BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION: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 UID:43238-12816363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION: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 UID:42456-12507570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T120018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network DESCRIPTION: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 UID:42459-10890826@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Community Action Network CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T115119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces DESCRIPTION:Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 8 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design\, Ross School of Business\, College of Engineering\, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!\n\nThe challenge: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces.\n\nThe student-designed household product must be suitable for use by people living\, studying and working in a hyper-urbanized environment. The products must enable more efficient and satisfying use of living spaces\, and must be profitable at a consumer cost of less than $250.\n\nVisit http://bit.ly/2APHzJ6 to check out all 8 product websites.\nCast your vote for your favorites by Dec. 5 at 2:00p.m.\n\nThis course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, and the New York Times.\n\nAbout the Tauber Institute for Global Operations\nThe Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools\, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information\, visit tauber.umich.edu. UID:47272-10855093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Business,Engineering,Exhibition,Information and Technology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION: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 uses 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. UID:44018-9869262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171107T101658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Holiday Kickoff DESCRIPTION:All U-M faculty and staff are invited to the third annual Holiday Kickoff at Computer Showcase! This special sales event features special discounts on popular products and much more.\n\nQualifying products will include the new Apple Watch and select PCs\, as well as iPad Pro\, iMac\, MacBook\, and Beats by Dr. Dre. In addition to discounts\, Showcase will also offer:\n\n-- Advance product reservations\n-- 10% trade-in bonus\n-- Special payroll deduction terms\n-- Extended hours\n-- Shipping & delivery\n\nWhile Showcase stores will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 24–27\, customers can still shop from the comfort of home. Advance product reservations—as well as full event details—are available now on the Computer Showcase website.\n\nMark your calendar\, and plan to join Computer Showcase for this special\, one-day-only event. UID:46575-10555741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46575 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Holiday,Information and Technology,Staff LOCATION:Michigan Union - G312 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171107T101658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Holiday Kickoff DESCRIPTION:All U-M faculty and staff are invited to the third annual Holiday Kickoff at Computer Showcase! This special sales event features special discounts on popular products and much more.\n\nQualifying products will include the new Apple Watch and select PCs\, as well as iPad Pro\, iMac\, MacBook\, and Beats by Dr. Dre. In addition to discounts\, Showcase will also offer:\n\n-- Advance product reservations\n-- 10% trade-in bonus\n-- Special payroll deduction terms\n-- Extended hours\n-- Shipping & delivery\n\nWhile Showcase stores will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 24–27\, customers can still shop from the comfort of home. Advance product reservations—as well as full event details—are available now on the Computer Showcase website.\n\nMark your calendar\, and plan to join Computer Showcase for this special\, one-day-only event. UID:46575-10555742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46575 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Holiday,Information and Technology,Staff LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Main Concourse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:41334-9144086@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43033-9697018@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43020-9696412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43020 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43024-9696594@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43026-9696679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43026 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43028-9696764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media DESCRIPTION: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. UID:43022-9696497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43022 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T151503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION: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.” UID:43032-9696934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310377@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171108T135108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen DESCRIPTION:An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration\, mortality\, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.\n\nChanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan\, she holds a BA in social science and history of art\, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions\,” ltd los angles\, and “Seduced & Abandoned\,\" Boyfriends\, Chicago\, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art\, Detroit Design Festival\, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art. UID:42135-9560526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171116T120007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:“Microfabricated Medical Devices for Diagnostics and Advanced Biological and Cellular Manipulations” DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey D. Zahn\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Biomedical Engineering\nRutgers\, The State of University of New Jersey\n \n“Microfabricated Medical Devices for Diagnostics and Advanced Biological and Cellular Manipulations”\n\n\nABSTRACT: The focus of research conducted in the Zahn laboratory is the design and fabrication of microfabricated devices for clinical diagnosis\, treatment of disease and supportive culture devices. Batch fabricated microfluidic platforms that can mimic or improve upon conventional sample preparation techniques performed in laboratories hold great potential to enable both research and healthcare advances. These miniaturized diagnostic devices have been termed micro total analysis systems (μTAS) or biochips and combine sensing mechanisms (physical\, optical\, electrical or chemical) with microfluidics.\n\nDr. Zahn’s research combines analytical and numerical modeling of microscale phenomena with device design\, fabrication\, and testing of BioMEMS components in an adaptive and iterative process for device optimization. Several projects currently underway in the Zahn laboratory which will be discussed including:\n\n1) the development of a ‘smart’ electroporator with continuous cell impedance monitoring that automatically detects\, electroporates\, and monitors individual cells for changes in permeability and delivery\, dynamically modulating the pulse to prevent damaging over‐exposure that kills cells and useless underexposure that does not permeabilze a cell.