controls” with A. Belloni and V. Chernozhukov (Review of Economic Studies, 2014) present approaches to estimating structural or treatment effects from economic data in canonical instrumental variables and treatment effects models. These papers are extended in “Valid Post-Selection and Post-Regularization Inference: An Elementary, General Approach” with V. Chernozhukov and M. Spindler (Annual Review of Economics, 2015) and the forthcoming papers “Inference in High Dimensional Panel Models with an Application to Gun Control” with A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov, and D. Kozbur (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics) and “Program Evaluation with High-Dimensional Data” with A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov, and I. Fernández-Val (Econometrica).

Hansen has published articles regarding identification and estimation in panel data models, inference with data that may be spatially and temporally dependent, quantile regression, and instrumental variables models with weak or many instruments. His published work has appeared in several journals including Econometrica, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2000. In 2004, he received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a graduate research fellow of the National Science Foundation. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2004.

Workshop / Seminar:Macroeconomics: Implications of Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium
2017-09-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract:
The percentage of people who were born near where they live, a proxy for people's local ties, varies greatly across the United States. In areas with higher levels of these local ties, migration is less responsive to changes in local labor demand. Across a wide class of models of spatial equilibrium, lower migration elasticities make subsidies to local areas more efficient, since they change fewer people's locations. These two facts suggest that subsidies to areas with a declining populations are more efficient than subsidies to other areas. A parametric model illustrates how local ties develop in areas with declining populations, and provides a mechanism that reallocates people's local ties to reflect changing economic geography. Areas with declining population house mostly people who were born locally, since these people are willing to endure the lower wages, lower amenities, and higher rents that go along with a declining population. People outside are reluctant to move in after small changes in wages, since real wages are well below national averages. The process of reallocating local ties takes several generations, depending on the size of a shock.

Link to the paper:
http://mikezabek.com/pdf/LocalTies.pdf

We hope to see you there!

Lecture / Discussion:PreLaw Reading Group
2017-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Mason Hall - 1330
Our group will be reading and discussing a selection of short works related to civil rights in the United States. Specifically, we will be reading Volume 3 of the graphic novel March by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. We will also be examining short synopsis of 2 related Supreme Court cases. All those interested in reflecting on the Civil Rights Movement and social justice advocacy, in general, are welcome to attend. This reading group is organized in anticipation of Congressman Lewis' visit. More details about his visit and related events happening on campus can be found here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward/

Registration for this event is required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/4660

Lecture / Discussion:RESCHEDULED: Marching Forward | Meet-Ups with MARCH Illustrator Nate Powell
2017-09-20 16:00 - 20:15 | Off Campus Location
These events have been rescheduled.

These meet-ups with Nate Powell will be rescheduled to November 27 and November 28 to coincide with the rescheduled lecture by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps/detail/john-lewis).

Throughout the day on September 20, 2017, there will be multiple opportunities to meet March illustrator Nate Powell. March powerfully recounts Congressman John Lewis’s experiences throughout the Civil Rights Movement and has won many awards, including the National Book Award. Opportunities include:

Q&A WITH NATE POWELL: This is an exclusive event for all contestants in the social justice comics contest. (4-5:30pm, Wednesday, September 20, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 South 5th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI)

COMICS AS A SOCIAL JUSTICE MEDIUM: This talk by Nate Powell is free and open to the public. (5:30-7pm, Wednesday, September 20, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 South 5th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI)

MARCH BOOK-SIGNING: All are welcome to come have their copy of MARCH signed by Nate Powell! (7:15-8:15pm, Wednesday, September 20, Vault of Midnight, 219 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI)

Nate Powell began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes You Don't Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence Of Our Friends, The Year Of The Beasts, and Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero. Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. His work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, two Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, two Harvey Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN. His books have been placed on school curriculum in over 40 states. His animated illustrations in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Selma: The Bridge To The Ballot documentary will reach roughly one million students in 50,000 schools across the nation.

To learn more and get involved, please visit the “Marching Forward” website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward/

Workshop / Seminar:The Rise and Fall of Meter Reading Group
2017-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Angell Hall - 3241 (the room behind 3222)
Come join us for a discussion of Meredith Martin's The Rise and Fall of Meter!

Lecture / Discussion:Guest Master Class: Jeremy Epp, timpani
2017-09-20 16:45 | Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Jeremy Epp was appointed principal timpanist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2014 after holding the same position with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for four seasons. Epp has made appearances with several North American orchestras as guest principal timpanist, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. As a percussionist, he has performed, recorded, and toured with numerous other ensembles throughout the United States and Canada. Presented with support from the Charles Owen Memorial Guest Artist Fund.

Workshop / Seminar:Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia Kickoff
2017-09-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms
This is the kickoff for a series of events this year focused on the teaching aspect of an academic career hosted by the American Society for Engineering Education's student chapter. The goal of the series is to bring together graduate students who are interested in faculty positions and engineering education.

The kickoff will include a presentation on resources for graduate students interested in developing their teaching skills, along with a dinner.

RSVP is required at https://goo.gl/forms/C134aTyyGxUKvtQ92

Presentation:Installation of Dr. Christopher Friese as the Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
2017-09-20 17:00 - 18:00 | School of Nursing - 2250
Please join us as UMSN Professor Christopher Friese is installed as the inaugural Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing. Reception to follow. Please RSVP to RSVP-UMSN@umich.edu.

Christopher Friese’s program of research is focused on understanding and improving healthcare delivery in high-risk settings, with an expertise in cancer care including measuring and improving the care received by patients. In addition, he recently completed a one-year health policy Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship in Washington, D.C.

Lecture / Discussion:Taking Computing+Data Wide Across the Curriculum: The Illinois CS+X Degree Programs
2017-09-20 17:00 - 18:00 | BBB - 1670
Computer Science has become the most popular major and largest teaching unit on many campuses. This is focusing welcome attention on CS curriculum design: what do we teach, and to whom. The first response to “rising-tide” demand is to go “deep”: more majors, courses, more classroom seats, etc. I will argue this is necessary, but not sufficient. Many students need a solid base of computing+data to address challenges in social science, humanities, policy, business, and the like. But they do not aspire to be computer (or even data) scientists. We need a systematic middle way to take CS “wide” into these diverse disciplines. The University of Illinois CS+X program is a portfolio of novel B.S. degrees, launched in 2014, architected as (Half-CS + Half-X), delivered as a degree in the Dept. of X. Several degrees are now on offer, ranging from CS+Anthropology to CS+Astronomy. The program has surprising traction – for example, one quarter of our Astronomy Dept. is now CS+X, and a dozen more +X degrees are in various stages of design/approval. I’ll talk about how we built the Illinois CS+X program, and where it’s going next. I’ll also briefly summarize a related initiative, the Illinois CS Data Science MS degree, now being delivered on the Coursera MOOC platform.

Lecture / Discussion:Health Professionals Talk Stigma and Psychological Health
2017-09-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Michigan League - Hussey Room
Brought to you by American Pharmacist Association-Academy of Student Pharmacist APhA-ASP.

This panel is to inform students about how health professionals educate their patients and community about stigmas associated with psychological health, and the role that students can play in changing the stigma in the future. For more information about the event, contact sahagian@umich.edu or co-chair Pooja Kumar (kumarpoo@umich.edu).

Careers / Jobs:Ready, Set, Intern! for First-Year Students
2017-09-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Kuenzel Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
As a first-year student, figuring out what you need to do to get an internship or understanding what interests you have is hard -- 100 emoji. It’s difficult to know what employers look for or how might yourinterests equal a job or a major.

No worries, we designed an experience just for you.

During this 50-minute workshop, we hope to...
- Walk you through what employers look for in interns
- Help you set goals toprepare yourself to be a GREAT candidate
- Bullet point three, what’sup!?
- Debunk major and career connection
- Guide you on how to use ouroffice to gain experience

You should come if you…
- Are a first-year student!
- Want to know what experiences employers look for and how to get it.
- Have been asked at least 50 times already, “what’s your major?”
- Aren’t totally sure on what the “Career Center” does.

*RSVP is required for this program. Click "Join Event" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/68690

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/68690

Careers / Jobs:Citi HR Master's and Undergraduate Presentation
2017-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 | R1230 Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Information session for current undergraduate and graduate students for HR Program full time and summer opportunities.

Rally / Mass Meeting:Mass Meeting
2017-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Sophia B Jones Room: Michigan Union
Come join us at our Mass meeting where we will introduce our current Board and talk about our mission, upcoming events, and how you can get involved!

Meeting:Sports Med Club Mass Meeting
2017-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Bickner Auditorium (3735 CCRB) - entrance on Geddes and Washtenaw
Come to our first mass meeting of the year! Get to know about our club and our goals for the school year. We want to hear what YOU are interested in getting involved with in regards to volunteering, shadowing, speakers, and philanthropy. There will be free pizza! Be sure to sign up on our Google sheet that was sent in our email. If you're not currently on our listserv, email one of our board members and we will make sure you are added. Can't wait to see you there!

Other:Weekly Meeting
2017-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Welker Room in the Union
Join us for our weekly meeting to hang out and knit or crochet! We'll be meeting in the Welker Room in the Michigan Union!

Rally / Mass Meeting:First Meeting
2017-09-20 19:10 - 20:10 | Michigan League
Welcome! Our first meeting for Fall 2017 will be a welcome/introduction to the profession followed by a PA Panel where students will be able to listen and ask questions about the experiences and current PAs and PA students! This is a great way to meet your current club members and learn more about what exactly a PA is :) Meeting info: Wednesday 9/20 7pm @ Michigan League (Henderson Room 3rd Floor)

Presentation:Birds of India
2017-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Join Washtenaw Audubon society member Amurthur Ramamurthy for a look at some of India’s 1,266 bird species, among the most interesting and colorful birds on the planet. Dr. Ramamurthy is a native of India and an avid birder and photographer. Presenter: Washtenaw Audubon Society. Free.

Careers / Jobs:Capital One Demos- Innovation, Technology and Future of Banking Presented by Product Management & Analytics
2017-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Ross School of Business, B1580
Capital One Demos- Innovation, Technology and Future of Banking
Presented by Product Management & Analytics

Capital One is on a mission to build something different. Join us for Zingerman's, raffle prizes and the chance to get an in-person look at products we've built to reimagine banking.

Come learn how we're:
-Helping Customers Succeed- Reimagining and redesigning monthly credit card statements
-Building a No Risk Customer Experience- Creating an in the moment experience for customers to be pre-qualified for credit cards

Pre-Register for the event at goo.gl/QtuPFs

Direct recruiting questions to pooja.amin@capitalone.com

Careers / Jobs:UM Rugby: Articulating Transferable Skills in Preparation for the Job Search and Career Fairs
2017-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 | 606 E Hoover Ave, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States
This is for the UM Rugby Team only

The University Career Center will provide a hands-on program that is aimed to help the U of M Rugby team build a strong professional narrative to prepare for the job searchand for career fairs. This workshop will focus on articulating transferable skills through resumes, elevator pitches, and interviews.

Note: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com, locate the event, and then click the 'Join Event’ button.

Performance:Faculty Recital: Joseph Gascho, harpsichord and Aaron Berofsky, violin
2017-09-20 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
SMTD Professors Gascho and Berofsky perform alongside the ensemble Harmonious Blacksmith, featuring Kathie Stewart, traverso and Jaap ter Linden, viola da gamba and cello. Chamber works by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, Rameau, and Morel.

Rally / Mass Meeting:Michigan Snowboard Club Mass Meeting
2017-09-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Palmer Commons
Whether you ski, board, or have never tried either, there is no reason not to join the best club on campus. We organize trips both far and near as well as many parties and other opportunities to meet fellow members. Come see what we're all about at our mass meeting!

Film Screening:Nights at the Museum | Student Films and Digital Art
2017-09-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Museum of Art - Forum Court
UMMA will once again illuminate its facade with eight days of artwork, performances, and video during Nights At the Museum this September.

UMMA’s exterior media art initiative is free and open to the public, and will run September 15-22 from early evening to dawn along its South State Street-side facade, on the west side of the Maxine and Stuart Frankel and the Frankel Family Wing.

Join us for an evening featuring creative video work by U-M Screen Arts and Culture students and Neutral Zone teens.

UMMA encourages viewers to bring blankets and chairs to enjoy the performances on the lawn, and to send feedback using the #ummanights hashtag on social media sites.

Nights at the Museum is presented in partnership with the University Musical Society, the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office, School of Music, Theatre & Dance and Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the Neutral Zone.

Get the full schedule at umma.umich.edu/nights!

Performance:Penny and Sparrow's Wendingo Tour
2017-09-20 20:00 | Off Campus Location
New folk duo songwriting with a musical-theater streak

Meeting:SLE Board Meeting
2017-09-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Oxford Housing - Noble Lounge
Join the SLE Board! Gain leadership experience, plan social events, service learning activities, sustainability projects, and educational workshops.
