Lecture / Discussion:Teach-Out Series: Exploring Basic Income in a Changing Economy
2018-06-18 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
The United States social safety net is a complex system with many programs and often difficult eligibility requirements. Many of these programs only deliver in-kind aid (not cash) to people living in poverty, a lot of whom can fall through the cracks and can’t make ends meet.

Basic income, the idea of providing people with a minimal level of cash support on a consistent basis, remains a point of debate in the United States and beyond. In this Teach-Out, you will join leading experts to explore the emerging idea of basic income and other associated social safety net programs.

The Teach-Out will address the following questions:
What is basic income?
What is the difference between basic income and universal basic income?
Why is basic income generating so much interest now?
How does basic income work? What are the benefits and the challenges?
How might basic income help create an inclusive economy?
What is the social safety net? Who does it help and who does it leave out?
How do we currently measure poverty and determine who is eligible for safety net programs?
How do automation and a changing economy affect the basic income conversation?

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at Teach-Out.org.

Lecture / Discussion:Teach-Out Series: The Future of Gerrymandering
2018-06-18 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
One of the biggest challenges facing our democracy today occurs when congressional district lines that are drawn by elected officials to give one political party an unfair advantage over another. This is called "gerrymandering.” This Teach-Out explores the topic of gerrymandering, considering everything from its history of the original gerrymander, to the current United States Supreme Court cases. You will hear from leading experts on gerrymandering as well as citizen groups who are on the front lines of the redistricting debate.

The Teach-Out will address the following questions:
What is gerrymandering?
What is happening now? Why is this such an important issue today and what does it mean for you?
Why did the United States Supreme Court take up the gerrymandering case (Gill v. Whitford)? And what is happening now with this case?
How has technology impacted the gerrymandering debate?
What are states doing to address the issue?
How can you implement change?

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at Teach-Out.org.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
The Huron Valley Ceramics Collective (Isabella Comai, Dennison Dorsey, Sasha Guo and Margaret A. Miller) is a group of emerging artists who work out of the Clay Work Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The works in this exhibit are an expression of how ceramics mediate our daily life though use. The artists explore life and reflection through surface and narrative elements by using a combination of wheel thrown and hand built terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Starting with the material of screen spline, Marsha Chamberlin combines items such as grommets, bungee cord, washers, nuts, floor matting and more with an array of beads to create a contemporary, semi-industrial style of work. Pieces often contrast the functionality of hardware with sparkles and colors that provide a unique style.
Marsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Patty Carroll’s highly intense, saturated color photographs have led to her recognition as one of Photolucida’s Top 50 Photographers (2104, 2017). Flora & Fauxna is a still life series about women and their homes using decorative fabric, artificial flowers and ceramic birds to create a sumptuous, and often humorous, ornate world. Unlike traditional still life images, these photographs show no horizon line, dramatic lighting, or symbols of death and decay. Birds in many cultures are messengers between heaven and earth, acting as a bridge between the mundane and spiritual life. In Carroll’s work, birds represent the human desire to escape gravity and reach the level of angels.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Life, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography
2018-06-18 08:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Larry Hauptman is a photographer who is fascinated by and seeks to document the life and culture of peoples around the world. This exhibit is about the Cuba of today. Many forces have contributed to Cuba’s history, and evidence of its struggles can be seen everywhere. Yet despite the decaying structures and uncertainties, you do not have to look hard to find much beauty and happiness.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
John Megahan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains of Idaho, Oregon and Washington instilled in him a deep love and appreciation for nature. In college he studied art and biology, and after graduation worked as a freelance illustrator for commercial and educational institutions. Since 1996, he has been a scientific illustrator for the U-M Museum of Zoology. In addition to scientific illustration and painting, he occasionally teaches at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the University of Oregon, and illustrates children’s books.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Charlie Patricolo has been creating, engineering and executing dolls for 25 years, and teaching doll making for 20. She studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2002. When teaching, Patricolo feels that, “Watching someone go from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I can’t believe I did this!’ is pretty fantastic!” Her inspiration often comes when she isn’t looking for it: in songs and books when a line rings out so clearly it cannot be ignored, or a piece of fabric that refuses to be left behind. Patricolo is now based in North Carolina, but lived most of her life in Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting
2018-06-18 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
In this exhibit, Adnan Charara translates his assembled characters, from both collage and found object assemblage, into commanding acrylic paintings. The backgrounds interact with the figures, who represent history, identity, and the struggle for a sense of belonging. They are blueprints for being human: imperfect, unique and multi-faceted. Charara works in various mediums ranging from drawing, to jewelry, to large scale sculpture. He is a Lebanese-American artist with a studio in Detroit.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil
2018-06-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
Cathy VanVoorhis’ oil landscape paintings represent her experience of the healing power of nature. VanVoorhis travels to lakes, rivers and streams to witness the ecology and beauty of natural coastlines of Michigan. She finds inspiration in the writing of naturalists such as Rachel Carson, and the understanding of the intricate web of all life. This series of paintings focuses on the healing that comes from contemplation of bodies of water. This beautiful element can bring a meditative calm and inner peace, as one feels a connection to the timeless forces of life. VanVoorhis is a lecturer at the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Exhibition:Nothing Makes Sense, Except Love: The Cinematic Musings of Director Alan Rudolph
2018-06-18 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
This exhibit features materials reproduced from the Alan Rudolph Collection now part of the University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center. Told in Rudolph’s first-person voice, it chronicles his career.

Quirky, off kilter, stylishly romantic and filled with moments of wry humor, Alan Rudolph makes movies with dreamy eyed protagonists searching for love in all the wrong places. He often mashes up genres into something new and unique and peppers his films with elements not always beholden to realism. He began his four decade career under the watchful eye of mentor Robert Altman, but he soon created a body of work that is clearly his own vision.

Exhibition:Seven Fantasy Classics for Children
2018-06-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Students in Lisa Makman’s English 313 course, Children’s Literature and the Invention of Modern Childhood, curated this exhibit of classic stories for children. The exhibit focuses on seven classic stories: Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, the Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, and Peter Pan. Drawing on the rich collection of children’s literature in the Special Collections Research Center, the books range from late nineteenth century editions to contemporary pop-up books. By showcasing different takes on each story, the exhibit explores the variation in how these tales are told and illustrated.

Presentation:Dissertation defense: Novel phylogenomic methods for uncovering the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse clade Caryophyllales
2018-06-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
Joe presents his doctoral dissertation.

Lecture / Discussion:Exploring Basic Income in a Changing Economy
2018-06-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
Join leading experts to explore the emerging idea of basic income and other associated social safety net programs through the University of Michigan Teach-Out, an online learning event for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community and affiliated experts.

The Teach-Out will address the following questions:
- What is basic income?
- What is the difference between basic income and universal basic income?
- Why is basic income generating so much interest now?
- How does basic income work? What are the benefits and the challenges?
- How might basic income help create an inclusive economy?
- What is the social safety net? Who does it help and who does it leave out?
- How do we currently measure poverty and determine who is eligible for safety net programs?
- How does automation and a changing economy affect the basic income conversation?

Join this FREE online course beginning June 18, 2018.

Exhibition:Quaker Oats Makes a Movie: A Scrumdiddlyumptious Wonka Adventure
2018-06-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
​Quaker Oats forged a new path in the entertainment industry by jointly marketing consumer packaged goods and a major motion picture in 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Having never made a motion picture before, their foray into the filmmaking industry was unexpected and unprecedented. The company saw this film as an opportunity to essentially make a feature-length commercial for their new line of Wonka candy products.

Students in Matthew Solomon's class, SAC 355: Authorship and the Archive, culled though hundreds of production documents related to the film to curate an exhibit that tells a little known behind-the-scenes story about one of the most beloved films.

Exhibition:Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection
2018-06-18 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch
2018-06-18 12:00 - 12:45 | Modern Languages Building - 3308 (Conference Room)
Spring/Summer Deutschtische will take place on Mondays (through May 21) in 3308 MLB, which is the third-floor German Conference Room.

They will take place on Wednesdays at Cafe 32 in the School of Dentistry Building or, in good weather, in the "Courtyard Garden" of the League, across from UHS (one way to get to it would be to go directly through the League from the front doors (facing the Bell Tower) to the back doors).

To be sure of the location on Wednesdays, come to the end of class at 11:50 a.m. in 3310 MLB to walk to lunch with the group!

Class / Instruction:Spring Term Classes End
2018-06-18 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Last day of classes for Spring Term

Workshop / Seminar:Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization
2018-06-18 14:00 - 16:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Room 122, but check http://mc2.engin.umich.edu/seminar for updates
This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

Class / Instruction:The Love, Lure, and Lore of the Clothesline
2018-06-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Anne Lawrence, a clothesline historian and hobbyist for over 30 years, will share laundry poetry, personal stories, and the opportunity to consider the clothesline in ways never before appreciated.

Session One will discuss clothesline nostalgia, helping to revive memories of the days when folks routinely went “online” without the Internet. There will be washday history, sociological issues of ethnic stereotypes in the laundry industry, as well as the role of feminism, industrialization, culture, and ecology.

Session Two seeks to answer what it is about hanging laundry out to dry that sets minds free to create in wonderful ways, and deals with how the simple act of line-drying has found its way into various forms of art and photography.

This study group for those 50 and over will be held on June 18 and June 25.

Lecture / Discussion:RNA Innovation Seminar Series | Theme: "RNA in gene regulation"
2018-06-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - BSRB - ABC Seminar Rooms
Matthew Chapman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

and

Jacob Kitzman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

Exercise / Fitness:Ann Arbor Japan Week | Ann Arbor Y Judo Club - Beginner Workshop
2018-06-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location
YMCA Studio C, 400 W. Washington St., Ann Arbor, 5:30-6:30pm. Learn about the sport of Judo including basic stances and techniques and workout. Wear a judogi (judo uniform) or a loose fitting, long sleeved, t-shirt or sweat shirt and a loose fitting pants. Make sure that your finger and toe nails are trimmed. RSVP required here (https://goo.gl/pgsfk4 search for the keyword "judo"). Bring a valid photo ID or YMCA membership card.

Please see the complete Ann Arbor Japan Week Schedule here: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/ann-arbor-japan-week.html

Class / Instruction:Ann Arbor Japan Week | Fiber Arts Lab
2018-06-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location
Fiber Arts Lab: Sashiko Embroidery, AADL Downtown Library: Secret Lab, 343 S. Fifth Ave., 7-8:30pm, grades 6 to adult. This week Fiber Arts Lab will be demonstrating the basics of sashiko stitching, a traditional embroidery style from Japan. They will provide everything you need to get started. Stop in and learn the basics. Or, feel free to bring along another project you've been working on (knitting, crochet, or embroidery) and hang out with us while enjoying the company of other crafters. No prior experience necessary.

Please see the complete Ann Arbor Japan Week Schedule here: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/ann-arbor-japan-week.html