\n\nand\n\n2) the development of a multicompartment tissue culture platform to recapitulate in vitro neurocircuitry models using human neuronal cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells. This culture system was designed to allow modeling the neuronal circuitry of the mesolimbic reward system by segregating excitatory (GLUT)\, inhibitory (GABA) and dopaminergic (DA) induced neuron cell bodies while maintaining axonal communication and synapse formation from one chamber into another through communicative microchannels. Several novel features of this system are: an open well design to perform patch clamp electrophysiology within the device\, the use of optogenetics for selective cell stimulation\, and the integration of human derived induced neurons (iNs). UID:46860-10656094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46860 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biomedical Engineering,Engineering,Lecture,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Pre Med,Pre-Health,seminar LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 133 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T145419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty DESCRIPTION:Throughout her career\, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art\, addressing topics such as colonization\, slavery\, Manifest Destiny\, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America\, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.\n\nThe show’s title\, American Berserk\, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral\, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic\, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures\, which seem imported from a parallel universe\, include watermelons that become animated\, explode and then decay\, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries\, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells\, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.\n\nNote: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016. UID:43941-9855215@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889072@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170811T112106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Open Session - Allyhood Development Training DESCRIPTION:This session is open to the entire community\n\nThe Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program\, started in 2005\, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.\n\nThrough active engagement in the training\, participants will grow in their personal awareness\, knowledge\, skills\, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.\n\nRegistration Link: http://bit.ly/2vq2WNs UID:42126-9558369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42126 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT LOCATION:West Quadrangle - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171013T130458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:POPULIST POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jansen is a comparative-historical sociologist of politics and culture. He is the \nauthor of Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru (University of Chicago Press) and has published various articles on Latin American politics in academic journals. After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA\, he spent three years as a junior fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. \n\nRecent political events in the U.S. and Europe have brought renewed \nattention to the problem of populism. But what exactly are we talking about when we talk about populism? And what do we know about its social and political causes and consequences? This lecture provides some provisional answers to these difficult questions by considering various moments in the political history of Latin America—a region that has long been susceptible to populist mobilization and claims-making. \n\nThis is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Populism: The Common People in Modern Politics. The next lecture series will start January 11\, 2018. The title is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us. UID:45768-10276745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Populism,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170911T104401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sacred Plants - Holiday Conservatory Exhibit at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:Focusing on plants in the conservatory collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens\,Sacred Plants explores how these plants figure in myth\, lore\, and ritual for cultures around the world. The exhibit also features seasonal flowers\, decorated trees\, kids activities\, and more. Free admission. Note: Closed Christmas Eve\, Christmas\, and New Year’s Eve. Open New Year’s day. UID:44125-9886150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Multicultural,Nature LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T140909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T140000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Summer Opportunity Fair DESCRIPTION:The U-M Center for Educational Outreach and the U-M Detroit Center have partnered to provide exposure to the multiple summer academic opportunities (camps\, research\, exposure programs\, etc.) that the University of Michigan has available for middle and high school students through the various units and departments on campus.\n\nWe are inviting individuals that work or volunteer in youth services areas (school administrators\, teachers\, counselors and leaders of community youth organizations) to come learn about the programs available for the young people they work with. \n\nThe event will include a poster fair\, presentations\, opportunities to meet and network with University Faculty\, Staff\, and Students and a lunch. \n\nWe encourage you to join us for a great day of learning and networking. To RSVP for the Fair\, please click the link below. UID:46979-10714033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit,Detroit Center,Education,Summer Opportunities Fair LOCATION:Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171119T140014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Greta LaFleur Workshop: \"The Craft of the Article\" DESCRIPTION:Workshop of \"Precipitous Sensations\" (Early American Literature\, 2013) and \"Why Women's Colleges Need to Embrace Trans Activists-and so Does Feminism\" (The New Republic\, 2015).\n\nPre-readings and RSVP required to Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) or Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) UID:46915-10692051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170921T145011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T103900 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T103900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Justine Mahoney: Tainted DESCRIPTION:Justine Mahoney’s sculptures and collages have captivated audiences for their deceptively innocent approach to exploring the dark side of human existence. Drawing inspiration from the disparate realities of growing up white in 1970s Johannesburg during some of the most tumultuous decades of South African apartheid\, Mahoney is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences.\n\nIn Tainted\, her 2017 exhibition\, Mahoney explores emotional and physical states of struggle through convoys of toy-like sculptures. These childlike figures — referred to by the artist as “an army of toy soldiers” — offer an inspired view into this world of collaged fantasy\, with themes centered on her own observations of gender\, landscape\, aspiration\, and oppression. “I portray emotional states like resilience and braveness in the face of adversity\, and see my child soldiers as standing steadfast and strong…Their role is to bring on a sense of one’s ability to move forward through extreme situations.” Julian McGowan of the Southern Guild Gallery aptly describes it as “Malice in Wonderland.” Mahoney is a graduate of Technikon Witwatersrand (’91).\n\nSupported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.\n\nAll Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series presentations are free and open to the public\; visit http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps to view upcoming events. UID:42272-9593306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T201257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty DESCRIPTION: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\nartists 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.\n\nLead 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. UID:41652-9417932@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546827@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T195814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nLead 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. UID:41651-9417803@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Concert,Exhibition,Storytelling LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171109T090338 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Impending Cultural Collapse? - Current Transformations in Japan’s Traditional Art Markets DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses the origins of the remarkable weakening of today’s art markets and collecting practices in Japan. The financial reverses of the 1990s and subsequent decades helped lead to the weakening of the tea schools\, the constriction of museum purchasing and the closure of some institutions. Simultaneous cultural trends have moved away from traditional art forms to new media including a shift from “art” to “design”\, from “painting” to “illustration”\, that is matched by westernization of domestic architecture and diminishing interest in cultural history that have eroded the appreciation and evaluation of traditional arts in an unprecedented manner.\n\nAfter having taught for some years at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington\, Prof. Berry has been doing research and teaching in Japan since the late 1990s. For the last several years he has been a researcher on a Japanese government Kaken research grant involving the redefinition of sensoga and a Mellon Curator-at-Large for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. UID:42837-9664417@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Japanese Studies,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170830T111103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic History DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:43265-9748057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43265 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170831T181541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2017 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition\, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, is on view Friday\, November 10-Saturday\, December 16\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors\, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception on Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Dates: November 10-December 16\, 2017\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm UID:43459-9766067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T152626 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Change It Up! Bystander Intervention Skills DESCRIPTION:Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive\, respectful\, and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals\, organizations\, and the campus community.\n\nPre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=457. UID:45109-10084372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45109 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Community Service,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Diversity Strategic Plan,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Human Resources,Inclusion,Leadership,Multicultural,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Research,Scholarship,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Affairs,Welcome to Michigan,Workshop LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T101620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:P&SC Area Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Racial health inequalities revisited: The toxic burden of cultural racism\n\nMargaret Hicken is a tenure-track research assistant professor at the Institute for Social Research. She is an interdisciplinary scholar\, trained as a social demographer and social epidemiologist. She has devoted her career to the explication of the ways in which structural foundations are embodied in racial health inequalities by linking sophisticated contextual and survey-based exposure measures to biologically-plausible markers and mechanisms of health. Under her research program umbrella\, she maintains a number of interrelated research projects. For example\, she is a leading scholar at the novel intersection of social stress and vulnerability to environmental toxicants with her research providing evidence to support the concept that racial health inequalities can be largely explained by exposures to both of these social and environmental hazards. She has begun to examine these exposures simultaneously with respect to molecular changes that underlie numerous chronic health conditions. She is also currently using her five-year K01 career development award from the National Institutes of Health to develop her expertise in statistical and population genetics to examine the notion that racial residential segregation\, rather than genetic predisposition\, is a necessary component to racial inequalities in chronic kidney disease. She has published her work in the top journals in environmental epidemiology and toxicology\, epidemiology\, health policy\, and public health. She has also presented her research to members of the Congressional Black Congress in order to inform policy changes. Today\, she will be presenting some of her work from a their area of her research in which she examines the burden of cultural racism on racial health inequalities. UID:42787-9661722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171013T102107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Gypsy Jazz DESCRIPTION:Joe Summers is most widely known for the gypsy jazz groups he's led for nearly three decades. Gypsy jazz is a music genre singlehandedly created by the musical giant and genius\, Django Reinhardt. Summers has become known for amazing guitar solos\, melodic phrasing\, and complex chord work\, and his musical mentors include Southeast Michigan guitarists Hugh Nicks\, Bob Richter\, Jerry Duncan\, Benny Collins\, and the international jazz guitar legend\, Lenny Breau. Summers will be joined by Mickey Richard on rhythm guitar & percussion. Look for live stream video and event subscriptions on Gifts of Art Facebook. UID:45746-10273910@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T181529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T133000 SUMMARY:Other:Thesis Defense:\nSingle Particle Microscopic and Spectroscopic Chemical Analysis of Primary and Secondary Aerosols DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \n \nAmy Bondy (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Ault) UID:46720-10592238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - East Conference Room, Rackham CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T134541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A Nobel Symposium DESCRIPTION:Six U-M scholars discuss the work\, impact\, and personality of one of this year's 6 Nobel laureates. U-M English professor Peter Ho Davies on the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (literature)\; U-M-Dearborn biological chemistry professor Michael Cianfrocco on Jacques Dubochet\, Joachim Frank\, & Richard Henderson (chemistry)\; U-M information professor Erin Krupka on Richard Thaler (economic sciences)\; U-M mathematics professor Daniel Forger on Jeffrey Hall\, Michael Rosbash\, & Michael Young (physiology or medicine)\; U-M political science professor Barbara Koremenos on the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (peace)\; and U-M physics professor Keith Riles on Rainer Weiss\, Barry Barish\, & Kip Thorne (physics).\n\nThis event will be held on the 10th floor of the newly renovated Weiser Hall.\n\n\nCome for one or come for all. Here is the Schedule:\n\n\n1:10PM WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS - Charlie Doering\n1:15PM LITERATURE Peter Ho Davies\, English Language and Literature\n2:00PM CHEMISTRY Michael Cianfrocco\, Life Sciences\, BioChem\, Med School\n2:45PM ECONOMIC SCIENCES Erin Krupka\, School of Information\n3:30PM MEDICINE & PHYSIOLOGY Daniel Forger\, Mathematics\, Med & Bioinformatics\n4:15PM PEACE Barbara Koremenos\, Political Science\n5:00PM PHYSICS Keith Riles\, Physics\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. UID:46388-10475471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Chemistry,Complex Systems,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Mathematics,Physics,Public Health,Science LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T111638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.