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:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235959 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:43238-12816433@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:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235959 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:42456-12507640@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:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235959 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:49718-11762511@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:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235959 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:50346-12237296@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:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291322@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:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T235900 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:44018-9869332@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:20180119T111726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:National Potato Lovers Day DESCRIPTION:February 8th is National Potato Lover's Day. Twigs Dining Hall will be celebrating this holiday by serving a baked potato bar at dinner and serving a featured potato all day! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47494-10932394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 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:46881-10667185@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:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47148-10802038@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47154-10802375@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47151-10802123@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47153-10802291@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47155-10802459@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47156-10802543@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47152-10802207@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:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:47157-10802627@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:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 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:45823-10310447@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 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:44170-9889142@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:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:43757-9838287@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T093331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:II Photo Contest DESCRIPTION:The International Institute Photo Contest is open to all students affiliated with the institute or its 17 centers and programs through research\, study\, or an internship abroad. Please join us for the awards ceremony on January 19\, 2018 at 11:00am. \n\nThis exhibit runs through February 14\, 2018. UID:47585-10960789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 527 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T135934 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:47319-10866157@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:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:47322-10866220@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:20180206T104734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Science as Art Exhibition and Award Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Come and view the Science As Art entries all week February 5-9\, 2018 in Hatcher Graduate Library\, Room 100. Contest winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Friday\, February 9 from 2-4pm. Refreshments will be served. UID:49803-11540897@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49803 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T145126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:STALLED! SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. \n\nWhenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space\, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans\, or alterite bodies\, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.\n\nStalled!\, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space\, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists\, facility personnel\, students\, academic staff\, administrators\, and faculty. Working from biological\, disabled\, historical\, political\, queer\, racial\, spatial\, and transgender perspectives\, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability\, gender-fluidity\, and intersectionality.\n\nDeveloped by architect and activist\, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture\, in collaboration with Taubman College\, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces\, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University\, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.\n\nStalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized\, how buildings are designed\, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising\, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity\, singular concepts of ability\; and by extension\, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies\, such as healthcare\, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus\, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated\, incarcerated\, or accommodated. \n\nPanel 1: Trans and Queer Theory\nSpeaker: Mel Chen\, UC Berkeley\, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies\; Director\, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture\n\nPanel 2: Inclusive Space\, Design\, Infrastructure\nSpeaker: Jos Boys\, University of Brighton\, College of Art & Culture\n\nStalled! kicks off on Wednesday\, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity\, inclusivity\,and social issues in architecture. Recently\, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms\, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!\, in collaboration with Susan Stryker\, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design\, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives\, including bathrooms. \n\nIn partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS)\, The U-M Spectrum Center\, and the U-M Women's Studies Department. UID:48488-11243777@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Gender,LGBT,Spectrum Center,Women's Studies LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T134936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:OTHER WAYS OF DOING THINGS: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ACTIVISM DESCRIPTION:Anya Sirota is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary \ncultural production and its relationship to architecture and urbanism. Sirota is principal of the award-winning design studio Akoaki and director of the Detroit-based Michigan Architecture Prep program. She holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. \n\nIn the aftermath of Modernism’s perceived urban failures\, a cadre of architects is becoming increasingly aware that a building might not always be the best solution to a spatial problem. The lecture will explore how certain practices are reinventing the architectural profession\, replacing the model of the heroic visionary with a more collaborative\, experimental\, and interdisciplinary approach to work in the built environment.\n\nThis is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us. The next lecture series will start March 8\, 2018. The title is Behavioral and Social Sciences: Real World Applications. UID:47682-10973760@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-10932346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:46544-10546897@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:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:46548-10547131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:46549-10547252@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:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:47736-11004706@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:20180208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:46545-10546976@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:20171220T115236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Identity Politics in Japan DESCRIPTION:In 1969\, Japan launched a massive subsidy program for the \"burakumin\" outcastes. The subsidies attracted the mob\, and the higher incomes now available through organized crime compensated those burakumin who abandoned the legal sector for criminal careers. In the process\, the subsidies gave new support to the tendency many Japanese already had to equate the burakumin with the mob. \n \n The government ended the subsidies in 2002. Eric Rasmusen and I explore the effect of the termination by merging 30 years of municipality data with a long-suppressed 1936 census of burakumin neighborhoods. First\, we find that outmigration from municipalities with more burakumin increased after the end of the program. Apparently\, the higher illegal income generated by the subsidies had restrained young burakumin from joining mainstream society. Second\, we find that once the mob-tied corruption and extortion associated with the subsidies neared its end\, real estate prices rose in municipalities with burakumin neighborhoods. With the subsidies gone and the mob in retreat\, other Japanese found the formerly burakumin communities increasingly attractive places to live. \n \nMark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in Miyazaki\, attending public schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school\, he studied Japanese history at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. Ramseyer graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit)\, worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax)\, and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago\, he came to Harvard in 1998. He has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese). In his research\, Ramseyer primarily studies Japanese law\, and primarily from a law & economics perspective. In addition to a variety of Japanese law courses\, he teaches the basic Corporations course.\n\nCosponsored by the U-M Law School. UID:47159-10802663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Japanese Studies,Law LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T121519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T114000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Ellen Hargis & Paul O’Dette DESCRIPTION:World-renowned early music specialists\, Ellen Hargis\, soprano\, and Paul O'Dette\, lutenist and conductor\, work with SMTD singers and instrumentalists in a series of four masterclass. UID:49267-11409030@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49267 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Carolyn and Milton Kevreson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898816@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T083916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:GFP Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Sexual Fantasy: Content and Function UID:47557-10950461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47557 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T095657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lunch & Learn: Connect to Nature - Keep a Nature Journal! DESCRIPTION:Grab your brown bag lunch and come to CEW for our informal lunch hour learning series! Stay tuned on our website as more dates and topics are announced.\n\nCEW Scholar Alumna and ecological consultant Jacqueline Courteau (NatureWrite LLC) will share ideas and prompts for using nature journaling as a form of meditation and reflection\, to heighten observation skills\, and to increase your feelings of connectedness -- to nature\, to community\, and to memory. Come and cultivate your sense of wonder! Be ready to brave the weather to go outdoors for 20 minutes.\n\nThis session is open to all U-M students and CEW Scholars. Light refreshments will be provided. No registration is necessary. UID:48389-11230550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Health & Wellness,nature,Undergraduate LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T100721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Valentine Woodwind Pops DESCRIPTION:The Grosse Ile Quartet presents a musical kaleidoscope of popular music for woodwinds. With many years of combined solo\, teaching and orchestral experience\, the Grosse Ile Quartet (GIQ) is comprised of U-M graduates Carole Scott\, flute\; Nancy Gruits\, oboe\; Lisa Dills\, clarinet\; and Heather Gladden\, bassoon. For this performance they will play romantic selections ranging from the Beatles to Bach\, Beethoven to Bowie\, so prepare for musical diversity and virtuosity that surprises and delights. UID:48237-11191416@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T230000 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:48737-11297783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 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:48123-11180702@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:20171006T165315 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Update on the UM Capital Campaign\, highlighting some of the exciting fund raising priorities DESCRIPTION:Mr. May and Mr. Baily will provide an update on the current capital campaign at the University. They will review how much has been raised to date toward an array of goals and what the plans are for the remainder of the campaign. They will highlight some of the more interesting programs that are being funded by donors. UID:45515-10198013@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45515 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Capital Campaign LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T121519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T144000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Ellen Hargis & Paul O’Dette DESCRIPTION:World-renowned early music specialists\, Ellen Hargis\, soprano\, and Paul O'Dette\, lutenist and conductor\, work with SMTD singers and instrumentalists in a series of four masterclass. UID:49267-11409031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49267 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T142652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series DESCRIPTION:Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications\, to promote dialogue on topics\, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. \n\n10/5\, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room\, Michigan League)\nVERONICA DZOMEKU\, Nursing\, KNUST\, Ghana\n“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”\n\nTHELMA FENNIE\, Psychology\, University of the Westewrn Cape\, South Africa\n“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”\n\nAUDREY KALINDI\, Population Studies\, University of Zambia\n“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services\, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”\n\n-----\n10/12\, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\nDEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE\, Pharmacology\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”\n\nMTHOKOZISI SIMELANE\, Biochemistry\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa\n“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”\n\nMESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE\, Biochemistry\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”\n\n-----\n11/ 9\, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\n\nPAMELA KHANAKWA\, History\, Makerere University\, Uganda\n“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”\n\nYIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU\, Literature\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n“From Competition to Composition:  Languages\, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”\n\nPAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW\, University of Michigan “Radio\, Cyberspace\, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”\n\n-----\n12/7\, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\nOLUWAKEMI ROTIMI\, Biochemistry\, Covenant University\, Nigeria\n“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”\n\nZEWDU JIMA TAKLE\, Physiology\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”\n\nSENYO ADZEI\, Music\, University of Cape Coast\, Ghana\n“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”\n\n-----\n1/ 11\, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room\, Michigan Union)\nODUR BENARD\, Statistics\, Makerere University\, Uganda\n“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”\n\nPRECIOUS NDLOVU\, Law\, University of the Western Cape\, South Africa\n“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”\n\nMOSES MUHUMUZA\, Human Ecology\, Mountains of the Moon University\, Uganda\n“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”\n\n------\n2/8\, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\n\nKALILU DONZO\, Biology\, University of Liberia\n“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”\n\nMELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME\, Physics\, Bahir Dar University\, Ethiopia\n“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere” UID:44121-9888981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Anthropology,Biology,Discussion,Ecology,Engineering,Environment,Information and Technology,Interdisciplinary,International,Law,Lecture,Literature,Materials Science,Medicine,Music,Pharmacy,Psychology,Research,Science,Sociology,Women's Studies LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T165258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all\, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. \n\nFor more information on the Hopwood Program\, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood. UID:48324-11222683@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Discussion,Free,Graduate Students,Literature,Poetry,Social,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180102T150811 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Active Learning Practice DESCRIPTION:This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance\, participants review short online videos about active learning. Then\, participants plan and deliver a 10-minute lesson using active learning. Finally\, participants reflect on their experience and exchange supportive feedback.\n\nPractice teaching sessions will be in the Gorguze Family Laboratory (home of CRLT-Engin). You should report promptly at either 3:15 or 5:45 pm to 211 Gorguze Family Laboratory\, where you will be directed to your Practice Teaching room. UID:47430-10901434@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Gorguze Family Laboratory - 211 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T125330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients\, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities. UID:47453-10901468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:V. Vaughan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T105144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Mapping the Complex and Stochastic Response of Nanostructures DESCRIPTION:Ryan S. Elliott\nEllad B. Tadmor\, Subrahmanyam Pattamatta\nDepartment of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics\nUniversity of Minnesota\n\nDue to the exponential complexity of the equilibrium set associated with the potential energy landscape of atomic interactions\, the response of nanostructures to applied loading is inherently stochastic. This complexity is addressed head on by the construction\, using branch-following and bifurcation (BFB) methods\, of an “Equilibrium Map” (EM) of the nanostructure. The EM describes all of the stable and unstable states of the structure at each value of applied loading and thereby provides a systematic procedure for identifying physically-meaningful response scenarios. These include the limiting cases of a quasistatic process (QP) and quenched dynamic (QD)\, as well as the rate-dependent case of driven dynamic (DD). The method is applied to the uniaxial compression of a nanoslab of nickel modeled using a classical interatomic potential. The set of possible equilibrium solutions for this simple problem is surprisingly complex and therefore demonstrates the need for such an approach.\n\n\nAbout the speaker...\n\nRyan S. Elliott received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State\nUniversity. He received his M.S.E.\, M.S.\, and Ph.D.\, all from The University\nof Michigan. Elliott joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering and\nMechanics at The University of Minnesota in 2005 and was promoted to Associate\nProfessor in 2011. In 2010 he was Visiting Researcher at the Ecole\nPolytechnique\, France. Elliott was appointed to the Journal of Elasticity\nBoard of Editors in 2015\, and to the International Journal of Solids and\nStructures Board of Editors in 2017. In 2017\, Elliott was elected Fellow of\nthe ASME.\n\nDr. Ryan S. Elliott's research deals with stability and instability problems\nrelated to structures\, materials\, and microstructured materials\, and includes\nthree major themes: (I) development of nonlinear modeling of discrete and\ncontinuum solid-state materials and structures\; (II) development of analytical\nand computational methodologies (based on theories of symmetry\, bifurcation\,\nand pattern formation) that can systematically discover the multiple stable\nstates predicted by a model\; and (III) development of open source scientific\nsoftware. Elliott is co-author of the book \"Continuum Mechanics and\nThermodynamics\". He has received numerous awards\, including: the Ivor\nK. McIvor Award in Applied Mechanics (2004)\, the Russell J. Penrose Faculty\nFellowship (2012)\, and the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator award\n(2014). UID:49318-11417463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49318 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T115438 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BME 500 Seminar: Tobi Giessen\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:Tobias W. Giessen\, Ph.D.\nBME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker\nHarvard Medical School\n \n“A bioarchitectonic approach to biological production and nanoscale control”\n \nAbstract:\nWe all face a number of interconnected major challenges in the 21st century\, including climate change\, environmental pollution and health care crises. Pursuing sustainable and efficient biological production approaches of drugs\, fuels and materials as well as continued biomedical innovation are two of the main strategies needed to address these problems. My approach to tackling these issues relies on the discovery\, understanding and engineering of self-assembling protein-based nanostructures. In this talk\, I will focus on encapsulin nanocompartments\, a recently discovered class of small protein organelles. I will first discuss two newly discovered encapsulin systems relating to iron metabolism and the global nitrogen cycle. Building on a fundamental understanding of encapsulin assembly\, a number of engineering projects which utilize programmable engineered nanospaces to improve biological production and exert spatiotemporal control over metabolism will then be presented. Finally\, I will briefly outline future projects that employ engineered 3D and 1D nanostructures for applications in drug delivery\, molecular imaging\, biosensing and engineering the biology-electronics interface. UID:48972-11339497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48972 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Lecture LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T164335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: Can the Fisher-Lande process account for birds of paradise and other sexual radiations DESCRIPTION:Models of the Fisher-Lande process (FLP) have been used successfully to explore many aspects of evolution by sexual selection. Despite this success\, quantitative tests of these models using data from sexual radiations are rare. Consequently\, we do not know whether realistic versions of the FLP can account for the extent and the rate of evolution of sexually-selected traits. To answer this question\, we generalize the basic FLP model of sexual coevolution and compare predictions of that basic model with patterns observed in an iconic sexual radiation\, birds-of-paradise. Our model tracks the coevolution of male and female traits (two in each sex) while relaxing some restrictive assumptions. Using computer simulations\, we evaluate the behavior of the model and confirm that it is an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process. We also assess the ability of the FLP to account for the quantitative aspects of ornament evolution in the genus Paradisaea using published measurements of display traits and a phylogeny of the genus. Finally\, we use program OUwie to compare model fits to generic OU and Brownian motion processes and to estimate FLP parameters. We show that to explain the sexual radiation of the genus Paradisaea one must either invoke extremely weak stabilizing selection on female mating preferences or allow the preference optimum to undergo Brownian motion at a modest rate.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/wx6hIxCuAaY UID:48512-11243800@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Environment,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T085011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | History as Context for the Present: A Family Story of China’s Coming of Age DESCRIPTION:If you end up on the wrong side of history\, nobody writes yours. Correspondent Scott Tong of Marketplace public radio – and a 2013-14 University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow – talks about China’s long and interrupted opening to the world\, told through the lives of five people across five generations in his own family. The stories are told in his new book\, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World. \n \nHe begins by pursuing the lives of relatives and ancestors whose names are hardly ever spoken at the family table. The untold stories and history help fill in an oft-ignored chapter in the China story: the contribution of mainlanders who adopted the ideas\, music and literature of the outside world. Although A Village with My Name is a personal\, historical work of narrative nonfiction\, it provides history as context to the present. Tong\, who is reporting on the current globalization backlash\, will also address issues of national identity\, globalization and drawbridges that many in the world are asking right now.\n\nScott Tong has reported from more than a dozen countries as correspondent for Marketplace\, from refugee camps in east Africa to shoe factories in eastern China. He toured the oil sands of Canada and snuck into Burma. Currently he serves as correspondent for Marketplace’s Sustainability Desk\, where his coverage focuses on energy\, the environment\, natural resources and the global economy.\n\nIn 2006\, Scott opened Marketplace’s first permanent bureau in China\, as Shanghai bureau chief. His first book\, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)\, is a personal\, journalistic discovery of China’s long and interrupted economic opening. More than a faraway story from a long time ago\, it addresses the divisive questions about globalization and drawbridges that many countries are debating today.\n\nHis reporting includes special coverage of the 2016-2017 globalization backlash\; Water: The High Price of Cheap\; Venezuela’s economic collapse\; the triumph of the shareholder value model in the U.S. and the Price of Profits\; the challenge of long-term job creation in the United States\; the 2011 Japan tsunami and recovery\; the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa\; and the economics of one child in China. In 2013-14\, Scott was awarded the Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan.\n\nScott joined Marketplace in 2004\, after working as a producer and off-air reporter for the PBS NewsHour\, where he produced a series of mini-documentaries from Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003. He’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour\, the Aspen Ideas Festival and TedxFoggybottom.\n\nA graduate of Georgetown University\, Scott is a native of Poughkeepsie\, New York. He lives in Arlington\, Virginia with his wife Cathy and three children. He is an acknowledged soccer dad and cycles to work at a measured pace.\n\nCosponsored by the U-M Knight-Wallace Program.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. UID:48862-11317268@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48862 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,History,Media LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T140819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nate Mills Lecture DESCRIPTION:The concept of the lumpenproletariat\, the “proletariat in rags\,” is peculiar to Marxism (Marx and Engels created the term) yet under-explicated by Marx and neglected in Marxist theoretical discourse. The term names individuals who persist outside of capitalist productive relations and\, as a result\, lack a place within capitalist social formations. Marx typically invokes such types only to dismiss them as irrelevant to theoretical concerns of production and class struggle\, or to scorn them as immoral\, criminal\, and self-interested enemies of the proletariat. The dispossessed of modern society—drifters\, criminals\, underworld agents\, etc.—are thus named by Marxism but denied proper epistemological scrutiny. The lumpenproletariat thus possesses a somewhat archival character: it’s catalogued and registered in Marxism’s conceptual finding aid\, but awaits full exhumation and serious study. Similarly\, much of the Depression-era fiction and poetry of two African American writers—Ralph Ellison and Margaret Walker—that resituates the lumpenproletariat as a means of understanding U.S. social arrangements and imagining revolutionary African American political desires also resides\, unfinished and unstudied\, in manuscript archives. \n\nIn this talk\, I discuss Ellison and Walker’s innovative 1930s writings\, showing how the concept of the lumpenproletariat allowed them to\, in various ways\, renovate Marxist theory in order to illuminate and challenge the intersectional dynamics of capitalism\, patriarchy\, and Jim Crow in America. Ellison and Walker also provide an occasion for thinking the importance of the archive\, not only as a site of innovative experiments in radical literature and culture\, but as a means of designating the place of the understudied within the conceptual topography of Marxist and radical thought. If Walker and Ellison were inspired by a concept Marxism had overlooked and by individuals Depression America had discarded\, then we might consider their efforts as models of how to engage with Marxism through its archive\, through its de-prioritized and unexamined resources.\n\nNathaniel Mills is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2017). His articles on U.S. and African American literary radicalism have appeared or are forthcoming in venues such as African American Review\, MELUS\, Twentieth-Century Literature\, Studies in American Naturalism\, The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright\, and The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s. UID:42999-9693637@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Literature,Politics LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308943@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-10932351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529629@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529639@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T110452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chili Week DESCRIPTION:Twigs Dining Hall is featuring Chili all week! Come enjoy a variety of unique types of chili. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47492-11529654@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 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:49197-11386650@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:20180223T123025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T183000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PwC' s Women's Consulting Experience Presentation DESCRIPTION:Calling all Sophomore women interested in a career in Consulting! Come to the PwC presentation at 5pm in Ross on Thursday\, 2/8 to learnmore about this leadership conference and how you can be on a path to a summer 2019 internship offer now! UID:49867-11557829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business, B1580 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T143738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Supersymmetry and the Philosophy of Space and Time DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Some areas of physics are heavily discussed by philosophers\; others are engaged with more sparsely. Despite its being a central component of many attempts to go beyond the standard model of particle physics\, supersymmetry (SUSY) is an example of the latter. This talk is part of an ongoing project to establish a discussion in the philosophy of SUSY.\n\nSUSY is a proposed dynamical symmetry between bosons (broadly speaking\, force carriers) and fermions (matter). As a result of being a transformation between particles of different spin\, the algebra of its generators has an interesting feature---it appears to allow for an interpretation as a (generalisation of a) spacetime symmetry. Construing SUSY as such\, it is possible to re-express the theory in a new setting---superspace\, in which ordinary Minkowski spacetime is augmented with a number of anticommuting ‘dimensions’. These are dimensions along which\, counter-intuitively\, coordinate values are sensitive to the order in which they are multiplied---they cannot\, therefore\, be visualised in the way that ordinary spatial or temporal dimensions are\, as lines extending in some direction. Even though superspace is not a geometry in the familiar point-set sense\, it manifests geometric structure in a more general\, algebraic way: objects with the algebraic properties of vectors\, tensors\, derivative operators and so on are well-defined. Thus metrical and inertial structures exist in superspace\, but algebraically. In this talk\, I address the question of what difference this generalisation makes to our understanding of the roles of the metric and inertial structure in constituting spacetime.\n\n(No prior familiarity with supersymmetry or quantum field theory will be assumed) UID:48908-11328385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T123017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Weddings Around the World Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, February 8th\, South Quad Dining hall is having a Wedding's Around the World Theme Dinner! Don't miss out on this delicious meal! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:49082-11375464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49082 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171221T121529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Stephen Burks: Towards a New Perception of Design DESCRIPTION:Stephen Burks believes in a pluralistic vision of design that is inclusive of all cultural perspectives. His ongoing Man Made project bridges the gap separating authentic developing-world production\, industrial manufacturing\, and contemporary design. Independently and through association with many nonprofit organizations\, he has worked as a product development consultant throughout the globe. Through his New York studio\, Stephen Burks Man Made\, many of the world’s leading design-driven brands have commissioned Burks to develop collections that engage hand production as a strategy for innovation for manufacturers worldwide. His work has been exhibited internationally\, including solo museum exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Arts & Design. He has received the Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni Professional Achievement Award\, the Brooklyn Museum Young Modernist Award\, the Architektur & Wohnen Audi Mentor Prize\, and the 2008 United States Artists Architecture & Design Target Fellowship Grant\, as well as the 2015 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in product design.\n\nThis Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is supported by the Detroit Creative Corridor Center\, stewards of the UNESCO City of Design designation. UID:47870-11035895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180113T181954 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture DESCRIPTION:The W.M. Trotter Multicultural Center is honored to be centering the voices of transgender and non-binary individuals at our 4th Annual W.M. Trotter Lecture\, with a particular focus on the intersecting identities of gender and race. We are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan\, speakers Janet Mock\, author of Redefining Realness\, Surpassing Certainty\, and King Amiyah Scott of Fox Network’s STAR. Current and former students and staff from the University of Michigan will also contribute to this phenomenal event! We aim to hold a space in which the personal narratives and lives of trans folks can be shared\, celebrated\, and honored.\n\nPrevious lectures include The Black Male Athlete\; Who is He and What is He to You in 2016\, which was held in the Ross Auditorium\, celebrating Student Leaders in 2015\; as well as\, the 2014 Inaugural W.M. Trotter Lecture that featured activist\, poet\, and educator Cheryl Clarke. UID:47335-10869002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47335 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Faculty,first-generation,Free,Graduate Students,Inclusion,Lecture,LGBT,Media,Multicultural,Networking,Poetry,Reception,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Student Affairs,Talk,Women's Studies LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T104238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety DESCRIPTION:Producers Scilla Andreen and Karin Gornick have one goal: to start a global conversation and raise awareness around anxiety. Through candid interviews\, they utilize the power of film to tell the stories of many kids and teens who discuss their anxiety and its impacts on their lives and relationships\, as well as how they’ve found solutions and hope. The film also includes a special interview with Michael Phelps\, a mental health advocate and one of the greatest athletes of all-time. In addition\, the documentary provides discussions with mental health experts about the causes of anxiety and its sociological effects\, along with the help\, resources and tools available to address the condition. \n\nAfter the 56 minute screening\, there will be a discussion facilitated by professionals from U-M Counseling and Psychological Services. UID:49239-11397812@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49239 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Angell Hall - Aud B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180223T123027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:DPhiE: Build Your Network DESCRIPTION:70% of jobs/internships are found through networking\, wait\, what? But\, how do I start “networking?” This workshop will give you the confidence and tools to examine personal and potential connections withalumni and professionals. We will go into how to conduct informational interviewing to use as a tool for connection building. \nYou should come if you...\n- feel like you should be “networking” but not sure how to begin\n- want to learn ways to connect with alumni and friends\n- looking forways to boost your internship or job search game\nWhat you’ll do:\n- Develop understanding of networking and the importance\n- Examine your current and potential connections\n- Identify ways to expand your network\n- Recognize ways to utilize LinkedIn and UCAN for building connections\nWhat you need to do before coming... UID:50006-11613949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:800 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T162819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Eye On Detroit: The Automation Apocalypse DESCRIPTION:The world of work is changing dramatically. Robots and algorithms are projected to take over many jobs humans currently have. As this scenario plays out the City of Detroit is challenged by a skills gap in the current workforce. Join us as we discuss the options and opportunities for Detroiters to gain the skills of the future and the challenges facing the City in providing the necessary training. \n\nThe following panelists will be featured: \n-Chad Livengood\, Crain Publications\n-Patrick Beal\, Detroit Training Center\n-Krista McKinney\, Randolph Career and Tech Center\n-John Austin\, Michigan Economic Center\n\nThe event will be moderated by UM Professor Jeff DeGraff.\n\nRSVP at http://myumi.ch/6kbzb. UID:49179-11386615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Detroit,Discussion,Information and Technology,Professional Development LOCATION:Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:North Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:Weekly Bible study on Exodus UID:49048-11369802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49048 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Corner Room - Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T130446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Peer Perspectives: Finance DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the finance recruiting process from your peers who have successfully secured analyst positions at major firms. UID:48872-11320035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Corporate,Internship,Networking,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T123212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:U-M Biological Station Information Session DESCRIPTION:Interested in the U-M Biological Station? Come learn more about earning credits\, gaining research experience\, and spending the spring and/or summer at our field station in beautiful Northern Michigan. UMBS professors and staff will be on hand to answer questions and discuss 2018 course offerings. UID:48399-11230610@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48399 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Chemistry,Ecology,Environment,Life Science LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 2024 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180102T150811 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Active Learning Practice DESCRIPTION:This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance\, participants review short online videos about active learning. Then\, participants plan and deliver a 10-minute lesson using active learning. Finally\, participants reflect on their experience and exchange supportive feedback.\n\nPractice teaching sessions will be in the Gorguze Family Laboratory (home of CRLT-Engin). You should report promptly at either 3:15 or 5:45 pm to 211 Gorguze Family Laboratory\, where you will be directed to your Practice Teaching room. UID:47430-10901460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Gorguze Family Laboratory - 211 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T162211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Café Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Students\, nominated by their instructors\, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers\, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others\, it provides a fresh audience\, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.\n\nThrough its over 20 years of existence\, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers\, their friends\, families\, and the wider community. This year there are a total of 46 students participating over five days. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!\n\nMonday\, 2/5/18\nTuesday\, 2/6/18\nThursday\, 2/8/18\nMonday\, 2/12/18\nTuesday\, 2/13/18\n\nRead student work from many previous years in annual Café Shapiro Anthologies: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cafe?page=issues UID:49336-11420289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49336 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Library,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Bert's Study Lounge (Lobby) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T111617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS and EMU Lecture. Why is Anyone Anti-Vaccine? A History of Vaccination and Anti-Vaccination DESCRIPTION:Ellen Amster is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University\, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and History. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of North Africa and France\, her research on science in the French-Islamic colonial encounter was first a book\, Medicine and the Saints: Science\, Islam\, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco\, 1877-1956 (University of Texas ) and now extends to a field and Arabic course for students in Morocco and CIHR-funded global health work in maternal and infant health. Her recent articles touch on political Islam\, Islamic biopolitics\, the history of public health\, and Sufism\; her current research includes Muslim midwifery\, medical humanities\, the material and visual cultures of religion\, the body\, and women’s history. She has created the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal\, a resource for all researchers with library\, archival\, museum\, and digital collections.\n\nCo-sponsors: \nEastern Michigan University Center for Jewish Studies\, Eastern Michigan University College of Health and Human Services UID:49545-11473478@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,History,Medicine,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Theatre & Drama Studio Production: Wild Honey DESCRIPTION:By Michael Frayn.\nFrom the Comedy by Anton Chekhov. \nDirected by Gillian Eaton. \n\nA glorious few weeks in the hot sun drives a community of provincial characters into frenzies of wild passion. Adapted from Chekhov’s first play written when he was only 21 years old\, Wild Honey hilariously foreshadows his later works. UID:47095-10790908@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47095 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T140500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Jane Austen LIVE DESCRIPTION:If you love all things Austen\, from the books\, to the frocks\, to the many\, many film adaptations\, this event is for you. Audience members will be invited to participate in Austen-themed games such as Who Wants to Marry a Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune. There will be book and movie trivia and chances to win fabulous prizes. This event is for Austen lovers of all stripes\, so whether your fandom extends to wearing a bonnet or is limited to discreet snickering at Emma Woodhouse jokes\, please join us!\n\nThis event is intended for Ages 21+ UID:48928-11331173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Library,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Zouk Thursdays DESCRIPTION:7:00pm Intermediate Lesson\n8:00pm Practica practice\n9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)\nCost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)\nEveryone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :) UID:48091-11180538@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48091 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:SMTD Faculty Showcase DESCRIPTION:A mini-collage concert of faculty performers featuring Elizabeth Ames\, piano\; Danielle Belen\, violin\; Andrew Bishop\, saxophone\; Amy I-Lin Cheng\, piano\; David Daniels\, countertenor\; Christopher Harding\, piano\; Jeffrey Lyman\, bassoon\; Martin Katz\, piano\; Nancy Ambrose King\, oboe\; Timothy McAllister\, saxophone\; Jonathan Ovalle\, percussion\; Amy Porter\, flute\; Ellen Rowe\, piano\; Stephen Shipps\, violin\; and Adam Unsworth\, horn. UID:47183-10813700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180208T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Mswing Open Swing DESCRIPTION:We play mostly current music\, but its a mix of everything you could potentially swing dance. We teach hustle which is a type of swing dance. So beginners are always welcome. As are people who want to learn aerials and flips. We are a group of people who just like to dance. Come and join. :) UID:48189-11185898@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR