Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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

Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network
2017-09-26 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

Meeting:M-agination Films - Crew Call
2017-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Michigan Union
Come learn about what projects M-agination Films will be producing this semester and sign up to work on whatever project(s) that you are interested in. Roles include: directors, boom (sound) operators, directors of photography, camera operators, art directors, makeup, composers, editors, and more. Not sure what you want to do? Sign up as a PA (Production Assistant)!About the organization: M-agination Films is a student-run film production group at the University of Michigan. In production, students are responsible for writing, directing, camera work, editing, and everything in between. We select and projects from student submissions each semester and screen them at the Michigan Theater in April.

Other:Recruiting New Members for Fall 2017!
2017-09-26 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

Workshop / Seminar:2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop
2017-09-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - The Johnson Rooms
NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-09-26 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:Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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

Workshop / Seminar:News and the Populist Movement
2017-09-26 08:30 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
We will start with a visit to the UM’s Wallace House, home of the 44 year old Knight-Wallace Fellowship program for mid-career journalists.
Mr. John Shields, Commissioning Editor of “Today” at BBC Radio 4 (London, England), a 2017-18 Fellow, will discuss his work on addressing and mitigating the loss of public trust in broadcast media. Discussion, questions and answers will follow.

OLLI members will travel to Detroit for lunch at the newly re-opened Historic Caucus Club, then visit the Free Press Building. At the Free Press, we will have the special opportunity to observe their daily editorial meeting where decisions are made. There will be a time for Q & A and a tour of a few select areas in the building.

This will be followed by a narrated bus tour - we’ll visit and hear about the area of the Tuxedo Project, a non-profit effort by Free Press editor Stephen Henderson and Marygrove College to repurpose his childhood home into a literacy center.

Pre-registration Required. Please see our Web Site for contact information and deadlines.
The actual date of the trip is Friday, November 10, 2017.
Refund Policy: No cancellations after October 10.

Exhibition:Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context
2017-09-26 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

Conference / Symposium:Arts & Health Symposium
2017-09-26 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is teaming up with the Arts and Health Michigan Committee (AHMC), made up of representatives from Beaumont Health, Monte Nagler Fine Art, and the Gifts of Art Program of Michigan Medicine, to showcase the power of art and creativity in human wellness during the second annual Arts & Health Symposium. CEUs and CMEs are available, and the event is also open to the public. Tickets, which include lunch, are $35, and $15 for students. For more information, visit www.dia.org. To purchase tickets, call 313.833.4005 or visit tickets.dia.org.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-26 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.

Careers / Jobs:Defense Intelligence Agency Company Day
2017-09-26 09:00 - 14:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Defense Intelligence Agency on Tuesday, September 26, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Consider an internship or career with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). DIA will be on campus to meet you, answer your questions, and show you how to apply.

Careers / Jobs:Burns & McDonnell Company Day
2017-09-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Burns & McDonnell on Tuesday, September 26, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Burns & McDonnell will be accepting resumes and meeting with students on Tuesday, September 26th. Burns & Mac is expanding its presence in the upper mid-west with our rapidly expanding downtown Chicago office and our new Detroit location. This is a great opportunity to learn more about Burns & Mac, the incredible opportunities that are available and to chat with engineers from the company about the work we do. Burns & Mac is actively seeking Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Structural engineers for full-time and internship opportunities.

At Burns & McDonnell, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference every day while fulfilling your personal and professional ambitions. Our entrepreneurial environment lets you guide your destiny and shape the path your career travels from your first day. You will be a part of a culture where people build each other up. And with more than 350 service specialties, your career and development options are abundant.

We are proud to rank among FORTUNE magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Our culture of 100 percent employee ownership plays a major role in supporting that outcome. Each individual shares in the ownership of the firm, so we bring the commitment of an owner to our projects. Clients appreciate that and have rewarded us with a 90 percent repeat business rate and decades-long partnerships.

We look forward to meeting you!

Burns & McDonnell is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

Careers / Jobs:Consulting/Finance Expo: Bain
2017-09-26 10:00 - 10:50 | Pendleton Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Join Bain as they discuss a career in consulting.

A University Career Center Consulting and Finance Career Expo event!

Online registration is now CLOSED.

Seating will be available on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis until seats are full.

Please arrive 10 minutes early if you are interested in attending this event.

Dresscode is Business Casual.

Class / Instruction:Dealing with Alternate Universes and Views of Reality in Politics
2017-09-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Current mass media provides us with the picture of political adversaries living in alternate universes with different views of reality. From social media to cable TV, we find ourselves in information silos of our own construction, getting news and views from like-minded sources. This can make it hard for us to grapple with the complexities of the political world we live in today.

This study group is for those 50 and over and will meet for 90 minutes on Tuesdays from September 26 through November 7 (except for October 10). Participants will bring their values and beliefs to facilitate their understanding of alternative political realities and share each other’s critical insights, to help them become more informed citizen.

Instructor Tom Murray has a Ph.D. in Communications from U-M, is Emeritus Professor of Communication at EMU.

Careers / Jobs:Harley Davidson Company Day
2017-09-26 10:00 - 15:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for Harley Davidson on Tuesday, September 26, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector.

Careers / Jobs:2017 Consulting & Finance Career Expo - 2017 Consulting & Finance Career Expo
2017-09-26 11:00 - 14:00 | 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
The University Career Center is excited to introduce the first Consulting & Finance Career ExpoRegistration for Expo on September 26 is on-site. Be sure to bring you UMich IDWhat to Expect at Expo
Expo includes internship and/or full-time opportunities. 30 different organizations coming to see you!Expo is open to all students from all schools/colleges. Most organizations are interested in all
majors. Expo is a first step. You won’t leave Expo with a job/internship. You will have a plan for next steps for eachorganization:Check Handshake for on-campus
interview dates and deadlines with organizations returning to campus later in the semesterAsk about next steps and stay connected with organizations who are not returning to campusRegistrationRegistration is on-site the day of the
event. Bring your student ID

Non UM-Ann Arbor students
This event targets UM-Ann Arbor students, however, non UM-Ann Arbor students
may attend. There is a $20 registration fee per day. (cash only)
Employer WorkshopsCheckout the Expo workshops presented by these great organizations. Note: Pre-registration is required and to keep the workshops accessible to all students please register for no more than 2 workshopsSeptember 25McKinseyJP MorganGoldman Sachs (for Master's and PhDs)Morgan StanleyCiti Bank September 26BainGoldman Sachs

Expo AppDownload the Expo app (Career Fair Plus) and stay up-to-date on all things Expo:-Use the filters to search by class level, organizations interested in all majors, visa status and more... -Star your favorites and
take notes on specific organizations-Use the interactive map to easily find your favoritesWhat to WearExpodress is business professional or
business casual. This means:Masculine: dress slacks and shirt/tie or a business suitFeminine: dress slacks/skirt and blouse or business suit

Need help building your professional
dress closet? Plan to visit the University Career Center Clothes Closet What to BringCopies of your resume…plus a few extra for organizations you weren’t planning to meet

A folder for carrying your resumes and any informational materials from organizations.No need for a cover letter

Please leave backpacks athome. With so many employers we don’t have space
for a student lounge

Questions?Give us a call/email...we're happy to chat with you!

NoteAs you consider Handshake postings and events: Job, internship, and event postings are included due to their potential interest to students. Inclusion of aposting does not imply school endorsement of the particular program, opportunity or school/employer described.

Fair / Festival:B1G Voting Challenge Kickoff
2017-09-26 11:00 - 15:00 | Diag - Central Campus
Be a champion for democracy!

Join this non-partisan celebration for the kickoff of the B1G Voting Challenge. CSG will host entertainment, food, and ways to be involved. Ginsberg Center and the Michigan Secretary of State will be on hand to register students to vote.

If you will be a new Michigan voter, register in person here with the Secretary of State, and you'll be eligible to vote by absentee ballot in the next election.

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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.

Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-09-26 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Effect of Social Sub-Networks on Energy Consumption in Commercial Buildings – An Agent Based Modeling Approach
2017-09-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Weiser Hall - 747
Despite significant technological advances in energy systems, commercial buildings continue to use more than 19% of total energy produced in the United States with adverse environmental and human health effects. Occupants’ energy use behavior is often neglected as a critical factor to achieve significant energy conservation in commercial buildings. This research investigates the occupant energy behavior challenge through data analysis and modeling. An agent based model is developed to simulate the complex social structures formed by independent entities with different organizational structures within a building. This model provides a realistic representation of social sub-networks in commercial buildings. It also simulates interactions between occupants resulting from interventions using the bounded confidence, relative agreement and diffusion theories from social sciences. Results from applying this model to a typical commercial buildings indicate significant differences in the results of an intervention between the existing single network modeling approach and multi sub-network approach, proving the latter to be more representative of occupant interactions in commercial buildings. These results also highlight the effect of extreme energy use behaviors on intervention success, and how moderate levels of interconnectivity between the different social sub-networks can significantly improve the energy saving potential from occupancy interventions. This model provides the decision makers with a framework to develop and evaluate occupant focused interventions for effective reduction in energy use in commercial buildings.

Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Grand Picture of China's Capitalist Revolution
2017-09-26 11:30 - 12:30 | Weiser Hall - Room 110
Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

Attempts to explain China's development all suffer from a “blind men and elephant" problem: depending on when and where one looks within China, every theory is development is correct, yet none is complete. What then is the grand picture of China's great economic and institutional transformation? The answer lies in the sequence of strategies, rather than in any particular factor. In China, the first step of development was paradoxically to kick-start markets using "weak/wrong/backward" institutions.

Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and a Faculty Associate at the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Series in Political Economy, 2016), which won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.”

An op-ed on her talk is available at this link: https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-harnessing-weak-institutions-to-build-markets-90920

Presentation:Biopsychology colloquium
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:30 | East Hall - 4464
Neural Interfaces for Controlling Finger Movements

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
Dr. Leroy Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology, will be delivering a seminar on Tuesday September 26th, 2017. The title of the seminar will be: "Biological Complexity and Scientific Wellness: Transforming Healthcare." This will take place at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall of Med Sci II.

Exhibition:Looking Back: 20th Century Dress from the Historic Costume Collection
2017-09-26 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Curated by Professor Jessica Hahn.

An exhibit of costumes from the 20th-century showcasing significant clothing from each decade. From daywear to evening wear, from every strata of society—homemade to couturier fashions.

Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series- Hurricanes: What's Next?
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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
2017-09-26 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.

Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Long-term dynamics of Hudson River bivalve populations: invasions and responses
2017-09-26 12:15 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building - 2009
Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar. Note later start time so you can attend #ScientistsTakeAKnee on the U-M Diag at noon.

Lecture / Discussion:The Shock of the Old: Archives After the Digital Turn
2017-09-26 12:30 - 14:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Common Room
There can be little doubt that the democratizing impetus of the digital revolution has transformed the practices and publics of our scholarly work, perhaps no more so than in the shifting terrain of archival recovery. Innovations in digital media from portable high quality scanners to smartphones that can produce precision digital recordings have made it easier for scholars to collect, organize and share primary sources from their research in formats that disrupt top-down models of knowledge production. Indeed, “renegade” archives are popping up all over, challenging the control of traditional institutions over the valuation, curation, and access to primary sources. In this presentation, I will discuss how a critical practice of digital scholarship can embrace this moment of disruption to re-imagine knowledge-making as a collaborative effort; one that produces knowledge not only for scholarly communities but also for (and with) a broader public that until now has only rarely come into contact with our scholarly work. How does such collaborative knowledge making demand a shift, both conceptual and practical, in the ecosystem of our scholarship, from the question of what kind of scholarly products we produce (books, articles, exhibitions, collections) to the question of how these products are received (Who are our audiences, where does our work land, whom does it serve?). What role might the university play in either supporting or ultimately re-incorporating the liberatory impulses of these disruptive digital practices?

Maria Cotera, U-M associate professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies, discusses how the critical practice of digital scholarship can re-imagine knowledge-making as a collaborative effort; one that produces knowledge not only for scholarly communities but also for (and with) a broader public that until now has only rarely come into contact with our scholarly work.

Maria Cotera is a scholar of feminist of color genealogies who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She was the 2014-15 Helmut F. Stern Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.

Class / Instruction:German Lab
2017-09-26 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

Class / Instruction:Mah-Jongg
2017-09-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Mah-Jongg is a Chinese game resembling Gin Rummy, but played with colorful tiles instead of cards. Easy to learn, it can become quite addictive!

Each two hour session of this study group for those 50 and above will start
with a brief lecture, followed by actual playing of the game with continuous guidance from the instructor. The study group will meet on Tuesdays from September 26 through October 31. Mah-Jongg sets will be provided.

Instructor Stuart Baggaley has taught his modified and simplified version of the game at many venues. He is a British World War II veteran and retired from UM
Medical School (Anatomy) in 1990.

Lecture / Discussion:ChE Seminar Series: Christopher A. Alabi
2017-09-26 13:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location - Research Auditorium
Christopher A. Alabi is an assistant professor at the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University.

ABSTRACT

Control over primary sequence and structure is critical to the development of new functional materials such as catalysts, synthetic affinity ligands and therapeutics, sequence responsive scaffolds, programmable biomaterials and much more. Motivated by these opportunities and the need for sequence-control and structural diversity in polymer research, we present a versatile methodology for the assembly of a new class of sequence-defined macromolecules called oligoTEAs. With sequence-control in hand, we are currently working to establish sensitive solution-phase structural characterization methods to determine their conformational dynamics and to formulate sequence-structure relationships for biological applications. We focus on applications that leverage the advantages of these novel macromolecules such as increased serum stability, precise control of backbone and pendant group sequence, and a large scope of chemically diverse monomers. Current applications under exploration in our lab include the design of cleavable linkers to quantitate intracellular cleavage kinetics, development of novel sequences and conjugates for intracellular drug delivery, and the design of membrane selective antibacterial compounds. In this talk, I will discuss the antibacterial properties of oligoTEAs in more detail by examining the kinetic phenomenon behind their mechanism of action and investigating the effect of primary sequence, composition and structure on antibacterial properties.

Presentation:Environmental Sustainability-Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals Review
2017-09-26 13:30 - 15:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Library Gallery (Room 100)
Representatives form the Office of Campus Sustainability and the Department of Logistics, Transportation and Parking will discuss the status of the University's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% and decrease carbon intensity of passenger trips on U-M transportation options by 30%.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: Sarah Robinson, Clubbing for Classical Musicians
2017-09-26 13:30 - 14:45 | EXCEL Lab (1279) Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Join EXCEL for a workshop with Sarah Robinson, focused on performing in non-traditional venues. This interactive session will set students up to pursue their own projects by reviewing the entire concert process including booking, marketing, and artistic planning.

Lecture / Discussion:WCED/ASC Panel. Election Crisis in Kenya
2017-09-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Weiser Hall - 555
“The presidential election was not conducted in accordance with the constitution, rendering the declared results invalid, null and void.”

With that stunning announcement, David Maraga, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, overturned the results of the August 2017 presidential election in Kenya, and mandated that fresh elections be held within 60 days. In a country with a history of contentious elections and contested electoral results, the decision by the Court to intervene in the election took many observers by surprise.

This roundtable brings together four faculty experts who will offer their views on the current political crisis in Kenya, its historical roots, and the extent to which the August election was marred by fraud.

Anne Pitcher, Afroamerican & African Studies/Political Science
Derek Peterson, History/Afroamerican & African Studies
Mai Hassan, Political Science
Walter Mebane, Political Science/Statistics

Careers / Jobs:Consulting/Finance Expo: Goldman Sachs Presentation
2017-09-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Pendleton Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Please join Goldman Sachs professionals for our Lifecycle of aDeal presentation and panel session. In this session you will get to hearform GS professionals and ask questions during our Q&A.

A University Career Center Consulting and Finance Career Expo event!

Online registration is now CLOSED.

Seating will be available on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis until seats are full.

Please arrive 10 minutes early if youare interested in attending this event.

Dresscode is Business Casual.

Workshop / Seminar:Econometrics: An introduction to Limited Attention Models
2017-09-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 301
Details to come.

Workshop / Seminar:Economic History
2017-09-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Lorch Hall - 201

Exhibition:Exhibition Presentation and Opening: The Future Needs..Something Blue
2017-09-26 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.

Exercise / Fitness:Rec Sports Equipment Workshop: SYNRGY360
2017-09-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Intramural Sports Building - Strength & Fitness
The SYNRGY360 is a multi-functional piece of equipment located in the Cardio & Fitness area at the IMSB. This exciting piece of equipment allows unlimited options to incorporate into your exercise selection. Learn what each module has to offer and how you can create a full-body workout into your day no matter your fitness level.

Performance:Strings Showcase
2017-09-26 15:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
A monthly performance series featuring the finest among our outstanding SMTD string students. Soloists and chamber music groups will be selected by the faculty to perform on this prestigious event.

Other:Grad Student Support Group
2017-09-26 15:30 - 17:00 | Pierpont Commons, Corner Room
Research groups can be a breeding grounds for conflicts such as stereotyping, office politics, mansplaining, mismatched expectations and bad management. If this rings a bell for you, you are not alone. Come by for a safe atmosphere to share stories, strategies, and support in a mediated discussion that we hope will empower participants to create a more positive environment.

Dessert provided. Facilitated by OSCR. Sponsored by Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).

Please RSVP in the link below:
https://goo.gl/forms/raBxlHCvvlMyBQ4f2

Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Superconductivity Near a Quantum Critical Point
2017-09-26 16:00 - 17:00 | West Hall - 335
I discuss the interplay between non-Fermi liquid behaviour and superconductivity near a quantum-critical point (QCP) in a metal. It was thought by many researchers that in D=2, non-Fermi liquid behaviour near a QCP extends to energies well above superconducting Tc, and that superconductivity involves non Fermi-liquid quasiparticles and emerges due to peculiar interplay between strong attraction and strong pair-breaking effects from self-energy. I argue that this is not necessary always the case. I show that in a situation, when critical bosons are slow compared to electrons, fermionic self-energy plays little role for superconductivity in 2D, despite that it is strong and destroys fermionic coherence. I discuss the special role of the “first Matsubara frequency” in this regard. I present explicit results for Tc for the set of models with frequency dependent effective interaction, including the strong coupling limit of electron phonon interaction.

Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Africa Workshop with Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, University of Western Ontario
2017-09-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Haven Hall - 4701 (DAAS Conference Room)
Join us for our Africa Workshop series

Other:Elucidating Energy Storage in Soft Nanostructures through Versatile Electrochemistry
2017-09-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Chemistry Dow Lab - Chem 1640
My group is interested in exploring the impact of structural and reactive heterogeneity in soft materials with the intention of discovering synergies at the nano and mesoscale that enhance properties of interest for energy storage applications. In my talk, I will discuss two emerging systems where nano-scale heterogeneity has an impact on macro-scale performance: novel redox active polymers (RAPs) for size selective flow batteries, and ultra-thin graphene electrodes. Highly soluble RAPs are new players in redox flow technologies, and as part of our collaboration with the Joint Center for Research Energy Storage (JCESR), we are exploring the opportunities that polymeric design offers for tuning their electrochemical performance. Likewise, graphene is an emerging material that offers new opportunities in contrast to bulk carbon due to its unique thickness-dependent electron and ion transfer behavior. In both cases, short range interactions between their components determine charge transfer and transport mechanisms, so it is essential to count with the right toolbox to elucidate their functioning. For this purpose, my group develops nano-electrochemical methods based on scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) that uniquely probe electronic and ionic processes in situ. Using these and other tools, we are starting to understand fundamental balances between electronic and ionic reactivity that we hope will have an impact on a various other applications for energy conversion and storage.

References:
[1] Barton, Z.J.; Rodríguez-López. Lithium Ion Quantification using Mercury Amalgams as In Situ Electrochemical Probes in Nonaqueous Media. Anal. Chem. 2014, 86, 10660-10667.
[2] Gavvalapalli, N.; Hui, J.; Cheng, K.; Lichtenstein, T.; Shen, M.; Moore, J.S.; Rodríguez-López. Impact of Redox Active Polymer Molecular Weight on the Electrochemical Properties and Transport Across Porous Separators in Non-Aqueous Solvents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16309-16316.
[3] Hui, J.; Burgess, M.; Zhang, J.; Rodríguez-López, J. Layer Number Dependence of Li+ Intercalation on Few-Layer Graphene and Electrochemical Imaging of Its Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Evolution. ACS Nano, 2016 , 10 , 4248-4257.

Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez (University of Illinois)

Reception / Open House:Exhibition Opening Talk & Reception
2017-09-26 16:00 - 17:45 | Michigan Union - Art Lounge (1st floor)
Please join us for the opening reception of Professor Endi Poskovic’s art exhibition and his informal art talk.

The Confucius Institute at U-M proudly presents “Majestic | Dream” a solo exhibition by Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art at the Penny W. Stamps School of Arts and Design, University of Michigan. Professor Poskovic’s creative practice considers a range of technologies as a way to explore certain characteristics of printed image: translation, multiplicity, seriality. Through his works, Professor Poskovic seeks to construct representations that suggest broader themes of displacement, exile, memory and reconciliation. A frequent visitor to China, Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, is a great admirer of Chinese and Asian visual and material arts. Poskovic’s work in woodblock relief printmedia reflects his deep fascination and a lasting involvement with Chinese intellectual and creative communities. To celebrate this long and fruitful engagement as a bridge between artistic China and the University of Michigan, CIUM presents this exhibition.

Endi Poskovic was educated in Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States. His graphic works have been exhibited worldwide and have brought him many notable awards and honors, including grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Fulbright Commission, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Norwegian Government, the Camargo Foundation, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Museum collections which hold works by the artist include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Jincheon Art Museum, South Korea and others.

Lecture / Discussion:LACS Lecture. Atlantic History Initiative. Rumors of Slavery: Defending Emancipation in a Hostile Caribbean
2017-09-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Tisch Hall - Room 1014
Professor Eller will be workshopping her recent article, “Rumors of Slavery,” as well as discussing its connections to her book, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. In her study of the reoccupation of Dominican territory by the Spanish, Eller deepens study of the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world and breaks from paradigms that emphasize perpetual conflict between Haitians and Dominicans in the nineteenth century. She contextualizes the small body of writing of Dominican elites with new analyses of inclusive and popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to fragments of poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance, as well as Caribbean anti-slavery movements across multiple islands and coasts, were anchored in a rich and complex political culture that traveled beyond individual shores.

Anne Eller is an assistant professor of history at Yale University. She teaches and researches colonial and modern Caribbean and Latin American history, comparative colonialisms, citizenship, Atlantic history, and the African Diaspora. She is currently writing a second monograph about the Caribbean after emancipation, tentatively entitled Other 1898s.

Lecture / Discussion:Yopie Prins, Irene Butter Collegiate Professorship in English and Comparative Literature, Inaugural Lecture
2017-09-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
“Ladies’ Greek” describes a culture of female classical literacy that emerged during the formation of women’s colleges in nineteenth-century England and America. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a “dead” language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote “some Greek upon the margin—lady’s Greek, without the accents.” Yet in the margins of classical scholarship they discovered other ways of knowing, and not knowing, Greek. Through various modes of transcribing, translating, transforming, and performing Greek tragedy, these passionate amateurs played an important role in the history of classical reception and the popularization of classics.

Lecture / Discussion:Book Launch: Object Lessons
2017-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
The book "Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017" presents a full color journey through the treasures of the University’s collections. Join us for a panel discussion with a focus on items from library collections. Panelists include Martha Conway, director of the U-M Library's Special Collections Library; Kevin Graffagnino, director of the Clements Library; and Terry McDonald, director of the Bentley Historical Library.

Careers / Jobs:BP Trading Simulation
2017-09-26 17:00 - 18:00 | R0400, Tozzi Trading Lab Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
BP Supply and Trading - Trading Simulation

With great energy comes great responsibility. And whether you're finding
new commercial opportunities, defining our future business strategy or
servicing our international customers, great responsibility is something
you'll experience from day one as a BP business and trading graduate.

Date: Tuesday, September 26th
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Tozzi Trading Room
Registration: bp.com/uscampus/events
LEARN.TRADE.WIN

Social / Informal Gathering:National Key Lime Pie Day at Bursley
2017-09-26 17:00 - 21:00 | Bursley Hall
Tuesday, September 26th is National Key Lime Pie Day! Come celebrate this delicious occasion at Bursley Dining Hall!

Workshop / Seminar:Pre-med roundup
2017-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Mason Hall - 1306 (Honors Program Office lounge)
Are you considering a career in medicine or in another health care profession? If so, then we invite you to participate in an information session to learn about:

• Pre-health resources.
• Medical school course requirements. What are they?
• Timing and strategies for the long and short term.
• Choosing a major. Does it have to be in science?
• Explorations in patient and clinical exposure.
• Research opportunities.

The same session will be repeated on the following dates in 2017:

• Tuesday, Sept. 26 (5-6:30 pm)
• Monday, Oct. 2 (4-5:30 pm)

Sessions held in the Honors Lounge, 1306 Mason Hall and are led by Stephanie Chervin, Honors Academic Advisor and Pre-Health Advisor.

For LSA Honors Program students only.

Questions? Contact Stephanie at schervin@umich.edu.

Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde
2017-09-26 17:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Workshop / Seminar:Faculty Lecture Series
2017-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 | East Quadrangle - 1405
Space Limited, Registration Required

REGISTER HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/NzkPVDYe02OEq1902

How can the body be a laboratory for examining dialogue, choice-making, roles and habits? In this interactive workshop, choreographer and King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor Eryn Rosenthal will share some of her research on the connections between a dance form called Contact Improvisation and the political writings of Steve Biko, Ada Colau, Paolo Freire, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Judith Butler, and others. What can the body bring to larger discussions of dialogue-building, diversity, inclusion, and empowerment?

Choreographer Eryn Rosenthal examines the democratic underpinnings of Contact Improvisation, and the role of the body in transgressing previously legislated boundaries. She has worked with choreographers Sello Pesa, Jay Pather and Sol Picó, poet Elizabeth Alexander, and documentary theatre pioneer Anna Deavere Smith, among others. Eryn’s ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions–political, social, intimate–through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. Her related dance theater performance and MFA thesis, Freedom Suite: Transaction Being Processed, based on ongoing oral history research with anti-Apartheid activists from New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, will be touring to several festivals in 2018-19. Eryn is an alumna of the MFA program in Dance at U-M, where she also studied in the Ford School for Public Policy. She has performed and taught throughout the US, South Africa and Europe, and is delighted to be back at U-M as a King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence for Dialogue-Building, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. Learn more at www.erynrosenthal.com

This workshop is made possible through funding from the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI); the King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professorship; ArtsEngine; the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund; the School of Music, Theatre and Dance’s DEI Fund; the African Studies Center; the LSA Democracy in Action Fund; the W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center; and the Center for World Performance Studies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture: Eryn Rosenthal
2017-09-26 18:00 | East Quadrangle - Room 1405
How can the body be a laboratory for examining dialogue, choice-making, roles and habits? In this interactive workshop, choreographer and King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Artist Eryn Rosenthal will share some of her research on the connections between a dance form called Contact Improvisation and the political writings of Steve Biko, Ada Colau, Paolo Freire, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Judith Butler, and others. What can the body bring to larger discussions of dialogue-building, diversity, inclusion, and empowerment?

This workshop is made possible through funding from the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI); the King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professorship; ArtsEngine; the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund; the School of Music, Theatre and Dance’s DEI Fund; the African Studies Center; the LSA Democracy in Action Fund; the W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center; and the Center for World Performance Studies.

Register here: http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c8ed201fb948f971cefc964dd&id=dc4e1ba569&e=e7ee58fc81

Careers / Jobs:Health Track: Help! What's an MMI?
2017-09-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
You may have heard that MMIs are gaining popularity especiallyamong medical, dental, pharmacy and veterinary schools. But what is anMMI exactly? Come to this session to understand this interviewing format, familiarize yourself with what to expect, and practice with your fellow students.

Lecture / Discussion:Lecture: Sharon Egretta Sutton, "When Ivory Towers Were Black: Lessons in Re-imagining Universities and Communities"
2017-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium 2104
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA discusses her most recent book, When Ivory Towers were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities. She shares how she and an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students got a free Ivy League education during the late 1960s and early1970s, when the Black Power Movement was at its zenith.
Sutton felt compelled to write the book by the persistent whiteness of schools in today’s universities in fields like architecture and landscape architecture. She had grown weary of the panacea for increasing cultural diversity that practically everyone touts, which is creating a “pipeline” into the university that exposes children to career possibilities at an early age.
Because she and many of her colleagues had been doing precisely that for almost half a century without changing the status quo, Sutton had come to view the pipeline theory as a ruse that diverted attention from the here and now to an ever elusive future. Increasingly intrigued by the memory of her experience as a student at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, she set out to unravel what was likely the nation’s boldest effort to recruit and retain ethnic minority architecture students.
Over a ten-year period, Sutton discovered that Columbia’s success was due to revolutionary students re-imagining a curriculum that just happened to align with the ethnic minority recruits’ commitment to improve living conditions in disenfranchised communities. Instead of creating a pipeline that would produce diversity in a far-off future, revolutionaries in the School of Architecture re-imagined a pipe that attracted and supported a diverse student body in the here and now.
In her lecture, Sutton describes the institutional context of this student-led transformation and tells how quickly it unraveled as white lash against black progress grew, just as is occurring today. After revealing both the immediate and long-term outcomes of what she refers to as Columbia’s “arc of insurgency,” Sutton ends by issuing a call to Michigan students to re-imagine a pipe for their own institution.
Dr. Sutton is an activist educator and scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates the use of participatory planning and design strategies in low-income and minority communities. Her scholarship explores America's continuing struggle for spatial and educational equity, and documents young people’s leadership role in advancing that struggle.
Dr. Sutton holds five academic degrees—in music, architecture, philosophy, and psychology—and has studied in independent graphic art studios internationally. A registered architect, she was the first African American woman to become a full professor of architecture in an accredited degree program and the second African American woman elevated to fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
In addition to receiving the AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award and the Medal of Honor from both the AIA New York and AIA Seattle chapters, Dr. Sutton is distinguished professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and an inductee into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Formerly, she was a Kellogg National Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, and president of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. She is currently is professor emerita of architecture, urban design, and social work at the University of Washington and professor at large in New York City.
Generously co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

Workshop / Seminar:MDP Workshop: Get Started Modeling with Autodesk Fusion 360 - September 26th, 2017
2017-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | BBB - 1620
Get Started Modeling with Autodesk Fusion 360

Date: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: 1620 BBB

Brief Description:
In this workshop, you will learn how to model a chair using Autodesk’s Fusion 360 parametric and free form modeling tools. Before the workshop, please create a free Autodesk Education account and install Fusion 360 (for free) from https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators?td=aexfusion

*RSVP Required

Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, September 19th

Register for this event here: https://goo.gl/forms/NEum0K5HsNsOrGoe2. Sign up soon because space is limited and food will be provided!

Rally / Mass Meeting:Summer 2018 Study Abroad Information Session
2017-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Couzens Hall - Palmer Lounge/Rainbow Room
Learn about summer programs for Pre-Health
Students and anyone interested in study abroad
opportunities
Representatives from the Center for Global and
International Studies Program (CGIS) will tell you
everything you need to know about study abroad
opportunities
Hear from HSSPers as they share their summer
abroad experiences

Lecture / Discussion:The Rename or to Remain: C.C. Little
2017-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Michigan League - Room 4
A panel and forum for students to learn about, and then discuss, the legacy of President Emeritus C.C. Little, the efficacy of having a prominent University building named after him, and the proposal to rename the building.

Workshop / Seminar:Workshop: Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities
2017-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 | School of Education - 2228
Introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways.

Presentation:EKOAMAZON Mass Meeting
2017-09-26 18:30 - 19:00 | 3427 Mason Hall
Come learn more about our organization works with groups on both sides of the Equator through fundraising, internships, and an alternative spring break and summer experience!

Lecture / Discussion:Bioethics Discussion: Organ and Body Donations
2017-09-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 2185
A roundtable discussion on the give and take of our very selves.

Essays to consider:
"The survival lottery"
"The case for allowing kidney sales"
"Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway?"

For more information and to receive a copy of the essays, please contact belmont@umich.edu.

Social / Informal Gathering:Value the Voice: A Storyteller's Lounge
2017-09-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Museum of Art
A new collaboration between the Comprehensive Studies Program and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies helps students to tell it like it is— and to see how it was. Value the Voice is an ongoing series that will feature student voices along with faculty, staff, and alumni, and there will also be what the project creators call “voices of wisdom”— experts who can speak directly to that night’s theme or topic. Join us for Transitions, our first theme of the

Lecture / Discussion:Virginia Howard Stearns Collection Lecture: Matt Dane, viola d’amore
2017-09-26 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall
Violist Matthew Dane enjoys a career of both teaching and playing. Living in Boulder, CO, he is the newest member of the Boulder Piano Quartet and is on the faculty of both Metropolitan State College in Denver and the University of Colorado.

Performance:Ann Arbor Dance Works 32nd Annual Season
2017-09-26 19:30 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater
Ann Arbor Dance Works, the resident professional dance company of University of Michigan's Department of Dance, presents its 32nd Annual Season, featuring exciting new and recent dance works choreographed and performed by guest artists, faculty, alumni, and students.

Performance:Ann Arbor Dance Works Performance
2017-09-26 19:30 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theatre
Ann Arbor Dance Works, the resident professional dance company of the Department of Dance, presents its 32nd Annual Season, featuring exciting new and recent dance works choreographed and performed by guest artists, faculty, alumni, and students. Included is choreography by NYC’s Shannon Gillen, a screen dance by Professor Peter Sparling, a solo by U-M faculty Tzveta Kassabova, and duets by U-M alumni Ali Woerner & Thayer Jonutz (with music composed/performed by Jon Anderson), Colin Mysliwiec Raybin & Michael Spencer Phillips (with piano performance by Shalva Vashakashvili), and Sean Hoskins & Molly Paberzs.
