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:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235959 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:43238-12816426@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:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235959 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:42456-12507633@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:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235900 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:44018-9869325@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:20180126T103106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T043000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T070000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Super Foods Get Up and Go Day DESCRIPTION:On February 1st\, Martha Cook Dining Hall will be featuring a super foods buffet! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to taste many delicious super foods! Martha Cook Meal plan required. UID:49317-11417462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49317 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 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:46881-10667178@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:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802200@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T103830 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE\, U.S. Navy\, UTC\, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals\, a T-shirt\, bags\, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon\, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com! UID:48861-11317265@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Basic Science,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Breakfast,Business,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Corporate,Dinner,Education,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Engineering Academic Calendar,Entrepreneurship,Food,Graduate,Graduate School,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Industry Session,Information and Technology,Integrative Systems,Interdisciplinary,International,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Reception,Student Org,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 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:45823-10310440@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:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 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:44170-9889135@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:20180102T121524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Future Former: An Exhibition of Alumni Work DESCRIPTION:Future Former: An Exhibition of Alumni Work honors the creative work and careers of all Stamps School alumni\, creates an aspirational connection between generations of U-M artists and designers and current Stamps students\, and inspires reflection during the university’s Bicentennial year. Funds raised through this exhibition will support new studios and collaborative spaces at Stamps.\n\nCurated by Stamps Professor Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo with alumna Emily Schumer (BFA 2017)\, Future Former will be on view Monday\, January 8-Friday\, February 9\, 2018 on the first floor of the Art and Architecture Building.\n\nExhibition Dates: Monday\, January 8 - Friday\, February 9\, 2018\nArtist Panel and Reception: Monday\, January 29\, 2018 from 5 - 6:30 pm\nArtist Panel: 5 pm\, Stamps Auditorium\nReception: 5:45 pm\, Street Gallery UID:43757-9838282@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T093331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:II Photo Contest DESCRIPTION:The International Institute Photo Contest is open to all students affiliated with the institute or its 17 centers and programs through research\, study\, or an internship abroad. Please join us for the awards ceremony on January 19\, 2018 at 11:00am. \n\nThis exhibit runs through February 14\, 2018. UID:47585-10960788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 527 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T135934 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:of 72 DESCRIPTION:Note: Ebony Patterson Stamps lecture takes place Feb 1\, 5pm\, at the Michigan Theater\, immediately followed at 6pm by artist reception at the Institute for the Humanities.\n\n“What happens when seventy-two men and one woman die and no one knows who they are?” Jamaican artist Ebony Patterson’s of 72—a mixed media work on fabric with digital imagery\, embroidery\, rhinestones\, trimmings\, bandanas\, and floral appliques—considers the 2010 “Tivoli Incursion” in Kingston\, Jamaica. This armed conflict between the Shower Posse drug cartel and Jamaica's military and police took place when security forces began searching for drug lord Christopher \"Dudus\" Coke\, after the United States requested his extradition. The violence killed at least 73 civilians.\n\n\"Of 72\" will be in conversation with Patterson's more recent work \"...And Babies...\" created at the Tyler School of Art\, Temple University. The lush tapestry-like floor piece continues where \"Of 72\" leaves us and serves to honor both the spirit and the loss of so many black bodies...women\, little boys\, little girls\, even babies\, subjected to acts of violence and abuse. \n\nEbony G. Patterson is a Jamaican artist born in Kingston\, Jamaica. She studied at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. An assistant professor in painting at the University of Kentucky\, she has shown her artwork in numerous solo and private exhibitions and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery. UID:47319-10866150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47319 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,History,International,Latin America,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T133725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CRANBROOK’S ARCHITECTURE IN THREE CHAPTERS: THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT\, SAARINEN’S MODERNISM\, AND CRANBROOK CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION:For more than three decades\, Gregory Wittkopp has been shaping and stewarding Cranbrook’s collections\, first as a curator\, then as the Director of Cranbrook Art Museum\, and now as the Founding Director of the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Major projects include the restoration of Saarinen House and the creation of the state-of-the-art Collections Wing\, a $22 million project completed in 2011. Wittkopp holds an MA in Art History from Wayne State University and a BS in Architecture from the University of Michigan. \n\nFounded in 1904 on the edge of metropolitan Detroit\, Cranbrook is many things to many people—a world-renowned graduate art academy and contemporary art museum\, a prestigious college-preparatory school\, a preeminent natural history and earth sciences museum\, three historic house museums and gardens\, and much more. What they all share is a National Historic Landmark campus that has been described as the most enchanting setting in America. Join Gregory Wittkopp as he shares the stories of Cranbrook’s architects and the legacy of its founders\, newspaper publishers George and Ellen Booth.\n\nThis is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us. The next lecture series will start March 8\, 2018. The title is Behavioral and Social Sciences: Real World Applications. UID:47678-10973756@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 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:46544-10546890@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:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547245@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546969@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171201T091020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Thursday Lecture Series | A History of Distant Reading in Japan DESCRIPTION:In Japan\, the impulse to reason about literature quantitatively goes back at least to Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature (1907). Recently\, computational techniques and digital corpora have taken this impulse further\, promising new ways of reading literary history. Before diving into this future\, however\, it is worth reflecting on its past. In this talk I trace a genealogy of quantitative imagining from Sōseki’s theories of reading\, to psycholinguistics and stylistic analysis from mid-century\, and up through recent applications of computational methods like machine learning. I consider why scholars have previously turned to numbers to reason about literature\, what they have gained from it\, and what it means to do so now. \n \nHoyt Long is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Chicago. His research interests include sociology of literature\, media history\, and cultural analytics. He co-directs the Textual Optics Lab and is currently working on a project that tells the history of modern Japanese literature through a quantitative lens. UID:47217-10821993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47217 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Japanese Studies,Literature LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T150804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Comics In Color: The Past\, Present\, and Future DESCRIPTION:A look into the history of Blacks and other people of color in comic books\, along with an examination of the present and future of both the marvel and DC cinematic universes for people of color. UID:49377-11450951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49377 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,MESA,Multicultural LOCATION:Haven Hall - DAAS Conference Room 4701 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T145317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Arctic Internship Fellowship Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Arctic Internship Fellowship provides funding for University of Michigan undergraduate students to complete a summer internship at the Labrador Institute\; the Centre for Military\, Security and Strategic Studies (Canada)\; or research/internships that students secure from reputable organizations. \n \nCome learn more about the summer Arctic internship opportunities or how to design an independent research project. The advisor will also go over options for the fellowship\, eligibility\, funding\, and the application process. \n \nApplications are due on February 16\, 2018 (for Summer 2018). \n \nThis will be an informal meeting. Cookies\, tea\, and coffee will be served. \n \nPlease contact is-fellowships@umich.edu with any questions. UID:49150-11383816@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49150 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fellowship,Funding,International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 355 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Design & Production Portfolio Review Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Take a peek behind the scenes and explore the work by our student stage managers\, technicians\, and scenic\, costume and lighting designers in the annual Design & Portfolio Review Exhibition. UID:46935-10703008@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46935 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,North campus,Theater LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T114811 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Multiscalar Geoarchaeology DESCRIPTION:Geoarchaeology is a part of archaeological research that is characterized by a markedly multiscalar approach. The acquisition of data ranges in fact from the observation of single mineral grains under a scanning electron microscope to the use of geological maps representing vast areas. Geoarchaeology is therefore carried out moving along a continuum of interconnected scales of observation. A series of practical examples will be employed to demonstrate the possibilities of this multiscalar approach. UID:49382-11450957@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49382 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Room 2009 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T104816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:P&SC Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Orgasm-oriented attitudes and behaviors in women UID:47556-10950460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T095659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Gospel & Blues Music & History DESCRIPTION:Reverend Robert Jones Sr. is a nationally recognized musician and educator from Detroit with more than 25 years of experience as a performer and storyteller. A talented multi-instrumentalist\, Jones has opened for Bonnie Raitt\, Taj Mahal and Leon Russell\, to name a few. For this program\, he and his wife Bernice Jones will showcase the gospel\, blues\, inspirational folk and roots music that form the basis of American popular music. Rev. Jones plays and describes American music in its historical context and speaks of how traditional African American music helped give rise to musical forms that are beloved around the world. UID:48233-11191414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48233 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Culture,Detroit,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170912T131438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T140000 SUMMARY:Other:CoE International Internship Program Application Final Deadline DESCRIPTION:Applications for the CoE International Internship Program Final Deadline are due tonight!\n\nApply online at: https://internabroad.engin.umich.edu/ UID:44228-9900388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44228 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,International,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime 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 101-103)\, 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 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254357@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T063013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Copy of Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114914\n\nAlready thinking about what you want to do this summer? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK. \n\nCome check out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So\, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of\, search for\, and find a great summer experience!\n\nChatwith folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you can useto build a great job/internship search strategy.\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. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/100529\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.\n UID:48273-11194131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180103T111721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Honors Medical School Application Workshop DESCRIPTION:Medical School Application Workshop\n\nAre you planning on applying to medical school this summer and want help in this process? If so\, we invite you to attend this Honors Program workshop led by Stephanie Chervin\, Honors Program Pre-Med Advisor\, to help you:\n\n• Understand the timeline of the whole process\n\n• Choose your target medical schools\n\n• Get acquainted with AMCAS\n\n• Ask for Letters of recommendation\n\n• Craft a personal statement\n\nBring your questions! This session for current LSA Honors Program students only. UID:47894-11043652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Honors,Pre Med,Pre-Health LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1330 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T165258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all\, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. \n\nFor more information on the Hopwood Program\, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood. UID:48324-11222682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Discussion,Free,Graduate Students,Literature,Poetry,Social,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114914\n\nAlready thinking about what you want to do this summer? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK. \n\nCome check out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So\, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of\, search for\, and find a great summer experience!\n\nChatwith folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you can useto build a great job/internship search strategy.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student wanting to attend we would like you to make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater to your needs more specifically. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114914 UID:48272-11194130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308927@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T125330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients\, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities. UID:47453-10901467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:V. Vaughan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T155720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Hidden Costs of Cheap DESCRIPTION:Bryant Simon\, Professor of History\, Temple University UID:49303-11409081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Free LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T141930 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Human Exploration from Earth to Mars: Envisioning Becoming Interplanetary DESCRIPTION:Professor Dava Newman\nApollo Program Professor of Astronautics\nDept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics\nHarvard-MIT Health\, Sciences\, and Technology\nMIT\n\nRecent space science missions to Pluto and Jupiter along with earth observation missions of Spaceship earth will be highlighted. Humanity will become interplanetary and is on a journey to Mars. We are closer to reaching the Red Planet with human explorers than we have ever been in our history. Space agencies\, academia and industry are working right now on the technologies and missions that will enable human “boots on Mars” in the 2030s. Advanced technologies for the next giant leaps of exploration include spacesuits and life support systems\, which will be highlighted. \n\nA three-stage plan from missions close to Earth involving commercial partners and the International Space Station\, advancing to missions in Earth–Moon orbit\, or deep space\, and finally moving on to Mars\, where explorers will be practically independent from spaceship Earth. The innovation required to achieve a human mission to Mars cuts across science\, human exploration\, and technology. It builds on what has gone before while driving the next advances. \n\nThe presentation concludes with an inclusive message on STEAMD (science-technology-engineering-arts-math-design) and the urgency to recruit the Mars Generation\, including the artists\, designers\, poets\, and makers.\n\nAbout the speaker...\n\nDr. Dava Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Harvard–MIT Health\, Sciences\, and Technology faculty member. Her research in multidisciplinary aerospace biomedical engineering investigates human performance across the spectrum of gravity\, including space suits\, life support\, and astronaut performance. Newman has been the principal investigator on 4 spaceflight missions. Known for her second skin BioSuit™ planetary spacesuit\, her inventions are now being applied to “soft suits” to enhance locomotion on Earth. Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design\, has >300 publications\, and has supervised 90 graduate students and mentored >200 undergraduates. \n\nDr. Dava Newman served as NASA Deputy Administrator from 2015–2017\, nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Along with the NASA Administrator\, she was responsible for articulating the agency's vision\, providing leadership and policy direction\, and representing NASA to the White House\, Congress\, international space agencies\, and industry. Dr. Newman was the first female engineer and scientist to serve in this role and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. She championed the human journey to Mars\, technology and innovation\, and education. Newman and Trotti’s BioSuit™ has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial\, American Museum of Natural History\, Victoria and Albert and Museum\, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Newman earned her Ph.D. in aerospace biomedical engineering\, Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy from MIT\, and her Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame. UID:49154-11383821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T155701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BME 500 Seminar: Josh Dolhoff\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:Joshua C. Doloff\, Ph.D.\nBME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\n \n “Breaking down the immunobiology of implant fibrosis/foreign body response”\n \nAbstract:\n \nImplanted biomedical devices comprise a major component of modern medicine and are essential for many clinical applications ranging from tissue repair/reconstruction\, electrical pacing/stimulation\, controlled release\, glucose sensing\, and cell transplantation. However\, a huge impediment to their therapeutic performance and lifespan\, host immune-mediated foreign body response\, results in their being walled off behind dense layers of fibrotic scar tissue. The first part of my talk will focus on systems biology approaches\, including serial or combined innate and adaptive immune perturbations to elucidate immune-mediated rejection and fibrotic sequestration of biomaterial medical device implants. Identification of core innate and adaptive immune cell players will be discussed. Furthermore\, cytokine and cytokine receptor array analysis in conjunction with cell sorting\, antibody-based neutralization and small molecule inhibition will be presented in the context of identifying more selective targets in the fibrotic cascade. Throughout\, multiple tissue implant sites\, biomaterials\, multi-component devices\, and animal models\, including non-human primates and a newly developed humanized mouse model\, will also be presented. The last part of my talk will focus on leveraging this information toward the design of next generation technologies\, including implant architecture\, surface chemistries\, and long-term controlled release systems\, for successful elimination of rejection by modulating immune response. UID:48970-11339496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Lecture LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T083643 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture: Private Parts and Public Concerns: Erecting the Modern Japanese Penis DESCRIPTION:In Japan and other places\, modernity has given rise to what might be called a “penis industry”: a complex of urological knowledge\, business interests\, and advertising media that\, by instilling a fear in impressionable young males that their genitalia embody a shameful departure from the physical norm\, extracts money from their wallets to carry out one or another kind of treatment. This talk considers the emergence of the penis industry in early twentieth-century Japan\, focusing on the advertising strategies that its entrepreneurs developed in print to promote a distinctly modern form of psychological anxiety.\n\nGregory Pflugfelder is an associate professor of Japanese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of History at Columbia University. Professor Pflugfelder's current work engages the construction of masculinities\, the history of the body\, and representations of monstrosity. His books include JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life\, coedited with Brett L. Walker (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies\, 2005)\; Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse\, 1600–1950 (University of California Press\, 1999) and Politics and the Kitchen: A History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Akita Prefecture (in Japanese\; Domesu\, 1986). His latest writing projects are \"Growing Up with Godzilla: A Global History\" and \"Mobo: Playing the 'Modern Boy' in Interwar Japan and Its Empire.\" Professor Pflugfelder received his BA from Harvard (1981)\, his MA from Waseda (1984)\, and his PhD from Stanford (1996). He has been teaching at Columbia since 1996.\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 with support from the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative. UID:40916-8828528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,History,Japanese Studies,Lecture,Women's Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T102657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Documentary Screening of \"Extreme By Design\" DESCRIPTION:The William Davidson Institute\, Innovate Blue\, the Barger Leadership Institute and LSA's Global Scholars Program are jointly sponsoring the screening of a documentary featuring college students introducing innovative products in emerging markets by applying design thinking and social entrepreneurship principles. At the screening\, a WDI-managed program that offers a rare opportunity for international teamwork and entrepreneurship open to all undergraduates will also be discussed.\nThe documentary follows students from Stanford University’s Institute of Design as they create potential life-saving products for people in Bangladesh\, Indonesia and other developing countries.