\n\nThe 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). \nGo 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.\nFor more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html UID:44329-9908948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171114T103201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The 'Radical Empiricism' of Jonathan Edwards DESCRIPTION:Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a Lazarus Belle's dissertation workshop. \n\nThis dissertation chapter asks a simple question: to what extent does America's \"first philosopher\,\" Jonathan Edwards\, demonstrate a strand of philosophical argument that resembles and sets the intellectual conditions for William James's doctrine of radical empiricism? A corollary to the more well-known method of pragmatism\, radical empiricism has received less attention\, despite being a major concern for James in his later years. Not against but in relation to the obvious reasons why radical empiricism emerges in the history of western philosophy\, my gambit is that there are precedents within American religious culture from the antebellum revivals to the postbellum Social Gospel movement that generate the intellectual conditions calling for the radicalization of classical empiricism. This chapter deals specifically with Edwards's place within the so-called first great awakening of the 1730s-40s and his revision of empiricism to explain religious experiences. This examination of the theological underpinnings of American revivalism is the first step in a larger intellectual history about the religious \"origins\" of pragmatism.\n\nPlease Contact Rachel Cawkwell at rcawkwe@umich.edu for a copy of the paper. UID:46799-10633980@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46799 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Dissertation,Literature,Philosophy,Religious LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170816T163809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Intro to Home Computing DESCRIPTION:These two\, two hour lectures and demonstrations might be of interest to those thinking of buying a computer\, beginners looking for a broad overview\, and/or anyone who recently got into home computing. The course includes a short history of computers and home computing\, help with the computer purchase decision\, what you might do with a home \ncomputer\, many useful tools and advice about computing\, and demonstrations on the operation of Windows 10.\n\nInstructor Gordon Totty will lead these lectures for those 50 and above on Thursdays November 30 and December 7. UID:42440-9601985@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42440 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171030T145549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T163000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Decision Consortium: Psychology: Children and Resource Scarcity: Why \"Rareness\" Doesn't Always Confer Higher Value DESCRIPTION:. UID:46369-10466903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171101T114853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Stephen Forrest: ECE Bicentennial + Beyond Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Steve Forrest is an internationally-renowned researcher\, educator\, and entrepreneur. His research focuses on photovoltaic cells\, organic light emitting diodes\, and lasers & optics. \nAs an alumnus from Michigan with his MSc and PhD degrees in Physics\, he joined the faculty at USC in 1985\, and in 1992\, he became the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University\, where he served as Department Chair from 1997-2001. In 2006\, he rejoined the University of Michigan as Vice President for Research. \n\nHe has received the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award\, the IPO National Distinguished Inventor Award\, the Thomas Alva Edison Award\, the MRS Medal\, the IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award\, the Jan Rajchman Prize\, the IEEE Daniel Nobel Award\, and the IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal. Forrest is a Fellow of the APS\, IEEE and OSA and a member of the National Academy of Engineering\, the National Academy of Sciences\, and the National Academy of Inventors. \n\nForrest has authored ~580 papers in refereed journals and has 307 patents. He is co-founder or founding participant in several companies\, including Sensors Unlimited\, Epitaxx\, Inc.\, NanoFlex Power Corp. (OTC: OPVS)\, Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ: OLED) and Apogee Photonics\, Inc.\, and is on the Board of Directors of Applied Materials. He is past Chairman of the Board of the University Musical Society\, and past Chairman of the Board of Ann Arbor SPARK. Forrest serves as Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThis talk is given as part of the ECE Bicentennial + Beyond Lecture Series. This series of talks features world-renowned faculty with a long history at Michigan. These distinguished faculty will talk about their research\, their careers\, and the future of technology in their areas. UID:45616-10240173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45616 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Lecture,Materials Science,Michigan Engineering,Physics LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171116T143849 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Towards reliable and automated solution of partial differential equations: error estimation\, adaptation\, and model reduction DESCRIPTION:Masayuki Yano\, Assistant Professor\, University of Toronto\, Institute for Aerospace Studies\n\nWe present work towards the development of reliable and automated computational tools for partial differential equations (PDEs) in continuum mechanics. Here\, reliability refers to the ability to quantify and control the two sources of error in numerical predictions: the model error that arises from mathematical modeling of the true physics\; the discretization error that arises from numerical approximation of the mathematical model. Autonomy refers to the ability to complete the analysis with minimal user intervention.\n\nIn the first part\, we focus on single- or few-query scenarios and develop an adaptive finite element solver for conservation laws with emphasis on aerodynamic flows. The solver consists of three key ingredients: a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method\; an output error estimate\; and a mesh optimization strategy. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategy for aerodynamic flows.\n\nIn the second part\, we focus on many-query and real-time scenarios and develop model reduction strategies for rapid and reliable solution of parametrized PDEs. We in particular address model reduction challenges associated with reliable and efficient treatment of problems that exhibit a wide range of scales and strong nonlinearities. We demonstrate the method for parametrized problems in solid and fluid mechanics.\n\n\nAbout the speaker...\n\nMasayuki Yano is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). His research focuses on the development of computational methods for problems in aerospace sciences and engineering. Specifically\, his research interests lie in numerical methods\, scientific computation\, and numerical analysis for partial differential equations (PDEs) with applications in aerodynamics\, continuum mechanics\, acoustics\, and transport.\n\nHe obtained his PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2012\, working on adaptive high-order methods for aerodynamic flows. He was then a post-doctoral associated at MIT\, working on model reduction and data assimilation techniques for parametrized PDEs. He joined UITAS in 2015. UID:46866-10658848@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46866 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T135526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Community development finance: Responding to community needs DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.\n\nThis event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing details.\n\nJoin the conversation: #policytalks\n\nThe community development finance field as we know it began approximately 40 years ago. How does the field respond to local community needs? What does the future of the field hold? The panelists will discuss their work in helping to deliver capital to America’s communities\, the growth and transformation of the industry\, headwinds the field faces and what’s in store for the next 40 years of community development finance.\n\nPanelists:\n\nWayne Meyer - President\, New Jersey Community Capital \nLori Chatman - President\, Enterprise Community Loan Fund \nRoberto Barragan - Former President and CEO\, Valley Economic Development Center \nLela Wingard - Former Senior Vice President of Community Reinvestment & Community Partnerships\, JPMorgan Chase\nModerator: Dudley Benoit - Director\, Santander Bank\, N.A.\, Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan UID:46543-10546814@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46543 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Business,Community Service,Discussion,Economics,Free,Graduate,Lecture,Public Policy,Social Impact,Undergraduate LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T163126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: Toward translational evolutionary biology using the lens of genomics DESCRIPTION:The process by which bacterial populations evolve to adapt to new hosts is broadly important and still uncertain. We study two key parts of this process: the nature and trajectories of beneficial mutations\, and the eco-evolutionary dynamics that emerge when bacteria form biofilm communities. Identifying and tracking the spread of beneficial mutations has been empowered by contemporary genomics\, and has allowed us to find commonalities among beneficial mutations in many evolving bacterial systems. Our study of biofilms has been aided by a simple model enabling long-term evolution in a biofilm life cycle. Focusing on bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex and Pseudomonas aeruginosa\, we find this model surprisingly selects for mutations in genes that commonly mutate during chronic infections of the cystic fibrosis airway and in wounds. This system also selects for persistent genetic diversity that reflect adaptations to different biofilm niches. More recently\, we have been studying more rapid evolution of bacteria exposed to stronger selection like antibiotics or specific host association\, often in vivo. In these conditions\, we find strongly parallel mutations that show functional details of the traits that underlie adaptation. Further\, growing cases of strong parallelism raise the probability that evolution may be predictable and useful to solve problems in medicine like drug resistance. Last and most important\, we have used the simplicity of our biofilm model to develop a curriculum in high school classes to allow introductory biology students to learn key concepts in evolution and heredity by doing an evolution experiment. Both this curriculum and clear examples of evolution-in-action during infections offer the promise of broader appreciation of the utility of evolutionary biology.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/l7JHJ5eZLfM UID:42931-9685656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Environment LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171116T113848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Theory and Practice DESCRIPTION:Climate denialism comes in many forms. Most historians understand that the planet faces severe environmental challenges\, yet few incorporate this new reality into their work or consider its impact on history as a discipline. In this talk\, Julia Adeney Thomas explains why some scientists find “the Anthropocene” a compelling concept and explores the challenges posed by earth systems science to the discipline\, particularly history’s political function. Finally\, using an example from Japan\, she proposes a new form of critical history as we move from modernity’s promise of freedom and development to the more modest goal of sustainability with decency. \n\nJulia Adeney Thomas has written extensively about concepts of nature in political ideology\, the challenge posed by climate change to the discipline of history\, and photography as a political practice in Japan and globally. She is the recipient of the AHA’s John K. Fairbank Prize for Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology and of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Best Article of the Year Award for “Photography\, National Identity\, and the 'Cataract of Times:' Wartime Images and the Case of Japan” from the American Historical Review. Two collaborative books: Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (with Ian J. Miller and Brett L. Walker) and Rethinking Historical Distance (with Mark Salber Phillips and Barbara Caine) have forwarded her interest in theory\, history\, and the environment. Currently\, she is completing The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene as well as co-editing a collection on Visualizing Fascism: The Rise of the Global Right. Educated at Princeton\, Oxford\, and Chicago\, she taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining Notre Dame’s history department.\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nThis event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:40915-8828527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,History,Japanese Studies,Lecture LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171016T120513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Exhibit Opening: The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:Join exhibit curators Sigrid Cordell and Juli McLoone for a short talk introducing the exhibit The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet followed by a reception.\n\nMarking the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, this exhibit showcases significant early editions of Austen’s works alongside materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived. UID:45822-10310365@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45822 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171002T163830 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISP Lecture. Entangled Histories of Translation: German Ottoman Literary Relations across the 19th Century DESCRIPTION:Large-scale translation movements were central to the discursive production of both German and Turkish national-cultural identities prior to the establishment of a nation state\, yet intersections between these two traditions remain largely underresearched. Due to both a dominant French influence in the late Ottoman literary sphere and the incompatibility of Ottoman with the dominant paradigms of German Orientalistik\, literary translations between German and Ottoman have been treated as either insignificant or exceptional. This talk argues on the contrary\, that instances of German Ottoman translational contact in the 19th century attest to complex interconnections that cut across time periods and traditions. \n \nA case study will be presented showing how the multiple\, late Ottoman translations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s \"The Sorrows of Young Werther\" (1886-1894\, novel first published in 1774) enact a debate in practice regarding 19th-century Ottoman modernization discourse\; widely differing translational decisions reveal the agency of Ottoman translators and place the authenticity of Goethe’s “western” source text into question. In turn\, Goethe’s incorporation of Ottoman texts into his \"West-östlicher Divan\" (1819) earlier in the century counters a late Ottoman devaluation of its own tradition of Divan poetry\, and engages in diverse translation practices that undermine the concept of fidelity as an ultimate goal. \n \nMarked by omnidirectional processes of transcultural exchange\, these diverse translations complicate the contrapositions of self-identity and alterity\, original and translation. In a century when distinct understandings of German- and Turkishness were beginning to emerge—in part via translations from diverse other national literatures—individual translations between Ottoman and German pose a challenge to the ethnocentric structure of national cultures\, and an easy division between East/West or Ottoman/German.\n\nKristin Dickinson’s research on contemporary German and Turkish literature examines the potential of translation\, as both a formal and a social medium\, to intervene in nationalist language ideologies and nationally structured areas of study. Her teaching and publications have focused on questions of world literature\, translation theory in practice\, cross-linguistic remembrance\, linguistic purity\, and critical monolingualism. Her current book project\, \"Translation and the Experience of Modernity: A History of German Turkish Connectivity\,\" traces the development of a German Turkish translational relationship from the early 19th century to the present. Her additional projects examine performances of translation at the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair\, “Turkey in All Its Colors\;” the transnational significance of the early Turkish Republican author Sabahattin Ali\; and the cartographies of non-arrival\, disruption\, and deferral in the works of Franz Kafka and Bilge Karasu. UID:43903-9854863@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,History,International,Literature,Muslim LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171030T143849 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Selling Low and Buying High: An Arbitrage Puzzle in Kenyan Villages. DESCRIPTION:Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities\, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to \"sell low and buy high\" rather than the reverse. In a field experiment in Kenya\, we show that credit market imperfections limit farmers' abilities to move grain inter-temporally. Providing timely access to credit allows farmers to purchase at lower prices and sell at higher prices\, increasing farm profits and generating a return on investment of 28%. To understand general equilibrium effects of these changes in behavior\, we vary the density of loan offers across locations. We document significant effects of the credit intervention on seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets\, and show that these GE effects greatly affect our individual level profitability estimates. We also find suggestive evidence that these GE effects generate benefits for program non-recipients\, benefits which are unlikely to be recouped by a financial institution and suggest a potential role for public intervention. In contrast to existing experimental work\, our results thus indicate a setting in which microcredit can improve firm profitability\, and suggest that GE effects can substantially shape estimates of microcredit's effectiveness. Failure to consider these GE effects could lead to substantial misestimation of the social welfare benefits of microcredit interventions. UID:46367-10466899@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46367 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,International LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T181529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Synthesis\, Structures\, and Photophysical Properties of Long-Chain Oligogermanes DESCRIPTION: It is expected that catenated compounds of germanium might function as luminescent or optical materials once a sufficient number of germanium atoms are connected together in the chain. We have prepared and characterized the penta- and hexagermanes Pri3Ge(GePh2)nGePri3 (n = 3 or 4)\, where the hexagermane is the longest structurally characterized linear oligogermane reported to date. Initial studies indicated that these molecules were luminescent in solution\, and we have now investigated its photophysical properties of Pri3Ge(GePh2)4GePri3 in the solid state. The hexagermane exhibits temperature dependent absorbance and emission spectra\, where vibrational fine structure is observed below 240 K. In addition\, a blue emission in the visible region is observed upon excitation at 300 nm at 80 K. The synthesis of the two oligogermanes Pri3Ge(GePh2)nGePri3 (n = 3 or 4) and the nature of its absorbance and emission properties will be discussed in conjunction with DFT investigations. The structure/property relationships of other oligogermanes\, including the branched systems (Ph3Ge)3GeX (X = H\, F\, Cl\, Br\, I\, Ph\, or GePh3)\, will also be discussed. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nScott Weinert (Oklahoma State University) UID:45521-10200819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170907T094905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T164500 SUMMARY:Meeting:Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) DESCRIPTION:Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students\, are free\, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students\, please complete the Google Registration Form. UID:43153-9729053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Meditation,Mindfulness,Stress Reduction LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171013T130618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Louisiana Buffet DESCRIPTION:Come to Martha Cook for a dinner on Monday\, November 30th for the Louisiana Buffet. They will be serving a selection of different foods from Louisiana! Martha Cook meal plan is required. UID:45773-10276747@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T100155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Closed Forms and Canonic Matter: Ending Music at the Turn of the Trecento DESCRIPTION:This paper charts an itinerary of concern about the relation between form and matter in the musical thought and compositional processes of trecento Italy. It takes as its starting point the Cronica of Salimbene of Adam\, a neglected source of musical commentary on questions central to fourteenth-century ontologies of music: about the status of the voice as a natural instrument\; the reliability of sense perception\; and the shadowy affinities between music and language. Salimbene’s vivid\, often macabre anecdotes about music’s material and formal properties echo in Dante’s poetics and in the music theory of Marchetto da Padova. I then turn to the compositional practices of trecento composers\, to show how the earliest generation of Italian polyphonists imported these concerns into aspects of compositional design in ways that foreground closure as a defining potential of form. The form and forming of sound in the Middle Ages were inevitable correlates to considerations of sound as matter. In making this claim\, I mean to contribute to a growing recognition of the links between modern critical practices (here sound studies\, the history of the senses) and the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. UID:46663-10578199@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Lecture,Music LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171108T164859 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Lecture. Politics through Narrative: A Conversation with Husam Jubran and Yuval Ben Ami DESCRIPTION:Tracing their divergent upbringings\, Husam Jubran and Yuval Ben Ami share their personal narratives\, political transformations\, and friendship. Together\, Jubran and Ben Ami use a dual-narrative approach to highlight the nuances in the political landscape of Israel and Palestine as they work towards real peace and justice for Palestinians and Israelis.\n\nSpeakers:\n \nYuval Ben Ami is a travel writer\, tour guide and multidisciplinary artist. In 2010\, he co-founded +972 Magazine\, an English-language website dedicated to bringing critical analysis and coverage from Israel and Palestine. Since 2011 he has acted as guide in the unique model of dual-narratives about Palestine and Israel for organizations and universities such as National Geographic Expeditions and the University of Michigan. And since 2014 he serves as one of two experts on the Holy Land for the National Geographic Society. In 2016 he developed \"To Be There\,\" a performance piece re-creating a tour of Jerusalem in different cities. In another conceptual project\, \"Songs in Hotel Rooms\"\, he explores song traditions and their relation to geography. Ben-Ami lives in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, with his wife and daughter. \n \n\nHusam Jubran is a Fulbright scholar who has been a tour guide for the past 17 years. He received his master's degree in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in 2004 from the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg\, Virginia. One of only a few Palestinian guides to do so\, he combines his knowledge and skills to provide political and interfaith tours. He also works with the Synergos Institute\, identifying social innovators in Palestine and Jordan and helping to develop their projects. He is the Director of Facilitation at the Hands Of Peace and American Interfaith Organization that joins Israeli and Palestinian youth in dialogue to foster better understanding amongst them. He lives in Beit Sahour\, the West Bank\, with his wife and four children. UID:46656-10569829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46656 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Middle East Studies,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T095109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Lecture Series. The Role of International Development and Entrepreneurship in US Foreign Policy in Latin America DESCRIPTION:As individual areas of concentration\, entrepreneurship\, US foreign policy\, international development\, and Latin America can each consume the interest\, time\, and energy of those who study them. This discussion introduces the nexus of all of these elements and outline some basic facts\, assumptions\, and perspectives. LTC Singleton will discuss three important overviews of US Foreign Policy in Latin America\, US Foreign Trade Policy\, and the UN approach to international development. In this context\, we will look at how these three policies impact entrepreneurs attempting to establish themselves in Latin America\, highlighting the opportunities and obstacles that they will most likely encounter. A comparative analysis of the sugar production industry in Latin America and the consumption markets in the US and Europe will also be discussed. \n \nSpeaker Bio: Prior to his current service in Belize\, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Singleton served as the U.S. Army Attaché to Bolivia from 2015 to 2017\, Acting Defense Attaché to Jamaica in 2016\, and Operations Officer and Army Section Chief for the Security Cooperation Office of the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti from 2013 to 2015. He also served in many command and staff positions in the United States\, the Middle East\, and Latin America\, including combat operations in the Global War on Terrorism. After multiple combat tours\, he transitioned to a career as a multilingual US Army Foreign Area Officer. Both the Departments of State and Defense have recognized LTC Singleton’s work in combat and foreign relations. These include four Bronze Star Medals for heroic service in combat\, a Defense Meritorious Service Medal for interagency service overseas\, an Army Commendation Medal with “V” device for valor in combat\, and the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award.\n\nLTC Eldridge R. Singleton was awarded both his Bachelors of Science degree and commission in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer by the United States Military Academy at West Point\, New York. He also holds a Masters of Arts in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University UID:47000-10722273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47000 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Foreign Policy,International,Latin America,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Room 2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171109T084420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T203000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Ross Business+Impact Vision Session DESCRIPTION:During the 2017-18 academic year\, there will be a series of engaging\, participatory events with the goal of answering this question: How can the Michigan Ross community—students\, faculty\, alumni\, and partners—become the most progressive source of business solutions to the world’s biggest challenges?\n\nThis event is by invitation only. UID:44618-9934440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44618 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Community Service,Economics,Education,Entrepreneurship,Environment,Graduate,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,Law,Politics,Public Health,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Sociology,Undergraduate LOCATION:Ross School of Business - TBA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171020T162336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Justine Mahoney: Tainted DESCRIPTION:Justine Mahoney's sculptures and collages have captivated audiences for their deceptively innocent approach to exploring the dark side of human existence. Drawing inspiration from the disparate realities of growing up white in 1970s Johannesburg during some of the most tumultuous decades of South African apartheid\, Mahoney is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences.\nIn Tainted\, her 2017 exhibition\, Mahoney explores emotional and physical states of struggle through convoys of toy-like sculptures. These childlike figures — referred to by the artist as “an army of toy soldiers” — offer an inspired view into this world of collaged fantasy\, with themes centered on her own observations of gender\, landscape\, aspiration\, and oppression. “I portray emotional states like resilience and braveness in the face of adversity\, and see my child soldiers as standing steadfast and strong…Their role is to bring on a sense of one’s ability to move forward through extreme situations.” Julian McGowan of the Southern Guild Gallery aptly describes it as “Malice in Wonderland.” Mahoney is a graduate of Technikon Witwatersrand (’91).\n\nSupported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art. UID:46054-10356059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46054 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Lecture,Museum,Theater,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T123007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T183000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ace Your Interview DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/107527\n\nThis is a closed program for Alpha Chi Sigma.\n\nNote: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendarso 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. UID:47070-10782626@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47070 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Blagdon Room Michigan League 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T170306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IISS Workshop. The Long-Term Impact of Religious Institutions on Development DESCRIPTION:How do religious institutions affect development? While religious institutions are frequently depicted and studied as part of history\, their long-run role in affecting politics and economy today remains uncharacteristically understudied in the scholarship. Religious institutions around the world have historically commanded political and economic resources. Outside of the limited scholarship on the Church however\, religious institutions are little understood for their political and economic impact. I will address this question by researching if and why the Sufi Khanaqah affects long-term development. Development being indicated by contemporary public goods and inequality—the two dependent variables. District is the unit of analysis at which Khanaqahs and development will be analyzed. To identify the mechanism and estimate the effect more comprehensively\, I will also examine the effect of covariates measuring Khanaqah patronage and trade routes. The study will constitute districts of India and Pakistan between 1858-2011. UID:46905-10670087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46905 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Muslim,Politics,Religious LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 447 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T123007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ace Your Interview DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/107524\n\nThis is a closed program for the members of Epsilon Eta Environmental Fraternity.\n\nNote: 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. UID:47069-10782625@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:440 Church St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171128T131721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:History of Art Honors Symposium DESCRIPTION:History of Art honors students give twenty-minute presentations followed by Q & A.\n\nThursday\, November 30\, 6:00-8:00 PM\, 180 Tappan Hall\n\n+Olivia Raykovich\, “On the Street: Reality According to the Sartorialist”\n+Ben Weil: “Envisioning Empire: City Personifications in the Calendar of 354”\n+Emma Patterson: “Boucher’s Chinoiserie”\n+Julia Pompilius\, “Socialism\, Feminism\, and the Satiric Press in 19th Century France”\n\nFriday\, December 1\, 3:00-5:00 PM\, 180 Tappan Hall\n\n+Allie Scholten: “Femme Fatale”\n+Molly Leonard\, “Kitty Fisher\, Superstar”\n+Katie: “Jeff Koons and Real Estate: A Love Story” UID:44802-9980571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Visual Arts LOCATION:Tappan Hall - 180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171119T212535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:World AIDS Day 2017: Progress and prospects in HIV/AIDS DESCRIPTION:This panel\, composed of University of Michigan researchers from various schools and centers\, will discuss what has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention and care in the last decade in the U.S. and beyond. Using their work as examples\, the panelists will share their experience with research\, advocacy\, and bridging policy and practice. The panelists will also touch on the barriers to scaling up effective interventions and the role students\, researchers\, and educators can play in helping to end an epidemic. Panel discussion organized by the Spectrum Center Programming Board and Center for Sexuality & Health Disparities. UID:46921-10694792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46921 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,Medicine,Research LOCATION:School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 1655 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Food for the Future Panel DESCRIPTION:Food for the Future is a panel on food insecurity co-hosted by Call for Humanity and AYUDH Michigan. We will hear about the different aspects of this multi-faceted problem of food insecurity in our community and beyond. We will learn how to help mitigate the problem.  Food will be provided by Jerusalem Garden and we will raise $5 for every attendee for the panel. Join us for an informative and empowering evening! UID:47073-10785271@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Conference Room, Rakham Graduate School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171119T171135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michigan's Best Dance Crew DESCRIPTION:Come support your favorite dance crews at Michigan's Best Dance Crew! Our school's best dancers will go toe-to-toe in the dance-off of the year! And don't miss your chance to vote for your favorite group to win the People's Choice Award!\n\nPre-sale tickets are $3 at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and $5 at the door! UID:46916-10692052@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Social LOCATION:Michigan League - Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T180028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Michigan's Best Dance Crew DESCRIPTION:Come support your favorite dance crews at Michigan's Best Dance Crew! Our school's best dancers will go toe-to-toe in the dance-off of the year! And don't miss your chance to vote for your favorite group to win the People's Choice Award!\n\nPre-sale tickets are $3 at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and $5 at the door! UID:46918-10694787@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46918 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mendelssohn Theatre, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171020T162557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Christa Clarke DESCRIPTION:A series of talks by leading curators and thinkers in African art will launch a reimagining process for the forthcoming reinstallation of UMMA’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African Art. Christa Clarke\, Senior Curator Arts of Global Africa\, Newark Museum\, will be the third and final speaker in this series to contribute reflections on her own groundbreaking work in the display of African art.\n\nClarke is Senior Curator\, Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum\, where she has organized numerous exhibitions ranging from men’s fashion to Nigerian modernism since her appointment in 2002. Clarke’s scholarship on the history of collecting and display and the politics of representation includes Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display (co-edited with Kathleen Berzock\; 2010)\, which examines the impact of museum practice on the formation of meaning and public perception of African art. Her recent book\, African Art in the Barnes Foundation (Rizzoli\; 2015)\, received the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History and a First Place Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) in 2016. \n \nClarke has held fellowships at the Smithsonian\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and the Clark Art Institute\, and teaching appointments at NYU Abu Dhabi\, University of Pennsylvania\, George Washington University\, Rutgers University\, Purchase College\, and Drew University. In addition\, she was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow in 2012 and currently serves as President of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). In 2017-2018\, Clarke will be a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard's DuBois Institute\, where she will be working on a book project\, The Activist Collector: Recovering the Story of an African American Woman in Pre-Apartheid South Africa.\n\nLead 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.\n\nThis lecture series is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan African Studies Center\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of History of Art\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Museum Studies Program. \n\nThe series is presented in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (on view from August 19-December 31\, 2017). UID:46055-10356060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46055 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Lecture,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Prospects for Peace in the Middle East DESCRIPTION:Ambassador Kurtzer served as US ambassador to Egypt under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001\, and as ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush from 2001-2005. He has edited or co-authored three books on American policy in the Middle East and\, during his 29-year career in the U.S. foreign service\, held a number of positions concerned with formulating American policy for the region.\n\nThis talk is also sponsored in part by the Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohen Memorial Foundation. UID:46475-10501263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,International,Politics,Public Policy LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, Fl 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:ZoukMi Thursdays DESCRIPTION:7:00pm Lesson\n8:00pm Practica and Performance practice\n9:00pm Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)\nCost: Free\n\nEveryone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :) UID:42483-9609275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170628T164546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Cold Tone Harvest DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more details. UID:41410-9209136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR