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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 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:43238-12816427@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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 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:42456-12507634@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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 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:50346-12237290@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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291316@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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235900 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:44018-9869326@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:20171208T131338 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:National Tater Tot Day DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 2\, 2018 is National Tater Tot Day! Twigs Dining Hall is celebrating by having a loaded tator tot bar at dinner! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47442-11417460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47442 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171208T131346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:National Tater Tot Day DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 2\, 2018 is National Tater Tot Day! Bursley Dining Hall is celebrating by serving delicious tater tots! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47441-10901443@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47441 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 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:46881-10667179@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:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 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:46881-10667296@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47148-10802032@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47154-10802369@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47151-10802117@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47153-10802285@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47155-10802453@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47156-10802537@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47152-10802201@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:47157-10802621@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T230000 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:48861-11317266@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:20180202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:45823-10310441@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:20180217T063022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Xenith Sports Immersion DESCRIPTION:\nOn Friday\, February 2nd\, the University Career Center willbe taking 20 students to spend half a day at Xenith in Detroit. During this experience\, students will tour the organization & have the chance to see the work space\, production facility\, and testing area. Students will engage with the Xenith team and gain a deeper understanding of their different areas of work\, such as Product\, Product innovation\, IT\, Marketing\, Sales\, Social Media\, Customer Service\, etc. Participants will leave with a complete understanding of the company\, their roles\, and their great company culture! \n\nThis is a great opportunity for undergraduate students interested in learning about different roles in the sports industry. To learn more about Xenith\, visit here: https://www.xenith.com/pages/about-us \n\nXenith Immersion schedule: \n\n8:45am - Meet at the first floor of the Student Activities Building\n9:00am - Take bus from the Student Activities Building to Xenith in Detroit\n10:00am - Immersion visit starts\n - Tour Xenith (work space\, production\, & testing)\n - Meet with Xenith team & learn about the day-to-day of different roles\n - Hear from Xenith HR to learn what they're looking for on applications/interviews \n - Experience what some of their work is like through an interactive activity with Xenith teammembers\n2:00pm - Immersion ends\n3:00pm - Arrive back at the Student Activities Building \n\nAny questions? Email Kathleen at kathlmcd@umich.edu \n\n***The University Career Center will be providing transportation for this visit and lunch will be provided by Xenith for attendees. This application will open on Tuesday\, January 16th and close on Friday\, January 26th- please click 'join event' to fill out your application if you are certain you would be available to attend. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is a large interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on\, this application may close early. Students must be able to attend the full program to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the day\, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Students are advised to bring a copy of their updated resumeto the event. \n\nIf you are no longer able to attend this Immersion\,you must notify Kathleen of the cancellation via email at kathlmcd@umich.edu by 1/26/18. If you do not formally cancel by 1/26/18\, you will receive a cancellation penalty. For more information on Immersion policies\, please visit: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/handshake-policy-statement UID:47906-11048821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47906 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1201 Woodward Ave 5th Floor | Detroit MI 48226 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T121145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T173000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:Architecture is always becoming digital. To become digital is to exist in a digital world. It is an ontological state that tacitly recognizes pervasive technology\, computational logic\, and digital aesthetics as the background condition to everyday life. To become digital is to be situated in a context where everything from screen to stone exists as data and matter\, where habits of mind forged within the digital environment are constantly transferred to the analog world. For architecture\, this has signaled a profound paradigm shift that is largely complete and yet conspicuously unaccounted. Digital technology entered architectural discourse in a wave of futurist prognostication\, heady formalist trajectories\, and overt avant-garde agendas. Positivist rationales and a fervent belief in the intrinsic merits of technological progress reigned among the varied proponents of early digital architecture\, alongside an embrace of the capacities of computation to address cultural and organizational complexity. In these early years\, the digital was foregrounded as both topic and technique. In contrast\, contemporary architectural practice engages the digital as ubiquitous and foundational. Today the digital is ambient\, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world\, constituting the material\, conceptual\, and experiential context of any architectural project.\n\nReflecting on the status of the digital in contemporary architecture demands renewed critical attention towards the ways architects work and the products of our labor. Today\, our discipline’s waning fascination with digitally-enabled complexity and progress is being replaced with a sometimes blasé embrace of expedient digital tools from the Google image search to Rhino’s “Make 2D” command. Screenshot aesthetics and deadpan digital representations abound\, delivering a glancing wink to those in the know\, and constituting a new internal discourse for contemporary designers based on the expedient circulation of digital images. But as tendencies within our discipline assume the temporality of the meme\, the facile nature with which they are adopted often belies the significance of their appearance. Today\, digital technology doesn’t simply enable architects to represent the “real\,” it is intricately intertwined with the real itself. Our methods of design are evermore connected on a computational level to our methods of dissemination\, communication\, and social networking\, and indeed to those of our culture at large. This nascent condition presents new possibilities for architectural speculation\, representation\, and for our discipline’s potential impact in an increasingly digital world.\n\nBecoming Digital is a yearlong project that seeks to unpack our contemporary digital moment. Over the course of the year\, Taubman College faculty and students\, along with invited guests\, will design\, debate\, and reflect upon the current state of the digital in architecture. In the Fall semester\, three architecture offices\, all critically engaging digital technology through their practice\, will lead workshops with students and engage in public conversations around the project’s theme. The Winter semester will include an exhibition of student work\, a conference\, and a series of presentations by Taubman College faculty. All events will attempt to grapple with computation as the pervasive context in which we live and work\, and through that deeper understanding to reveal a capacity to influence ubiquitous digitality through design.\n\nConference Schedule\nThursday\, January 25 \n5:10pm Lecture: Hito Steyerl\nIn partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series\n(Michigan Theatre\, 603 E. Liberty Street)\n\nFriday\, February 2\n6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Christiane Paul\, New School\n\nSaturday\, February 3\n9:30am - 5:30pm Conference\n6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Mark Jarzombek\, MIT\n\nConference Participants:\nEllie Abrons\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nViola Ago\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nLaida Aguirre\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nLucia Allais\, Princeton University School of Architecture\nAshley Bigham\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nAndré Brock\, University of Michigan Communication Studies\nSophia Brueckner\, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\nEsther Choi\, Princeton University\nAdam Fure\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nErik Herrmann\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nCarolyn Kane\, Ryerson University\nZeina Koreitem\, Harvard GSD\nJohn May\, Harvard GSD\nMalcolm McCullough\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nMeredith Miller\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nThom Moran\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nSarah Murray\, University of Michigan Screen Arts and Culture\nCyrus Peñarroyo\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nCurtis Roth\, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture\nMegan Sapnar Ankerson\, University of Michigan Communication Studies\nHans Tursack\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nClaire Zimmerman\, University of Michigan Taubman College\n\nAll events take place in the Art & Architecture Building A. Alfred Wing Commons\, unless noted otherwise UID:49077-11375458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,conference,North campus LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 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:44170-9889136@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:20180202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:43757-9838283@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:20180110T135934 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:47319-10866151@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:20180202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:47322-10866214@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:20171013T100606 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors\, Dealers\, and Bibliographers DESCRIPTION:The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors\, Dealers\, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.\n\nIt features books\, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett\, Isaiah Thomas\, James Lenox\, Joseph Sabin\, John Carter Brown\, Lyman Copeland Draper\, George Brinley Jr.\, and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation\, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information\, enlightenment and inspiration. UID:45741-10273893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Books,Education,History,Library,Literature,Museum,Philosophy,Research LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T150035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Asian Languages Fair DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair\, featuring guests from the Chinese Language Program\, Japanese Language Program\, Korean Language Program\, South Asian Language Program\, and Southeast Asian Language Program. \n\nYou are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali\, Chinese\, Filipino\, Hindi\, Indonesian\, Japanese\, Javanese\, Korean\, Punjabi\, Sanskrit\, Thai\, Tibetan\, Urdu\, and Vietnamese. There will also be live cultural performances and opportunities to win raffle prizes.\n\nStudents interested in studying abroad in Asia will be able to speak with a representative from the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS). A representative from the Language Resource Center will be at the fair\, as well\, to share information about language-learning resources on campus.\n\nThe Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room on the first floor of the Michigan Union from 11am-3pm on Friday\, February 2. We hope to see you there! UID:48075-11177994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48075 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,India,Japanese Studies,Korea,Language,South Asia,Southeast Asia,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T185917 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Coffee & Cookies with Semester in Detroit! DESCRIPTION:Join us for another round of Coffee & Cookies! We'll be hosting our drop-in sessions in the Greene Lounge this semester\, right next to our NEW office at 1800 East Quad (just down the hall to the left when you use Class Access door to get into EQ)! Come on by to reconnect with other SID alums\, ask questions about the program\, and\, of course\, eat some cookies. \n\nCoffee & Cookies dates this Winter:\nJanuary 19\nFebruary 2\nFebruary 16 UID:48340-11222712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48340 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Detroit,Food,Free,Internship,Office Hours,Social Justice,Study Abroad LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Greene Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:46544-10546891@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:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:46548-10547125@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:20180131T072242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Paleontology Seminar - Biogeographic history of widespread freshwater fish clades: what does the fossil record tell us? DESCRIPTION:Biogeographic history of widespread freshwater fish clades: what does the fossil record tell us? UID:48838-11308924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48838 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum Of Paleontology LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Room 1532 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T151629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Paleontology Seminar - TBD DESCRIPTION:Paleontology Seminar - TBD UID:49333-11420284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Paleontology LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - 1532 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:46549-10547246@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:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:47736-11004701@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:20180202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:46545-10546970@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:20180124T172113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. Power in the Margins of Madurese Society: Salabadhan (or Sandur Madura) as a Nexus of Performing Arts Patronage\, Political Clientelism\, and Socio-Religious Transgression DESCRIPTION:Steve Laronga is a gamelan ensemble director.\n\nContrary to its pious-sounding name\, the Madurese performance tradition of salabâdhân (from Arabic-derived Madurese salabât\, “supplication to God”) is known in its primary territory of Madura and mainland East Java as an arena for religious and social transgression. The focus of attention in contemporary performances is a nightlong process by which individual invited guests are formally called to give a substantial monetary gift to the host and to dance briefly to the accompaniment of a small but distinctively noisy gamelan ensemble. Both hosts and guests belong to a highly visible\, politically powerful network of local “big men” or “tough guys” (known as blâtèr) from across the region—the sole patrons of this tradition. \n\nFrom the perspectives of neighbors and other uninvited spectators\, salabâdhân likely appears as a highly visible spectacle of high rolling men mixing it up with transvestite singer-dancers\, flashing large sums of money\, drinking\, gambling\, and performing acts suggestive of their capacity for violence. It appears\, in short\, as a celebration of masculine largesse and impunity to everyday social rules--an entertaining show of force by the dangerous men who sponsor it. \n\nThis presentation draws a close correlation between formal aspects of contemporary salabâdhân performance and its social and political significance\, a symmetry which\, I suggest\, emerges directly from the influence that the patrons of this tradition have exerted on its historical development. Following upon the work of Abdur Rozaki (2004\, 2017)\, I illustrate the contemporary political centrality of its patrons through the example of notorious former elected head (from 2003-2013) of the western Madurese district of Bangkalan\, Ra Fuad Amin—now in prison for corruption—who joined the salabâdhân network as a means to assume an unprecedented position of simultaneous dominance in all of the district’s three\, usually oppositional\, major power player factions: the blâter\, the Islamic religious elite\, and the formal political bureacracy. \n\nAlthough salabâdhân and its patrons present an especially spectacular example of the political instrumentalization of “tradition” on both symbolic and more directly coercive levels\, I suggest that we might consider it as an exemplary case rather than an extraordinary one. I conclude by asking what we might be able to say about the historical development and present forms of other performing arts in Madura and Java—and even in distant other corners of the world—by paying closer attention to the social obligations and motivations of its sponsors. UID:47260-10855070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47260 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Arts of Islam,Discussion,Lecture,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180204T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 SUMMARY:Other:CWPA Tournament @ Purdue University DESCRIPTION:CWPA Tournament #1 at Purdue University UID:48607-11523832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Purdue University CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 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:46935-10703009@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:20180125T111410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Public/Private Selves: (In)visibilities\, Identities\, and Communities DESCRIPTION:This panel engages themes from Gregory Pflugfelder’s article “The Nation-State\, the Age/Gender System\, and the Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan.” Moving from late medieval Japan to colonial Lima and finally 1960-70s Italy\, presenters discuss various ways in which material and visual signifiers shape personal and communal identities. Dr. Pflugfelder will provide a brief discussion of the article prior to presentations. Pre-reading is encouraged but not necessary. The article is available at: www.jstor.org/stable/23357429.\n\nFeaturing:\n\nGregory Pflugfelder (speaker\; Associate Professor\; East Asian Languages and Cultures\, History\; Columbia University)\n\nRobert Morrissey (panelist\; Graduate Student\, History of Art\, University of Michigan\; \"Dress and the Divine: Late Medieval Representations of Chigo Daishi\")\n\nXimena Gómez (panelist\; Graduate Student\, History of Art\, University of Michigan\; \"Caboverdes and Criollos: Confraternal Art and the (In)Visibility of Afroperuvian Ethnic Identity in Early Colonial Lima\")\n\nAlessio Ponzio (panelist\; Graduate Student\, History and Women's Studies\, University of Michigan\; \"Ermanno Lavorini: How an Alleged Case of Pedophilia Galvanized Homophobia and Homosexual Self-awareness in 1969 Italy\")\n\nHitomi Tonomura (chair\; Professor\; History\, Women's Studies\; University of Michigan)\n\nFree and open to the public. Lunch provided. \n\nPhoto: \"Memories from the invisible\" (August Brill\, CC BY 2.0).\n\nThis event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:47887-11043645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Japanese Studies,Women's Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T124126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IDENTITY WORKSHOP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES DESCRIPTION:The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions of themselves and others. Participants will leave with a better understanding of who they are and how their identities interact with the world.\n\nScheduled Workshops:\nFebruary 2: Social identities\nFebruary 16: Privilege Links\nMarch 16: Conflict Management Styles\nApril 13: Core Values\n\nRSVP here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMzBQXBuyc77UHtP20oybB05FrQz9o8szPR6kAq8OLwm8ovQ/viewform \nFood will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. RSVP\n\nIdentity Workshops are a partnership of the Taubman College Office of DEI and CAPS.\n\nFor more information contact: \nJoana Dos Santos\, TC DEI Specialist\, joanads@umich.edu or 734-647-9129\nNidaa Kazi\, CAPS Post-Doctoral Fellow\, nfkazi@umich.edu UID:49558-11476266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - 2210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T181640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life After Graduate School Seminar | PANEL: Faculty search: the view from applicants and hiring committee DESCRIPTION:Three faculty members (Henriette Elvang\, Ben Safdi\, and Liuyan Zhao) will discuss and take questions about the process of applying for faculty jobs and how the faculty search committee works.\n UID:49404-11453745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T131212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Navigation by Judgement: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work DESCRIPTION:High-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers from using skill\, local knowledge\, and creativity to solve problems in ways that maximize the impact of foreign aid. Drawing on a novel database of over 14\,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects\, I conclude that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This “Navigation by Judgment” is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program’s goals is hard to accurately measure. Accomplishing results and accounting for results are sometimes in tension\; focusing agents on meeting metrics sometimes undermines performance. UID:49509-11465109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49509 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld 5670 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T152426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Paul Mavrides: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 2\, join us for a talk by artist Paul Mavrides at the Ann Arbor District Library’s downtown branch. Mavrides\, a long-time resident of San Francisco’s Mission district\, will discuss his peripatetic comics\, graphics\, paintings\, and artworks that expose\, explore\, and exploit the cultural oddities\, conspiratorial mysteries and all-too-human fiascos of contemporary society.\n\nMavrides is a member of the ZAP Comix group\, as well as a founding associate of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs’ SubGenius Foundation. His many collaborators have included Gilbert Shelton\, Robert Crumb\, Harvey Pekar\, film directors Alex Cox and Ron Mann\, Survival Research Laboratories and The Residents\, among others.\n\nMavrides is a Witt Visiting Artist at the Stamps School of Art & Design January 31 - February 3\, 2018. This event is co-sponsored by the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop.\n\nBiography\n\nPaul Mavrides is a San Francisco-based cartoonist and painter. His work has been published in various comics anthologies\, including Z​AP​​\, Young Lust\, Anarchy Comics\,​ ​and Real War Stories\, and he collaborated with underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton on The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in the ‘70s and ‘80s. He also illustrated several Harvey Pekar stories for American Splendor. ​His comics have also appeared in The Village Voice\, The New Yorker\,​ The San Francisco Chronicle\, ​Heavy Metal Magazine\, and many more.​ He’s collaborated on projects with Spain Rodriguez\, Robert Crumb\, S. Clay Wilson\, director Alex Cox (Repo Man)\, and many other artists.\n\nHe was active in the San Francisco punk scene\, contributing to RE/Search Publications (SEARCH AND DESTROY\, RE/Search Magazine\, and many other titles)\, and collaborating with Survival Research Laboratories.\n\n​Notably\, Paul was one of the founding members of “The Church of the Sub-Genius\,” and created much of the artwork associated with the organization. A film about the church is in now in production.\n\nIn 19​96​\, ​after a 5-year battle\, ​Mavrides successfully won a court ruling that banned the state of California from levying a sales tax on comic strips and comic books. Following the ruling\, Mavrides said\, “It’s gratifying that\, after five years of struggle\, the State of California\, through the decision of the Board of Equalization\, has officially and rightfully recognized that what cartoonists and comic creators trade in are ideas\, not pieces of paper.” ​ ​ He subsequently was awarded the ​J​ames Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Defender of Liberty Award from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund​.\n\nHe was involved in the production of several films\, including Ron Mann’s Comic Book Confidential.\n\n​He has given lectures at the ​San Francisco Art Institute\, ​ University of California Berkeley\, ​ Stanford University\, ​ The Art Academy of San Francisco\, and many others.​ UID:48787-11308871@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion,Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T132346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Poverty Solutions Open House DESCRIPTION:Please Join Us!\n\nThe Education Policy Initiative\, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan\, and Youth Policy Lab cordially invite students across campus to an open house to learn more about our work\, meet the staff\, and get involved. \n\nRefreshments will be served. UID:49237-11397809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poverty LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T103937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Contrasting Regulatory DNA Variation and Flexible Transcription Factor Function DESCRIPTION:Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki UID:47196-10813713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47196 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T134218 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Your Online Presence DESCRIPTION:Regardless of whether we've created one intentionally\, we all have a presence online. While our social and professional identities often intersect\, it's important to create appropriate boundaries between them\, and to maintain a professional presence that helps bring attention to your work\, connect you to new collaborators\, and craft a reputation in your field. This hands-on workshop will teach the basics about maintaining one's professional presence online\, including social media use\, options for portfolio sites\, privacy implications\, and more.\n\nThis workshop can assist students with exploring and maintaining an ePortfolio platform toward Requirement ‘J’ of the Graduate Teacher Plus Certificate in Digital Media (GTC+) program. UID:48111-11180652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48111 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Technical Communications,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room, # 1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T123027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Consulting Track: Intro to the Case Workshop DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/123815\n\nInterested in working in consulting? You better be ready for the Case Interview!\n\nJoin us for a workshop designed to give you a great introduction tothe Case Interview\, as well as some great prep resources! \n\nNote: Thisevent’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'dlike 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:49346-11423090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49346 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:20180131T090303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Nelson A. Boxer represents corporations and individuals in criminal prosecutions\, criminal and regulatory investigations\, and in commercial litigation. A trial lawyer\, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York for seven years. In private practice\, Mr. Boxer has been lead counsel in high-profile criminal and civil actions involving finance\, health care\, banking\, securities\, insurance\, tax\, and accounting\, among other areas of law.\n\nBefore joining Petrillo Klein & Boxer\, Mr. Boxer was co-leader of the Government Investigations practice at the prominent national law firm Alston & Bird LLP.\n\nFrom 1991 to 1998\, Mr. Boxer served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In September 1997\, he received the U.S. Department of Justice\, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys\, Director’s Award.\n\nMr. Boxer graduated from the University of Michigan magna cum laude in 1984. He earned his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1987.\n\nMr. Boxer serves on the Board of Directors of the Cancer Research & Treatment Fund.\n\nMr. Boxer is regularly listed on The Best Lawyers in New York and the New York Metro Super Lawyers. UID:48201-11188797@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 (Askwith Auditorium) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180111T154038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Possible Health Impacts of Metal Mining & Processing in Katanga\, Democratic Republic of the Congo DESCRIPTION:The extraction and processing of minerals containing copper\, cobalt and other metals in southern Katanga have been demonstrated to cause substantial exposure to potentially toxic metals not only among mine workers\, but also among their families and the general population. The public health impact of such pollution is difficult to assess but evidence of adverse health effects is emerging. (National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/NIOSH\, UM Center for Occupational Health & Safety Engineering/COHSE\, Education & Research Center/ERC).\n\nBen Nemery is holder of degrees in medicine\, occupational medicine and toxicology. He’s affiliated with the Medical Faculty of the KU Leuven since 1987. He founded the Lung Toxicology\, research unit\, a joint venture between the departments of Pneumology & Occupational\, Environmental and Insurance Medicine. He teaches toxicology and occupational medicine\, mainly at postgraduate level. He holds a weekly outpatient clinic for occupational pulmonary disorders. His research involves experimental as well as clinical-epidemiological studies in the mechanisms of lung disease caused by occupational and environmental pollutants. Recently he has concentrated on occupational and environmental health in Africa. He has authored over 300 journal publications and contributed to more than 40 books. UID:48602-11254308@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Ecology,Engineering,Environment,Industrial and Operations Engineering,International,Materials Science,Medicine,Nursing,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Public Health LOCATION:School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 1690 SPH I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T155311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations DESCRIPTION:We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book\, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up\, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules\, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.\n\nOur first meeting will be next Friday (February 2) from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty\, staff\, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested\, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.\n\nWe'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However\, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations. UID:49299-11409078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49299 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T115729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE Defense: Mesh-Refinement\, Solution Order-Increment and Mesh-Movement Adaptation Models for Computational Fluid Dynamics DESCRIPTION:Aerospace Engineering PhD Candidate: Kaihua Ding\nDissertation Chair: Assoc. Prof. Krzysztof J. Fidkowski\n\nAs numerical simulations are applied to more complex and large-scale problems\, solution verification becomes increasingly important in ensuring the accuracy of the computed results. Although improvements in computer hardware have brought expensive simulations within reach\, efficiency is still paramount\, especially in the context of design optimization and uncertainty quantification. This thesis addresses both of these needs through contributions to solution-based adaptive algorithms\, in which the discretization is modified through a feedback of solution error estimates so as to improve the accuracy. In particular\, new methods are developed for two discretizations relevant to Computational Fluid Dynamics: the Active Flux method and the discontinuous Galerkin method. For the Active Flux method\, which is a fully-discrete third-order discretization\, both the discrete and continuous adjoint methods are derived and used to drive mesh (h) refinement and dynamic node movement\, also known as “r” adaptation. For the discontinuous Galerkin method\, which is an arbitrary-order finite-element discretization\, efficiency improvements are presented for computing and using error estimates derived from the discrete adjoint\, and a new “r” adaptation strategy is presented for unsteady problems. For both discretizations\, error estimate efficacy and adaptive efficiency improvements are shown relative to other strategies.\n\nPublications\n\nKaihua Ding\, Krzysztof J. Fidkowski\, and Philip L. Roe. Output-based Adaptation for the Active Flux Method. Journal of Computer \& Fluids\, 2017 (submitting). \n\nKaihua Ding and Krzysztof J. Fidkowski. Output error control using $r$-adaptation. AIAA Paper\, 2017-4111\, 2017.\n\nKaihua Ding\, Krzysztof J. Fidkowski\, and Philip L. Roe. Continuous adjoint based error estimation and r-refinement for the active flux method. AIAA Paper 2016-0832\, 2016. \n\nKaihua Ding\, Krzysztof J. Fidkowski\, and Philip L. Roe. Acceleration techniques for adjoint-based error estimation and mesh adaptation. Eighth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics\, ICCFD8-0249\, 2014. \n\nKaihua Ding\, Krzysztof J. Fidkowski\, and Philip L. Roe. Adjoint-based error estimation and mesh adaptation for the active flux method. AIAA Paper 2013-2942\, 2013. UID:48759-11306089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48759 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1044 McDivitt Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T230000 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:48737-11297777@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:20180125T122332 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T153000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CCN Developmental Talks DESCRIPTION:. UID:47650-10971155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47650 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T113546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Gershom Scholem's Negative Aesthetics: Mathematics and the Origins of Critical Theory DESCRIPTION:Friday February 2\, 2018\n2:00 - 4:00 pm\nRoom 3308 Modern Languages Building\n812 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109-1275\n\nThis presentation is part of the Winter Colloquium of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.\nA pre-circulated paper in English is available upon request.\n\n\nMatthew Handelman will share new work on Gershom Scholem\, preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism with widespread impact on twentieth-century Zionism\, culture\, and thought. Handelman will highlight the importance of mathematical concepts for understanding Scholem's ideas of aesthetics and negativity and their relationship to critical theorists such as Franz Rosenzweig and Siegfried Kracauer.\n\nMatthew Handelman is an Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century\, the intersections of science\, mathematics and culture in German-speaking countries\, as well as the digital humanities and the history of technology. Matthew has published on these topics in international journals such as The Germanic Review\, Scientia Poetica and The Leo Baeck Yearbook. He is currently finishing a manuscript called Negative Mathematics: German Jewish Intellectuals and the Origins of Critical Theory. It explores the underdeveloped possibilities of mathematics in critical theory\, focusing on Gershom Scholem\, Franz Rosenzweig\, and Siegfried Kracauer. A second book project\, which explores the relationship between necessity and narration in scientific and aesthetic thought after 1800\, is also in the works.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, \nplease contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu. UID:49280-11406224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49280 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Jewish Studies,Mathematics,Philosophy LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 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:48123-11180696@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:20180201T112950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Museums Seminar: From Arid Australia to the Amazon: Comparative Ecology of the World’s Most Diverse Squamate Communities DESCRIPTION:EEB Museums Seminar at the Research Museums Center (RMC). UID:49332-11420283@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Eeb,Zoology LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Demo Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T083140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminars | String Theory of Supertubes DESCRIPTION:The internal structure of extremal and near-extremal black holes in string theory involves a variety of ingredients — strings and branes — that lie beyond supergravity\, yet it is often difficult to achieve quantitative control over these ingredients in a regime where the state being described approximates a black hole. The supertube is a brane bound state that has been proposed as a paradigm for how string theory resolves black hole horizon structure. This talk will describe how the worldsheet dynamics of strings can be solved exactly in a wide variety of supertube backgrounds\, opening up the study of stringy effects in states near the black hole transition. UID:49365-11450940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49365 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180203T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Hillsdale Wide Track Classic DESCRIPTION:Indoor Track Meet  UID:48849-11512639@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48849 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hillsdale College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T113201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Refutation DESCRIPTION:The practice of refutation has been a central preoccupation of philosophers since Socrates. But what is a refutation? And why do philosophers feel impelled to produce them? With reference to the first question\, I produce a definition of refutation: a refutation disproves one proposition in order to discredit another. With reference to the second question\, I argue that the refuter’s activity to undermine her interlocutor's account solves a problem facing the project of knowledge-acquisition. This problem was articulated by William James: the project of coming to believe truths is in tension with the project of avoiding belief in falsehoods. The first motivates one to embrace dogmatism\, the second to retreat to skepticism. The practice of refutation solves James’ problem by way of a division of labor. UID:47013-10725028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T123027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T161500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking for and How to Get Them DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/123822\n\nThis is for Campus Information Center Staff\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:49347-11423091@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T095028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Mountain Building\, Strike-slip Faulting\, and Landscape Evolution in New Zealand's Marlborough Fault System DESCRIPTION:The ~150 km wide dextral Marlborough Fault System and adjacent Kaikoura Mountains accommodate oblique convergence at the NE end of the South Island\, New Zealand. Low-temperature thermochronology from this region\, which was also the site of the 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura earthquake\, places new limits on the timing and style of mountain building and the relationship between the mountains and adjacent faults. We sampled rocks for (U-Th/He) and fission track dating from a range of elevations spanning ~2 km within the Kaikoura Mountains\, which stand high above active strike-slip faults. The data reveal two phases of exhumation: Miocene cooling localized to hanging wall rocks followed by regional and rapid cooling reflected in all samples starting at ~4-5 Ma. These results suggest that\, despite the presence of active mountain front faults\, much of the topographic relief in this region predates the onset of strike-slip faulting when portions of the Marlborough Faults were thrust faults during the early development of the transpressive plate boundary. After 5 Ma\, the main Marlborough faults transitioned to accommodating primarily strike-slip motion\, and regional exhumation likely reflected increased proximity to the migrating Pacific plate subduction zone and the buoyant Chatham Rise. The 2016 earthquake\, which lifted and/or laterally shifted the surface along multiple subsidiary Marlborough fault strands\, both onshore and off\, fits well with evidence from the long-term record of a broad\, complex and evolving oblique collision zone. UID:46205-10418368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46205 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170803T092922 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Atmospheric Citizenship: Distributions of Life in the Wake of Delhi’s Airpocalypse DESCRIPTION:D. Asher Ghertner is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers University. His current research project\, “Bad Air: The Cultural Politics of Breathing in ‘the World’s Most Air-Polluted City’\,” builds on ethnographic\, legal\, and archival research to examine how templates of segregation are being remapped onto the three-dimensional space of the atmosphere\, and how class- and caste-based exclusions are being reimagined in the wake of the WHO's declaration that Delhi’s air the worst in the world. His first book\, Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi (Oxford University Press\, 2015)\, was an ethnography of mass slum demolition\, charting the rise of a mode of governing space premised on urban aesthetics. UID:41936-9495457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Environment,India LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T081842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department of Linguistics Winter Colloquium Series DESCRIPTION:Though there is robust morphological evidence for small units of word formation such as roots to account for patterns of lexical relatedness\, the syntactic significance of roots and their role in capturing syntactic generalizations are not as empirically well grounded. For example\, in non-concatenative morphological systems\, such as Arabic\, the root has figured prominently as a primitive unit of derivation that provides a mechanism to account for lexical relations that resist accounts in terms of the familiar patterns of morphological concatenation through prefixation or suffixation to a base. In syntax\, recent accounts have invoked the notion of root\, mostly on conceptual grounds\, to account\, for example\, for the constructional meaning of sentences and the interplay between functional categories and lexical categories. In this talk\, I take up the question of the role of the root in syntax and whether there are empirically principled restrictions on access to it. I will present empirical arguments to show that such principled restrictions can be motivated and that they are consistent with recent developments in syntactic theory\, and particularly the relation between the syntactic component and the morpho-phonological interface. UID:49449-11462122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T152353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Krimm Special Lectureship: \"Glutamate transporter dynamics: how fast can it go?\" DESCRIPTION:Glutamate transporters are responsible for the uptake of the neurotransmitter glutamate from the synaptic cleft into glial cells in a process driven by the energy of ionic gradients. Extensive studies on a bacterial homologue GltPh have shown that these transporters operate by a so-called elevator mechanism\, where a distinct “transport” domain moves the substrate and coupled ions across the membrane. The dynamics of this process\, as well as that of substrate and ion binding and release\, determine the rate at which the transporter operates. We aim to understand the nature of the energetic barriers that determine the dynamics and function of these transporters.\n\nThe Krimm lectureship was endowed by the Krimm family\, and named after Professor Emeritus of Biophysics\, Samuel Krimm. We thank Dr. Krimm for his many contributions and years of service to the University and the Biophysics Department. UID:48478-11241169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T112252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: Andrew Till\, PhD\, Los Alamos National Laboratory DESCRIPTION:Andrew Till\, PhD\, Los Alamos National Laboratory\n\nTitle: \"Machine-Learning-Driven Energy Discretization for Neutron Transport: The Finite Element with Discontiguous Support (FEDS) Method\" UID:48403-11230614@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T103125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace DESCRIPTION:CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer life at the University of Michigan. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. UID:48396-11230596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Inclusion,LGBT,Social,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center- 3200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 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:49197-11386644@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:20180110T105252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 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:48473-11241163@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:20180217T123024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T210000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Alibaba Group Information Session DESCRIPTION:Company Overview\nAlibaba's mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. Alibaba's founders started the company to champion smallbusinesses\, in the belief that the Internet would level the playing field by enabling small enterprises to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in domestic and global economies. Alibaba's long-term strategic goal is to serve two billion consumers around the world and support ten million businesses to operate profitably on our platforms.\n\nFast Facts about Alibaba:\n- $547 billion GMV\, with 79% on mobile\n- 454 million annual active buyers\n- 507 million mobile monthly activeusers\n- >1.5 billion product listing\n- $22.99 billion annual revenue\n-56% Y-o-Y Annual Revenue Growth\nNote: Full fiscal year 2017 ended March 31\, 2017\n\nAbout the Event\nAlibaba recently announced that it will invest US$15 billion in research and development over the next three years. This investment will include the creation of DAMO Academy to attract world-class talent\, build partnerships and open research laboratories in seven cities around the globe.\n\nAlibaba is looking for exceptional students to join the team and work with world-class scientists and engineers. As a Research Scientist or Engineer\, you will have the opportunity to solve real-world challenging problems that impact the lives of billions of people.\n\nHow to register: https://survey.alibaba.com/survey/kw1Wl11fB \n\nTarget Audience:\n- Graduation Time: (Full-Time) Fresh Graduates in 2017 or 2018\;(Internship) graduating in 2019 or after.\n- Field of Study: Computer Science\, Electronic Engineering\, Mathematics\, Statistics\, Design or related field.\n- Open Position: Research Scientist\, Research Intern\, Algorithm Engineer\, Software Engineer\, Visual Designer\, Interaction Designer\,Product Manager\, etc. \n- Research Area: Machine Learning\, Algorithms\,Computer Vision and Graphics\, NLP\, Speech Interaction\, Operations Research and Optimization\, Knowledge Graph\, Large Scale Data Processing\, Robotics\, HPC\, Distributed Systems\, Computer Architecture\, Real-Time Machine Learning Platform\, FPGA\, Software Performance\, Databases and Storage\, Containers and Cluster Management\, JVM\, Networking\, Servers \, Network Security\, HCI\, IoT and more.\n- How to apply: Send your resume to campus@alibaba-inc.com or apply online via official website (https://campus.alibaba.com/en/homepage.htm). \n UID:48796-11308880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Dow Building, 1013, 2300 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T122603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE: CHRISTIANE PAUL DESCRIPTION:Christiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts\, lectured internationally on art and technology and is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. Her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (Wiley Blackwell\, 2016)\; Digital Art (Thames and Hudson\, 3rd revised edition\, 2015) Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect\, 2011\; Chinese edition\, 2012)\, co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna\; and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press\, 2008). As Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, she curated several exhibitions—including Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011)\, Profiling (2007)\, Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—and is responsible for artport\, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes Little Sister (is watching you\, too) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery\, NYC\, 2015)\; What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary\, Istanbul\, 2015)\; The Public Private (Kellen Gallery\, The New School\, Feb. 7 - April 17\, 2013)\, Eduardo Kac: Biotopes\, Lagoglyphs and Transgenic Works (Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, 2010)\; Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka\, Croatia\, 2009-10)\; Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz\; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation\, Gijon\, Spain\, Oct. 2009)\; and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon\, Korea\, Aug. 2009). Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008)\; the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08)\; the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008). UID:49080-11375462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lecture LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T012914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T210000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Info Session | Alibaba Group DESCRIPTION:Alibaba recently announced that it will invest US$15 billion in research and development over the next three years. This investment will include the creation of DAMO Academy to attract world-class talent\, build partnerships and open research laboratories in seven cities around the globe.\n\nAlibaba is looking for exceptional students to join the team and work with world-class scientists and engineers. As a Research Scientist or Engineer\, you will have the opportunity to solve real-world challenging problems that impact the lives of billions of people.\n\nTarget Audience:\n- Graduation Time: (Full-Time) Fresh Graduates in 2017 or 2018\; (Internship) graduating in 2019 or after.\n- Field of Study: Computer Science\, Electronic Engineering\, Mathematics\, Statistics\, Design or related field.\n- Open Positions: Research Scientist\, Research Intern\, Algorithm Engineer\, Software Engineer\, UED Designer\, Product Manager\, etc. \n- Research Area: Machine Learning\, Algorithms\, Computer Vision and Graphics\, NLP\, Speech Interaction\, Operations Research and Optimization\, Knowledge Graph\, Large Scale Data Processing\, Robotics\, HPC\, Distributed Systems\, Computer Architecture\, Real-Time Machine Learning Platform\, FPGA\, Software Performance\, Databases and Storage\, Containers and Cluster Management\, JVM\, Networking\, Servers \, Network Security\, HCI\, IoT and more. UID:48464-11479097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Engineering Academic Calendar,Graduate,International,Mathematics,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION:Herbert H. Dow Building - 1013 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T141741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Special Lecture | Japan-U.S. Relations in the Changing World: North Korea\, China\, and America First DESCRIPTION:The world seems to be going through many fundamental changes. Some of them deeply worry us or scare us. While they require careful examination and response\, they often produce frustration\, uneasiness\, and uncertainty among peoples and countries of the world. They may also lead to excessive and emotional reactions and irrational denials. \n \nNorth Korea presents a prime example of these worrisome changes. Trying desperately to survive\, Mr. Kim seems to be succeeding in transforming this oppressive and disfunctional regime into a country capable of launching an ICBM targeted at Washington. An ominous change indeed. \n \nChina is another. Mr. Xi’s China seems to have reached the point where no country in its vicinity can afford to defy its immense might. Even South Korea\, a robust industrial democracy\, seems to be at the verge of succumbing to China’s demand that it refrain from closer and stronger security cooperation with the United States\, let alone Japan. China’s ascent to this dominant power status is an even bigger change achieved in a relatively short span of time with far-reaching impact on the world order. \n \nMr. Trump as the new president is in and of itself a big change for the world. While nothing is wrong about his slogan\, America First\, questions remain whether his means and style of achieving it is the correct one. His decisions to withdraw from TPP\, Paris Accord\, Iran nuclear deal and some other international commitments the world has taken for granted may do great harms to the global community as well as to the United States itself. Mr. Trump\, contrary to his will\, may be weakening America. \n \nMy presentation will survey these changes in the world and argue that close Japan-U.S. cooperation in the area of security\, economy\, trade and investment is the key to better cope with these serious challenges benefiting the two countries as well as the whole Indo-Pacific region of the world. \n \nMr. Naoyuki Agawa currently teaches American constitutional law and history as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto\, Japan. He joined Doshisha on April 1\, 2016 upon leaving Keio University in Tokyo. At Keio\, he served as Professor of the Faculty of Policy Management (1999 – 2016)\, Vice President\, International (2009 – 2013) and Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management (2007 – 2009). \n \nMr. Agawa served as Minister for Public Affairs in charge of public diplomacy and press relations at the Embassy of Japan in Washington\, D.C. on leave of absence from Keio University (2002 – 2005). \n \nMr. Agawa practiced law with the law firms of Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo (1996 – 2002) and Gibson\, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington\, D.C. and Tokyo (1987 -1995). He is licensed to practice law in the State of New York and the District of Columbia. He was also with the legal department of Sony Corporation of Tokyo\, Japan (1977 -1987). Mr. Agawa read law and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. He also graduated\, magna cum laude\, from the School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University\, in 1977\, after transferring from Keio University in 1975. \n \nMr. Agawa’s books include: Understanding America Today through Its Constitution (2017)\; A History of Constitutional Amendments and Other Changes in America (2016)\; American History through the United States Constitution (2004\, 2013) (for which he received the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award in 2005)\; Manifest Destiny on the Seas? The Birth and Rise of Pax Americana (edited and coauthored) (2013)\; The Friendship on the Sea: the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force\, (2001)\; and The Birth of an American Lawyer (1986). He is also a co-translator into Japanese of Paul Johnson’s A History of the Jews (1999\, 2006). He frequently contributes to various journals and newspapers and engages in public speeches at various fora. \n \nMr. Agawa has also taught at\, among others\, the University of Virginia Law School\, Georgetown University Law Center\, and Tokyo University. He currently sits on the board of councilors of the Suntory Foundation\, the Nomura Foundation\, and the United States-Japan Council. He serves on various occasions as advisor to the government of Japan. This includes his current membership of CULCON\, a group that advises the Japanese and U.S. governments on matters related to bilateral cultural and educational exchanges.\n\nCosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit. UID:48732-11297749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48732 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Japanese Studies,Law LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T220622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science for the People: Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Organizers from the original and current Science for the People will discuss the history of the radical science movement\, the consequences of apolitical science\, and the challenges the revitalized Science for the People faces. The event consists of three 30-minute presentations by the speakers\, followed by a question-and-answer session. \n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nBen Allen is a biologist and activist in east Tennessee. He is an organizer for the revitalized Science for the People and was a member of the Science for the People Research Collective. He works as a contractor on computational biology projects related to energy and environment.\n\nDr. Sigrid Schmalzer is a professor in the History Department and an officer in the faculty union at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her publications include two books\, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (2008) and Red Revolution\, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (2016). She was also the lead organizer for the 2014 conference \"Science for the People: The 1970s and Today\,” and she is co-editor\, with Alyssa Botelho and Daniel S. Chard\, of the new primary source volume Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (2017).\n\nDr. John Vandermeer is the Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in LSA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has been involved in research and teaching in food and agriculture related topics for the past 40 years. His research has concentrated on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem in Mexico\, elaborating the complex ecological structures involved in complicated dynamics of the pest control system there. He has authored 15 books\, mainly concerned with agroecosystems and more than 200 publications in theoretical ecology\, tropical ecology and agroecology. He is a founding member of the New World Agriculture and Ecology Group. He is currently a professor of ecology at the University of Michigan. ​\n\n*************\n\nThis event kicks off Science for the People's weekend-long convention. During the convention\, we will be making collective decisions about our organizational structure\, ratifying our foundational principles and bylaws\, and developing national projects\, we plan to include time to get to know one another\, to learn from each other\, and to further our political self-education. The original Science for the People arose in 1969 out of the anti-war movement and lasted until 1989. With radical analysis and non-hierarchical governing structure\, Science for the People tackled the militarization of scientific research\, the corporate control of research agendas\, the political implications of sociobiology and other scientific theories\, the environmental consequences of energy policy\, inequalities in health care\, and many other issues.\n\nIts members opposed racism\, sexism\, and classism in science and above all sought to mobilize people working in scientific fields to become active in agitating for science\, technology\, and medicine that would serve social needs rather than military and corporate interests. They organized in universities and communities\, published a magazine offering sharp political analysis\, and sought meaningful scientific exchange internationally in Vietnam\, China\, Cuba\, Nicaragua\, and other countries.\n\nSome of the issues we face today have changed in important ways\, but fundamental questions of power\, ideology\, and democracy in science remain. UID:49507-11465095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Biology,Ecology,Environment,Interdisciplinary,International,Philosophy,Politics,Science,Social Justice,Workshop LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T083049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio DESCRIPTION:Please join Professor Vaillant for a book reading/signing.\n\nAbout \"Across the Waves:\"\nIn 1931\, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time\, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives\, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. UID:49451-11462124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Global Media,Mass Communication,Radio LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170928T160836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Graham Cotten & Clayton Wickham DESCRIPTION:One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry\, each introduced by a peer\, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.\n\nThis week's reading features Graham Cotten and Clayton Wickham.\n\nGraham Cotten is from Birmingham\, Alabama. Before entering the MFA Program here\, he clerked for Chief Judge Blackburn in the Northern District of Alabama\, and worked as a litigator. His short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction and on NPR.org.\n\nClayton Wickham is a fiction writer from Richmond\, VA. He currently lives in Ann Arbor.\n\nVisit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more! UID:45191-10107454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45191 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T133734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Mark Webster Reading Series DESCRIPTION:One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry\, each introduced by a peer\, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.\n\nThis week's reading features Graham Cotten and Clayton Wickham.\n\nGraham Cotten is from Birmingham\, Alabama. Before entering the MFA Program here\, he clerked for Chief Judge Blackburn in the Northern District of Alabama\, and worked as a litigator. His short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction and on NPR.org.\n\nClayton Wickham is a fiction writer from Richmond\, VA. He currently lives in Ann Arbor. UID:48807-11308892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T180024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T230000 SUMMARY:Auditions:Auditions Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:Come try out for Watercolors Acapella! Bring a verse and chorus that fits your voice! UID:49598-11478918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49598 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:2407 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T180024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T220000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Casual Gaming Club: Gaming Night Event! DESCRIPTION:Finish off the week right and come and hang out with us this weekend for a gaming night!What's going on? We'll be playing all kinds of games\, from video games on consoles that will be screened on projectors and PC games for those who bring their laptops. Card games\, board games\, and other activities on tables will also be a BIG highlight of the event!WHERE is this happening? Since we like to play at several different venues\, we have an event schedule and location list (go to the end of this description). Alternatively\, you may also check our Facebook group for updates (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CasualGamingClub/).But what if I come unprepared? Simple. We will provide many party video games and card/board games to play. If you prefer\, feel free to bring your own consoles\, games\, controllers\, and laptop PC if you want to play specific games with others. If you want to share a card or board game that you really enjoyed playing\, bring that too! Most importantly\, bring your friends!I WANT TO GROUP UP AND PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE. If you enjoy teaming up in a five-stack or six-stack to play team-based games like Overwatch\, League of Legends\, Dota 2\, or other group-party games\, bring your laptop and games and then reach out to your other fellow gamers by commenting on the Facebook event page or mentioning them in the Discord group's respective channel (i.e. @OverwatchGamers)!Reminder: If you're a CGC member and haven't connected your games/interests yet\, please remember to use the link below so that you can easily group you up with other similar gamers to play with at the event and online: http://45.76.18.247/ Hope to see you there! 🎮 Casual Gaming Club\, Full Event Schedule*1/6/2018 Sat 7:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Koessler (3rd Floor)\n*1/13/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/20/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/27/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/2/2018 Fri 8:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Henderson (3rd Floor)\n*2/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/24/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*3/31/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*4/7/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor) UID:47924-11131256@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Refer to Full Event Schedule in description for location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 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:42732-9653738@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:20180119T125020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sideline DESCRIPTION:Sideline is a powerful group of seasoned bluegrass pros that has been getting busier and busier since this \"side project\" became a main gig for its members. Sideline consists of Steve Dilling (banjo)\, Skip Cherryholmes (guitar)\, Jason Moore (bass)\, Brian Aldridge (mandolin)\, and Nathan Aldridge (fiddle). As the name suggests\, Sideline intended to be a sometime band\, but the success of their debut album made Sideline a main line. Sideline captures much of what was great about bluegrass in the 1980s and early 1990s. Serving up what was contemporary bluegrass thirty years ago. they sound traditional in 2015. Sideline's driving bluegrass with killer harmonies and propulsive rhythm\, well-chosen blend of new and old material\, and especially the focus being an equal ensemble takes the listener right back in time to when these guys were jamming in the campgrounds. Recently signed to the Mountain Home label\, Sideline is at work on new music that you can be among the first to hear! UID:44955-10015369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44955 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T121512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Symphony Band DESCRIPTION:Michael Haithcock\, conductor\, Elliott Tackitt\, graduate conductor\, and Bill Campbell\, trumpet. \n\nPre-concert conversation with Paul Dooley\, members of the Symphony Band\, and Michael Haithcock at 7:15 PM in the Lower Lobby. \n\nBeginning in Vienna more than a century ago\, the inspiration of specific locations and cultural traditions combine to create a fascinating musical journey. Additional ports-of-call include Thailand\, Mexico\, Los Angeles\, and a New England village in the early 1900’s before returning to Ann Arbor. PROGRAM: Strauss- Suite in B\, Opus 4\; Narong Prangcharoen- Chakra\; Revueltas- Sensymaya\, Elliot Tackitt\, graduate conductor\; Paul Dooley- Coast of Dreams\, Bill Campbell\, soloist\; William Bolcom- Song for Band\; Ives- Country Band March UID:47127-10801963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47127 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T121514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Viola Studio Recital DESCRIPTION:Students of Assistant Professor Caroline Coade’s viola studio perform. UID:47082-10790894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47082 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T091706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180203T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Honey I Shrunk the UMix DESCRIPTION:Remember how much simpler life was when you were a kid? When healthy eating meant just maybe nibbling part of a vegetable and recess was still a thing?\n\nRelive the best parts of childhood at Honey I Shrunk the UMix on Friday\, February 2\, from 10pm-2am in the Michigan Union!\n\nWe'll have a screening of Inside Out\, a kid friendly buffet (macaroni and cheese! chicken nuggets! french fries!)\, macaroni art\, laser tag\, a scavenger hunt\, Build-a-Bear\, a life-size game room and more! \n\nStudent ID required to enter. Students may register up to two guests upon entry to the Union. UID:49313-11417453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49313 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Games,Umix LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180203T000046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180203T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Honey I Shrunk the UMix DESCRIPTION:Remember how much simpler life was when you were a kid? When healthy eating meant just maybe nibbling part of a vegetable and recess was still a thing?\n\nRelive the best parts of childhood at Honey I Shrunk the UMix on Friday\, February 2\, from 10pm-2am in the Michigan Union!\n\nWe'll have a screening of Inside Out\, a kid friendly buffet (macaroni and cheese! chicken nuggets! french fries!)\, macaroni art\, laser tag\, a scavenger hunt\, Build-a-Bear\, a life-size game room and more! \n\nStudent ID required to enter. Students may register up to two guests upon entry to the Union. UID:49327-11420255@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180203T000046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180202T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180203T020000 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Late Night DESCRIPTION:Spend your Friday Night with UMix.UMix Late Night\, is the University of Michigan's premier late night tradition filled with a series of fun activities and events for all U-M students. You'll find a variety of programs like arts and crafts\, live entertainment\, games\, movies\, and more! And always a free Midnight Buffet!UMix is Fridays 10pm - 2am in the Michigan Union.  UID:44263-9903239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR