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:20190428T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Boiler Sprint Triathlon DESCRIPTION:https://www.itsyourrace.com/event.aspx?id=5052  UID:63263-15685892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:West Lafayette, IN CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T180010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T233000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Coed Qualifiers DESCRIPTION:Qualifying Regatta for coed nationals.  UID:60474-15687919@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Conference Series @ Western Michigan DESCRIPTION:Conference Series @ Western Michigan from 4/27-28 UID:63317-15685889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63317 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Western Michigan University CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Great Lakes D-I College Men's Regionals DESCRIPTION:   UID:62083-15685886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62083 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Inwood Soccer Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T234500 SUMMARY:Other:MACRA DESCRIPTION:RACE UID:63294-15687916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63294 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Grand Rapids, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T130000 SUMMARY:Other:MWCCC Regionals DESCRIPTION:Regional Bike Race UID:58730-15685883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58730 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ripon Uni CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T120010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Regional Tournament DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Club Softball team will be competing in the Great American Regional Playoff in Elkhart\, Indiana on April 27th and 28th. Other qualifying teams include University of Illinois\, University of Kentucky\, and University of Cincinnati. Go Blue! UID:63287-15685895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63287 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Riverview Softball Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190428T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Regionals! DESCRIPTION:Second tournament of the post season! WE FLY NOW WHEEL UID:61648-15685877@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Inwood Soccer Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190427T115113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T074500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T173000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Future of Work in Detroit DESCRIPTION:Imagine the nature of work in future generations. There will be careers not even contemplated today with the many advances in technology and artificial intelligence. In our Future of Work trip we will explore the re-purposing of space to design new work areas in downtown Detroit. \n\nWe will start with a 2 1/2 hour walking tour of the Quicken Loans complex covering multiple buildings. This showcases the renovation of some historic buildings in addition to creatively designed work spaces.\n\nIn the afternoon we will move on to Tech Town\, Detroit’s entrepreneurial hub affiliated with Wayne State University. We’ll have a catered lunch (sandwiches and salads)\, view the creative work areas\, and learn about their expansion efforts followed by a panel presentation. The panelists will share their experiences and thoughts about the future of work\, artificial intelligence\, and local initiatives moving Detroit forward. \n\nThe price of the trip includes bus transportation\, lunch\, snacks\, and gratuities.\n\nThis trip for those 50 and over will take place on Wednesday\, June 5\, from 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\, however you must register for the trip early and there are no refunds without replacements inside 30 days of trip departure.\n\nPlease see the OLLI Web Site for additional information. UID:58991-14636441@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58991 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Social Sciences,Tour LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190122T132337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 DESCRIPTION:“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane\, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane\, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum\, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw\, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100\, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22. UID:59304-14797372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,History,Humanities,International,Photography,Poland,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179113@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302248@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179525@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179195@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875214@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-14578360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190129T104346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles DESCRIPTION:The workshop aims to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of connected and automated vehicles to present and exchange their latest ideas and breakthroughs. There will be over 20 speakers invited from around the world who are experts in the field of connected and automated vehicles.\n\nThe conference will take place in the Michigan League April 27th - 30th.\n\nMore information and Registration can be found at cav2019.engin.umich.edu/ UID:60542-14908152@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60542 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Networking LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181231T112102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T113000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Principles of Mindfulness Part II DESCRIPTION:This course is meant to deepen your experience of mindfulness meditation and enhance the qualities of a mindful life\; expand your understanding and guidance in the nine attitudes of mindfulness\; and expand your capacity of meditation. This will be done by cultivating mindful awareness in everyday life. This Study Group led by Bernadette Beach is for those 50 and over and will meet Mondays\, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.\, April 29 - June 3. UID:59035-14659267@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59035 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Philosophy,Psychology,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181213T105840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:Take a moment to pause and “catch your breath” amid your busy and hectic schedule by sitting with others through a meditation. The meditations are guided (which means there will be speaking throughout the meditation) and they ​last ​for 25 minutes. We typically sit in chairs\, but you can choose to sit on the floor or bring a cushion to sit on. For more information\, go to our website\, https://lsa.umich.edu/advising/stay-on-track/staying-motivated/mindfulness.html UID:58488-14508664@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mindfulness LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190410T122838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Woll Family Speaker Series on Health\, Spirituality and Religion DESCRIPTION:RSVP to rhafner@umich.edu by April 22 UID:63026-15536921@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63026 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Medicine,Nursing,Public Health,Religion LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - West Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190404T101240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T150000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in Southeast Michigan DESCRIPTION:Using an interdisciplinary lens\, the exhibit explores the heterogeneity in the contours of brown narratives among South Asians in the Midwest. Although there is an emerging interest in the social construction of brownness on its own terms\, most of such explorations are situated either in the East or West Coast. Rarely have the narratives of brownness in the Midwest been explored. The Midwest\, particularly Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area\, has a sizable population of South Asians who work in a variety of blue collar to professional jobs that range from motel cleaners to doctors.\n\nThis exhibit was curated by Ram Mahalingam\, Osman Khan\, and Aswin Punathamebkar. UID:62493-15372984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190416T155340 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:RNA Innovation Seminar\, Theme: Cell Biology DESCRIPTION:“A NOVA1-PTBP1-PTBP2 Axis in Telomerase Alternative Splicing”\nMohammed Sayed\, Ph.D.\npostdoctoral fellow from the Andrew Ludlow Integrative Molecular Genetics Laboratory\n~and~\n“Epigenetic hijacking of developmental HOX programs promotes Ewing sarcoma tumorigenesis”\nApril Apfelbaum\nPh.D. candidate from the Beth Lawlor lab UID:59775-14786526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Chemistry,Postdoctoral Research Fellows LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Informal HEP-Astro Seminar | Paleo Detectors - Digging for Dark Matter DESCRIPTION:Direct detection experiments have delivered impressive limits on the interaction strength of dark matter with nuclei. A large experimental program is underway to extend the sensitivity of direct detection experiments\, however\, such experiments are becoming increasingly difficult and costly. Recently\, we proposed paleo-detectors as analternative approach to the direct detection of dark matter: Instead of searching for dark matter induced nuclear recoils in a real-time laboratory experiment\, we propose to search for the traces of dark matter interactions recorded in ancient minerals over geological time-scales. In this talk I will discuss this proposal\, including ways to mitigate backgrounds and methods to read out tracks from ancient minerals. I will also briefly discuss some preliminary results for applications of paleo-detectors beyond dark matter\, e.g. for searching for neutrinos from core collapse supernovae.\n UID:63406-15671658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181508 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Philicities\, Fugalities\, and Equilibrium Constants: DESCRIPTION: Our understanding of polar organic reactivity is based on relationships between rate and equilibrium constants. Thus\, strong bases are generally considered to be good nucleophiles as well as poor nucleofuges. Though exceptions from this general rule have long been known\, a systematic analysis has been problematic\, because rate constants for the reactions of nucleophiles with C-centered electrophiles have often been correlated with Brønsted basicities (i. e.\, affinities towards the proton). For that reason\, the origin of deviations from Brønsted correlations could often not unambiguously be assigned.\n\n \n\nIn the last two decades\, we have created comprehensive nucleophilicity\,1 nucleofugality\,2 and Lewis basicity scales3 by using differently substituted benzhydrylium ions with widely variable reactivity but equal steric demand as reference electrophiles\,1 electrofuges\,2 and Lewis acids.3 Relationships between these kinetic and thermodynamic parameters will be discussed with emphasis on examples where the commonly assumed proportionalities break down.4\nI will discuss the origin of several counterintuitive phenomena\, e.g. why strong nucleophiles can also be good nucleofuges\, and why weak nucleophiles sometimes substitute strong nucleophiles in SN2 reactions. It will be shown that solvolysis rate constants of alkyl bromides and chlorides\, but not of carboxylates provide accurate information about thermodynamic stabilities (more precise: Lewis acidities) of carbocations. Eventually it will be discussed why carbocations\, which are formed slowly in SN1 reactions are not always good electrophiles.5 The role of intrinsic barriers for controlling organic reactivity will be analyzed.\n \n1. (a) H. Mayr\, A. R. Ofial\, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2008\, 21\, 584\n(b) Data base: http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/mayr/DBintro.html.\n2. Streidl\, N.\; Denegri\, B.\; Kronja\, O.\; Mayr\, H.\; Acc. Chem. Res. 2010\, 43\, 1537-1549.\n3. Mayr\, H.\; Ammer\, J.\; Baidya\, M.\; Maji\, B.\; Nigst\, T. A.\; Ofial\, A. R.\; Singer\, T.\; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015\, 137\, 2580-2599.\n4. Mayr\, H.\; Ofial\, A. R.\; Acc. Chem. Res. 2016\, 49\, 952-965.\n5. Byrne\, P.A.\; Kobayashi\, S.\; Würthwein\, E.-U.\; Ammer\, J.\; Mayr H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017\, 139\, 1499-1511.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nHerbert Mayr (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen) UID:52990-13170378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T101647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Cookie and Coffee Study Break DESCRIPTION:Join us at MLB Media Center for a Cookie and Coffee study break this evening! Enjoy complimentary snacks and take a break from studying! UID:63422-15692040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63422 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Social LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T180005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T203000 SUMMARY:Other:ACS Bowling Night ! DESCRIPTION:We will be going to Revel & Roll at 6:30 pm on Monday\, April 29th. ACS MEDI will cover the cost of two lanes for two hours. Please bring $$ for rental shoes (~$4).  Email Nick (nragazzo@med.umich.edu) if you need a ride. UID:63168-15583075@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63168 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Revel and Roll CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T105304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:UM Psychology Community Talk: Adversity\, Resilience and the Developing Brain DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nChildhood adversity\, such as growing up in poverty or experiencing parental neglect\, is associated with a host of negative outcomes\, including depression and low educational attainment. Although it is understood that these types of adversity alter the brain and increase the risk for problems\, it is not known what forms of adversity are most pernicious and how they affect the brain. In the presentation\, Dr. Monk will describe a study comprised of predominantly adolescents from low-income backgrounds who have been followed since birth. Using brain imaging methods\, Dr. Monk shows how two specific and chronic forms of adversity\, violence exposure and social deprivation\, impact brain development in different ways. At the same time\, the adolescents show a striking degree of resilience\, despite the challenging circumstances. Dr. Monk will discuss both social and biological mechanisms that might explain the resilience. \n\n\nBio\n\nDr. Monk is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. He is also a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at ISR and the Center for Human Growth and Development. Dr. Monk received his PhD in Child Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. He then went on to the NIMH Intramural Research Program where he was a postdoc and later a fellow. His research program involves two active and related lines of research. In the first line\, he is examining how poverty-related stressors and the developmental timing of those stressors impact brain development\, stress hormone regulation and anxiety as well as depression symptoms during adolescence. For the second line of research\, he is investigating how effective treatments for anxiety (cognitive behavioral therapy or medication) alter brain function and how these brain alterations relate to clinical outcome in children and adolescents. UID:52631-12910440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/52631 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Multi-purpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190427T120114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Who Will Write Our History? DESCRIPTION:In honor of Yom HaShoah\, Holocaust Memorial Day\nThe new documentary\, Who Will Write Our History\, about the secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto\, will have a community screening April 29\, at 7:30 at the Michigan Theater.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Jeffrey Veidlinger\, Genevieve Zubrzycki\, and facilitated by Sarah Raful Whinston\n\nWho Will Write Our History\, based on Samuel Kassow’s book\, is about historian Emanuel Ringelblum\, who gathered a secret band of journalists\, scholars\, and artists imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to collect and record the story of the war from the Jewish point of view. Known by the code name Oyneg Shabes\, their goal was to defy their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth. They risked everything so that their archive would survive\, even if they did not.\n\nhttps://whowillwriteourhistory.com/ UID:63057-15543236@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63057 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,history,holocaust,Jewish Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Screening Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190307T114659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sam Amidon // Flashpapr DESCRIPTION:Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Brattleboro\, Vermont. He has released multiple albums of radically reimagined folksongs on the Bedroom Community and Nonesuch labels. Called \"part preservationist\, part visionary\" by the Boston Globe\, Sam offers reworkings of traditional American ballads\, hymns and work songs\, with the New York Times writing that he \"transforms all of the songs\, changing their colors and loading them with trapdoors.\" Along the way Sam has recorded or performed as a guest artists with musicians such as pianist Jason Moran\, indie rock band Bon Iver\, and Glen Hansard.\n\nFlashpapr is a Michigan band\, known (or faintly remembered) for playing broken folk music between 1996 and 2004. After a period of inactivity\, Flashpapr now performs as a duo of its original members\, Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good To Me) and Jacob Danziger (recordings with His Name Is Alive\, Steve Roden\, Cynthia Nelson\, The Naysayer and Doveman). Along with Zach Wallace\, Ben Bracken\, and Ida Pearle\, their three albums captured the sad and hopeful feeling of being alive\, and their word-of-mouth live performances (in kitchens\, living rooms\, garages and back yards) were uncomfortably earnest attempts to invert the relationship between the band and audience. \"You are my best friend\, you are the most beautiful thing I keep inside my heart\" was basically the idea. UID:61701-15170150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61701 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190429T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR