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:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 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:43238-12816437@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:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 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:42456-12507644@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:20180211T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Other:MCRHL Regular Season Event DESCRIPTION:Regular season games for the MCRHL. UID:47032-11599735@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Joe Dumars Fieldhouse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 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:49718-11762515@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:20180211T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Other:OSU Ranking Tournament DESCRIPTION:2-day ranking tournament for B-teams at Ohio State University! UID:49788-11602534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Columbus, Ohio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 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:50346-12237300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T120020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Purdue Golden Grips 2018 DESCRIPTION:Purdue University's Golden Grips Invitational Gymnastics meet. UID:49445-11599875@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Lambert Field House CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291326@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:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235900 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:44018-9869336@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:20180112T123609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Movie Night at East Quad DESCRIPTION:Every Monday night during Dinner\, East Quad dining hall will be having movie night! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48630-11264862@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 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:46881-10667189@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T230000 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:50081-11633572@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47148-10802042@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47154-10802379@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47151-10802127@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47153-10802295@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47155-10802463@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47156-10802547@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47152-10802211@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:47157-10802631@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:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 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:45823-10310451@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:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:47322-10866224@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:20171215T124828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Computerized Investing DESCRIPTION:Using your computer can help you actively select mutual funds and ETFs for investment. We expect to improve your investing strategies as we present methods of using various investment options. \n\nJoin this study group for those 50 and over for open discussion of the value of asset allocation\, types of mutual funds\, types of financial advisors\, and questions to ask your financial advisor. We will make extensive use of information from web-based resources. \n\nInstructor Dale Brandenburg is a retired research professor and instructor Bob Shaw is a director and current President of the SE Michigan Chapter of Better Investing.\n\nThis study group will meet for 90 minutes on Mondays from February 12 through March 12. UID:47669-10973744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47669 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T085607 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Robot Garage Company Day DESCRIPTION:Come by to meet the owners of this Michigan start-up that has taken a dream to teach students about STEAM to what is now a quickly growing company with 3 locations\, 6\,000+ students\, and 80 staff members. The Robot Garage will be accepting resumes from students interested in full-time summer jobs at our engineering and robotics camps in Birmingham\, Rochester Hills\, and Grosse Pointe Michigan. Camp themes include Robot Discovery\, Minecraft\, and Game Design. In addition to robots\, we also love doughnuts so stop by to say hello and grab a doughnut. UID:49759-11529618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49759 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Industry Session,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T160955 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Carey Salerno (Alice James Books) DESCRIPTION:Alice James Books is a prominent independent poetry press that was founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming\, Marjorie Fletcher\, Jean Pedrick\, Lee Rudolph\, Ron Schreiber\, Betsy Sholl and Cornelia Veenendaal. Their objectives were to give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the publishing process.\n\nAJB remains committed to its founders’ original mission while expanding upon the scope to include poets of all genders\, backgrounds\, and stages of their careers. In keeping with our efforts to foster equity and inclusivity in publishing and the literary arts\, AJB seeks out poets whose writing possesses the range\, depth\, and ability to cultivate empathy in our world and to dynamically push against silence. The press sees the work it publishes as instrumental in cultivating conversations that help us overcome the barriers we face as a nation.\n\nAlice James also stands out for its collaborative partnerships with authors\, as well as the level of attention given to the aesthetics of each book we publish. AJB believes in supporting writers throughout their careers\, connecting them to their readers\, and allowing them to tell their stories. UID:47699-10973775@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Literature,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T110316 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:DENSO Company Day DESCRIPTION:The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for DENSO on Monday\, February 12\, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Atrium. We invite University of Michigan students to stop by the Dude Atrium to learn more about DENSO' R&D Technologies!\n\nWho is DENSO? We’re one of the world’s largest global suppliers of advanced automotive technology\, systems and components \n\n-We have more than 150\,000 employees in 38 countries and regions around the world\; 24\,000 employees in the United States\, Canada and Mexico \n\n-DENSO International America\, Inc. is a leading supplier in conducting research and engineering activities in the fields of human factor for autonomous vehicles\n\n-We are looking for candidates to support research and development efforts in our DENSO R&D lad in Ann Arbor (16000 Huron Pkwy\, Ann Arbor)\n\nOpen Positions:\n\nDENSO offers full-time and internship opportunities for computer\, electrical\, artificial intelligence\, and HMI engineering majors\n\nCheck out our open positions and more\, and apply online today at densocareers.com UID:48959-11339487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48959 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:46544-10546901@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:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:46548-10547135@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:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:46549-10547256@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:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:46545-10546980@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:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 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:47419-10898820@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:20180202T133648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Developmental Area Brown Bag - The evolution of human ontogeny: Lifespan development in monkeys and apes DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nHumans exhibit a suite of developmental changes in cognition\, and some views link our species’ unique cognitive traits to our extended life history characteristics. I will discuss how studies of development and aging in other primates can provide new insights into the origins of human cognition. In the first set of studies\, I will examine lifespan changes in macaque monkey social cognition in order to understand human social evolution. In the second set of studies\, I will focus on changes in decision-making as chimpanzees make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. I will finally discuss ongoing projects linking changes in primate cognition and behavior to biological measures including health\, senescence\, and survivorship\, in order to understand the biological significance of these patterns.\n \n\nBio\nAlexandra Rosati is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at UM. Her research focuses on the evolutionary origins of the human mind. She studies a variety of primate species including apes\, monkeys\, lemurs in naturalistic contexts\, focusing on how cognitive abilities are used to solve evolutionarily-relevant social and foraging problems. She has an AB in psychology from Harvard\, a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from Duke\, and completed postdoctoral training at Yal UID:47447-10901450@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47447 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T091253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ebonics DESCRIPTION:Explore the verbal and nonverbal communication rules and patterns followed by native speakers of Ebonics. A Black History Month event hosted by the Hub and CSP. Bring your own lunch. UID:49610-11484666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,brown bag,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,first-generation,Free,History,Multicultural LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180308T140905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen DESCRIPTION:Here's your chance to chat with our new director! Come by and say hello\, tell her what you love about UMMA\, or what you'd like to see change.\n\nOlsen\, now a little more than two months into her term\, is hosting open office hours in the UMMA Commons in February\, March\, and April. She is inviting visitors\, U-M staff and faculty\, students\, and community members to drop in and talk one-on-one about the Museum\, ways it might change\, and to ask questions.\n\n“I want to hear from the people that care about this Museum\, and who want to shape its future\,” Olsen says. “UMMA needs to be open to new ideas. A great way to get new ideas is by talking with people face to face.”\n\nOlsen will talk with visitors on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Visitors should queue near the director’s table in the UMMA Commons. UID:48813-11308907@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Office Hours,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T181619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantitative Biology Seminar | Synthetic Human Embryology in a Dish DESCRIPTION:Most of our current knowledge of mammalian embryology is derived from studies of the mouse embryo. However\, mammalian development involves substantial divergence in the mechanism and order of cell-fate allocations among species\, and there has been a critical lack of information regarding human development due to the scarcity of human embryo specimens. Recent studies from my laboratory and others have shown that under suitable culture conditions human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can undergo intricate morphogenetic events and self-organize to form patterned human embryo-like structures in vitro. These synthetic human embryo-like structures have sparked great interests in using such human development models for advancing human embryology\, embryo toxicology\, and reproductive medicine. In this talk\, I will first discuss our effort in developing a micropatterned hPSC-based neuroectoderm developmental model\, wherein pre-patterned geometrical confinement induces emergent patterning of neuroepithelial (NE) and neural plate border (NPB) cells\, mimicking neuroectoderm regionalization during early neurulation. In the second part of my talk\, I will discuss our work in developing a hPSC-based\, synthetic embryological model of human post-implantation development that recapitulates multiple embryogenic events including amniotic cavity formation\, amnion-epiblast patterning\, and primitive streak formation. Together\, our studies provide novel insight into previously inaccessible but critical embryogenic events in human development. Continuous development of these human development models will provide synthetic embryological platforms that open up previously inaccessible phases of the human life cycle to experimental study. \n\nJianping Fu is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, with a primary appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department and courtesy appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Cell and Developmental Biology Department. He also serves as the Associate Director for the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC). Dr. Fu’s research interests lie at the nexus of bioengineering\, biophysics\, and biology. Specifically\, his research group integrates micro/nanoengineering\, single-cell technologies\, and systems and synthetic biology methods with new discoveries of mechanobiology\, epigenetics\, and stem cell biology for advancing understanding of human development and cancer biology. Dr. Fu is the recipient of the American Heart Association Scientist Development Award (2012)\, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012)\, the Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award (2014)\, the Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research (2014)\, the Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award (2015)\, the Rising Star Award from Biomedical Engineering Society - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (2016)\, and the George J. Huebner\, Jr. Research Excellence Award (2018). Dr. Fu's research group is supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Institutes of Health\, the American Heart Association\, and some other foundations and agencies. \n UID:49553-11476262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 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:48604-11254315@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:20180212T110940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Anthony Monterossa DESCRIPTION:Title: The Role of Pre-Implanted Helium and Carbon on Cavity Evolution in Ion-Irradiated T91\n\nChair: Prof. Gary Was UID:49967-11608309@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49967 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower - GM Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T094030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Suspicious Minds and Anti-Poverty Policies DESCRIPTION:Suppose that a democratic society has an associative duty to assist a specific group of individuals\, the Usual Suspects group. Members of this group frequently do not go to their jobs. They are seen mostly in streets\, smoking\, drinking and having fun. They are defaulting debtors. They often cheat on the welfare system\, claiming to be unable to work. Since they run quickly out of money\, they often shoplift in small quantities and evade taxes. They are more prolific than their fellow citizens. Their children\, for some combination of a culture of poverty\, low opportunities and bad parenting\, usually miss classes\, medical appointments and reproduce the eternal cycle of poverty and dependence. \n\nA democratic society could assume this duty for several reasons: they are citizens\, they are humans or for their children extreme vulnerability. However\, this obligation can be fulfilled in multiple ways. Society can assist them conditionally or unconditionally\; can offer them lucrative jobs or can force them to work in exchange of meager assistance\; can give them cash or untradeable vouchers\; can demand sterilization from mothers or can improve public services\; can create special houses for their children. These choices depend heavily in the accuracy of Usual Suspects diagnose.\n\nIn this communication\, I challenge this Usual Suspects narrative in social protection\, which has been active since English Poor Laws to the expansion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin-America. First\, I will claim that there are no empirical nor normative arguments for taking suspicion as a default attitude to poor. Second\, I argue that there are relational reasons for reducing suspicion in social protection policies: it will not only improve the probability of the least advantaged of escaping poverty but it will also improve the most advantaged members capacities for moral reasoning.\n\n(Link to paper for pre-read is available below.) UID:49335-11420286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49335 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Latin America,Philosophy,Politics,Public Policy,Sociology LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T230000 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:48737-11297787@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:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 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:48123-11180706@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:20180129T154722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Lecture Series. From Beijing to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: The Rockefeller Foundation\, Cold War\, and Medicine in Brazil (1945-1964) DESCRIPTION:Based on US and Brazilian archives\, Gilberto Hochman will discuss the Rockefeller Foundation’s operations in Brazil during the Cold War and Brazil’s so-called democratic experience (1945-1964). In the post-WWII era\, the Brazilian scientific and medical community included a large number of members and sympathizers of the then-outlawed Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). Particularly in the field of medical parasitology\, a “Red network” linked several professors and researchers at a number of medical schools\, many with strong ties to international leftist organizations and some involved in key episodes of the Cold War. This network was severely repressed by the military regime installed in 1964 with dismissals\, arrests and exile of its members. \n \n The presentation explores the routine activities of Rockefeller officials in Rio\, who were immersed in the local\, national\, and global dimensions of the Cold War in the fields of science and medicine. At the office in Rio de Janeiro\, RF officials faced major challenges managing funds and scholarships for this scientific and medical community and implementing guidelines from the New York headquarters. The RF was pressured from the investigations then underway in Washington\, DC\, into possible funding of communists and anti-American activities by philanthropic foundations\, conducted by the Cox-Reece Committee (Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations\, 1952-53). RF office also had to deal with the expectation of the medical schools and respond to Brazilian government demands regarding the modernization of medicine and science\, especially from the Ministry of Education. The question was how to deal with these multiple pressures and to select the institutions and individuals that would receive funding balancing meritocracy and national and international politics. Through its Brazilian programs\, the foundation blended medicine\, science\, and the Cold War against the backdrop of Brazil’s democratic yet unstable environment. The RF programs administrated in Rio de Janeiro eventually entangled China\, Korea\, Brazil\, and the United States in a contextual fashion. \n \n Dr. Gilberto Hochman is a Brazil Initiative/LACS visiting scholar for 2017-2018. He is a Researcher and Professor at the History of Sciences and Health Unit of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz\, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)\, in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. His acclaimed study on the history of public health was translated and published in 2016 as “The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation\, State\, and Public Health in Brazil\, 1889-1930” (University of Illinois Press). UID:48671-11265202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Discussion,History,Latin America LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T163357 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Personal Statement Workshop DESCRIPTION:Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays\, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend. UID:48143-11180774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Pre-Law LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 (Newnan Advising Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T135226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Decision Consortium - Science comprehension without curiosity is no virtue\, and curiosity without comprehension no vice DESCRIPTION:It has been assumed (very reasonably) for many years that the quality of enlightened self-government demands a science-literate citizenry. Recent research\, however\, has shown that all manner of reasoning proficiency—from cognitive reflection to numeracy to actively open-minded thinking—magnifies politically motivated reasoning and hence political polarization on policy-relevant science. The one science-comprehension-related disposition that defies this pattern is science curiosity\, which has been shown to make citizens more amenable to engaging with evidence that challenges their political predispositions. The presentation will review the relevant research and offer conjectures on their significance\, both theoretical and practical. UID:48576-11254276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T140147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Archives and Futures: A View From ‘The Most Distant Place’ DESCRIPTION:The Oxford English Dictionary describes Timbuktu as “the most distant place\,” a view that comes out of European explorations of West Africa and the challenges in reaching the place in the interior of the continent\, at the edges of the Sahara desert. Hardly anything was ever noted about Timbuktu’s place in a larger network of settlements with traditions of advanced literacy\, of scholars and scholastic manuscript book making and collecting. Centuries of learned activity were well-known among various local communities. Some settlements become more famous than others. “Timbuktu” somehow became the most famous name. But it was neither an invention nor without actual scholars. What can the ways these manuscript libraries were kept and conserved - but also dispersed and often destroyed – over the past century and more tell us about the place of archives from the period before European contact in parts of the African past? When and how do archives come to give us insight into more than experiences and conceptions of the past but ideas about the future? The recent attacks on cultural sites including libraries in and around Timbuktu provides an opportunity to ask questions about the constructions of collections and archives\, and their relation to writing about the past but also what they tell about visions of the future. These conflicts and the loss and hazardous movement of cultural artefacts and collections are far from over on the continent.\n\n\nShamil Jeppie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Director of the Institute of Humanities in Africa (HUMA). His research and publications focus on social and cultural history in South Africa and West Africa\, and he is founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project\, which explores the formation of a culture of collecting in Timbuktu. His books include Language\, Identity\, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban (2007)\, and the co-edited volumes The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008)\, Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (2010)\, and Toward New Histories for South Africa: On the Place of the Past in Our Present (2004). UID:47612-10963386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,History,Library,Scholarship LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171221T144300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe. Spain's New Populist Left: An Impossible Hegemony DESCRIPTION:This lecture will address specific problems in the Podemos political party leadership in order to conclude that Spanish populism has already reached an impasse from which there are only two ways out: accepting the impasse and freezing into a marginal political party with about 15% of the general vote\; or cutting through it\, which might once again put Podemos before the plausibility of relative electoral triumph at a national level. The latter will require heavy work\, both political and theoretical. The current political climate\, heavily marked by the secessionist attempt in Catalunya\, has drastically diminished the possibilities for any kind of leftist government in Spain for the foreseeable future. It is important to note in this context Catalan nationalist populism\, which has forced Podemos into looking at an uncomfortable mirror. The political import of all of this is significant for Spain given the deep ideological crisis of PSOE\, the socialist party\, and also ultimately of periphery nationalisms\, which can no longer hide their thoroughly identitarian horizon. Indeed\, one could say that Spain is today a country that will be led by a weak and one-eyed right through the very absence of believable and non-catastrophic alternatives. \n\nAlberto Moreiras´ research interests include political thought and critical theory from perspectives that combine an interest in Continental philosophy (existential analytics\, deconstruction)\, psychoanalysis\, and Marxism. He is involved in research networks that interrogate contemporary Latin American democracies and the configuration of politico-theoretical responses to present social problems. He is working on concepts such as posthegemony and infrapolitics\, whose potential significance has to do with the possibility of rethinking the critical traditions of modernity. He has an interest in themes such as Latin American indigeneity\, narcotrafficking\, Italian contemporary thought\, present forms of Latin Americanist critique\, life philosophies\, and the return of Hegelianism\, but also\, and perhaps primarily\, in the study of a number of trends in the intellectual tradition that link intellectual life to an intensity of free enjoyment as opposed to the obligations of work for social and academic reproduction. He has written extensively on canonic Latin American literature and culture. He has strong interests in fiction\, and selective interests in poetry. His work is comparative and interdisciplinary in nature. While at times he focuses exclusively on Latin America\, at other times his overriding interest is Spain\, and he keeps an open mind in terms of the pursuit of more general European or Inter-American or Transatlantic issues. He is co-editor of three journals: \"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies\,\" \"Res publica\,\" and \"Política común.\" UID:47513-10940123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Politics,Spanish Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T104521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CSAS Lecture Series | Demons in Paradise Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Sri Lanka 1983\, Jude Ratnam is five years old. On a red train\, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker\, he takes the same train from South to North. \n \nAs he advances\, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. \n \nReminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers\, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots\, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.\n\nDEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time\, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.\n\nJude Ratnam worked for an NGO before becoming a filmmaker. He obtained a degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Kamaraj in southern India\, before studying cinema at the School of Media Art and Managment in Sri Lanka. In 2006\, he left his post at the NGO\, no longer able to bear the hypocrisy of a job consisting in preaching reconciliation while civil war still raged\, and the country was violently divided and impoverished. He spent months thinking about how to reach the greatest number of people in an intimate yet political way. How could he tap into the emotions as well as the minds of his compatriots? His love for cinema suddenly made it seem obvious: He had to make films. It was this intuition that gave him the courage to commit to a project for 10 years\, despite the risks involved. He trained and had the backing of a French team (his co-writer Isabelle Marina introduced him to the producer Julie Paratian)\, along with some Tamil and Sinhalese partners\, since his aim was to put into practice a dialog of reconciliation during the actual shoot. On his way\, he met some key gures who each\, in their own way\, gave him the strength to carry on: Tue Steen Muller\, director of European Documentary Network\; Ally Derks of the IDFA BERTHA FUND\;
 Raoul Peck\, president of the Fémis film school\, when he attended the ARCHIDOC workshop\; director Rithy Panh\, his inspiration\;
 the founder of ARTE’s Documentary Unit\, Thierry Garrel\; and Christian Jeune and Thierry Frémaux\, who selected his film for the Festival de Cannes.
 Jude Ratnam is also a film critic and cofounder of the Colombo Film Circle\, and manager of the KRITI-A Work of Art production company\, which coproduced Demons In Paradise. He is currently working on 
some new film projects in Sri Lanka.\n\nV.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan\, a fiction writer and journalist\, is the author of Love Marriage (Random House\, 2008). The novel\, which is set in Sri Lanka and some of its diaspora communities\, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, Columbia Journalism Review\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Himal Southasian\, and The American Prospect\, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association\, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a contributing editor for Copper Nickel and Jaggery\, a founding member of Lanka Solidarity\, and a member of the board of directors of The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard\, and the American Academy in Berlin\, among others\, she is at work on a second novel\, excerpts of which have appeared in Granta\, Ploughshares\, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014. She is on the board of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies\, and is a founding member of Lanka Solidarity. In 2014\, she concluded a five-year stint as the Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2015\, she began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota. UID:47876-11035901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47876 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Film LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T181619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Computationally Probing Large Scale Structures DESCRIPTION:As understood today\, the history of our universe can be described with six parameters. We can constrain these parameters by measuring patterns in the large scale structure of our universe\, which are governed by the competition between gravitational collapse and the accelerated expansion of our universe. The most massive collapsed structures are clusters of galaxies\, comprised of hundreds to thousands of galaxies. For galaxy clusters\, the telltale cosmological pattern is simply their number count as a function of mass and time. In this talk\, I will discuss the challenges in using galaxy clusters as a probe for cosmology. We address these challenges through computational methods that explore galaxy formation processes such as energy feedback from active galactic nuclei\, synthetic observations of the superheated plasma that permeates galaxy clusters\, and methods that automate aspects of pattern-recognition. \n UID:49816-11543715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49816 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171213T114007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Marching Dykes\, Liberated Sluts\, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space DESCRIPTION:From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March\, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender\, sexuality\, war\, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement.\n\nElizabeth Currans blends feminist\, queer\, and critical race theory with performance studies\, political theory\, and geography to explore the outcomes and cultural relevance of public protest. Drawing on observation\, interviews\, and archival and published sources\, Currans shows why and how women utilize public protest as a method of participating in contemporary political and cultural dialogues. She also examines how groups treat public space as an important resource and explains the tactics different women protesters use to claim\, transform\, and hold it. The result is a passionate and pertinent argument that women-organized demonstrations can offer scholars a path to study the relationship of gender and public space in today's political culture.\n\nMarching Dykes was published in 2017 by the University of Illinois Press.\n\n\"This book is a much-needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era\, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing.\"--Kath Browne\, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender\, Place and Power \n\n\"As we enter a new era of public protest\, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing\, the ways that witnessing\, marching\, lobbying\, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics.\"-- Eileen Boris\, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State\n\nBook sales provided by Common Language Bookstore.\n\nEvent Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor. UID:47571-10950473@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171025T155948 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STS Speaker. Translating the Cell Biology of Aging? On the Importance of Choreographing Knowledge DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on ethnographic study in a cell biology of ageing laboratory that explored how the articulation between basic and clinical research is being crafted. I first describe how knowledge-making in the cell biology of ageing relies on two distinct epistemic and material cultures: visualisation and quantification. I argue that the focus on ‘mechanisms’\, ‘biomarkers’ or ‘clinical translation’ is related to how uncertainty is distributed across the two sets of skills\, instruments\, repertoires of valuation\, and types of objectivity. I suggest that funders and policy makers’ emphasis on innovative applications restricts the movement – the careful choreography – between these two epistemic cultures. This has consequences for the field's ability not only to re-open questions about the relationship between ageing and senescence but also to re-imagine the innovation regime for ‘aging society’. \n\nTiago Moreira is Professor of Sociology at Durham University (UK). In the last 15 years or so\, he has researched and published on the role of evidence in health care and on public controversies and activism on health care standards. More recently\, his research has focused on contemporary sociotechnical articulations between ageing and health. UID:46008-10353039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Medicine,Research,Sociology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T161210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony DESCRIPTION:The Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) will present its 7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award on February 12th\, 2018 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Stamps Auditorium on U-M's North Campus. The award will be given to Dr. Naomi André\, an Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Women’s Studies\, as well as the Residential College where she serves as Associate Director for Faculty. A reception honoring Dr. André will immediately follow in the lobby.\n\nDr. André was selected as the recipient of this award in recognition of her scholarship and musicological inquiry into the representation of race\, voice\, and gender\, her deep commitment to diversity as an educational mission\, and her contributions to teaching and mentoring women of color scholars in the arts.\n\nDr. André’s publications include topics on Italian opera\, Arnold Schoenberg\, women composers\, and teaching opera in prisons. Her forthcoming book\, Black Opera\, History\, Power\, Engagement (University of Illinois Press\, Spring 2018) focuses on how opera has become a unique arena for expressing blackness and presenting new narratives about the intersections of race\, gender\, and nation\, in the West (United States and Europe) as well as in South Africa. Her earlier books\, Voicing Gender: Castrati\, Travesti\, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012\, co-edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender\, race\, and identity.\n\nThe event is free and open to the public\; however\, registration is requested: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/7th-annual-shirley-verrett-award-ceremony/20171113 UID:47740-11004726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faculty,Free,Inclusion,Leadership,Multicultural,Music,Women's Studies LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 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:49197-11386654@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:20180212T180012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:BSA Med/Grad Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join us for our graduate/professional students panel on Monday\, Feb 12! We are excited to be joined by med/PhD students from the medical school\, EEB (Ecology and Evolution Biology)\, Bioinformatics\, and Genetics Counselling! Drop by to get to know more about the different career paths\, networking\, and free food! UID:49627-11487353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1339 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T180011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Central Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:This semester we are covering the book of Exodus!Anyone is welcome to join. UID:49038-11367043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49038 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Room - University of Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T131439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EAC/ECRC Peer Advisor Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Engineering Career Resource Center and Engineering Advising Center are currently recruiting for the 2018-2019 joint Peer Advisor Program! This program presents a great opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to demonstrate LEADERSHIP\, COMMUNICATION and TEAMWORK skills\, while serving as ambassadors for the EAC\, ECRC and the College of Engineering!\n\nThe Peer Advisor Program provides students with an enriching summer leadership experience\, guiding entering first year students through orientation\; and ongoing professional development opportunities throughout the academic year\, as the role expands to support CoE students with job search resources and events. In addition\, the EAC/ECRC Peers collectively lead the PA Student Advisory Board\, to support and inform EAC/ECRC programming.\n\nJoin us for the EAC/ECRC Peer Advisor Information Session to hang out with this year's PA's and learn more about the opportunity to contribute to the college and support your peers! Program supervisors and current Peer Advisors will be available to share additional information and answer your questions!\n\nPizza will be provided! \n\nPeer Advisor Information Session Details:\nDate: ​Monday\, February 12\, 2018\nTime: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM\nLocation: 265 Chrysler Center\n\nPlease register through the Events section of Engineering Careers if planning to attend. UID:49290-11409040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 Chrysler Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T082641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:METS - Making the Most of Your Summer DESCRIPTION:Internships are not the only way to build your experience. Learn about research opportunities\, professional networking\, and taking classes. Use your time wisely so you're ready to go when you return to campus in September! UID:49461-11462138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49461 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ready\, Set\, Intern! for First Year Students DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/126499\n\nThis workshop is for UM Hillel students. \n\n*RSVP is required for this event. Please click \"join event\" on the Handshake event page to RSVP\nNot in Handshake? Click here: \n\nAs a first-year student\, figuring out what you need to do to get an internship or understanding what interests you have ishard -- 100 emoji. It’s difficult to know what employers look for or how might your interest equal a job. \n\nNo worries\, we designed an experience just for you. \n\nDuring this 50-minute workshop we hope to...\n- walk you through what employers look for in interns\n- help you set goals to prepare yourself to be a GREAT candidate\n- bullet point three\, what’s up!?\n- debunk major and career connection\n- guide you on how to use our office to gain experience\n\nYou should come if you…\n- Are a first-yearstudent!\n- Want to know what experiences employers look for and how to get it. \n- Have been asked at least 50 times already\, “what’s your major going to be?”\n- Aren’t totally sure on what the “Career Center” does.\n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as wellas on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event\, and then click the 'Join Event' button. UID:49743-11501578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T130328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Basics: Marketing & Entertainment DESCRIPTION:How do you market yourself to Marketing and Entertainment Professionals? Master the marketing resume with this workshop. UID:48875-11320041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Food,Free,Internship,Networking,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! Student Org Transitions Workshop DESCRIPTION:Every year\, student organizations transition into a new executive board.  Let us help you create a smooth transition for next year!  Offered as part of the \"Explore CCI\" Series.\nLocation: Michigan League\, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor)\nTime: 6:30pm - 8pm\n\n*For accommodations\, email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49222-11397783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T094725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Organization Transitions Workshop DESCRIPTION:Every year\, student organizations transition into a new executive board. Let us help you create a smooth transition for next year!\nLocation: Michigan League\, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor)\nTime: 6:30pm - 8pm\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790874 UID:49370-11450944@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49370 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T162211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T203000 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:49336-11420290@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:20180131T121955 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CJS Film Series | Rashomon DESCRIPTION:Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.\n\nBrimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth\, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks\, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.\nWritten & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.\n\nPresented in Japanese with English subtitles. UID:49552-11476263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Film,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180227T183014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Huntington Bank Info Session DESCRIPTION:Huntington Bank's first of two info sessions this semester. Come to learn more about Huntington Bank and opportunities with the company.Learn More: https://careers.huntington.com/en-US/\n\nBe Bold. Challenge Tomorrow.\nWhat type of bank is Huntington? The type that’s never happy with the status quo. The type where an innovative mind is a job requirement. Sound good? Let’s get started.\n\nIn Pursuit of What’s Best\nAt Huntington\, our customers are neighbors\, friends\, local business owners —the people that make up our community. So we always work to look beyond account numbers and connect with the person.\n\nFearlessly Forward Thinking\nYou’re going places — eager to learn\, filled to the brim with ideasand ready to make an impact. And that’s great\, because we’re going places too. Join us as we take on the industry and create a new standard for banking.\n\nINFORMATION SESSION DETAILS\n\nWhen: Monday\, February 12th\nTime: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm\nWhere: AC Room 2220 \n\nThank you to our integrated partner Huntington Bank who sponsored our refreshments for all attendeesfrom Pizza House \n\nFULL-TIME AND INTERNSHIP AREAS\nOperations\nMarketing and Communications\nInformation Technology\nAudit\nData Analytics\nCommercial Banking\nHuman Resources\nRetail Banking\nRisk & Compliance\nFinance\nWealth\nCapital Markets UID:48181-11183399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48181 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross Academic Center, Conference Room, 1110 S State St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Albert Lee DESCRIPTION:British guitar legend Albert Lee\, regarded by many as one of the world’s finest guitar players\, with a career spanning more than 50 years\, needs no introduction for country Music\, blues and rock fans. Widely hailed for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique\, Albert Lee helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players with his song \"Country Boy.\" Albert’s many career highlights include two Grammy wins\, five years in the Eric Clapton band (at Clapton's request Albert recently played the Crossroads Festival with Eric at Madison Square Garden) and stints with the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman\, The Crickets\, the Everly Brothers\, Joe Cocker\, Emmylou Harris\, Rodney Crowell and many more. Take it from Emmylou\, who says\, \"When Saint Peter asks me to chronicle my time down here on earth\, I'll be able to say—with pride if that's allowed—that for a while I played rhythm guitar in a band with Albert Lee.\" UID:46583-10558543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T121515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble DESCRIPTION:This CDE concert features three “chamber symphonies” and a piece by SMTD Professor of Composition Evan Chambers.\n\nPROGRAM: Schoenberg- Chamber Symphony No. 1\; Wright: Chamber Symphony\; Chambers- Crossroad Songs\; Adams- Son of Chamber Symphony UID:47722-11004675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR