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:20181018T082626 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Detroit Community Based Research Program Application Open DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Community Based Research Program (DCBRP) is a social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program that places students with community based organizations in full-time research positions. Students work with community organizations on projects addressing social and environmental justice\, food insecurity\, human rights\, public health\, youth development\, and more!\nhttps://lsa.umich.edu/urop/students/summer-programs/community-based-research-fellowship.html\n\nDue December 4th by 9AM UID:56557-13942292@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56557 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Dcbrp,Deadlines,Environment,Fellowship,Research,Undergraduate,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180920T112226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 SUMMARY:Other:February 15\, 2019-Michigan in Washington Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:MIW application deadline for regular admission Fall 2019 and early admission Winter 2020. UID:55713-13775108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55713 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Deadlines,Diversity,Internship,Leadership,Pre-Law,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Public Policy,Research,Scholarships,Social Sciences,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181022T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Head of the Charles DESCRIPTION:Race UID:56123-14059191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Boston, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181022T154153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T230000 SUMMARY:Other:OrgLead Applications DESCRIPTION:Looking to enhance your leadership skills and make an impact in your organization?\n \nOrglead is a student development series that aims to help student leaders improve their organizations through professional development like marketing\, funding\, and membership retention. Thirteen sessions on Mondays during the winter semester are lead by presenters from the Center for Campus Involvement and the division of Student Life. \n\nApplications are open! Don't forget to apply by Monday\, November 5th! UID:57001-14059394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/57001 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181105T180023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Other:OrgLead Applications DESCRIPTION:Looking to enhance your leadership skills and make an impact in your organization?\n\nOrgLead is a student development series that aims to help student leaders improve their organizations through professional development like marketing\, funding\, and membership retention. Thirteen sessions on Mondays during the winter semester are lead by presenters from the Center for Campus Involvement and the division of Student Life. \nApply here: https://tinyurl.com/orgleadapp. Applications are open now but close on Monday\, November 5th! Don't forget to apply before the deadline!  UID:57006-14186899@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/57006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Apply online! CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T084425 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg loves animals\, each with its own unique personality\, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay\, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals\, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness\, surprise\, mischief\, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times\, building up a rich\, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting\, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics\, paint\, graphite and pastel. UID:53529-13398963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53529 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T090004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Celebrating Science & Art DESCRIPTION:The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research\, and are beautiful in their detail\, form and symmetry. For each one\, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells\, tissues and organs\, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants\, worms\, fruit flies\, fish\, mice and yes\, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators\, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images\, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma\, bipolar disease\, epilepsy and cancer. UID:53532-13399209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biosciences,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Interdisciplinary,Life Science LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T090318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Innovations in Ornament DESCRIPTION:This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin\, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists\, Lorraine Kolasa\, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting\, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef\, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon\, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler\, Roger Smith\, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman\, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation\, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage. UID:53533-13399291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53533 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T084750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category\, Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm. UID:53530-13399045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53530 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T063023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:MSBC Professional Headshots (UCAN&LinkedIn) DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/220623\n\nTHIS EVENT IS HAPPENING AT TWO SEPARATE TIMES: 8-9AM & 12:20-1:20PM. \n\nGet your professional photo taken so that your UCAN/LinkedIn profile (and any other social media profiles you have) make a positive first impression. This will be happening during the Michigan Sport Business Conference (MSBC).\n\nNote: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event\, and then click the 'Join Event’ button.\n UID:56546-13942258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56546 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business, Classroom TBD, 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T085154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical\, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination\, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty\, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature\, such as tree branches\, ice patterns\, twisted vines\, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures\, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works. UID:53531-13399127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53531 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T091151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pacific Underwater Photography DESCRIPTION:A passionate diver for more than 22 years\, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines\, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters\, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas\, Nevada. UID:53534-13399373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53534 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Life Science,nature,Southeast Asia LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180808T084033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas\, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza\, Palestine\, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills\, Michigan\, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition\, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values. UID:53528-13398881@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53528 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180913T104310 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unique Perspectives: Maps from Tokugawa & Meiji Japan DESCRIPTION:This exhibit of Japanese maps produced during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)\, includes maps of the world\, Japan\, and cities including Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto. A major loan from the collection of Barry MacLean\, Lake Forest\, Illinois\, forms the core of the exhibit\, supplemented with works on loan from the Robert B. Hall Collection illustrating the Tokaido road\, and selected maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library collection.\n\nAudubon Room hours:\nSunday\, 1-6pm\; Monday-Friday\, 8:30am-6pm\; Saturday\, 10am-6pm\n\nClark Library hours:\nSunday\, 1pm-12am\; Monday-Thursday\, 8am-12am\; Friday\, 8am-7pm\; Saturday\, 10am-6pm\n\nJoin us for an opening celebration on September 20\, 4-7 p.m. UID:55296-13713826@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Library,Maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room and Clark Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180921T112328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope\, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the \"leading lights of the next generation.\" This exhibit draws on drafts\, proofs\, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.\n\nWorking most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff\, Carl Rakosi\, and George Oppen\, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally\, for more than forty years\, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine\, The Big Scream\, providing a venue for more than 200 poets\, including both big names names and younger\, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year\, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.\n\nOn view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday\, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:55790-13777580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55790 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library,Poetry LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181004T165055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s\, the rate of democratic expansion worldwide has slowed and even receded. Some of the reasons suggested for this recession have been a disillusionment with the prevailing democratic models that\, for all their benefits\, often limit popular participation. The banner of participatory democracy has been hoisted by social movements\, by scholars from different disciplines and has also made an appearance in cultural production. This conference proposes to look into what role culture plays in broaching possible crises of the democratic model\, how culture participates in the discussion of current democratic models in the cultural and linguistic spheres\, and how culture can strengthen and/or expand democracy. The concept of democracy is understood here as a broad umbrella theme that implies different paradigms of belonging and social inclusion and applies to various disciplines.\n\nKeynote speakers will include: Alexandra Lucas Coelho (Portuguese writer)\, Luiz Ruffato (Brazilian writer)\, Sidney Chalhoub (Brazilian historian\, Harvard University)\, and Kalaf Epalanga (Angolan-Portuguese writer and musician)\n\nThe full conference schedule and registration information are available on the APSA website:\n\nhttp://apsa.us/apsa-international-conference-2018/\n\nEnglish/Portuguese UID:56413-13896810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Africa,Film,Latin America,Literature,Multicultural,Music,Portuguese LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181021T180014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Coed Showcase Final Regatta DESCRIPTION:Interconference regatta showcasing the winners of Coed Quals from the spring (woo we won that) UID:53918-14052554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53918 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180920T171419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Urban Biographies\, Ancient and Modern DESCRIPTION:Human beings are political animals\, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis\,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later\, we are still political animals\, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest\, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture. \n\nThis exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy\, Olynthos in Greece\, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities\, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit\, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today? \n\nLead Curator: Christopher Ratté\nCo-Curators: Lisa Nevett\, Nicola Terrenato\, and Kathy Velikov\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies UID:52176-12520840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Architecture,Classical Studies,Detroit,Environment,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181016T082756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:LACS Field Research Grant Symposium DESCRIPTION:The LACS Field Research Grants are funded by the Rackham Graduate School\, the LACS Brazil Initiative\, and the International Institute to support graduate students conducting preliminary fieldwork in Latin America. The grants provide students with the opportunity to establish professional and academic contacts\, familiarize themselves with sources relevant to their studies\, conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations\, and refine their projects. \n \nIn this conference\, students who received the 2018 Field Research Grant will present on their research conducted over the summer. This event is free and open to the public. \n \nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to us at lacs.office@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:56787-14003778@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Latin America,Rackham,Research LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor Boardroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181012T151352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Medieval Seminar DESCRIPTION:Featured Speakers:\nSamer Ali\, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature\, U-M Department of Near Eastern Studies \n\nMatthew Champion\, Lecturer in Medieval History\, Department of History\, Classics\, and Archaeology\, Birkbeck College\, University of London\n\nPatricia Dailey\, Associate Professor\, Department of English and Comparative Literature\, Columbia University\n\nChristian Schneider\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures\, Washington University in St. Louis\n\nHelen Solterer\, Professor\, Department of Romance Studies\, Duke University UID:52007-12349051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52007 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,History,Humanities,Literature,Middle East Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T120034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Sport Business Conference 2018 DESCRIPTION:The MSBC is an undergraduate student-run platform that creates unique experiences to empower the next generation of sport industry leaders. Since our founding in 2012\, the MSBC has strived to inspire creativity and innovation in the sport industry. We do this by connecting current and future sport business professionals and organizations by creating thought-provoking educational platforms in an intimate\, yet professional environment. By attending the conference\, you will have the opportunity to connect with the current and future sport business leaders. UID:54658-13629712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190730T143156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Modeling Dark Energy Observations in the Nonlinear Regime DESCRIPTION:Dragan Huterer (LCTP)\, Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermilab) UID:64729-16436933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64729 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Physics Workshop,Science,Winter 2019 LOCATION:Randall Laboratory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180910T125158 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Write-Togethers (for grad students) DESCRIPTION:Write-together sessions provide structure\, space\, and time for graduate writers working on papers\, theses\, and dissertations. These Fridays Write-together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity\, distribute writing support and information\, and provide coffee\, tea\, and refreshments.\n\nFor more info and to register visit https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/write-together-sessions.html UID:53868-13470145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Writing LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T063019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: ICE DESCRIPTION:Join EXCEL for a discussion with Co-Artistic Directors of International Contemporary Ensemble\, Rebekah Heller and Ross Karre. We'll talk about their process for artistic planning\, how they balance artistic direction between two people\, and leave plenty of time for questions. UID:55261-13709329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180824T172515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar DESCRIPTION:Details to follow UID:52534-12848835@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52534 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181004T123250 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibit: Nancy Blum\, RC Class of '85 DESCRIPTION:RC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations. \n\nExcerpted from her artist statement:\nMy large‐scale works on paper\, rendered in ink\, colored pencil\, gouache and graphite\, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images\, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals\, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape\, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and\, in this way\, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer.\n\nI use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active\, forceful agent\, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity\; hopefully\, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.\n\nWhen making art for public spaces\, I strive to invest these commissions with similar content\, while bringing beauty and a high level of craft to a particular environment. As I conceive and develop each piece\, I respond to the specifics of the surrounding architecture\, ecosystem\, and community in an effort to compellingly meet the needs of the site. My studio practice\, in turn\, is invigorated by opportunities to design work in relationship to an existing framework\, and the special demands and responsibilities this process entails. UID:56392-13896763@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56392 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181001T162658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dissertation Workshop with Alan Ke DESCRIPTION:Please join the Language and Rhetorical Studies Group for a dissertation chapter workshop with Alan Ke\, a PhD candidate in Linguistics. \n\nChapter Description\n\nThe overall goal of this thesis is to advance our understanding of how humans comprehend language in real-time\, developing and testing a new model of how mental representation of linguistic knowledge interacts with the memory system in sentence processing. To achieve this overall goal\, I investigate an important theory that models the interaction between memory and sentence processing\, known as cue-based memory retrieval theory\, which assumes that a comprehender uses information as retrieval cues to identify meaningful language chunks with matching features in declarative memory. In this chapter\, I review two main challenges of the cue-based retrieval theory\, and briefly discuss the way this thesis addresses them. The last section of the chapter reviews the reason why such challenges are raised in the previous studies\, as well as the solutions that have been previously proposed to address these challenges\, and why these solutions are not satisfactory.\n\nAbout Us\nLanguage and Rhetorical Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, is an interdisciplinary graduate student organization that focuses on the intersection of language and rhetoric. UID:56271-13869409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180813T155319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana\, 17th-20th Century DESCRIPTION:The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana\, 17th-20th Century includes over 1\,100 original letters\, documents\, and other handwritten items\, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter\, such as American speech\, education\, government\, Christianity\, literature\, music\, philanthropy. UID:53659-13444117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Books,Education,History,Library,Literature,Museum,Philosophy,Research LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181021T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Wisco Women's DESCRIPTION:Women's fleet race regatta UID:53919-14052558@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T063018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Auto-Owners 2018 IT/Actuarial Day (UM) DESCRIPTION:IT/Actuarial Day is an onsite visit to the Auto-Owners Insurance\nheadquarters in Lansing. You’ll learn more about our IT and\nActuarial divisions through presentations\, a visit to a workspace\,\na networking lunch (provided by Auto-Owners)\, Q&A session\,\nand optional breakaway table visits to talk with specific\ndepartments. The event covers information on our career and\ninternship opportunities\, the technologies we use\, and projects\nwe work on. This is a once-a-year experience - don’t miss out!\n\nSophomores\, juniors\, seniors and recent grads majoring in the\nfollowing areas are invited:\n\n• Computer Science/Engineering\n• Information Technology/Systems\n• Information Security/Assurance/Intelligence\n• User Experience Design\n• Actuarial Science\n• Predictive Analytics\n• Math and Statistics\n• Data Science\n\nStudents must be eligible to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.\n\nREGISTERat www.auto-owners.com/it-actuarial-day by Monday\, October 15. UID:55183-13698244@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:6101 Anacapri Blvd, Lansing, Michigan 48917, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180920T134206 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Structure Seminar DESCRIPTION:Simone Brixius-Anderko\, Ph.D. \nPost-doctoral Research Fellow\, Emily Scott Lab\, University of Michigan UID:55736-13777508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Structural Biology LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T104044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53719-13452942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180724T134959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Borders: Global Africa DESCRIPTION:More than ever in the era of globalization\, ideas traverse geographic\, generational\, and cultural boundaries\, even as national borders seem to be closing. 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa\, Europe\, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century\, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery\, colonization\, migration\, racism\, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings\, photographs\, sculpture\, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai\, Omar Victor Diop\, Wangechi Mutu\, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication\, the tenth in the UMMA Books series.\n\nLead support for 'Beyond Borders: Global Africa' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the University of Michigan Office of Research\, African Studies Center\, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich. UID:53175-13272011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181008T095437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T123000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Cognitive Science Open House DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 5th annual Cognitive Science Open House--an informational session about majoring in cognitive science. Brief presentations will be conducted by the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science staff\, faculty\, and the Cognitive Science Community student organization. Raffle prizes will be given away. Refreshments will be provided. Registration required. UID:56029-13821107@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56029 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cognitive Science,Language,Philosophy,Psychology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180904T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire DESCRIPTION:Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire draws inspiration from Ann Arbor’s legacy of social movements (Anti-War Movement\, Civil Rights Movements) and experimental art practices (The Once Group) from the late-1950s to the 1970s as its point of departure. It brings together archival materials and reproductions from the University of Michigan’s Labadie Collection and the Bentley Library in conjunction with radical artworks by diverse\, multi-generational artists and designers whose works are deeply influenced by the ideas of freedom and self-determination\; re-writing the canonical accounts of history\; and building contemporary culture and solidarity through collective action.\n\nAt a time when the idea of citizenship in the United States is being deeply challenged and redefined through horrific occurrences of gun violence and police brutality towards racialized and queer civilians and refugees\, this exhibition asks what role art institutions can play in building inclusive and vibrant creative spaces the 21st Century. Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire retraces and learns from models of collectivity and organizing mobilized by artists\, designers\, and cultural producers in the past and present as a lens to understand the contemporary moment and re-imagine the future.  It explores the complex relationships and at times overlapping and contested concerns between contemporary art\, design\, and social justice that continually influence and inform one another.\n\nArtists: Rudolf Baranik\, Stephanie Dinkins\, Emory Douglas\, Brendan Fernandes\, Chitra Ganesh\, Carole Harris\, Maren Hassinger\, Al Loving\, Josh MacPhee\, Native Art Department International\, Michele Oka Doner\, Yoko Ono\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Martha Rosler\, Buster Simpson\, Gregory Sholette\, Leni Sinclair\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Graem Whyte\, and Zafos Xagoraris. \n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra. UID:53348-13349515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Social Justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181018T095335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Manufacturing Research Seminar Series: Data Enabled Smart Manufacturing DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIndustrial big data are widely available through connected cyber-physical systems\, distributed sensing and the Internet of Things\, which provide unprecedented opportunities for real time information sharing and integrative decision making for smart manufacturing. Meanwhile\, it also brings data analysis challenges due to massive high dimensional data with spatial and temporal heterogeneity and complex functional dependencies. This talk will first present the research opportunities and challenges of data analytics for smart manufacturing. Examples of ongoing research on methodological developments and their applications will be discussed with the emphasis on information integration for data driven optimal decision making. Specifically\, it includes (1) integrating computer simulation model calibration using limited physical tests with optimal robust design\; (2) integrating warranty data analysis with the design of accelerated life testing for improving reliability prediction and customer satisfaction\; (3) integrative analysis of process sensing signals and product quality measurements for optimal decision-making in monitoring\, inferring\, and controlling manufacturing processes. The related data analytics methods will be discussed\, including high-order tensor data analysis for multistream functional data/images\, multiscale data transforms for data dimension reduction of nonstationary waveform signals\, a regularized hierarchical variable selection method for combing the two steps of sensor selection and the signal features extraction together\, employing the transfer learning technique for knowledge sharing among the similar processes\, SPC supervised predictive control for defects prevention\, etc. Some discussions will also be given on how the developed methodologies have been applied in automotive\, metal forming and semiconductor manufacturing to show the essential need for multidisciplinary integration efforts.\n\nBio\nJionghua (Judy) Jin is currently a professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Jin’s research focuses on developing new data fusion methodologies with broad applications in both manufacturing and service industries. She has received numerous awards including the Forging Achievement Award from Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation in 2007\, the NSF CAREER and the PECASE Awards in 2002 and 2004 respectively and 12 Best Paper Awards since 2000 from the conferences and journals in her research field. She is currently the Editor of Quality and Reliability Engineering for IISE Transactions. She was also the former Vice President of INFORMS-International Activities in 2010~2013 and the President of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Division in IIE in 2007~2008. She is a Fellow of IISE\, a Fellow of ASME\, an elected senior member of ISI\, and a senior member of ASQ.\n\nShe received her BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering at Southeast University\, Nanjing\, China in 1984 and 1987 respectively\, and her PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1999. UID:56894-14021559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 151 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180724T135804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Life Magazine 1947 Homecoming Photographs DESCRIPTION:In October 1947\, just two years after the end of World War II\, the popular weekly news magazine LIFE sent staff photographers Lisa Larsen and Ralph Morse to cover homecoming weekend at the University of Michigan. The subsequent article\, “Michigan Homecoming\,” which brought national attention to UM’s athletic program\, featured a seven-page spread with photographs of the campus during a much-anticipated football game between the number-one ranked Michigan Wolverines and the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers. This installation provides a unique opportunity to view twenty-one images of that weekend\, many of which were not published in the original article\, recently donated to UMMA by John and Susan Edwards Harvith. Considered alongside the article\, these photographs of fervent fans\, strolling couples\, alumni making their annual pilgrimage\, and the game itself present LIFE magazine’s view of a giddy post-war public enjoying a return to American pastimes.\n\nThese photographs were recently gifted to UMMA by John (AB '69\, JD '73) and Susan (MMP '73) Harvith. UID:53176-13272071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53176 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Football,Game,Homecoming,Magazine,Museum,Photography,Sports,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181120T121840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Painting His Way Home DESCRIPTION:*Free and Open to Public*\n\nA self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old\, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art\, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017. \n\nEarlier this year\, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17\, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December\, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm\, Tuesday - Saturday\; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday\; Closed on Monday)\n\nThis Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station\n\nImage: Painting His Way Home\, Martin Vargas\, Acrylic\, 2017 UID:56440-13906001@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,Social Justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180817T155920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation\, Media\, Market DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr Giang Nguyen-Thu will discuss her forthcoming book Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation\, Media\, Market by Routledge (2018). Since the country’s economic reform in 1986\, Vietnamese television has experienced a tremendous shift from a purely propagandist tool of the Party-State into an all-pervasive medium of popular culture. The dynamics of Vietnamese television\, however\, is completely neglected in the field of international television studies\, shadowed by the Western assumption of Vietnam being an oppressed land without media freedom. In her book\, Dr Giang Nguyen-Thu seeks to challenge such reductionist assumption to reveal the effects of popular television in recreating the sense of national belonging in Vietnam. This book explores how various genres of popular television\, including television dramas\, talk shows and reality shows\, alter the way Vietnamese people make sense of and organize their post-Reform lives\, and how these new genres enable a new condition of cultural oppression as well as political engagement in the name of the nation. In sharp contrast to the previous image of Vietnam as a war-torn land\, post-Reform Vietnamese television conjures into being a new sense of national connectedness based on an implicit refusal of the socialist past\, hopes on peace and marketization\, and anxieties of the globalized future. \n \nDr. Giang Nguyen-Thu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication\, Annenberg School of Communication\, University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as an on-leave lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Vietnam National University\, Hanoi. She had her doctoral degree at the University of Queensland (2016) in the field of media and cultural studies. Her book Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation\, Media\, Market is to be published by Routledge in 2018. She is now interested in the emotional politics of social media in Vietnam. Her current research investigates how Vietnamese mothers use Facebook to navigate in an emerging economy of precarity caused by the widespread panic related to environment and food toxicity. Similar to her works on Vietnamese television\, this research is informed by Giang’s interest in cultural globalization as situated mediation processes between global logics and local concerns\, whose effects much excess the way the Western world often imagines of the Vietnamese media environment. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alibyrne@umich.edu UID:53907-13478725@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Lecture,Media,Research,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 120 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181010T141529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yang Feng\, Associate Professor\, Department of Statistics\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:A fundamental problem in network data analysis is to test whether a network contains statistically significant communities. We study this problem in the stochastic block model context by testing H0: Erdos-Renyi model vs. H1: stochastic block model. This problem serves as the foundation for many other problems including the testing-based methods for determining the number of communities and community detection. Results will be presented for both ordinary graphs as well as hypergraphs where each edge contains more than two vertices. A comprehensive study is conducted for a wide spectrum of edge (or hyperedge) density scenarios. In particular\, the joint impact of signal-to-noise ratio and the number of communities on the asymptotic results is unveiled. The proposed testing procedures are examined by both simulated and real-world network datasets. The talk is based on joint work with Mingao Yuan\, Ruiqi Liu\, and Zuofeng Shang. UID:53000-13176893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53000 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180918T134343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 SUMMARY:Meeting:AIG (American Institutions Group) DESCRIPTION:AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions\, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting\, we generally discuss current events/politics\, and for the second\, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all\, so during the first meeting\, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article. UID:55578-13759164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55578 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181004T101418 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Balancing Forces at Adhesions: How Cells Sense Stiffness DESCRIPTION:Host: Ann Miller\n\nPatrick Oakes\, Assistant Professor\nDepartment of Physics & Astronomy\nDepartment of Biology\nUniversity of Rochester UID:56101-13832571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56101 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science,seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181021T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Boulderman Cup DESCRIPTION:Fleet racing regatta hosted by Western Michigan UID:53920-14052562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53920 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180813T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dance Modern Lab Master Class Series: Red Stowall DESCRIPTION:Erika ‘Red’ Stowall is an award-winning artist in dance and choreography residing in Detroit\, MI. She is a recipient of the Kresge Artist Fellowship\, Applebaum’s Emerging Art Award as well as Fulbright Hays GPA Study Abroad grant\, awarded through University of Detroit Mercy. Stowall uses her classic training in modern\, jazz\, and ballet\, combined with her background in West African dance as the foundation of her work. Her work is based on her life in Detroit\, representation of black stories\, and advocating for black women voices. Stowall sees her art as a calling and is passionate about creating performance pieces that invite conversation on safe space for women of color\, restoration\, and positive narrative/images of black communities. Stowall is the founder and current artistic director of Big Red Wall Dance Company. \n\nEach Modern Lab session features a different guest artist teaching a master class and sections from their repertory. This panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the students’ awareness of potential career possibilities. Each guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class. In the final 15 minutes\, faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q & A with each artist\, discussing their career\; their recommendations for transitioning from student to professional\, and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.\n\nThis event supported in part by the EXCEL Lab. UID:52506-12842451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Free LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181020T180013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T235959 SUMMARY:Other:NIRCA Cross Country Great Lakes Regionals DESCRIPTION:Meet hosted by NIRCA in Shelbyville\, IN:Men's 8kWomen's 6k UID:55879-14043686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Blue River Cross Country Course CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T063016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PhD Pathways: Developing a Strong and Effective Online & Social Media Presence Lab DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/197524\n\nOnline information and digital presence has continued to expanding\, and has a strong impact on professional branding. The University Career Center will collaborate with the Rackham Student Government to host an Online and Social Media Presence workshop. Students will learn basic principles about how to effectively build a professional website\, how to craft and sell their experiences\, and how to manage their online presence on social media. \n\nNote: This event’s information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event\, and then click the 'Join Event’ button.\n UID:54535-13594285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54535 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Palmer Commons Great Lakes South Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181015T093530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCED Lecture. Populism and the Erosion of Democracy DESCRIPTION:Populist parties and politicians are surging in both developed and new democracies\, prompting much analytical and popular concern. Their rise is largely due to the failure of mainstream political parties to articulate and respond to popular concerns about immigration\, changing labor markets\, and perceived cultural threats. This talk explains how populists benefited from the shortcomings of mainstream parties\, how they gained power in several countries\, and the consequences of their governance for the formal and informal institutions of liberal democracy.\n\nAnna Grzymala-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research interests include political parties\, state development and transformation\, informal political institutions\, religion and politics\, and post-communist politics. She is the author of Redeeming the Communist Past\, Rebuilding Leviathan\, and Nations Under God. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:54102-13528400@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Democracy,International,Politics,Populism LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181002T144228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Inspire Mindful Meditation Sit DESCRIPTION:As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative\, CEW+ will hold regular drop-in mindful meditation sits throughout the academic year. Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias\, reduce the symptoms of anxiety\, depression\, and pain\, improve cognitive functioning\, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in\, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment. UID:56320-13878522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56320 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mindfulness,Well-being LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women - 2nd Floor - Main Entrance CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180917T134927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+Inspire Drop-in Mindful Meditation Sits DESCRIPTION:As part of the new CEW+Inspire initiative\, CEW+ will hold regular drop-in mindful meditation sits throughout the academic year. Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis.\n\nEvidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias\, reduce the symptoms of anxiety\, depression\, and pain\, improve cognitive functioning\, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop-in\, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.\n\nFree and open to all levels of practice. No registration necessary. UID:55499-13750112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Mindfulness,Well-being LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T120017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T124500 SUMMARY:Other:CEW+Inspire Mindful Meditation Sits DESCRIPTION:As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative\, CEW+ will hold regular drop-in mindful meditation sits throughout the academic year. Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias\, reduce the symptoms of anxiety\, depression\, and pain\, improve cognitive functioning\, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in\, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.Free and open to all levels of practice. No registration necessary. Other mindful sits this semester:November 1\nNovember 16\nDecember 6 UID:56578-13951272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56578 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:CEW+ CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181005T145407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:ASCE Speaker Series: Exponent DESCRIPTION:ASCE Speaker Series UID:56461-13906085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56461 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180927T164634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) Workshop. Queer Liminality: Gender and Sexuality in Raafat Hattab’s \"Ho(u)ria\" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sascha Crasnow is lecturer of Islamic art in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in art history\, theory\, and criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2018. Her current book manuscript\, \"After the Intifadas: Art in the Age of Disillusionment\,\" examines shifts in contemporary art production in the post-Second Intifada period among Palestinian artists living and making work within historic Palestine. This project\, which is based on her dissertation research\, has been solicited by Duke University Press. \n \nWorkshop Topic: \nFor LGBTQ individuals in Palestine\, issues of gender and sexuality are inherently intertwined with their positions as individuals living under occupation. This is perhaps most notably visible through the eliding of Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians by Brand Israel (the primary pro-Israel propaganda project) through a portrayal of Israel as the singular gay-friendly\, culturally progressive Middle Eastern country—a practice that has been termed “pinkwashing.” For Palestinians living within the state of Israel who identify as queer\, they may feel caught between two societies into which they do not fit: Israeli society\, where they are an outcast because of their Palestinianness\, and Palestinian society\, where they are an outcast because of their gender expression or sexuality. This leaves some individuals in a state of twofold liminality. In this paper\, I utilize this notion of liminality as relates to the trans* experience discussed by Diane Dentice and Michelle Dietert to examine Ho(u)ria (2010)\, a video work by genderqueer Palestinian artist Raafat Hattab. Haatab’s video alternates between three scenes: a mermaid (Hattab) on the beach\, Hattab’s aunt telling the story of her family’s expulsion from their homes during the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe” referring to the formation of Israel and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians)\, and Hattab getting a tattoo of Arabic calligraphy on his chest. While on the surface appearing disparate\, these three scenes all speak to the intrinsically interwoven nature of liminality\, the omission of certain voices from the nationalist struggle\, and the persistent fight for liberation\, as embodied by the work’s title—houria\, meaning mermaid\, and horia\, meaning freedom. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:56118-13832588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56118 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,International,Israel,LGBT,Middle East Studies,Muslim,Palestine LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 447 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180724T093839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Chris Peterson Memorial Lecture: Barry Schwartz\, Ph.D.\, Swarthmore College DESCRIPTION:Years ago\, Herbert Simon suggested that the standard assumption of rational choice theory\, that decision makers choose so as to maximize expected utility\, is psychologically implausible\, because maximization requires cognitive operations that exceed human capacity. Simon proposed\, instead\, that people “satisfice\,” choosing “good enough” rather than the best options. The maximizing challenge is exacerbated when choice sets are large\, as is the case with most of the decisions people face in modern\, affluent societies. More recent work has identified individual differences in decision making\, with some people aiming to maximize and others aiming to satisfice. Maximizers make better decisions than satisficers\, but feel worse about them. In this talk\, I will suggest that the goal of maximizing is not just a psychological mistake\, but an epistemological one—that often it is not possible. I will also present new empirical work that shows that when choice sets are large\, people view choices as self-expressive\, making even seemingly trivial decisions (e.g.\, what jeans to buy) into significant ones\, and that when this happens\, it enhances the tendency to maximize in making these decisions. In other words\, large choice sets raise the stakes of decisions\, turning people into maximizers\, which results in less satisfying decisions. I will finally suggest that perhaps viewing the self as “achieved” rather than as “ascribed\,” or the self as “incremental” rather than as an “entity” may be a mixed psychological blessing. If there is a secret to happiness\, it may be\, as Aristotle said\, in finding the mean between too much freedom and too little—between standards that are too high and standards that are too low. Chris Peterson taught us many invaluable lessons about happiness in his distinguished career\, and I do not think he would be surprised by this one. UID:52434-12714441@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52434 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 1324 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181018T120812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Angela is currently a Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Data Architect at McCreadie Group\, a software company located in Ann Arbor\, MI. She holds a BA in Economics as well as a minor in Program in the Environment (PitE) from the University of Michigan. In 2016\, she received her MBA from the University of Michigan - Flint.\n\nPrior to her time in tech\, she dabbled in finance in Chicago. In her free time\, Angela enjoys reexploring Ann Arbor with her fiancé and chocolate lab\, running\, and attending sporting events/political events. Go Blue! UID:55734-13777509@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181018T111117 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor Economics: Money vs Time: Family Income\, Maternal Labor Supply\, and Child Development DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:53988-13510880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180925T100534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Phondi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. UID:55958-13811934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180924T140551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Publication Workshop with Professor Zachary Samalin\, Assistant Professor of English (U Chicago) DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a workshop for graduate students on the publication process. Professor Samalin will talk more specifically and in depth about the evolution of his book project\, paying particular attention to what it’s been like turning a dissertation into something bigger\, more refined\, and polished. He will also talk about what it’s been like publishing from this project: how he decided what to convert into an article\, and how the conversion process actually worked after he made that decision. UID:55908-13805071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Humanities,Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180910T091430 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 SUMMARY:Meeting:The African Politics Reading Group DESCRIPTION:We are a small\, informal group of faculty\, post-docs\, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles\, working papers\, published books\, and book manuscripts. \n\nIf you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time\, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list. UID:55104-13687192@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Chair's Conference Room (6551) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181015T163709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE285 Undergraduate Seminar Series - The Drones are Coming DESCRIPTION:Edward L. Burnett\, Former Senior Fellow for Modeling\, Simulation and Controls\, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company\n\n“The Drones are Coming” is a unique look at some of the strange and little know history of UAVs. The presentation traces the history of Unmanned Aircraft and their ties to Hollywood. The talk also presents some of the possible future uses of UAVs to support multiple industries and what technology improvements will make them possible.\n\nAbout the Speaker...\nEdward L. Burnett was the Senior Fellow for Modeling\, Simulation and Controls at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Palmdale\, CA (the Skunk Works) until his retirement in August after 37 years. His principal duty was to develop real-time Man-In-The-Loop and Hardware-In-The-Loop simulations for the Skunk Works. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Ed’s career started with Lockheed Martin in 1981\, and since then he has worked a wide variety of projects including the F-117A\, F-22A the JSF X-35 and F-35\, the X-56\, and many others. Mr. Burnett was a member of the class of 2018 AIAA Fellows\, he is on its Academic Affairs Committee and is a past chair of the Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee. Ed is the Chair of the Cal Poly Aerospace Departments Industrial Advisory Board and serves of several other university boards. He is also a member of the SAE\, SFTE\, and AOPA. Ed enjoys flying\, sailing\, skiing (snow and water)\, scuba diving and traveling. \n\nEd has also worked as a consultant on several aircraft simulation computer games\, movie special effects\, and theatrical props. UID:56723-13969940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56723 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180905T160658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exposure to Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Social Media DESCRIPTION:There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating \"echo chambers\" that insulate people from opposing views about current events. We surveyed a large sample of Democrats and Republicans who visit Twitter at least three times each week about a range of social policy issues. One week later\, we randomly assigned respondents to a treatment condition in which they were offered financial incentives to follow a Twitter bot for one month that exposed them to messages produced by elected officials\, organizations\, and other opinion leaders with opposing political ideologies. Respondents were re-surveyed at the end of the month to measure the effect of this treatment\, and at regular intervals throughout the study period to monitor treatment compliance. We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative post-treatment\, and Democrats who followed a conservative Twitter bot became slightly more liberal post-treatment. These findings have important implications for the interdisciplinary literature on political polarization as well as the emerging field of computational social science. UID:54841-13645308@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54841 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Organizational Studies,Politics,Social Sciences LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T133608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T153000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION:. UID:53794-13461552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53794 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T113959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CSP Workshop: Improving Your Performance on Math Exams DESCRIPTION:Want to continue to improve your math study skills and learn techniques that you can immediately employ on the next exam? In this workshop you will have time to reflect on your first exam performance and learn study techniques that you can start right away to help you prepare for the next exam.\n\nRSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/kQJ66rAWz5d959l43\n\nSee more workshops: https://lsa.umich.edu/csp/current-students/csp-workshops/october-2018.html UID:56146-13839502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56146 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Undergraduate LOCATION:Angell Hall - Newnan Advising Center G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180906T154451 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DocDi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:DocDi is a discussion group that centers on linguistic documentation techniques and tools\, theory\, language rights\, and engagement with indigenous communities. UID:54939-13654186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54939 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T123019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:f you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/208763\n\nAre you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Wherever you’re at: that's ok! \n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to exploreHandshake\, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.\n\n**If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.\n\n**If you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/208763 UID:55570-13759155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180918T144012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above\, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend\, but please be aware of the language focus. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:55290-13713765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Language,Literature,Multicultural,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2106 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Amazon Information Session DESCRIPTION:Info Session regarding Amazon culture\, and operations job opportunities.\n UID:56445-13905901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Activities Building, Maize and Blue Auditorium, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181010T165359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department Colloquium DESCRIPTION:A Pluralist\, Pragmatist Theory of Disease\n\nPhilosophers have proposed various definitions of disease. These have\nspanned the normative\, the naturalistic\, and the social constructivist\, for\ninstance. I argue that disease is not a stable\, univocal concept with a\ncorrect definition that can be uncovered or even usefully stipulated.\nRather\, the concept of disease shows up in deeply competing projects with\ndifferent practical and epistemic goals\, and what counts as a disease\nvaries accordingly. There is no reason to think we have\, or should have\,\neven roughly consistent notions of health and disease underlying these\ndifferent projects. There are a messy host of competing strategic reasons\nto classify something as a disease or to resist doing so\; accordingly\, that\nsomething is a disease is often a contingent\, historically dependent\,\ncontext dependent\, perhaps temporary fact about it. Any neater story we try\nto tell will occlude some of the important purposes that categorizing\nsomething as a disease can serve\, and the complex harms and benefits that\ncan come with this categorization. UID:52149-12483089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181015T083938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminars | Complexity of Vacua and Near-Vacua DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will study the computational complexity of vacua and near-vacua in field theory and string theory. From analogy to protein folding\, it is natural to expect that finding stable vacua is computationally hard\, in the sense of complexity theory. However\, I will demonstrate that this is the case even for metastable vacua. The problem is exacerbated in string theory\, since setting up the hard problem of finding string vacua requires actually computing the scalar potential in a controlled regime. Such computations involve solving instances of computationally hard problems. Cosmological implications will be discussed in light of a recently proposed measure that utilizes computational complexity. UID:56748-13994902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180816T102538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Living in the Shadow of Big Data DESCRIPTION:The group will view TED Talk videos describing the many things made possible by Big Data including finding new treatments for diseases without costly research and field trials\, as well as dealing with personal privacy issues. These include what steps\, personal and legal\, might be taken when our own data is no longer secure. A group discussion will follow.\n\nThis study group for those 50 and over will meet on Friday\, 3-5\, October 19. Instructors: Sydney Kaufman and Laurel Park UID:53828-13463717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53828 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Law,Lifelong Learning,Public Policy,Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181005T181534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Ross Karre\, International Contemporary Ensemble Artistic Director DESCRIPTION:The International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director\, media artist\, and percussionist\, Ross Karre\, will talk through the creative and technical workflow of scenographic projection design and mapping in the context of contemporary concert music\, opera\, and interdisciplinary work. Software\, hardware\, and creative production planning will be discussed and demoed. Karre has presented projection design work at the National Symphony\, National Gallery of Art\, the Park Avenue Armory\, BBC Scotland\, and at contemporary music venues around the world. He will demonstrate examples of moving image solutions in scenographic contexts at a variety of scales.  UID:56348-13887611@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181008T154813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reading Workshop Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Transnational Comics Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop is pleased to host a reading group featuring Emil Ferris' graphic novel\, My Favorite Thing is Monsters. We will supply light refreshments\, as well as copies of the book to all RSVPs. UID:56446-13905903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Discussion,Graduate,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Rackham LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180925T140426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Searching for Global Opportunities DESCRIPTION:Is interning abroad right for you? Work with Hub coaches to navigate the search process for international opportunities and learn about the benefits of joining the Hub Internship Program. UID:55989-13814263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Food,Free,International,Internship,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190111T152227 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:53067-13217967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180917T101957 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: New Insights into the Mechanics of Glacier Beds from Time-Dependent Surface Velocity Fields DESCRIPTION:The mechanical properties of the ice-bed interface govern the dynamic sensitivity of glaciers to changes in climate and oceanic forcing. Recent observations have underscored the importance of understanding the mechanics of glacier beds by showing that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing ice mass at increasing rates due to accelerating ice flow. Many glaciers exhibiting significant acceleration are flowing rapidly due to slip at the ice-bed interface\, but the relationship between the rate of slip and the drag force at the bed remains unclear. This knowledge gap inhibits our ability to make reliable projections of eustatic sea-level rise and has persisted because of a lack of observations. This talk will focus on how recent observations can be leveraged to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanical properties of glacier beds. I will begin by describing a new method for deriving time-dependent\, three-dimensional surface velocity fields from remote sensing data\, and then presenting first-of-their-kind results from a natural experiment in which the flow of a major ice stream (Rutford Ice Stream) in West Antarctica responds periodically to forcing from ocean tides. These data allow us to observe and quantify the rate of propagation and decay of stress perturbations. After discussing the data\, I will present a physical model that relates the observed spatiotemporal variations in surface velocity to the mechanics of the bed. These results provide fresh insight into the mechanics of a prototypical Antarctic outlet glacier. I will conclude the talk by discussing how the approach may form a potential strategy for using the growing volume of time-dependent remote sensing data to help improve projections of future glacier states. UID:52663-12925299@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - Room 1528 - CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T181548 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Other:\"Development of New Catalytic Reactions\nInvolving the Activation of Traditionally Inert Bonds\" DESCRIPTION: Organic molecules contain a variety of chemical bonds. Organic synthesis involves the cleavage of a chemical bond and the formation of a new chemical bond. However\, not all of the chemical bonds in organic molecules have been used in organic synthesis. Thus\, organic synthesis is heavily dependent on the reactivity of chemical bonds. If so-called unreactive bonds were to be used directly in organic synthesis\, new possibilities for developing new synthetic methodologies would arise. We have utilized\, not only the activation of C-H bonds\, but also the activation of unreactive single bonds\, such as C-C\, C-O\, C-N\, and C-F bonds\, and the activation of C-C triple bonds and C-O double bonds\, in our quest to develop new types of transformations that will lead to further diversification in the field of organic synthesis. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nNaoto Chatani (Osaka University) UID:52879-13094886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181009T172734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Academic Year in Freiburg 2019/2020 DESCRIPTION:This event is about our study-abroad program in beautiful Freiburg that helps you expedite the process of completing requirements for German (and other majors).\n\nYou will learn about the structure\, accommodation\, classes\, and the history/fascination of Freiburg.\n\nEligibility:\n* Minimum 3.0 GPA\n* Good academic standing\n* Sophomore\, Junior\, or Senior standing by Fall 2019\n* Completion of German 232 or equivalent prior to September 2019\n* Open to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor students only\n\nApplication Website:\nhttps://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10247 UID:56560-13997140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 (Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T123020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Amazon Employer Challenge DESCRIPTION:THIS APPLICATION HAS NOW CLOSED. \n\nIF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT OPERATIONS POSITIONS AT AMAZON\, PLEASE CONSIDER ATTENDING THEIR INFORMATION SESSION ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUILDING ON FRIDAY\, OCTOBER 19TH AT 3PM. FOR MORE INFORMATION\, VISIT HERE: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/219213\n\n\n*********************************************************************************************************************\n\nThis is for you if:\n** You want to get in front of Amazon recruiters\n** You want to practice your team-building and presentation skills\n** You have leadership skills you want to put into practice\n** You want to have fun while learning about business\, management and technology\n** You're looking for a way to connect with an employer for the first time\n** You're not sure what you're most interested in and want to learn about varying job functions\n**You're creative\, and love coming up with awesome ideas\n\nHere's how Employer Challenges work:\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 19TH 3:00pm-5:00pm\n- Amazon reps will be sharing information and providing background information on the Employer Challenge\n\nSATURDAY\, OCTOBER 20TH-THURSDAY\, OCTOBER 25TH (during the week on your own time)\n- Students teams will develop a 5 minute pitch that addresses Amazon's challenge (scheduling times that works best for your group!)\n- Mid-week\, teams will have the opportunity to ask questions of the Amazon employees and get feedback on their presentation\n\nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 26TH (time slots will be scheduled between 8:00am-1:00pm)\n- Student teams will give their 5 minutepitch to the Amazon reps at the University Career Center! \n- Teams will receive feedback on the content of the presentation\, creativity\, and overall presentation skills\n- Resumes of participating students will be forwarded to the Amazon team \n\nSo\, why not? Give it a shot! Click JOIN EVENT above to receive more information once the Amazon Challenge application opens! (Students will be able to apply as a team of 2-4 people\; or individuals can apply and be placed on a team by the University Career Center). \n\nQuestions? Email Kathleen at kathlmcd@umich.edu UID:56350-13887613@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56350 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:515 E Jefferson, 3200 SAB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181002T101445 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Conflict\, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India DESCRIPTION:Our understanding of the past changes dramatically when we recognize violence as an intimate and important part of human experience that demands the historian’s attention. It is well known that the origins\, sustenance and expansion of states involve the use of coercive power. This lecture looks at conflict\, violence and resistance in the context of the politics of ancient India. Moving between political ideas and practice\, I focus on three themes. The first is a general discussion of the relationship between the state and violence. The second extends the analysis to the social sphere\, examining how theories of kingship legitimized the state’s violence against its subjects\; the state’s powers to impose punishment\, torture and death\; and the connections between politics and sexual violence. The third part of the lecture examines the extent to which the coercive power of the state was accepted\, contested or resisted by various social groups. I also ask whether the exploration of such issues that speak to our own time endows historical inquiry with a greater contemporary relevance\, even urgency\, or whether it threatens to destroy the objectivity that is an essential part of the historian’s craft.\n\nUpinder Singh is Professor of History\, Ashoka University\, Sonepat. Her writings range over various aspects of the political\, social\, economic\, religious and intellectual history of ancient India\; the history of Indian archaeology\; and interactions between India and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Kings\, Brāhmaṇas\, and Temples in Orissa: An Epigraphic Study\; Ancient Delhi\; The Discovery of Ancient India: Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology\; A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the Twelfth Century\; and The Idea of Ancient India: Essays on Religion\, Politics\, and Archaeology. Her edited books include Rethinking Early Medieval India\; Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories and Buddhism in Asia: Revival and Reinvention. Her most recent book is Political Violence in Ancient India. UID:53296-13338827@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,History,India LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 | 10th Floor Event Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T123020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Insight Venture Partners Info Session DESCRIPTION:We’re software experts who invest in growth. Our capital andexpertise give companies the resources and know-how to accelerate growth– visionary executives do the rest. Insight reflects the diversity\, the resolve\, and the hustle of our home-base\, New York City\, and we applythis energy to support the companies and leadership teams we invest in across the world. Whether through venture capital or private equity – across our people and our portfolio – our conviction is that growth equals opportunity. \n\n UID:56374-13889948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56374 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business, R0230, 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181016T133245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:The second event in the Department of Linguistics Fall 2018 Colloquium Series features a presentation by Jon Sprouse\, Associate Professor of Linguistics\, University of Connecticut.\n\nABSTRACT\nLooking for evidence of A-movement\n\nThe evidence is almost overwhelming for a dependency in A'-constructions that can be captured with a grammatical operation like movement: there is a visible disruption in the word order of the sentence\, there are several sentence processing effects associated with these disruptions\, and there are abstract constraints these disruptions that vary cross-linguistically. In this talk\, I'd like to ask whether we can find similar evidence for movement in A-constructions. I will spend the bulk of the time reporting three sets of studies that I have run in my own search for evidence of A-movement: a set of judgment studies on ne-cliticization in Italian and ECM in English\; a set of EEG studies on uaccusatives\, passives\, and raising in English\; and a set of hierarchical Bayesian models designed to test for the presence of UTAH during language acquisition (under the assumption that UTAH and A-movement are tightly coupled). In all three sets of studies\, the results so far fail to present strong evidence for A-movement. After reviewing these results\, my hope is to encourage some discussion about (i) what sorts of evidence we would expect to see if A-movement is part of the grammar\, (ii) whether we might need cross-linguistic variation in the presence/absence of A-movement\, and how the current evidence in the (syntactic\, psycholinguistic\, and neurolinguistic) literature stacks up against our expectations. UID:53777-13459412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53777 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2230 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180920T010108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MESWN Coffee and Book Club DESCRIPTION:MESWN (Michigan Earth Science Women's Network) is very happy to start a book club aimed at professional development of women from all disciplines. Book for Fall 2018 - Lean In: Women\, Work\, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. We will be meeting twice this semester to discuss sections of the book. Let us share our insights on this awesome book over snacks and coffee! The first meeting (Oct 19th) will cover chapters 1-4 and the second meeting (Nov 16th) will cover chapters 4-8. \n\nRSVP is required - https://goo.gl/forms/p1804cxvb9D1k9222\nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/1830299247065578/ UID:55704-13772812@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55704 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,History,Humanities,Information and Technology,Interdisciplinary,Learning Center,Literature,Rackham,Research,Social Sciences,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - 1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180926T153054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Seminar Title: “Protons to patients: evaluating the role of the chloride transporter ClC-7 in lysosomal function” DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Lysosomes are essential focal points of cellular metabolism\, digesting a wide range of macromolecules provided by endocytosis or autophagy. To this end\, lysosomes rely on their highly acidic luminal pH to promote the function of their many enzymes\, a pH generated by the action of a v-Type proton pumping ATPase. Since this transporter is electrogenic\, parallel ion movements must occur to dissipate the generated membrane potential and promote bulk proton flux. I will present evidence that the Cl-/H+ antiporter\, ClC-7\, plays this role\, moving Cl- to dissipate the lysosomal transmembrane voltage. However\, the function of ClC-7 has been controversial\, with conflicting reports on its contribution to lysosomal acidification. All heretofore known patients with ClC-7 functional mutations have varying degrees of the same disease\, with osteopetrosis sometimes associated with lysosomal storage disease. Here\, we report on two patients with a novel disease manifested as widespread lysosomal dysfunction but no bone abnormalities\, who both have the same missense mutation in ClC-7. We find that fibroblasts from both patients have acidification abnormalities and that heterologously expressed human ClC-7 carrying this mutation displays a novel phenotype under electrophysiological measurements. These findings provide strong support for an important role of ClC-7 in the lysosomal acidification process and suggest opportunities for therapies for these patients. UID:53434-13381403@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53434 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Chemistry,Mechanical Engineering,Physics LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181011T101958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox\, Emeritus Fellow of New College\, Oxford University (2018 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series) DESCRIPTION:The series explores the differing approaches to the natural word by pagans and the early Christians from Paul and the Gospels to c AD 500. It brings out differing emphases in their respective writings and art and also asks what practical effects such different ways of seeing had. \n\nLecture 1: Cosmos and Landscape in Pagan and Christian Views of Creation (October 17th)\nPagan and Christian views of Creation\, man’s dominance over the beasts and the vegetal world and on modern theories of a shift from a horizontal view of the relation of the natural world and the divine to a vertical view of it\, endorsed by Christianity.\n\nLecture 2: Flowers and the Vegetal World (October 19th)\nthe understanding and symbolism of plants and flowers in Christian and pagan art\, life and thinking\, including the idea of ‘paradise’ and erotic and virginal perceptions of gardens\, concluding with the gardening of monks and desert Fathers in natural adversity.\n\nLecture 3: The Hierarchy of Animals (October 22nd)\nAnthropocentric views in the Christians’ scriptures\, compared with pagan thinkers’ views …and on the hierarchy and symbolism of animals\, including cats\, in pagan and Christian art and thinking and on their role in both groups’ experience \,especially those of hunters\, martyrs and Christian holy men.\n\nLecture 4: Signs and Catastrophes (October 24th)\nCompared pagan and Christian notions of omens and signs\, prodigies and miracles and their explanations of natural catastrophes\, including volcanic and seismic disasters\, still familiar in our world. It will conclude with Christians’ contrasting view of the End of the world and the place of perverted natural symbols in expressing it. UID:55538-13756882@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55538 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180828T150205 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T180000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Foundations of Yoga\, Meditation\, & Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:If you’d like to improve your focus and engagement in day-to-day living and add greater self-awareness\, this is the program for you. Little or no experience is required so it’s a great program for beginners or those who need to brush up on the fundamentals of alignment and mind-body awareness. You’ll learn about and practice different types of yoga as well as mindfulness practices that encourage wellness and resilience in all aspects of your life. At the conclusion of the program you’ll be ready to take your practice to the next level. UID:54369-13574535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Rec Sports,Well-being LOCATION:Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - Fitness 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181018T161253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Not Separate from the Street: Nancy Blum and Public Art Installation DESCRIPTION:The Robertson Lecture is an endowed annual event of the LSA Residential College\, and is a lasting gift of the first Dean of the RC\, James Robertson. The lecturer is traditionally a notable alumna/us of the RC\, someone impacting their chosen field(s) in ways congruent with the philosophy of the College. The 2018 Robertson Lecture will be delivered at the Keene Theater in East Quadrangle on October 19th by Nancy Blum\, class of '85\, a Brooklyn-based artist who is known for her public art commissions and works on paper. In addition to graduating from the RC with majors in Psychology and Women’s Studies\, she received an MSW from the U-M School of Social work and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her current work is installed primarily out of the gallery\, not separated from the street but integrated into it\, with a particular interest in sites of transit in cities and within hospital settings. Her recent commissions include medicinal wildflower windows at the San Francisco General Hospital acute care unit\; large\, graceful birds in flights of migration/immigration integrated into three light-rail stations in Minneapolis/St. Paul\; and over-sized yellow flower sculptures sprouting from a rainwater filtration green space at a bus loop outside Philadelphia. \n\nIn her Robertson lecture\, Nancy will share anecdotes about these and other works\, and take us behind the scenes of her in-progress installation at an MTA train station in NYC. She'll explore how her multiple interests take root in public art\, and she'll give us a sense for how she forged her own path as an artist - a journey\, she says\, that began at the Residential College\, notably thanks to mentoring from her ceramics professor\, Susan Crowell. \n\nFollowing the Lecture\, please join us for a reception for the artist at the RC Art Gallery\, located on the first floor of East Quadrangle. Refreshments will be served. An exhibit of Nancy's drawings will be on display at the same gallery through November 9th\, (M-F 10am-5pm\, free admission).\n\nWATCH THIS LECTURE from your internet browser during its simulcast\, 10/19 from 4:30-5:30pm EST at the link below. UID:54327-13572279@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Environment,Exhibition,Food,Free,Interdisciplinary,Outdoors,Social Impact,Undergraduate,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181011T001536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished Lecture in Musicology: Professor Patricia Hall DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a number of manuscripts of popular songs  arranged for the Auschwitz I men’s orchestra in order to learn about the identity of the copyists and how these songs might have functioned in the concentration camp.  UID:56533-13942246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56533 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 2038 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181004T123625 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T190000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Gallery Opening and Artist Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception for the exhibit described below. Refreshments will be served\, and Nancy will be on site to enjoy conversation with you. \n\nRC alumna '85 Nancy Blum returns to East Quad to exhibit her drawings of flowers and to deliver the 10/19 Robertson Lecture on her public art installations. \n\nExcerpted from her artist statement: \nMy large‐scale works on paper\, rendered in ink\, colored pencil\, gouache and graphite\, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. I use a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images\, from Chinese plum blossoms to German botanicals\, as starting points for each drawing. Rather than alluding to an actual landscape\, I instead combine species of plants in the same drawing that would not customarily exist together in nature. Obsessive handwork creates intricate layers of visual information to be discovered over time and\, in this way\, the works become a seductive meditation for the viewer. \n\nI use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active\, forceful agent\, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity\; hopefully\, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world. UID:56396-13896789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Food,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181012T220633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T193000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Pinball Pete's Arcade with Wolverine Support Network DESCRIPTION:Wolverine Support Network will be hosting a Kickback Friday at Pinball Pete's Arcade on October 19th from 5:30-7:30pm! Join us on South University Avenue to get your game on with pinballs\, video games\, pool tables\, and air hockey. \n\nAll University of Michigan students are welcome to join for FREE snacks and arcade games\, a chance to learn more about WSN\, and an opportunity to meet some new friends. We hope to see you there!\n\n-------------\n\nWant to join the Wolverine Support Network community? Head over to https://www.umichwsn.org/join and sign-up to be placed in a group at a time and location of your choosing. Open to all Michigan students\, undergraduate and graduate. UID:56734-13972236@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Games,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181103T123020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T173000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The BuiltWorlds Hackathon DESCRIPTION:Bring your most innovative ideas and win $15\,000 in cash prizes!\n\nThe BuiltWorlds Hackathon is a weekend-long competition where all-star developers\, makers\, and built industry experts gather to hack solutions to burning built world problems (anything affecting our cities\, buildings\, and infrastructure.)\n\nWe have two challenges for you to enter:\n\nSoftware Challenge (the best application of software): In traditional Hackathon-style\, teams in the software track will compete to create the bestsoftware solution to a built industry problem (that is\, any problem in our cities\, infrastructure or buildings). If you’re a developer or want to participate on a dev team for the weekend\, this track is for you.\n\nMaker Challenge (the best application of hardware or robotics ): This challenge is meant for developers who are interested in Internet of Things technology and creating solutions that integrate sensor-based hardware with software. Each maker team will have access to devices\, sensors\, a networkserver\, and application server in order to create solutions for a smarter city.\n\nThe BuiltWorlds Hackathon is from Oct. 19 to 21 at the Salt Flats Innovation House in Chicago\, IL.\n\nRegister today at https://builtworlds.com/event/builtworlds-hackathon/ UID:55902-13805065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55902 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Chicago, Illinois, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180914T112812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Coleen Herbert & Daniella Toosie Watson DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Prose from second-year MFA candidates UID:55383-13722990@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Literature,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T220000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Club Hockey vs. MSU Club Hockey DESCRIPTION:Away game against Michigan State University. UID:56807-14008059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/56807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Munn Ice Arean CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181009T121527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Chamber Choir DESCRIPTION:Eugene Rogers\, conductor\nScott VanOrnum\, pianist\n\nUnder the new direction of Dr. Eugene Rogers\, the Chamber Choir performs an eclectic program of contemporary repertoire that celebrates the artistic voice of Michigan composers\, arrangers\, and poets. Featuring the world premiere of Lifesmithing by Professor Roshanne Etezady\, SMTD alumna and compositional faculty member\, the work highlights the poetry of incarcerated Michigan writers from the U-M Prison Creative Arts Project. In addition\, the Chamber Choir will perform Maria Peterno's Pyre\, the winner of the 2018 Brehm Prize for Choral Composition featuring a text by Michigan poet Savannah Gonsoulin.\n\nPROGRAM: Etezady- Lifesmithing\; Albright- Mass\; Alwes- Do not go gentle into that good night (world premiere)\; Gibbs- Close to Thee (world premiere)\; Kuster- White Hurricane\; Waddles- Sweet Jesus UID:53496-13392459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181017T121524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble featuring Creative Arts Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Oriol Sans\, conductor\nTyshawn Sorey\, William Bolcom Guest Resident in Composition\n\nPROGRAM: John Cage- Atlas Eclipticalis\; Tyshawn Sorey- Trio for Harold Budd\; Sorey- Conduction UID:53666-13446248@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181003T131016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Great Lakes Swimmers DESCRIPTION:The year 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of Great Lake Swimmers. Over seven albums\, multiple EPs\, live broadcasts\, and reissues\, the Toronto-based project led by singer-songwriter Tony Dekker has established itself as a beloved indie folk act in their native Canada and beyond. The CBC has called them \"a national treasure\,\" and their music has taken them around the world\, sharing a sound that is at once familiar and distinct\, using the tools of folk music as the starting point to delve deeper. Great Lake Swimmers have twice been nominated for Juno Awards\, and they have shared stages with Robert Plant\, Feist\, and Calexico\, and have appeared as headliners for many of Canada’s major folk festivals. They come to Michigan with a new release\, \"The Waves.\"\n\nNative Harrow will open. UID:52709-12969905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181015T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sweet Charity DESCRIPTION:A musical by Neil Simon\, Cy Coleman\, and Dorothy Fields\n\nDept. of Musical Theatre\n\nDirected by Mark Madama\nMusic Direction by Tyler Driskill\nChoreographed by Linda Goodrich\n\nThe 1966 musical comedy about the romantic adventures of dance-hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine UID:52123-12444059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181019T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T221500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181019T231500 SUMMARY:Other:Game vs Miami University DESCRIPTION:Game at Miami University of Ohio UID:55695-13770439@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/55695 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Goggin Ice Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR