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DTSTAMP:20180516T084537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Collected Surface: Functional Ceramics
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52359-12649736@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52359
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180516T085500
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flexx – Semi-Industrial Jewelry
DESCRIPTION: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.\nMarsha Chamberlin was president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center (formerly Ann Arbor Art Association) for 33 years.
UID:52362-12649988@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52362
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180516T085128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flora & Fauxna: Photography
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52361-12649904@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52361
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180516T084216
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Life\, Architecture & People of Cuba: Photography
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52358-12649652@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180515T161801
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Nature Illustrated: Oil & Acrylic Painting
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52353-12641784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52353
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:
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DTSTAMP:20180515T162111
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Not Your Grandmother’s Dolls
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52354-12641868@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52354
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:
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DTSTAMP:20180516T084840
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Reconstructed Blueprints: Acrylic Painting
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52360-12649820@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52360
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180516T090525
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Water’s Presence: Landscapes in Oil
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:52363-12650072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52363
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180606T110026
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Nothing Makes Sense\, Except Love: The Cinematic Musings of Director Alan Rudolph
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nQuirky\, 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.
UID:52575-12857415@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52575
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180717T112425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:You Must Judge a Book by Cover: Highlights from the Julia Miller Collection of Bookbinding Models
DESCRIPTION:What did a book look like in ancient Rome? How did our ancestors read\, hold and protect their books? How did medieval monks construct the bindings of their manuscripts? These and many other questions will be answered by visiting our exhibit of models recreating ancient and medieval bookbindings. Bequeathed by scholar conservator Julia Miller\, this extraordinary teaching collection of bookbinding models includes replicas of Graeco-Roman tablets\, early Coptic books\, as well as medieval European\, Near Eastern\, and Islamic bindings spanning from the 12th to the 17th century.
UID:53037-13209250@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53037
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180809T111519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T120000
SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Epistemic Norms and the Normativity of Belief
DESCRIPTION:Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Chair)\nPeter Railton\nBrian Weatherson\nChandra Sripada\nRick Lewis (cognate: CogSci)\n\nEpistemologists frequently claim that the question “What should I believe?” demarcates the field of epistemology.  This question is then compared to the question asked in ethics: “What should I do?”  The question and the ensuing comparison\, it is thought\, specify both the content and the normativity at stake in epistemology.  I argue that both of the assumptions embedded in this demarcation are problematic.  By thinking of epistemology’s focal question in this light\, first\, we risk importing our assumptions about the epistemic domain into our understanding of the nature and normativity of the belief state\, and second\, we come to have a false picture of the normativity that supposedly underlies the domain.  \n\n	In Chapter 1\, “The Doxastic Assumption about the Epistemic”\, I explore a range of views that assume there to be an essential connection between belief and truth.  I look at views that treat all beliefs as attempts to believe the truth\, views that consider belief’s biological function to be accurate representation\, and views that hold that the very concept of belief is a normative concept.  I go on to explore instrumentalist conceptions of belief’s truth connection and conduct an inquiry into the value of true belief.  I conclude that neither the value of true belief nor an essential connection between belief and truth can explain epistemic normativity. \n\n	In Chapter 2\, “Evidential Exclusivity\, Correctness\, and the Nature of Belief” I note that epistemologists have recently argued that the best explanation for the apparent truth of a pair of claims - “Transparency” and “Exclusivity” – is that belief is subject to a standard of correctness such that a belief that p is correct if and only if p is true.  I argue that the proposed explanation unduly privileges one part of belief’s full functional profile – its role in deliberation – and that a more complete consideration of belief’s role in cognition suggests an alternative explanation for Exclusivity and Transparency but denies belief’s standard of correctness.  \n\n	In Chapter 3\, “Tradeoffs and Epistemic Value”\, I look at a debate about whether epistemic norms are teleological.  Though it’s standard to assume in keeping with teleology that certain goals or values explain the content of our norms\, a collection of recent papers have aimed to show that this assumption can’t be correct because teleological norms countenance tradeoffs but epistemic norms don’t countenance tradeoffs.  I note that the kind of non-teleological view that countenances no tradeoffs whatsoever is actually quite extreme and virtually unheard of in ethics. I go on to make the case that norms that license no tradeoffs can’t reasonably be taken to be grounded in value at all\, and thus can’t be understood to be genuinely normative. I conclude by suggesting that we broaden our conception of the epistemic domain to recognize teleological norms that provide recommendations for methods of inquiry or pursuit of significant truth or knowledge.
UID:53097-13228803@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53097
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1164
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180730T084852
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dissertation defense: The geography of diversification: a critical evaluation of methods and an empirical exploration of global marine fish diversity
DESCRIPTION:Pascal defends his Ph.D. dissertation
UID:52255-12576992@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52255
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation,Ecology,Natural Sciences,Rackham,Research,Science
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180419T152624
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance
DESCRIPTION:Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings\, sculptures\, dioramas\, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism\, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins\, who was the model for Duchamp's final\, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya\, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys\, among others\, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings\, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.\n\nLead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
UID:52025-12362837@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52025
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Film,Media,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - ME
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180419T152624
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance
DESCRIPTION:Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings\, sculptures\, dioramas\, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism\, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins\, who was the model for Duchamp's final\, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya\, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys\, among others\, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings\, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.\n\nLead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
UID:52025-12362854@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52025
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Film,Media,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180502T121513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materials On Hand: The Art of Ellen Wilt
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Srimoyee Mitra with the assistance of James Barker and Jennifer Junkermeier\, Materials On Hand: The Art of Ellen Wilt is a retrospective exhibition that pays homage to and celebrates fifty years of Ellen Wilt’s expansive art practice. Born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Wilt has lived and worked in Ann Arbor since 1949 and completed two degrees (BFA\, ‘69 and MA\, ‘70) at the University of Michigan. She is an important figure in Ann Arbor’s art community\, who has consistently worked at fostering a vibrant arts community as an artist and educator in the Academy and beyond. She was an art professor for 17 years (1969-85) at the Eastern Michigan University. During this time she also organized and facilitated numerous community-engaged projects that empowered first-time and emerging artists to show their work. It was not until she retired and was well into her 70s that she turned her focus to her own art practice. Her work was duly recognized with numerous awards from the Michigan Water Color Society\, Washtenaw Council for the Arts\, and the Holland Friends of Art between 1984 and 1993.\n\nFor the first time in the last three decades\, Materials On Hand: The Art of Ellen Wilt brings together over 40 carefully selected works from personal and private collections that highlight Wilt’s artistic contributions in Southeastern Michigan. Her intuitive and playful bricolage way of working reveals the scope of her achievement and her specific interest in the Michigan region and its landscape. She has developed multiple bodies of work that feature domestic objects from teapots to chairs while also reckoning with iconic architectural tropes of bridges and tunnels which are ongoing motifs in her work. Wilt continually experiments and explores new ways of working in a variety of two dimensional mediums including\, oil\, acrylic and watercolor. Since the 1970s she has incorporated collage into her practice using whatever materials she has available to her. These range from butcher paper\, aluminum foil\, and tissue to balsa wood\, toothpicks and other found objects. She creates mixed media paintings\, cut outs\, rubbings and installations that reimagine the agency of mundane objects and invite viewers to look again.\n\nExhibition Dates: Thursday\, May 31 - Sunday\, September 9\, 2018\nExhibition Reception: Thursday\, May 31\, 2018 from 6-8 pm \nA conversation with Ellen Wilt: June 9\, 2018 from 2-3 pm
UID:52089-12508081@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52089
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20180308T135541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript
DESCRIPTION:Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers\, hymns\, biblical stories\, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days\, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today\, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment\, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month\, and Aquarius\, the zodiac sign for January\, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous\, gilded surface\, accentuated by the use of bright colors\, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence. \n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.
UID:50849-11884991@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50849
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Exhibition,Literature,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20180509T114004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography
DESCRIPTION:See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting\, revealing and concealing\, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget\, Robert Doisneau\, Elliott Erwitt\, Walker Evans\, André Kertész\, Joanne Leonard\, Danny Lyon\, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception\, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.\n\nLead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
UID:52257-12577086@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52257
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,Photography,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20180412T145124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa\, its history\, culture\, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous\,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded\, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity\, and constructions of African identity more broadly\, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.\n\nLead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.
UID:51906-12285980@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51906
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Jan and David Brandon Family Bridge
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20180822T101328
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T235900
SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-September 24\, 2018
DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington Fall 2018 Deadline for Winter 2019 and early admission Fall 2019.
UID:52904-13140101@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52904
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,first-generation,Internship,Leadership,Networking,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20180731T085318
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180810T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:BME PhD Defense: Tuğba Topal
DESCRIPTION:The Effects of Mechanical Forces on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Behavior\n\n \n\nThe development of an organism from a zygote into a fully functional 3D individual is a process in which a strong coupling of morphogens and mechanical forces is coordinated with embryo shape. During development\, cells communicate with each other through cell-cell junctions and with their microenvironment via mechanical cues to regulate cell fate\, re-organize the extracellular matrix\, and guide developmental process. Most studies on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) focused on how external soluble factors including growth factors and small inhibitors\, gene and protein expression\, and signaling pathways to maintain stemness or initiate differentiation of these cells. A various array of environmental factors including the effect of geometry and mechanical properties of extracellular matrix on stem cells contributes to altering stem cell fate. Recently\, increasing evidence has revealed the importance of mechanical factors in affecting migration\, proliferation and stem cell differentiation in vitro.\n\n \n\nIn this dissertation\, we focus on the development and application of novel bioengineering approaches to understand the effects of mechanical forces on hESC behaviors and the directed differentiation of hESCs. Specifically\, by employing a microfluidic device to induce controlled and regulated forces that apply global mechanical forces to adherent hESCs\, we find that uniaxial substrate stretching disrupts the pluripotency circuit and initiates the exit of transcription factors\, Nanog and Oct4\, from the nucleus into the cytoplasm via a nuclear export protein (CRM1) as early as 30 min after stretch application and for 2 hours on a flexible substrate coated with Matrigel\, and is not reliant on exogenous soluble factors.  In order to pinpoint to the receptors responsible for mechanical sensing\, we employ a novel technique\, acoustic tweezing cytometery (ATC)\, that utilizes ultrasound pulses to actuate functionalized microbubbles targeted to integrin in order to apply cyclic strain to hESCs. We find that ATC-mediated cyclic forces applied for 30 min induced immediate global responses in the colony\, including increased contractile force\, enhanced calcium activity\, as well as decreased nuclear expression of pluripotency transcription factors Oct4 and Nanog\, leading to rapid differentiation and characteristic epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) events that depend on focal adhesion kinase activation and cytoskeleton tension. These results reveal a unique\, rapid mechanoresponsiveness and community behavior of hESCs to integrin-targeted cyclic forces. Furthermore\, we demonstrate an integrative mechanotransduction that induced neural rosette formation of hESCs via the application of ATC and induction medium. We observe upregulation of Pax6 and Sox1 in as early as 6 hours\, following by neural rosettes formation in 48 hours\, which is much faster compared to the typical 10-15 days needed with conventional neural rosettes formation protocols.\n\n \n\nTogether\, this dissertation presents novel findings and insights regarding the effects of external mechanical forces on hESCs. Such information may help elucidate the mechanobiology of hESCs\, and thus advance our knowledge of human embryogenesis\, regenerative medicine\, and tissue engineering.
UID:53267-13330229@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Rackham,Research
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Research Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Other:Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire
DESCRIPTION:                                                                                                                                   The chemical synthesis of natural products provides an exciting platform from which to conduct fundamental research in chemistry and biology. Our group is currently pursuing the synthesis of a number of structurally complex natural products\, including the diterpenoids ryanodine\, talatisamine\, and pleuromutilin. The densely-packed arrays of heteroatoms and stereogenic centers that constitute these polycyclic targets challenge the limits of current technology and inspire the development of new synthetic strategies and tactics. This seminar will describe the latest progress in our methodological and target-directed synthesis endeavors. \n                                                \n                       \n                                                \n                       \n                                                \n                       \n                                                \n                       \n                        \nSarah Reisman (Caltech)
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:McKinsey & Company Diversity Webinar Series: The Importance of Mentorship
DESCRIPTION:McKinsey & Company Diversity Webinar Series\n\nMcKinsey & Company is excited to host a webinar series this Spring and Summer for diversestudents interested in learning more about the firm\, consulting\, diversity\, and the importance of mentorship. We will also cover full-time and internship opportunities at the firm in preparation for the upcoming fall recruiting season.\n\nWebinar Series:\n•	Intro to McKinsey and Consulting\nFriday\, May 11th from 4-5pm ET\n•	“What is the Digital practice”?\nFriday\, July 20th from 4-5pm ET\n•	The Importance of Mentorship \nFriday\, August 10th from 4-5pm ET\n\nUse the event link to RSVP by Wednesday\, August 8th.\n\n\nAbout McKinsey\nMcKinsey is a management consulting firm helping companies in the public\, private\, and social sectors with their most critical problems. We work on teams and collaborate with senior management within organizations\, bringing our skills and expertise to develop innovative and distinctive solutions. As a consultant\, you can have tremendous impact\, working on projects like: \n•	Developing an app for new parents to track development for premature babies\, saving millions of lives each year \n•	Helping a renewable energy client develop a China market expansion strategy \n•	Creating the digital marketing plan for a major electronics company\, leading to more than $300MM growth for the company\n*****\nInclusion & Diversity at McKinsey\nAt McKinsey\, we are dedicated to building a great firm that attracts\, develops\, excites\, and retains exceptional people. We aspire to be recognized as the best professional services firm in the world for all candidates. We value a respectful and inclusive work environment and are committed to inclusion of all people\; our networks support our people\, providing a welcoming environment where mentorship and community create an unparalleled sense of belonging and growth. To learn more\, please visit our website\, view our flyers about our firm's focus on inclusion and gender equality\, and follow us on Facebook at Real Life at McKinsey and McKinsey Women. We also invite you to read outlatest report on the impact of diversity in the workplace\, Delivering through Diversity.
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