\nThose attending the screening will have an opportunity to learn about participating in a new virtual exchange program with fellow students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The MENA-Michigan Initiative for Global Action Through Entrepreneurship (M²GATE)\, managed by WDI\, is open to any U-M undergraduate student. Register to reserve your seat at: http://bit.ly/2A6pMc0 UID:47854-11033295@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Corporate,Discussion,Entrepreneurship,International,Poverty,Social Impact,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T164018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: Demographic and evolutionary consequences of new gene flow into small populations DESCRIPTION:Rapidly changing rates of gene flow pose urgent challenges for wild populations as well as exciting opportunities for ecological and evolutionary study. Predicting fitness effects of altered gene flow among contemporary populations is crucial because there is a large range of potential outcomes that can go so far as to determine the difference between extinction and persistence. I study wild and experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies as a model system for understanding the effects of new gene flow on adaptation\, fitness\, and demography. Previous work has documented genetic rescue\, an increase in population growth caused by the introduction of new alleles\, in wild populations. I will recap this work as well as discuss preliminary findings from experimental mesocosms that highlight the potential for gene flow to provide longterm benefits when populations are exposed to novel stress.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/-hj6XA9CCEw UID:47839-11025471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Environment,Lecture,Life Science,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T161906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Kent Berridge's Distinguished University Professorship Lecture: Finding delight\, desire and dread in the brain. DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\nThis talk will describe a scientific journey studying brain mechanisms of pleasure ‘liking and ‘wanting’\, and other emotions. Though crucial for normal life\, ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ processes can go awry in addiction and other disorders. Brain ‘wanting’ systems can grow independently powerful in addiction\, become suppressed in mood disorders\, and even have a darker side in some forms of paranoia. This journey follows in the footsteps of James Olds and other UM pioneers in brain mechanisms of reward and motivation.\n\n\nBIO\nKent Berridge is the James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research aims for answers to questions such as: What causes addiction? How is pleasure generated by the brain? How is disgust generated? How does wanting something differ from liking it? What does fear share with desire?\n\n\nBerridge received a B.S. degree in 1979 from the University of California at Davis\, his M.A. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University for two years in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, Canada. He joined the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Psychology in 1985. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow\, Fulbright Senior Fellow\, Fellow of AAAS\, APA\, and APS\, and co-winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award of the American Psychological Association. UID:48718-11297635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, 4th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T143858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America DESCRIPTION:Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center. On the faculty since 1982\, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 Presidential campaign. He also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and was Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas in the Department of Justice. Mr. Edelman’s most previous book was So Rich\, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America\, and of course we are here to celebrate Not a Crime to Be Poor.\n\nEvent is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. UID:48820-11308910@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48820 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poverty LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Auditorium, Room 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T160234 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the Rubin Speaker Series Lecture\, Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason of the University of Maryland\, College Park. Professor Mason's research on partisan identity\, partisan bias\, social sorting\, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Public Opinion Quarterly\, and Political Behavior\, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, CNN\, and National Public Radio.\n\nProfessor Mason received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2017.\n\nWe invite you to join us for an engaging conversation in the Eldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall on Thursday\, February 1\, 2018 from 4:00-5:30 PM. UID:49195-11386632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49195 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics,Research LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room (5670) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T085024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Other:Adventure with a Purpose - SEA Semester Voyages DESCRIPTION:Learn about the different study abroad opportunities available during the semester through SEA Semester\, an international leader in undergraduate ocean education. UID:49213-11395010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49213 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,International,Outdoors,Undergraduate LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1160 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T125745 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Meme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On February 1st\, Mosher Jordan Dining Hall will be having a Meme Themed Dinner! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48632-11264963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48632 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T105252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 DESCRIPTION:The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics\, international studies\, history\, the arts\, public health\, economics\, the media\, the environment\, science and technology). \n\nStudents are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House\, the Smithsonian\, CNN\, CBS\, Public Defender’s Service\, Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, NAACP\, The Brookings Institution\, American Enterprise Institute\, National Defense University\, Partnership for Public Service\, Center for American Progress\, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.\nFunding is available. UID:48473-11241162@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Education,Free,Internship,Leadership,Majors,Networking,Politics,Professional Development,Public Policy,Scholarship,Scholarships,Social,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5670 Haven, Eldersveld Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T135042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:On Miracles and Spacetime DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I argue for the existence of two coincidences—or ‘miracles’—in the foundations of general relativity\, which do not admit of explanation from within that theory. I suggest that these ‘miracles’ may be accounted for naturally in one particular successor theory to general relativity\, namely perturbative string theory. I close by reflecting on the nature of spacetime in general relativity versus string theory. UID:48780-11306110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48780 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180105T140516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ebony G. Patterson: They Were... DESCRIPTION:In much of her work\, Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson explores the use of feminine gendered adornment in the construct of urban masculinity\, within the dancehall community and in popular culture. Patterson embellishes photographic tapestries by hand with beading\, sequins\, fabric\, and jewelry — the resulting works are visually seductive\, while revealing underlying questions about stereotyping\, visibility\, and race. Patterson’s solo exhibitions and projects have been shown internationally and in the U.S. Patterson serves on the Artistic Director’s Council for Prospect.4\, New Orleans (2017)\, and will present solo exhibitions at Perez Art Museum\, Miami\, and Monique Meloche Gallery\, Chicago\, in 2018. She has been featured in publications such as The New York Times\, Frieze\, Interview\, Vogue\, and the International Review of African American Art. In her solo exhibition Of 72\, on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery from January 11-February 9\, 2018\, Patterson remembers the violent 2010 Tivoli Incursion in Kingston\, Jamaica. An exhibition reception at the IH Gallery will follow this speaker series talk.\n\nThis Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is presented in partnership with the Institute for the Humanities. UID:47868-11035893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T122938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:\"of 72\" Artist Reception with Ebony Patterson DESCRIPTION:Join us after Ebony Patterson's Stamps lecture as we welcome the artist to the Institute for the Humanities. Patterson's \"of 72\" exhibition runs Jan 11-Feb 9. \n\n“What happens when seventy-two men and one woman die and no one knows who they are?” Jamaican artist Ebony Patterson’s \"of 72\"—a mixed media work on fabric with digital imagery\, embroidery\, rhinestones\, trimmings\, bandanas\, and floral appliques—considers the 2010 “Tivoli Incursion” in Kingston\, Jamaica. This armed conflict between the Shower Posse drug cartel and Jamaica's military and police took place when security forces began searching for drug lord Christopher \"Dudus\" Coke\, after the United States requested his extradition. The violence killed at least 73 civilians.\n\nEbony G. Patterson is a Jamaican artist born in Kingston\, Jamaica. She studied at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. An assistant professor in painting at the University of Kentucky\, she has shown her artwork in numerous solo and private exhibitions and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery. UID:48109-11180650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48109 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,History,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room, # 1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T180025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:North Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:Weekly Bible study on Exodus UID:49047-11369792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49047 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Corner Room - Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T084247 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:ASC Film Screening and Q&A. Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: African Perspectives DESCRIPTION:These five 10-minutes films will show the ways in which Berlin and Detroit are global from the perspectives of African immigration\, and African imaginations of global futures. Berlin helps to elucidate what is distinctive about Detroit and vise versa. These films picture the distinctions between how African futures can be imagined in Europe versus the U.S.\, in Detroit versus Berlin. They reveal how race\, citizenship\, and humanitarian projects work in relation to African immigration in these two cities. They ask: What difference do the approaches to urban planning\, districting\, education\, and social versus capital networks make? What kinds of communities can be formed? How do “Africans’’ relate to “Blackness’’ versus “foreignness’’ in both cities? What difference does it make to live in the city when one is a noncitizen? \n \n Following the films showcase will be a Q&A with Damani Partridge\, the project lead\, and the filmmakers from Freedom House in Detroit: Ajara Hamidatu Alghali\, Hawlaane Noor Frances Sarr-Robbins\, Whitney Smith\, and Fatou-Seydi Singhiam Sarr. \n \n Reception to follow. UID:48808-11308891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48808 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Anthropology,Detroit,Film,History,immigration,International LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Wendell Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T181515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:SMTD@UMMA DESCRIPTION:SMTD Piano Professor Logan Skelton\, colleagues\, and students perform renderings of folk music by well-known composers such as Bartok\, Liszt\, and Brahms\, and discuss how the compositional voice\, like the artistic lens\, inevitably makes itself known. UID:47136-10801972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47136 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T133116 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:SMTD@UMMA: Inexact Observations DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Seating is first come first served.\n\nCurator and artist Ellsworth Kelly's Suite of Plant Lithographs are\, according to the artist\, \"exact observations\" in which \"nothing is changed or added\,\" allowing the truth of each flower or leaf to make itself felt. But can an artist ever create a rendition that doesn't also include their unique perceptions? SMTD Piano Professor Logan Skelton and colleagues will present folk music arrangements by Bela Bartok and others to investigate this question through a musical lens. \n\nThe SMTD@UMMA performance series is generously supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.\n\nMatisse 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.\n\nFor more information and events\, visit umma.umich.edu/events. UID:48806-11308890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48806 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,Music,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Museum Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T180025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Zouk Thursdays DESCRIPTION:7:00pm Intermediate Lesson\n8:00pm Practica practice\n9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)\nCost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)\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:48090-11180534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dancing Globally DESCRIPTION:Department of Dance. \n\nA program of modern dance featuring works by innovative global guest choreographers Ohad Naharin and Shannon Gillen and faculty Missy Beck and Sandra Torijano. UID:42732-9653737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42732 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,International,Jewish Studies,Music,Religious LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:SMTD Faculty Showcase DESCRIPTION:A mini-collage concert of faculty performers featuring Andrew Bishop\, saxophone\; Timothy Cheek\, piano\; Melissa Coppola\, piano\; Anthony Elliott\, cello\; Arthur Greene\, piano\; David Jackson\, trombone\; Jonathan Ovalle\, percussion\; Lydia Qiu\, piano\; Ellen Rowe\, piano\; George Shirley\, tenor\; Louise Toppin\, soprano\; Stephen West\, bass-baritone\; and Adam Unsworth\, horn. UID:47182-10813699@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47182 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: AJ Covey\, percussion DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Gibbard - Passenger Seat\; Deane - The Process of Invention\; Becker - Etude no. 8 from Rudimental Arithmetic\; Smith - Neptune\; Kitazume - Side by Side\; Martin - The Yellow Jacket. UID:49201-11389444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T124137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Rachael Yamagata DESCRIPTION:Woodstock\, New York–based artist Rachael Yamagata is known for her soul-baring\, gut-punching songs of love lost\, perserverance\, and triumph. She excels at venues like The Ark as she embodies a living-room philosophy of performance that invites the audience closer in. Rachael's songs invoke a 1970s storytelling vibe with flavors of Carole King\, Rickie Lee Jones\, and Bonnie Raitt\, while modern comparisons often find her in line with past collaborators Ryan Adams and Ray LaMontaigne. Her shows are dynamic\, cathartic\, and often comedic\, and this Songs–Stories–Solo tour finds her at her intimate best. UID:47610-10963383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T085331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180201T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Academic Year in Freiburg 2018/2019 DESCRIPTION:Academic Year in Freiburg 2018/2019\n\nThursday\, February 1: Application Deadline\n\nThe best way to get to know Germany really well is to live there for an extended time. Here is a recent article how studying abroad positively affects your career chances: https://www.iie.org/en/Why-IIE/Announcements/2017-10-02-Gaining-an-Employment-Edge\n\nBy studying in Freiburg for a year\, you can practically earn all credits required for a German major and may possibly get distribution credits and credits towards a second major\; and you will live in one of the most attractive and desired places in Germany. Sophomores are allowed to participate in this program.\n\nEligibility:\n* Minimum 3.0 GPA\n* Good academic standing\n* Sophomore\, Junior\, or Senior standing by Fall 2018\n* Completion of German 232 or equivalent prior to September 2018\n\nThe 2018/19 consortium program will be led by University of Michigan Professor Kerstin Barndt\, who will also be teaching some of the courses. Feel free to contact her with questions: barndt@umich.edu! The program also has a very savvy Associate Director\, who lives in Freiburg throughout the entire year.\n\nTuition for this year-long program is covered by a program fee ($7\,500/semester)\, and students receive University of Michigan in-residence credit for the courses they take during the Academic Year in Freiburg. Students are not required to pay University of Michigan tuition during the year abroad. Additional costs include an administrative fee ($1\,200)\, travel\, room\, and board. Students remain eligible for financial aid. In addition\, the German Department will reduce the program fee for all applicants by $1\,000 this year. Further funding opportunities (up to $3\,000) are available from the department as well\; to inquire\, please contact germandept@umich.edu.\n\nFor more information\, see the AYF website at http://www.ayf.uni-freiburg.de/. \n\nA short informational video is available at https://umich.app.box.com/s/3fm5443caoz2bioald1r8jrok4o20qe9. \n\nHere is the link to the application website from CGIS (Center for Global and Intercultural Study): https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10247\n\nLSA students in this program may be eligible for additional scholarships through the University of Michigan. UID:46963-10711244@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46963 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Study Abroad,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR