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:20200223T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T235959 SUMMARY:Other:USTA TOC Midwest Championship 2020 DESCRIPTION:USTA TOC Midwest Championship 2020 UID:72551-18175204@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Wisconsin Nielsen Tennis Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191220T071712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 SUMMARY:Other:Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics DESCRIPTION:The application is open for the Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) program.\nThis is an opportunity for undergrads to attend a six week summer program in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan\, June 15-July 24\, 2020.\nThe application opened December 1\, 2019 and will close on March 1\, 2020.\nFor more information\, please contact Tara Smith (tarakaz@umich.edu) or visit the BDSI website\, www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com. UID:70664-17617475@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70664 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Big Data,biostatistics,Undergraduate LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200215T203716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests DESCRIPTION:Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition\, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement. \n\nSince June\, protests have been ongoing in Hong King\, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations\, over two million Hongkongers\, which is more than a quarter of the population\, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill\, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note\, however\, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces\, music\, videos\, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement. \n\nAfter 2/12\, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge. UID:72963-18107873@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Asia,Chinese Studies,Culture,Exhibition,Film,Games,History,Interdisciplinary,International,Media,Music,Politics,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Student Affairs,Student Org,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Piano Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T112827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Americana Sampler DESCRIPTION:Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements\, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects\, preserves\, and makes available primary sources about the Americas\, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books\, manuscripts\, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork\, compelling manuscripts\, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove\, Level 2.\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOpens January 27\, 2020\nOpen Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. UID:70213-17547781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70213 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,History,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T111701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cages\, Nests & Butterflies DESCRIPTION:Anne Bae is a multidisciplinary artist based out of New York. Her sculptural works are infused with symbolism and metaphors in the forms of cages\, nests and butterflies. All works are made entirely of varying weights and types of paper\, including hanji (Korean traditional) and common coffee filters. Representing concepts of time\, memory\, openness and constraint\, the pieces are created with traditional methods\, using scissors and simple die-cutting tools\; cross-disciplinary techniques\, such as weaving and tatting used in fiber arts\; and technologies like laser cutting machines. There are two series of paper nests: one created entirely without the use of adhesive\, and the other involves tatting with knots. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate\, find meaning and ultimately – hope.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2.\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70210-17547634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70210 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200224T060011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Commonwealth Cup DESCRIPTION:Alexa\, please play \"Take Me Home\, Country Road.\" We're goin to Virginia!!! #NeverDone UID:69687-18179431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69687 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:SMITH RIVER SPORTS COMPLEX CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T112303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fractured History: Digital Art on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Fractured History explores concepts of identity\, love\, loss and the connection between music\, history and civil rights. Aaron Dworkin is a social entrepreneur\, author\, artist and professor of music. Classically trained in the violin\, Dworkin grew up in a diverse household\; his adoptive family is Jewish\, his biological mother is Irish Catholic\, and his biological father is African-American and a Jehovah’s Witness. His passion for inclusion and social justice inspired him to found the Sphinx Organization\, which works to help reflect the diversity in the US in orchestras. The digital and mixed media works in this exhibit combine elements of music\, diversity\, and an evolving aesthetic of the abstract that mirrors a disjunct search for unconditional love. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center\, Level 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. UID:70212-17547741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70212 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity And Inclusion,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T110350 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hats & Fascinators DESCRIPTION:Luke Song’s Detroit millinery was frequented by the late great Aretha Franklin. Franklin wore her much-discussed Mr. Song hat for her performance at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Mr. Song Millinery has been in business since 1982\, making hats for church\, the Kentucky Derby\, Ascot\, and other special occasions. Hats by Mr. Song Millinery are also on display at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame\, several African-American Museums\, and the Smithsonian. “So consider yourself a part of history if you decide to wear one.\" – Pamela Thomas-Graham\, “The Best Makers of Couture Millinery in the World”\, 8/13/2019.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70196-17547215@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70196 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T111144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Healing Power of Nature: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Allison Svoboda was born in Detroit. A proud Midwesterner\, she splits her time between studios in Chicago and Pentwater\, Michigan. She is recognized for her ethereal paintings and sculptural installations. Finding the edge between intuitive and deliberate mark making\, Svoboda’s work is a meditation on the earth’s last places of quiet and untouched beauty. Challenging the viewer to rethink their responsibility to Mother Earth\, her collage works are intricate paintings layered to create sculptural works. These paintings are based on fractal geometry (infinitely unfolding terrains of self-similar shapes like those in living things. In 2015\, she received a Hemera fellowship to study Zen and calligraphy in Japan\, which continues to influence her work. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70205-17547468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70205 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T112335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:High School Photo Project DESCRIPTION:In her early career\, Linda Erf Swift worked as a teacher and social worker in public schools\, and later graduated from the School of the Art Institute\, Chicago. 12 years into her current work\, Swift photographs students in three high schools on Chicago’s Southside: Kenwood Academy\, King College Prep (public schools) and University High (private). She asks seniors to bring in a quotation they believe speaks to their identity\, and Swift takes their portrait with it on a blackboard behind them. The images challenge viewers to evaluate their assumptions about adolescents by opening a door into what young people really think and aspire to. The students’ choices reveal a youth culture that is wise and artistic\, assertive and joyful\, discerning and full of possibility.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70202-17547301@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70202 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity And Inclusion,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T155445 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22\, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.\n\nThe purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social\, physical\, natural\, and engineering sciences. UID:68682-17136740@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropocene,Civil and Environmental Engineering,climate,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,climate change,conference,Department Of English Language And Literature,Earth Day at 50,Ecology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Energy,Engineering,Environment,environmental,Environmental Humanities,environmental policy,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Humanities,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Natural Sciences,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Research,Science,Social Sciences,Sustainability,symposium,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T111430 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Personal Space: Oil & Chalk Pastel DESCRIPTION:In this body of work\, Detroit artist and U-M alumna Laura Cavanagh explores quiet\, intimate spaces. An introvert by nature\, “space\,” and the preservation of personal space\, is immensely important to her. She encounters these spaces both indoors and out\, and she employs light and color to capture her emotional state relevant to the space. She works with oil and chalk pastel\, a medium that allows her to make tangible those moments that are fleeting and transitory. Cavanagh breaks down architectural elements into bold blocks of color\, creating an atmosphere of still quietude\, so critical to her creative process. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2.\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70207-17547551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70207 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200223T180012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Phebe Corckran King Regatta DESCRIPTION:Women's interconference regatta at the College of Charleston.  UID:71615-18175111@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:College of Charleston, Charleston, SC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200213T092003 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T163000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Psychology Recruitment Weekend DESCRIPTION:Opportunity for invited applicants to the PhD program to meet with the faculty\, staff\, and current students of the Department of Psychology. Activities may include individual sessions with area faculty and students\, presentations on current graduate student research and graduate curriculum and funding\, lab tours and a social event with current students. UID:72843-18085913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200211T112537 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Shrines & Reliquaries: Memorializing Climate DESCRIPTION:In 2017 Leslie Sobel\, as artist in residence at Kluane National Park in Yukon Territory\, Canada\, camped on an icefield with a group of climate scientists. The landscape shrines in this exhibit combine her work as an environmental artist with the experience of that pristine\, remote\, beautiful\, and at risk environment. The mixed media boxes – utilizing painting\, monotype\, photography\, resin and encaustic – capture memories of places being altered by climate change. Meant to bring complex ideas and big emotions into a size one can literally hold in one’s hands\, the works have charred exteriors and bright colors and metal leaf echoing traditional Tibetan iconography in depicting the beauty and spiritual power of high places. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70204-17547385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70204 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191211T102557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Whimsical Worlds DESCRIPTION:Surrealist painter and instructor Greg Potter is based in Franklin\, Indiana. After more than 20 years in the service and four tours in the Middle East\, he is now pursuing his passion in painting and 3D art. Lightheartedness\, quirkiness\, and a desire for freedom are his creatures’ main traits as they fly on nests\, sail on lakes\, or venture into outer space. Looking for autonomy on their way somewhere\, his boldly colored animal explorers\, tourists\, and misfits are uncaring about their surroundings and challenge expectations. They are out of their element due to circumstances beyond their control. One patient shared that for her\, Potter’s work symbolized the process of adapting to a diagnosis by transforming into someone stronger and wiser without losing who you really are.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nOn display December 16\, 2019-March 6\, 2020\nOpen daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. UID:70195-17547133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70195 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T123004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Dear Stranger: Diaries for the Private and Public Self DESCRIPTION:Through this exhibit\, we invite you to explore more than two centuries of diaries and diary-like documents from across the holdings of the Special Collections Research Center\, ranging from privately emotive to publicly informative\, from offering news reportage to depicting emotional processing\, and from factual to purely fictional. As you read\, consider how these journals embody elements of both private and public writing and the permeability between those spheres.\n\nDiaries\, journals\, daily planners\, notebooks: these ephemeral writings provide documentation of private lives and thoughts that can otherwise be difficult to find in the historical record. But does “private” necessarily imply unfiltered and unmediated? Many theorists have noted that the diarist is both writer and reader\, both private and public self. Therefore the content and form of diaries are created for future reading\, even if only by a future version of the self. The ambiguity of a diary’s audience is heightened in the case of published diaries. The form suggests that we\, as readers\, are accessing raw\, unfiltered thoughts\, but rounds of revision are common\, and often essential to clearly convey the intended meaning. Even further from our notions of authentic\, private writing\, fictional diaries are written solely to be published and read by the public\, but use the diary form to draw the reader into a particular relationship with the text and its protagonist. UID:70075-17507778@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70075 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200207T123359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Extended Reality (XR) DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Kuenzel Room at the Michigan Union (530 S State St) for AIM Extended Reality (XR). We’ll welcome Kavya Pearlman\, founder of non-profit\, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)\, the very first global effort that promotes privacy\, security\, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality\, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR. Kavya is the second of three speakers focused on XR scheduled throughout the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Please register below if you plan to attend. \n\nTitle: How to Build SAFE Virtual Worlds !?! \n\nDescription: We need to create SAFE immersive environments! Simply because\, XR misuse by attackers can potentially lead to psychological\, physical\, reputational\, social and economic harm. In this session\, XRSI founder and CEO\, Kavya Pearlman explores the potential of threats in XR systems\, how to mitigate them and how to better protect end-users and enterprises moving forward. This session will approach the topic from multiple different directions. An introduction to XR domain\, and discuss XR specific security challenges\, concerns\, constraints overlap and the types of threat XR is experiencing and may experience in the future. Discussion on issues of privacy and trust in the context of cyber-attacks\, child safety\, disinformation\, and propaganda. Finally\, framing how the industry can respond to these challenges: Actionable advice on how to create SAFE immersive environments in order to move from research prototypes and early demonstrators to secure\, reliable and trustworthy systems that can play a more significant role in everyday life.\n\nSpeaker: Kavya PearlmanSpeaker: Kavya Pearlman\, Founder\, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)\n\nBio: Well known as the “Cyber Guardian”\, Kavya Pearlman is an Award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya is the founder of non-profit\, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)\, the very first global effort that promotes privacy\, security\, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality\, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR.\n\nKavya is constantly exploring new technologies to solve current cybersecurity challenges. She has been named one of the Top Cybersecurity influencers for two consecutive years 2018-2019 by IFSEC Global. Kavya has won many awards for her work and contribution to the security community including 40 under 40 Top Business Executives 2019 by San Francisco Business Times\, Rising Star of the year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series and Minority CISO of the Year 2018 by ICMCP. For her work with XR Safety Initiative\, Middle East CISO Council awarded her – CISO 100 Women Security Leader award in Dubai and she has been nominated for being “Innovator of The Year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series. Kavya Pearlman is also the Cybersecurity Strategist at Wallarm\, a global security company that uses artificial intelligence to protect hundreds of customers across e-commerce\, fin-tech\, health-tech\, and SaaS via their application security platform.\n\nAIM Extended Reality (XR) is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how extended reality (XR) is being used in higher education and beyond. This speaker series stems from a Provost to engage in a new campus-wide XR Initiative. This initiative will formally ask us to consider how we can leverage emerging XR technologies to strengthen the quality of a Michigan education\, cultivate an interdisciplinary scholarly community of practice at Michigan\, and enhance a nationwide network for academic innovation. Learn more about the initiative on our XR initiative page. UID:71745-17877258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71745 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Information and Technology,Psychology,Social Impact,Xr LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200203T180421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:As to the Woman Question DESCRIPTION:Women were first admitted to the University of Michigan in 1870. This exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library tells the story of earlier\, unsuccessful attempts by women to enter U-M\, the process by which the Regents eventually reached the decision resulting in the admission of women\, and experiences of some of the first women to matriculate at the University. Visit the Bentley to see actual documents drawn from the Bentley collection and others. An online version of the exhibit can be found at https://exhibits.bentley.umich.edu/s/admissionofwomen/page/introduction.\n#umichwomen150 UID:72423-18000515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:archives,bentley historical library,bentley library,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Exhibition,university history,university of michigan history,Women's History LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library - Reading Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200213T084753 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Biopolitics or Deconstruction DESCRIPTION:Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s *La vie la mort* and the question of life.\n\nWith presentations from:\nClaudio Aguayo • Matias Beverinotti • Maddalena Cerrato • Katie Chenoweth • Justin Joque • Juan Leal • Armando Mastrogiovanni • Eliza Mizrahi • Alberto Moreiras • Michael Naas • Adam Rosenthal • Rodrigo Therezo • Antoine Traisnel • Teresa Vilaros • Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott • Michela Russo • Alejo Stark • Francesco Vitale • Gareth Williams • David Wills\n\nSponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Center for\nLatin American and Caribbean Studies\, Department of American Culture\, Department of Philosophy\, Department of Political Science\,\nDepartment of Classical Studies\, Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor\, LSA Dean's Office\, UMOR Small Grant for Conference\,\nRackham Dean’s Strategic Initiative Funding\, Humanities Institute Mini Grant for Public Humanities. UID:72352-17998135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72352 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Conference,Global,Interdisciplinary,Latin America,Politics,Romance Languages And Literatures,UMMA,Comparative Literature LOCATION:Museum of Art - Multipurpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200213T141553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Evidence-Based Data Visualization DESCRIPTION:PDHP kicks off our 2020 workshop series on Feb. 21st\, with a workshop entitled Evidence-Based Data Visualization\, presented by Dr. Audrey Michal of the Michigan Department of Psychology. This half-day workshop will provide a general introduction to data visualization techniques\, while introducing a unique evidence-based approach to data viz design (based on Dr. Michal's research on visual routines in graph comprehension and interpretation)\, and different data visualization strategies for data exploration versus data explanation. Attendees will also get hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations with R software\, using GGPlot2 and other state-of-the-art R packages. As always\, this workshop is free and open to the public.\n\nTopics include:\n\n• Introduction to data visualization and principles of data viz design\n• Evidence-based practices for data viz (from Dr. Michal's research on graph interpretation)\n• Data viz strategies for data exploration vs. explanation\n• Hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations using R's GGPlot2 package.\n\nRegistration Required:\nhttps://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/\n\nDr Michal's current work focuses on developing and testing various learning interventions to teach middle and high school students scientific reasoning skills\, such as how to critically evaluate evidence in science media reports.\n\nThe Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) provides resources and services that support innovative approaches to data collection and analysis and the development of early-career population scientists\, as well as research on significant and emergent issues in population dynamics and health.\n\nPDHP is part of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research. Its faculty affiliates include population scientists from a diverse range of academic disciplines and departments. UID:72152-17946490@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Curation,Data Science,Social Sciences,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 ISR-Thompson CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200203T144127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exploring the Great Lakes DESCRIPTION:Come see a selection of materials from across our collections related to the Great Lakes\, including children’s literature\, transportation history\, the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, and the Joseph A. Labadie Collection. The range of material on display\, including travel guides\, recipe books\, stickers\, children’s books\, a flour sack\, and a zine\, gives a sense of the Great Lakes’ impact on the communities surrounding them through culture\, economics\, and politics.\n\nThis exhibit is offered in celebration of the U-M College of LSA’s Great Lakes Theme Semester. UID:72417-18000474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Theme Semester LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200224T084018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:HH(C)*/An American Interior DESCRIPTION:Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior\, by Valery Jung Estabrook\, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand\, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif\, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage\, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture\, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown. \n\nReflecting on her exhibition title\, Estabrook states\, “The second part of the title\, “Chink\,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes\, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I\, unfortunately\, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”\n\nValery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation\, Florida\, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally\, including New York\, Los Angeles\, Lagos\, Bilbao\, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award\, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico. UID:70083-17507865@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70083 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Humanities,immigration,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200124T122056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T173000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Symposium on Media and Politics DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Symposium on Media and Politics is an annual conference bringing together leading scholars and journalists focused on current issues in journalism\, politics\, mass media\, and communication technologies. \n\nThis year\, the event will feature: \nKjerstin Thorson (Michigan State University)\nMarkus Prior (Princeton University)\nAnne Oeldorf-Hirsch (University of Connecticut)\nAndy Guess (Princeton University)\nJudith Möller (University of Amsterdam)\nBrian Weeks (University of Michigan)\n\nNikki Usher (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)\nKelly Garrett (Ohio State University)\nJisu Kim (Yale University)\nSean Fischer (University of Pennsylvania)\nChelsea Butkowski (Cornell University)\n\nThis symposium is made possible through the generosity of the Morgan O'Leary Symposium Fund. UID:70285-17564358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70285 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Digital Media,Media,Politics LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200126T223042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T173000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions DESCRIPTION:This symposium frames discourses emerging from a relational study of four transatlantic urban regions that display acute asymmetries of concurrent growth and socio-economic decline in the midst of larger economic restructuring: the Detroit Metropolitan Region\; the Ruhr Valley\; the Innovation Region “Rheinisches Revier” (Aachen-Cologne)\; and the deindustrializing hinterland of the southern U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The successive cycles of urban transformation have created uneven\, landscapes which consist of fissures\, empty gaps and vacated spaces interspersed amongst and between developed zones of concentrated and thriving activities. The resulting leftover spaces are latent sites of contestation and uncertainty where rival actors compete for a semblance of control with their own visions of re-use ranging from spontaneous and temporary to deliberate and semi-permanent. \n\nOrganized around four different thematic sessions\, symposium participants will challenge the notion that all sites of abandonment suffer an identical fate. Examining these four regions as grounds for speculation and a platform for broader reflection engaging other global geographies\, participants will engage in discussions regarding the intricate relationship between the simultaneous\, incremental erasure of the built environment vis-a-vis ongoing urban projects that instigate\, appropriate\, produce and reproduce these weak urbanities while projecting more sustainable futures. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Seminar Series program at the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) and the University of Michigan Taubman College\, and is part of an interinstitutional initiative between the University of Michigan\, the University of Virginia\, and RWTH Aachen University. UID:72076-17933534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72076 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,architecture lecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning,archizines,art and design,Earth Day At 50,Earthday,Environment,urban design,urban planning,urbanism LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200123T155740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T113000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:“Downstream from Here” by Charles Eisendrath DESCRIPTION:Tom Brokaw calls Eisendrath “a reporter’s reporter” and the book\, “lyrical.” Jeff Daniels adds “prepare to be inspired.” Ellen Goodman says\, “Too often we are told we have to choose between living wide or living deep\, between traveling across the surface of the earth\, or coming to truly know and love one place. But Charles Eisendrath has done both in his rich life. This is the memoir of a foreign correspondent and journalism mentor and yet a man who is spiritually rooted at his beloved Overlook Farm. The essays he has written about this life are a joy!”\n\nCharles R. Eisendrath grew up in St. Louis\, Missouri\, in a family that had vacationed in Charlevoix County since the 1890’s. One of the loves of his life is Overlook Farm near East Jordan\, Michigan\, which produces timber\, maple syrup\, and tart cherries. He is a passionate sportsman and canoeist. Many of those subjects are the focus of “Downstream from Here: A Big Life in a Small Place”. It is a collection of essays originally intended as a personal history to be shared with friends and family. It is a meditation on a life well lived\, a deep love of family\, and the love of a very specific place in the world. \n\nEisendrath was the first Director of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships at the University of Michigan. He is a Yale graduate\, a former Time magazine correspondent\, and founder of the Livingston Awards\, known as the Pulitzer Prize for journalists under 35 and known for providing early recognition for major talents. UID:70597-17609141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,history,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Media,olli,reading,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200210T160654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: Where does fiction come from\, and where does it go? DESCRIPTION:Catherine Lacey’s short story collection\, Certain American States (FSG\, 2018)\, portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their lives. The Chicago Tribune calls it \"exactly what you would expect from Lacey: perfect sentences\, penetrating insights\, devastating epiphanies.” \n\nLacey is also the author of The Answers (FSG\, 2017)\, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2017\, and Nobody is Ever Missing (FSG\, 2014)\, a New Yorker Best Book of 2014. She has won a Whiting Award\, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award\, was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists\, and has been compared to both Don DeLillo and Margaret Atwood. \n\nWriting about The Answers\, The Los Angeles Times said\, \"Like the work of Clarice Lispector or Rachel Cusk\, Lacey’s novels seem to be on the verge of inventing a new genre somewhere between prose poem and fugue state.\" Discussing The Answers with Interview Magazine\, Lacey notes\, “I want things to be both beautiful and readable. I’m not trying to alienate a reader\, or make someone think they can’t read it because they like more commercial things. I hope that there’s room for any sort of mind to encounter the book.” \n\nHer work has been translated into French\, Italian\, Spanish\, Dutch and German. With Forsyth Harmon\, she co-authored a nonfiction book\, The Art of the Affair. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly\, The Believer\, The Paris Review Daily\, The Atlantic\, and others. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\nThe Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209)\, reflection room (Haven Hall #1506)\, and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request\; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services. \n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:72718-18061847@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200218T093648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Language Fair DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair\, featuring guests from the Chinese Language Program\, Japanese Language Program\, Korean Language Program\, South Asian Language Program\, and Southeast Asian Language Program.\n\nYou are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali\, Chinese\, Filipino\, Hindi\, Indonesian\, Japanese\, Javanese\, Korean\, Punjabi\, Sanskrit\, Thai\, Tibetan\, Urdu\, and Vietnamese. There will also be opportunities to win raffle prizes.\n\nThe Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union from 10:00am-2:00pm on Friday\, February 21. We hope to see you there! UID:72306-17972528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72306 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Asia,China,Chinese Studies,Free,hindi,Humanities,India,International,japan,Japanese Studies,japaneses studies,Javanese,Korea,Korean Studies,Language,Multicultural,Philippine Studies,Philippines,Sanskrit,South Asia,South Asian Studies,Southeast Asia,thailand,Tibet,Undergraduate,Vietnam LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200131T163415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Bhaswar Bhattacharya\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Statistics\, The Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Two of the fundamental problems in non-parametric statistical inference are goodness-of-fit and two-sample testing. These two problems have been extensively studied and several multivariate tests have been proposed over the last thirty years\, many of which are based on geometric graphs. These include\, among several others\, the celebrated Friedman-Rafsky two-sample test based on the minimal spanning tree and the K-nearest neighbor graphs\, and the Bickel-Breiman spacings tests for goodness-of-fit. These tests are asymptotically distribution-free\, universally consistent\, and computationally efficient (both in sample size and in dimension)\, making them particularly attractive for modern statistical applications. \n\nIn this talk\, we will derive the detection thresholds and limiting local power of these tests\, thus providing a way to compare and justify the performance of these tests in various applications. Several interesting properties emerge\, such as a curious phase transition in dimension 8\, and a remarkable blessing of dimensionality in detecting scale changes. UID:69919-17483051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T165444 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Engagement Seminar Series – Active Learning Strategies DESCRIPTION:Keeping students engaged in the course content and motivated to learn can be challenging. Integrating specific active learning strategies into class can challenge higher order thinking and create experiences in which students can apply what they have learned. The key is to find an activity that helps students achieve their learning outcomes. For example\, do you need an activity to activate prior knowledge\, apply a concept\, challenge critical thinking\, or simply delve into course content? This seminar will help instructors think more deliberately about when\, why\, and how to use active learning.\n\nThis seminar is part of the Student Engagement Series & Panel Discussion. The series includes evidence-based learning activities and strategies to prepare students for learning\, engage in meaningful discussions and group work\, and capture attention with complementary activities during lectures. Instructors and staff who are looking for specific and practical ways to increase engagement or simply freshen up a course are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. UID:69931-17483069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Active Learning,Free,Lsa,Teaching,Workshop LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 206 ScholarSpace CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200313T150734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:\"The Best of the West\" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018)\, drawing upon Reese's 2017 book \"The Best of the West\" for its descriptions of the titles on display. \n\nThe books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 \"Noticia de la California\" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 \"The Ute War.\" In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources\, in Spanish\, French\, English\, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives\, 19th-century overland narratives\, prints and views of Native Americans\, color-plate books\, gold and silver mining reports\, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West. UID:68495-17088528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,History,Humanities,immigration,Library,Literature,Museum,Native American LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T154712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Structure Seminar: Hannah Foley DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student\, Keane Lab UID:65710-16629971@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65710 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Lecture,Structural Biology LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T155135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Structure Seminar: Simone Brixius-Anderko\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:Research Fellow\, Emily Scott Lab\nUniversity of Michigan UID:65711-16629972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Lecture,Structural Biology LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191218T152658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Uncommon Plants from Our Unique Places. Images of the Great Lakes Gardens DESCRIPTION:With its plants and habitats\, the Great Lakes Gardens at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens celebrate the natural history of the region. As part of the winter 2020 LSA theme semester\, the exhibition \"Uncommon Plants\" offers a rare glimpse of the diverse plant life and ecosystems of the Great Lakes through the lens of photographer Laura Mueller. Mueller's photos capture a side of the region beyond water to show how plants play an integral role in the complex web of life in and around the Great Lakes. UID:70526-17602855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70526 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Environment,environmental,Exhibition,Free,Great Lakes Theme Semester,Theme Semester LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200217T102041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T123000 SUMMARY:Presentation:“What is the role of a Center for Jewish Studies at a modern university and how can an Associate Director support this mission?\" DESCRIPTION:“What is the role of a Center for Jewish Studies at a modern university and how can an Associate Director support this mission?\" I will present my vision for the field\, elements of my teaching and research experience that have led me to this understanding of Jewish studies\, as well as practical ways that I think a center's associate director can actualize this vision. All are welcome\, regardless of whether they have any experience with Jewish studies! UID:72975-18120890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literataure LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Collection Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American\, European\, African\, and Asian art from across media\, sampling the Museum's remarkable\, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists\, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston\, Christo\, Theaster Gates\, Jenny Holzer\, Roni Horn\, Do-Ho Suh\, Kara Walker\, and others\, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed\, but instead as an active\, creative\, sometimes startling source of material and ideas\, open for debate and interpretation.\n\n UID:68063-16988502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Alumni,Art,European,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T181705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cullen Washington\, Jr.: The Public Square DESCRIPTION:This expansive look at the work and concerns of emerging contemporary artist Cullen Washington\, Jr. pivots around the artist’s most recent series\, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly and the heart of the artistic\, spiritual\, and political life of the city. UMMA’s installation is designed with an actual public square at its center\, complete with sound components featuring noted political and aesthetic discourse and surrounded by Washington’s soaring monumental collages. Works from four earlier series by the artist form the perimeter of the Museum’s largest special exhibition space. The artist describes his work as “abstract meditations on the grid and humanity.”\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick\, Candy and Michael Barasch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art\, School of Education\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, School of Social Work\, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.  UID:67460-16857857@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67460 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191216T121633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Reflections: An Ordinary Day DESCRIPTION:UMMA’s second exhibition of Inuit art derived from the Power Family’s generous promised gift to the Museum in 2018 explores the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Through a selection of mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints\, drawings\, and sculptures that portray seemingly ordinary reflections of daily life along with daydreaming meditations\, the exhibition bridges the mundane and the fantastic. Together\, these artworks present a distinct imagery and a visual poetry culled from the day-to-day reality of life in the far polar north. The perspectives range from soaring gazes at the horizon to glimpses of commonplace social interactions. These contemplations reveal intimate connections among the artists\, their communities\, and their locale—a specific place and time composed of icy regions and vast seas and tundras. Reflections: An Ordinary Day takes visitors on a lyrical journey of the myriad spaces and routines within an Arctic landscape.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art\, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power. UID:68062-16988290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68062 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Family,Museum,Poetry,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181803 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs DESCRIPTION:Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.\n \nTake Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection\, and why? Who and what should be represented\, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1\,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen\, who has gathered more than 60\,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age\, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  \n \nVote for your favorite pictures: Saturday\, September 21\, 2019 – Sunday\, January 12\, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday\, January 14 – Sunday\, February 23\, 2020\n\nSupport for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film\, Television\, and Media.\n  UID:63842-16390975@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - ArtGym CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T110521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Getting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions DESCRIPTION:GLOBAL CO2 INITIATIVE \nCENTER FOR LOCAL\, STATE\, AND URBAN POLICY (CLOSUP) \npresents\n\nGetting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions \n \nKarl Hausker Senior Fellow\, Energy and Climate Program\, World Resources Institute\n\nGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)\n735 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor 48109-3091\n11:45am-12:50pm (Pizza lunch available at 11:30am\, talk begins at 11:45am)\n\nFree and open to the public. \nPizza Lunch served at 11:30am. \nTalk starts at 11:45am.\n\nDescription: Climate change is back on the national agenda with hearings\, bills introduced\, candidates’ plans\, and discussion of a Green New Deal. Many policymakers are embracing the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Vigorous debates are occurring over questions including:\n• Can renewables supply 100% of US electricity? 100% of all energy?\n• What role should existing nuclear plants play in a clean energy economy? New nuclear plants?\n• What role should carbon capture and storage play?\n• How fast should the US aim to transition to 100% clean energy? What are the key policy levers that could achieve this?\n• What roles should states\, cities\, and companies play in the clean energy transition?\n\nAnalysis and modeling of clean energy pathways can throw light on these questions. Everyone in the climate/energy policy community should understand how assumptions regarding the availability\, performance\, and integration of various technologies drive the energy\, environmental and economic implications of pathways to deep reductions in emissions. Implications for energy policy and R&D portfolios are also critical.\n\n\nDr. Karl Hausker leads analysis and modeling of climate mitigation\, electricity market design\, and the social cost of carbon. He led the Risky Business study of clean energy scenarios for the U.S.\, and lectures widely on deep decarbonization. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID\, USEPA\, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative\, the Western Climate Initiative\, and the California Air Resources Board. Much of his work has focused on the energy and transportation sectors\, and on low carbon\, climate resilient development strategies. From 2007-2013\, Karl was a Vice President at ICF International. His experience also includes: serving President Clinton as Deputy Assistant Administrator in EPA’s Policy Office where he represented EPA in interagency climate policy development and at COP-1\; and serving as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources\, where he worked on a diverse set of issues including electricity restructuring\, CAFE standards\, alternative fuels\, western water policy\, nuclear power\, and energy security. Karl holds an M.P.P and Ph.D. in Public Policy from University of California\, Berkeley\, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.\n\nSponsored by: The University of Michigan Center for Local\, State\, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Global CO2 Initiative \n\nCo-sponsors: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)\, Graham Sustainability Institute\, and Center for Sustainable Systems\n\nFor more information contact closup@umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. UID:72597-18024700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:energy policy,environment,environmental,environmental policy,lecture,renewable energy LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191224T132923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:American Institutions Group (AIG) DESCRIPTION:AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet biweekly to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings\, we talk about current events and politics\, and for the second\, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. UID:70717-17619598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Chair's Conference Room (6551) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T181559 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Other:CALCIUM: Panel: Teaching at Faith-Based Schools DESCRIPTION: \n \n \nTom Kunzelman(Spring Arbor) \, Kendra Evans(UD-Mercy) \, Stephen Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan) \, Jolia Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan) UID:72032-17916361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200106T161736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health DESCRIPTION:In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control\, Thailand’s public health programs have come to be regarded as a model for the industrializing world. How is it that a resource-constrained nation on the global periphery has produced model policies that are critical to public health and human life so consistently amid such political turmoil? What has led these policies to travel abroad? And more generally\, how has a small nation in Southeast Asia exercised such outsized influence in international affairs? Drawing on Fulbright-funded research with policymakers in Thailand and Geneva\, this project examines the roots of Thailand’s surprising success.\n \n Dr. Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and conducts comparative and historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology\, public policy\, and global health. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press\, 2017). Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank\, most recently as Specialist on the Political Economy of Healthcare Reform for the Japan-World Bank Project on Universal Coverage. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Luce Scholarship and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy Studies before joining the faculty at BU. In 2017\, Dr. Harris received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Fulbright Scholarship for a project that explores the diffusion of Thailand’s model public health policies abroad. He serves as Associate Editor at Social Science and Medicine.\n\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. \nContact: Jessica Hill Riggs\, jessmhil@umich.edu UID:70968-17760241@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cseas Lecture Series,Discussion,Lecture,Sociology,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200218T101115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Culture contact dynamics in the Iron Age central Mediterranean: new approaches and new data DESCRIPTION:At the end of the Early Iron Age (8th-7th centuries BC)\, one of the most impactful migrations in Mediterranean history cast settlers from the Aegean as far as the Black Sea and Spain\, transforming the geopolitical and economic landscape of the Mediterranean. However\, its importance as a key case study for understanding how contact shaped the ancient world is proportional to the degree of controversy surrounding its interpretation. This has pitted traditional views of Aegean settlers as hegemonic conquerors of passive indigenous populations against postcolonial views of more complex processes of contact and integration. The most recent results of my two fieldwork projects in southern Italy bring new important data to this debate: (1) the excavation of the site of Incoronata\, an indigenous center with strong evidence of co-existence between newcomers and the local community\, allows us to identify how space\, beliefs and know-how were shared at the site\; (2) bioarcheological analyses conducted in the region provide us with much needed demographic information\, upending many of the assumptions held so far and opening up new questions. Both lines of research identify local agency as the main driver for these interaction dynamics. UID:73031-18129630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/73031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology LOCATION:School of Education - 2218 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200213T081611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium: Exhibiting Histories\, Engaging Publics in Detroit DESCRIPTION:Important Note: This event takes place at the Detroit Historical Society. Attendance is limited\; registration is required. Transportation and lunch provided. Click \"related links\" to access registration page.\n\nJoin the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship as we hit the road to engage history on display at the Detroit Historical Museum. Stepping outside of our regular meeting place\, we will spend time examining questions of audience and public engagement. Using the museum’s exhibits on Detroit’s early history and the 1967 rebellion\, as a starting point\, this event aims to spark conversations with Detroit Historical Society staff about the meaning of historical work in the public sphere. We will consider the benefits of doing historical work in public and the landscape of public history in general\, as it continues to shift in response to current events\, community advocacy\, and scholarship.\n\nPresenters/discussants:\nJoel Stone (Senior Curator\, Detroit Historical Society)\nKalisha Davis (Director of Community Outreach and Engagement\, Detroit Historical Society)\nBilly Wall-Winkel (Assistant Curator\, Detroit Historical Society)\n\nThis event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Presented in partnership with the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship. UID:63604-15808602@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200203T082133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Dean Hully\, Llamasoft DESCRIPTION:This event is open to all IOE students\, faculty\, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food\, please RSVP by Thursday\, February 20\, 2020.\n\nTitle:\nBusiness at Llamasoft\n\nAbstract:\nDean will talk about the challenges companies face in optimizing their operations\, LLamasoft's business model\, career opportunities at LLamasoft\, and the challenges faced by both LLamasoft and the companies we work with in this fast changing world.\n\nBio:\nDean Hully has been part of LLamasoft for the last 12 years. Most of his career has been toiling in the software development mines but for the last two years he has led the LLamasoft Applied Research group. LLamasoft (and\, of course\, the AR group) build software and algorithms to solve business problems. Traditionally focused on optimization techniques\, they also use simulation and have been evolving their data science expertise. They solve network design\, routing\, inventory\, and demand forecasting problems. UID:72307-17972529@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72307 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Lunch learn LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200205T132417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Leadership Lunch: All about ALA 175 DESCRIPTION:►Are you a BLI member and haven't taken the lab?\n\n►Are you not a member yet\, but want to jump-start your lifelong leadership learning?\n\n►Are you just curious about BLI and what makes us different from the other leadership programs on campus? \n\nALA 175 is a hands-on\, interactive\, class that is specially designed to help students develop the skills and confidence they need to grow as leaders. Group exercises and a self-designed team project allow them to practice and reflect on key leadership roles. Your experiences in the Leadership Lab will help you be more confident and successful in your work on campus\, in your community\, and in the world. \n\nSwing by our Leadership Lunch on Friday\, February 21 to learn more about the lab\, answer all your questions and meet some of our student leaders who facilitate the lab (and enjoy a lunch)! UID:70274-17558235@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70274 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Leadership,Lifelong Learning,Luncheon LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 8th-floor open space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200212T133143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life In Graduate School Seminar | How to Find a Postdoc Position DESCRIPTION:Three people with postdoc hunting experience in high energy experiment\, computational condensed matter and experimental condensed matter will be invited and present their experience and lessons in finding postdoc positions. UID:72814-18079325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate And Professional Students,Graduate Students,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200214T134839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB: Epigenetic inheritance mediated by RNA and chromatin DESCRIPTION:Host: Györgyi Csankovszki UID:71851-17894526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71851 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Research LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200210T144557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Impact Investing Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Impact Investing Symposium (MIIS) is a conference that allows participants to explore investments that provide financial as well as social returns under the guidance of some distinguished members of the impact investing community. Our theme for MIIS 2020 is \"Re-Imagining Capitalism for a Sustainable Future\" to inspire our speakers\, panelists\, and attendees to expand their current knowledge about finance and impact in a way that creates durable institutional change.\n\nThe Symposium will feature speakers from Marathon Capital\, Goldman Sachs\, Impact Engine\, Bedrock\, Orrick\, Total Impact Capital\, Rocky Mountain Institute\, Equitable Facilities Fund\, Pfizer\, Blue Marbel Capital\, Stray Dog Capital\, and BC Global Partners. Throughout the day\, there will be opportunities to network with speakers and enjoy catered lunch and snacks. UID:72712-18061841@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72712 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,conference,Corporate,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Energy,Entrepreneurship,Environment,Food,Free,Interdisciplinary,Luncheon,Networking,Public Health,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Sustainability,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Tauber Colloquium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200223T120016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Midwest Fencing Championship DESCRIPTION:Midwest Fencing Championships at OSU. Saturday is the open event\, team duals are held on Sunday. UID:63354-18172892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63354 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:OSU French Field House CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191217T141400 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:Get real time\, personalized support by with the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started\, and get feedback to take your resume from good to great!\n\nJust getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at\, we can help! UID:70408-17594456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70408 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200113T163332 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:Get real time\, personalized support by with the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started\, and get feedback to take your resume from good to great!\nJust getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at\, we can help! UID:71383-17819318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200210T063038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!\n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting\, learn how to build great bullet points\, and get feedback on your resume.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater 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'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/434371 UID:71864-17896694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T101913 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ASCE Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Kiewit’s ethical\, forward-thinking workforce continues to build upon the company’s reputation of safe\, high-quality engineering. Consistently ranked among the top five of the Engineering News-Record Top 400 Contractors\, the company is a leader in a variety of market sectors throughout North America. As an employee-owned company\, Kiewit’s assets are managed by the people who know their work best. As their own stakeholders\, Kiewit is invested in every project they take on. Kiewit continuously strive to build high-quality work at the lowest cost. UID:72594-18024697@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Energy,Engineering,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200217T110714 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:E-Hour Speaker Series: Amanda Lewan DESCRIPTION:The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year\, free and open to the public to attend.\n\nAmanda Lewan is a writer and entrepreneur. After moving home to Detroit in the middle of the great recession\, she endeavored to create work that moves our changing region forward.\n \nAmanda spent time working at a variety of startups in marketing and operations\, before launching Bamboo. One of the first co-working spaces in Detroit\, Bamboo specializes in building collaborative work spaces and community. She bootstrapped Bamboo from a $5\,000 loan to 500+ members expanding to multiple locations\, and serving as a catalyst for Detroit’s ecosystem. Her leadership at Bamboo has been honored locally and nationally.\n \nAmanda’s writing is also inspired by our region and country’s economic changes and healing past. After winning a national essay competition by The Nation in college\, she went on to study fiction writing in graduate school. Her work has been published and honored by The Rumpus\, Glimmer Train\, Rust Belt Magazine\, Belt Publishing\, The Journal of Americana\, Lumina Magazine\, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of Net. \n \nAmanda holds a BA in Professional Writing from Michigan State and an MA in English from Wayne State. She sits on the board for Fierce Empowerment\, Venture Catalysts\, and Co-leads the Detroit Writers Collective writers group. UID:72977-18120892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72977 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Discussion,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Literature,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Startup,Storytelling,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200318T152417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELED: 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. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research\, discuss \"hot\" topics in the field\, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us. UID:71189-17785596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200109T105943 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T141000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities. UID:71144-17783443@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200307T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Gearing Up to Apply to Medical School DESCRIPTION:If you are applying to medical school this coming summer\, this program is for you. After a quick overview of the entire application cycle\, we will zero in on what you need to focus on--from now through May--to best position yourself in the application process. Presenter: Mariella Mecozzi\, Sr. Asst. Director\, Pre-Professional Services\, UM University Career Center. Although this program will be offered multiple times during the winter semester\, space is limited. Express your commitment to attend this particular session via your Handshake account at: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/338876 UID:65314-16567526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65314 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:20200107T092710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) DESCRIPTION:The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics\, the Ford School of Public Policy\, the Law School\, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Mathematics\, Political Science\, the Ross School of Business\, Sociology\, Statistics\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. UID:70913-17735218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70913 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,environmental,India,Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200307T123028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ready\, Set\, Consulting DESCRIPTION:*This event is co-sponsored by the First Generation Gateway*\n\nCalling first years and sophomores: have you heard people talking about \"consulting\" around campus and thought \"what even IS consulting?!\" or \"howdo I know if I would like consulting?\". \n\nSound familiar? Then this workshop is for you! Join the University Career Center as we break it down. We'll spell out what consulting is\, help you think about if it might be a fit for you\, and explain what to do now to prepare for an internship in the field. This workshop is designed for students to learn the basics!\n\nRegister today- space for this small group session is limited!\n\nRegister here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/440713 UID:72228-17959603@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72228 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:428 S State St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191217T200038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Some Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Macbeth DESCRIPTION:Witches! Prophecies! Murder! Madness! But also a deeper look at this tragedy from the perspective of our time. Participants will first read and discuss Shakespeare’s play. Then we will watch and critique several interpretations\, ranging from feudal Japan (Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood) to our modern day (Patrick Stewart’s 2007 London performance). We will discuss Acts One and Two at our first session. Text: any edition is acceptable. Marilyn Scott has led several OLLI study groups and is a devoted theater-goer. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held Fridays February 21 through March 27. UID:70451-17596556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Literature,Retirement,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200218T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Environmental & Social Sustainability and Leadership in Corporate Citizenship DESCRIPTION:John Viera\nExecutive in Residence\nErb Institute\, University of Michigan\n\nAn increasing number of companies\, large and small\, are developing core strategies and engaging in projects that address environmental and social challenges in our society. The social efforts often reflect strong corporate citizenship cultures at these companies. Many engineers are seeking to work for companies that are engaging in these types of projects. During this seminar the speaker will highlight such efforts within a heavy manufacturing entity\, in this case the automotive sector. Such efforts can be easily aligned with potential efforts within the aerospace industry.\n\nAbout the speaker...\n\nJohn Viera was most recently the former Global Director\, Sustainability & Vehicle Environmental Matters at Ford Motor Company\, a position he held since January\, 2007. Mr. Viera was responsible for developing global sustainable business plans and policies\, interfacing with global regulatory bodies\, reporting externally on the company’s environmental and social performance\, and leading the company’s engagement and partnerships with non-government organizations (NGOs) and other external stakeholders.\n\nViera has held several positions within Ford Motor Company during his 30 year tenure. For the first thirteen years of his career\, he worked in the company’s Truck Division with responsibilities that included leading the Company efforts in the development of its first natural gas-fueled pickup trucks and also leading the Company’s Global Truck Computer Aided Design organization.\n\nIn 1997\, Viera was appointed manager\, Plant Engineering Vehicle Team\, Explorer and Mountaineer programs. Located in Louisville\, Kentucky\, Viera was responsible for all on-site engineering personnel for Explorer plants in Louisville\, St. Louis\, Missouri\, and Valencia\, Venezuela. He returned to Michigan in 1999 to become the chief engineer for the Ranger Compact Pickup and Electric Ranger. In 2002\, Viera took on the company’s mid-term cost reduction initiative\, building a team which delivered $1.2 billion of savings in eighteen months\, beating his assigned target by over a year. In 2003\, Viera became chief engineer for the Expedition and Navigator Full Size SUVs\, with complete responsibility for current and future model programs.\n\nMr. Viera recently served on the advisory boards at Georgia Tech in Atlanta\, the Graham Institute of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Michigan\, the advisory board of Sustainable Brands\, and the Energy Advisory Committee at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago\, as well as the chair of the Department of Homeland Security’s Sustainability and Efficiency Task Force in Washington\, D.C.\n\nA native of Chicago\, Viera attended the University of Michigan\, receiving his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 as well as a Masters in Business Administration in 1992. UID:73046-18131838@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/73046 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Business,Environment,Leadership,Sustainability,Undergraduate LOCATION:BBB - 1670 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191223T085434 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Democratic socialism: lessons from Corporate Strategy DESCRIPTION:In my recent book\, The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford UP) I explain why I think we need socialism and how it would work. I focus on six crises--economic irrationality\, workplace disempowerment\, government unresponsiveness\, environmental degradation\, social disintegration\, and international conflict--and argue that the root cause of each lies in the capitalist nature of our economic system. I show why\, so long as the core of the economy remains capitalist\, neither voluntary corporate efforts nor government regulation can overcome these crises\, even if sometimes they can be somewhat mitigated. To overcome them\, we need to reorient production and investment to the needs of people and planet\, rather than leaving such decisions in the hands of the top managers of enterprises driven by the need for profits. We must assert democratic control over the management of society’s productive resources\, both within individual enterprises and across the entire national economy\n\nNo country has successfully implemented such a system in a way that would meet our expectations of democracy\, innovativeness\, efficiency\, and motivation\, but I argue that we can find something close to a working model in a surprising place--in the strategic management process used by some of our largest corporations. Many of these corporations operate internally like planned economies--coordinating their subunits’ production and investment through strategic management rather than relying on market-like competition among subunits--and in doing so\, they face many of the same challenges as socialist planning would. This experience yields valuable lessons for socialism\, because in some of these corporations\, the strategic management process is remarkably participative\, as well as delivering impressive levels of innovation\, efficiency\, and motivation.\n\nTheir success in this remains limited: under capitalist conditions\, participation is restricted\, the scope of strategy is largely limited to the individual firm\, and the profit imperative constrains choices. But if we socialize the ownership of our economy’s productive resources\, democratic councils at the local and national levels could use that strategic management process to decide on our collective economic\, environmental\, social\, and international goals and on how to reach them.\n\nSocialism is not a leap into the entirely unknown. Capitalist industry is building some of its material and managerial foundations. UID:70749-17642220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business LOCATION:Ross School of Business - RO220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200122T131040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Political Theory Workshop DESCRIPTION:Amir Fleischmann's work is focussed on critical and continental political theory. He is interested in questions concerning critical history\, the history of capitalism\, and democratic theory.\n\nThe Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan\, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan. UID:71097-17777058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71097 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Library Room (5639) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200129T111657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Melancholy in Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities and Palermo Shooting\" DESCRIPTION:Bill Baker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University where he completed bachelor’s degrees in German and Russian in 2013 followed by a master’s degree in German in 2015. His research interests include the history of German film\, relationship of German film to Japanese and Russian film\, and the use of aesthetic blandness in art. He is currently writing his dissertation\, Melancholy and Aesthetic Apprehension in the Films of Wim Wenders\, which explores the role of mediation and melancholy over the course of Wenders’ oeuvre.\n2-5pm\, 3308 MLB UID:71972-17905479@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71972 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200115T082724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media DESCRIPTION:Faced with mounting pressures and repeated\, very public crises\, social media firms have taken a new tack since 2017: to respond to criticism of all kinds and from numerous quarters (regulators\, civil society advocates\, journalists\, academics and others) by acknowledging their long-obfuscated human gatekeeping workforce of commercial content moderators. Additionally\, these acknowledgments have often come alongside announcements of plans for exponential increases to that workforce\, which now represents a global network of laborers – in distinct geographic\, cultural\, political\, economic\, labor and industrial circumstances – conservatively estimated in the several tens of thousands and likely many times that. Yet the phenomenon of content moderation in social media firms has been shrouded in mystery when acknowledged at all. In this talk\, Sarah T. Roberts will discuss the fruits of her decade-long study the commercial content moderation industry\, and its concomitant people\, practices and politics. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines\, at boutique firms and at major social media companies\, she will offer context\, history and analysis of this hidden industry\, with particular attention to the emotional toll it takes on its workers. The talk will offer insights about potential futures for the commercial internet and a discussion of the future of globalized labor in the digital age.\n\n\nSarah T. Roberts is an assistant professor of Information Studies at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies\, specializing in Internet culture\, social media\, and the intersection of media\, technology and society. She is founding co-director\, along with Dr. Safiya Noble\, of the forthcoming UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. \n\nRoberts researches information work and workers\, and is a leading global authority on “commercial content moderation\,” the term she coined to describe the work of those responsible for making sure media content posted to commercial websites fit within legal\, ethical\, and the site’s own guidelines and standards. She is frequently consulted on matters of policy\, worker welfare\, and governance related to content moderation issues and the broader social media landscape. \n\nShe is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and winner of the 2018 EFF Barlow Pioneer Award in recognition of her work on commercial content moderation. UID:71186-17785588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71186 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Big Tech,cyber security,digital,Digital Cultures,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,digitalization,digitization,Humanities,Information and Technology LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200128T091801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group: \"Austronesian-Hmong-Mien sound correspondences DESCRIPTION:HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics\, Anthropology\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, Classics\, Germanic Languages\, Near Eastern Studies\, Romance Languages\, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities\, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit). UID:70211-17547649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70211 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200204T101739 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan DESCRIPTION:Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members\, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants\, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan\, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social\, cultural\, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.\n \nBrainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member\, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories\, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.\n\nThis event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works\, New Questions series\, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.\n\nThere will be an instant-win raffle at the beginning of the event for 5 free copies of the book! Must be present to win! UID:69538-17357974@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69538 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Affiliate Faculty,Books,Gender New Works New Questions LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200130T115718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Science as Art Exhibition- Panel discussion & Awards Reception DESCRIPTION:Arts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to the Science as Art Contest Exhibition and Awards Reception- Hatcher Graduate Library\, Rm 100. \n\n2pm Office Hours for participating artists\n3pm Panel Discussion & Reception\n4pm Awards Announcements\n\n\nUniversity of Michigan undergraduate students will have artwork on view expressing a scientific principle\, concept\, idea\, process\, or structure. The artwork ranges in media\, including visual\, literary\, musical\, video and performance-based art. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions. This is our fourth year of the exhibition\, and we received a record number of submissions\, so we hope you'll join us to view the work and give out the awards! UID:38185-17963890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/38185 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Astronomy,Biology,Chemistry,Culture,Dance,Ecology,Engineering,Environment,Exhibition,Film,Information and Technology,Kinesiology,Library,Literature,Mathematics,Medicine,Multicultural,Music,Pharmacy,Poetry,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Science,Storytelling,Theater,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T121707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Social Justice and the Power of Oppression DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, participants will be prompted in high levels of thinking about their own identities\, communicating across identities\, understanding power and oppression\, and how they engage in these topics with others. Participants will also discuss how their unconscious biases play into perpetuating systems of oppression and what tools we can use to disrupt this thinking.\nThis workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff\, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/QAM0r.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative. UID:72602-18026873@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T180027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T220000 SUMMARY:Other:SVSU Tune Up DESCRIPTION:It may not be pizza themed\, but it's still a great meet to PR at! UID:72186-17952925@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72186 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Saginaw Valley State University CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T091307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Miki Obata and Professor Marlyse Baptista will give a talk titled \"Asymmetrical Agreement: Evidence from Focus-Agreement in Cape Verdean Creole.\"\n\nABSTRACT\nThis presentation focuses on A’-movement in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC)\, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde\, and demonstrates that asymmetrical focus-agreement takes place in wh-questions (full-agreement) and exclamatives (partial-agreement) in CVC based on Kato et al.’s (2014) Search-based agreement system. As a consequence\, we show that our system can capture commonality between Focus-agreement in CVC and Subj.-Verb agreement in Standard Arabic discussed in Kinjo (2015). UID:72622-18033397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72622 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200217T121530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T143000 SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Alaa Algargoosh DESCRIPTION:Alaa Algargoosh has always been fascinated by sound and its relation to shapes. As an architect\, she had a special interest in the influence of the architectural design on sound\, and this was the driving force behind wanting to study architectural acoustics. Her previous work includes designing innovative sound diffusers inspired by the cymatics phenomenon in which she explored some of the physical aspects of room acoustics. However\, the physical measurements do not precisely reflect the human acoustical experience. Therefore\, her study extends to include the perceptual and cultural aspects of acoustics\, providing a more integrated approach to understanding the aural experience. The physical aspect concentrates on analyzing sound propagation in space whereas the perceptual aspect centered on the psychological and physiological effects of sound and its relation to human cognition. The cultural aspect focuses on studying the role of the cultural background in sound perception and the role of social activities in shaping the soundscape of specific places. Hence\, her research aims at providing a new comprehensive method of analyzing the aural architecture of buildings by linking qualitative and quantitative methods\, studying the ways in which they interact\, and how they relate to the architectural design. UID:69954-17485140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69954 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200214T161734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ConEco Seminar: Oligotrophication in Lakes Michigan and Huron and Potential Effects on Fisheries DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu). UID:72015-17914154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Environment,Free,Great Lakes Theme Semester,Sustainability LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200307T123023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Help! What's an MMI? DESCRIPTION:You may have heard that MMIs are gaining popularity especiallyamong medical\, dental\, pharmacy\, physician assistant and veterinary schools. But what are MMIs exactly? Come to this session to understand this interviewing format\, familiarize yourself with what to expect\, and practice with your fellow students. Space is limited. Express your plan to attend by \"joining\" the event via your Handshake account at: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/410350. UID:70053-17501600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70053 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:20200203T142552 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Conical singularities of G2-manifolds in mathematics and physics DESCRIPTION:I will first give an introduction to and brief history of G2 geometry\, to compare and contrast it to Calabi-Yau geometry. G2 manifolds are important in physics because they admit parallel spinors. It is of interest to construct compact examples with singularities. I will then give a survey of some of my work that is related to conical singularities of G2 manifolds\, including: desingularization\, deformation theory\, and a possible strategy to construct such G2 conifolds. This will include some (separate) joint works with Dominic Joyce and Jason Lotay. No previous exposure to G2 geometry will be assumed\, but the focus will be more mathematical than physical. I am hoping that some of you can teach me more physics during the day. UID:72414-18000399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Mathematics,Physics,Science,Winter 2020 LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200110T083713 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:IPE Gilman Scholarship & Study Abroad Funding Info Session DESCRIPTION:Attention Engineers:\n\nFunding an international experience is easier than you think\; it just takes knowledge and some advance planning. \n\nCome learn more about the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship\, as well as funding in general\, to make your goal of going abroad a reality.\n\nIPE Advisor/Coordinators will be on hand to walk you through the details\, answer any questions\, and help you apply!\n\nhttps://www.iie.org/programs/gilman-scholarship-program\nhttps://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-intl-travel-funding/ UID:54585-17791916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/54585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,International,Scholarship,Scholarships,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 Chrysler CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200131T155738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Osman Basaran: High-accuracy Simulation of Free Surface Flows near Finite-time Pinch-off and Coalescence Singularities DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Motivated by applications such as ink jet printing\, drop-by-drop manufacturing\, sprays\, emulsions\, and chemical separations\, we study the dynamics of breakup and coalescence through high-accuracy simulation\, theory\, and experiment. In this talk\, I will highlight our group’s work on accurately capturing the fluid dynamics that takes place in the vicinity of finite-time singularities. The free surface flow algorithms and solvers that we develop and use rely on a sharp interface representation of phase boundaries. In the simulations\, we are able to analyze situations that involve disparate length scales that differ by up to seven orders of magnitude (commercial codes can handle about 2-3 orders and custom codes can capture at most 3-4 orders of magnitude disparity in length scales). The primary focus of the talk will be on simulations of the breakup of surfactant-covered filaments where I will pay special attention to the pinch-off singularity. I will also summarize some of our recent work on the pre- and post-coalescence singularities that arise when two drops or bubbles are driven together and made to merge into one. \n\nBio: Motivated by applications in ink jet printing\, separations\, production of emulsions\, dispersions\, and double-emulsions\, and drop-wise manufacturing\, Prof. Basaran’s research involves the use of a balanced approach based on computation\, theory\, and experiment to attack a number of fundamental issues that lie at the heart of such practical problems. Currently\, the research is organized along the following key themes. UID:72342-17974694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - RM 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200302T105851 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI)\, in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)\, offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31\, 2020 and provides a $4\,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions\, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq. UID:72144-17946466@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Energy,Internship,Research,Summer Jobs,Sustainability,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190930T130731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: The Earth’s Hidden Ocean DESCRIPTION:Water\, incorporated into minerals and melts at the high pressure and temperature conditions found in Earth’s deep mantle may constitute the planet’s largest geochemical reservoir of H2O\, especially in the mantle transition zone at 410-660 km depth. At the atomic scale\, hydration modifies the structure and physical properties of minerals through associated defects. At mesoscopic scales water influences diffusion\, rheology and lattice preferred orientation. At geophysical scales\, water cycling through the solid mantle plays a critical role in melt generation\, plate tectonics\, and may have acted to buffer the volume of Earth’s oceans over geologic time. I will focus on recent laboratory experiments\, inclusions in diamond\, and seismological observations that reveal clues about the distribution and origin of water in our habitable planet. UID:63137-15578788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63137 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T120024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Creative Arts Workshop DESCRIPTION:Mixed Creative Arts Workshop\, with games and activities that always conclude with an art project! Join us at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and remember to bring your student ID. No Prior Experience Required! No crop tops\, tank tops\, or low cut shirts.Mondays & Fridays-- Theater/Interactive GamesTuesdays-- Visual Art/YogaTo sign up for this workshop\, please contact our Secretary\, Clare Oliver-DiPaola (clareeod@umich.edu) or President\, Aria Trager (atrager@umich.edu). UID:71712-17870765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71712 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:C.S. Mott Children's Hospital CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200316T164432 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:International Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students\, scholars\, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world. UID:70304-18035618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social LOCATION:International Center - Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200127T084318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: Reactor Designs for the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming. UID:70142-17540911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Engineering,Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T155231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaiṣṇava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal DESCRIPTION:This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies\, the Global Islamic Studies Center\, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.\n\nThere is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into the complex mythological world of Hindu gods and goddesses. Dating to the sixteenth century\, the stories—pir katha—are still widely read and performed today. The events that play out rival the fabulations of the Arabian Nights\, which has led them to be dismissed as simplistic folktales\, yet the work of these stories is profound: they provide fascinating insight into how Islam habituated itself into the cultural life of the Bangla-speaking world.\n\nTony K. Stewart is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in the religions and literatures of early modern Bengal. His works include \"The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition\,\" \"Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal\,\" and \"Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination.\"\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. UID:71142-17783439@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Islam,Sufism LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200121T091933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2020 Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty and industry professionals will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe third annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Video Studio\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:71798-17885884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Media,symposium LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191217T181531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished Music Theory Speaker Series: Prof. Brian Hyer\, University of Wisconsin-Madison DESCRIPTION:Brian Hyer’s research involves the construction (and reconstruction) of historical modes of cognition for music of the eighteenth\, nineteenth\, and twentieth centuries\, an initiative that blurs boundaries between music theory\, music history\, and music criticism. Since arriving in Madison\, his main concern in the classroom has been to situate the study of music within the broader realm of the humanities\, a commitment that has culminated in a new undergraduate music-theory curriculum\, implemented in the fall of 1997. UID:70436-17596541@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70436 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200203T102126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 SUMMARY:Other:English Honors Program Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:Becoming a member of the English Department Honors Program means becoming a part of a small\, intensely committed group of teachers and students all working toward achieving excellence in the related disciplines of reading\, understanding\, and writing about texts. UID:72369-17998149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Department Of English Language And Literature,English Department,English Language & Literataure,English Language & Literature,English Language And Literature,Research,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3187 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200128T122115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:GLACE Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:GLACE (Great Lakes Arts\, Cultures\, and Environments) is a new\, interdisciplinary humanities program held in Northern Michigan during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected\, two-credit courses: two in English\, one in Anthropology\, and one in American Culture.\n\nThe program takes place at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, a research campus situated on Douglas Lake\, amid 10\,000 undeveloped acres in Pellston\, Michigan. From May 11-June 13\, 2020\, a small cohort of students will work closely with four faculty exploring such concepts as “place\,” “natural history\,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also\, in hands-on ways\, with the local landscape and its inhabitants\, ecologies\, and histories. UID:72156-17948628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,american culture,Anthropology,Applications,climate,English Department,English Language & Literataure,English Language & Literature,English Languange & Literature,Great Lakes Theme Semester,Humanities,Majors LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T100631 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Representative Sarah Anthony DESCRIPTION:The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.\n\nFor this TDLS event\, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan State Representative Sarah Anthony. State Representative Sarah Anthony is serving her first full term representing the 68th House District\, parts of the city of Lansing and Lansing Township\, as the youngest African American women to serve in this capacity in the United States. Throughout her time as commissioner\, Anthony served in many leadership positions\, including chating the Democtratic Caucus\, FInance Committee\, and Vice Chair of the board. Her fearless leadership to advocate for healthcare access\, social justice\, working families\, and senior citizens\, has made her a role model to many. \n\nDon't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to hear from and meet Representative Sarah Anthony!\n\nRSVP here: https://myumi.ch/51O1V UID:72592-18024695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Community,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Food,Free,Inclusion,Lecture,Social,Social Impact,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T180028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Addiction\, Violence\, Insalubrity: How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here!What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming\, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist.   Research shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective\, violent\, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence\, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.However\, as a burgeoning industry\, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo\, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019\, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors\, favorable policies\, and the potential access to the Olympics\, Esports\, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games.   From game development\, to corporate social responsibility\, to higher education\, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak\, Professor Austin Yarger\, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez\, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball\, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton.  UID:72670-18039974@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Koessler Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200211T112709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? DESCRIPTION:What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming\, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist. \n\nResearch shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective\, violent\, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence\, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.\n\nHowever\, as a burgeoning industry\, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo\, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019\, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors\, favorable policies\, and the potential access to the Olympics\, Esports\, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games. \n\nFrom game development\, to corporate social responsibility\, to higher education\, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak\, Professor Austin Yarger\, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez\, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball\, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton. UID:72732-18068367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72732 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Asia,Athletics,Business,Culture,Discussion,Education,Engineering,Games,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Information and Technology,International,Kinesiology,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Rec Sports,Science LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200126T224211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Emerging Urbanisms Keynote: Matthew Gandy DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and is an award-winning documentary film maker. His research interests span landscape\, infrastructure\, and biodiversity. His books including Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (The MIT Press\, 2002)\, Urban constellations (Jovis\, 2011)\, The fabric of space: water\, modernity\, and the urban imagination (The MIT Press\, 2014)\, The acoustic city (Jovis\, 2014)\, and Moth (Reaktion\, 2016). He is currently writing a book about urban biodiversity.\n\nProfessor Gandy's lecture is part of the symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions. UID:72079-17933537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72079 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,architecture lecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning,archizines,art and design,Earth Day At 50,Earthday,ecology,environmental,symposium,taubman college,Taubmancollege,urban design,urban planning,urbanism LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200221T180029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T210000 SUMMARY:Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey VS Grand Valley State University DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey VS Grand Valley State University at Griff's Georgetown in Grand Rapids  UID:72025-17916354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Griff's Georgetown CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200207T142415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T191100 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:A Night At The Set DESCRIPTION:Tickets available through Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity\, Inc. UID:72655-18035602@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72655 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Muto LOCATION:Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T181549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: Tzu Kuang Tan\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Debussy - Trois Chansons de Bilitis\; Barber - Hermit Songs\; Beethoven - Violin Sonata no. 9\, op. 47 (”Kreutzer”). UID:72612-18029053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200214T121526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Adrian Slywotzky\, conductor\n\nThe Contemporary Directions Ensemble celebrates guest composer David Lang with a program of his works for chamber ensemble. This concert is the final event of his William Bolcom Guest Residency.\n\nPROGRAM: \nLang- Just\; These Broken Wings\; Pierced\; Increase \n\nPlease note Hankinson Rehearsal Hall has limited seating capacity\, early arrival is recommended to ensure admission. UID:70435-17596540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70435 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200206T100054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Martin Sexton - SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Ark UID:67867-16960526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67867 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200217T121540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Leo Singer\, cello DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Schoenberg - Waldesnacht\; Schoenberg - 2 Lieder\, op. 14\; Webern - Cello Sonata\; Berg - Sieben Frühe Lieder\; Toch - Divertimento\, op. 37\, no. 1\; Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge\, op. 121\; Zemlinsky - Cello Sonata. UID:72985-18123062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72985 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200219T181540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:SMTD Piano DMA Concerto Concert with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Yaniv Segal\, guest conductor\n\nZixiang Wang\, Xiting Yang\, Xiaoya Liu\, and Melissa Coppola\, serve as soloists for this performance of piano DMA students with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.\n\nPROGRAM: \nLiszt- Piano Concerto No. 1 \nBeethoven- Concerto No 4 \nRavel- Concerto in G Major\nGershwin- Concerto in F UID:69946-17485122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69946 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200214T102344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sonnets\, Soliloquies\, and Soul DESCRIPTION:Directed by Michael McElroy\nMusic direction by Michael McElroy\n\nShakespeare meets Motown\, Gospel\, Blues\, and Soul In Sonnets\, Soliloquies\, & Soul\, conceived and directed by Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (director of the Tony Award-winning “Broadway’s Inspirational Voices”). By “colliding” the cornerstone of classic text with African-American musical genres\, McElroy (with collaboration from a group of incredibly diverse Musical Theatre students) creates a new musical work that delves into the heart of the human experience--how we’ve grown\, and spaces where we can still explore change.\n\n“We are in a space and a time right now where we are so fractured\,” says McElroy. “What theatre has to do right now more than ever is to fill that void. People can come together to grapple with what they believe without feeling judged or confronted. Theater and music help us to explore the ways in which we are different but more importantly how at our core very much the same. How is Shakespeare's investigation of humanity in the 1600’s the same as what we grapple with today?”\n\nTo answer that question\, McElroy commissioned musical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets and soliloquies from peers including Daniel Watts (Ike Turner from Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical)\, Julianne Wick Davis (Jonathan Larson Award Winner)\, Crystal Monee Hall (Rent)\, Celisse Henderson (Godspell) Marcus Paul James (Ain’t Too Proud) and Allen Louis. Some musical responses include lines directly from Shakespeare’s text\; some\, like a Blues piece that’s the antithesis of the sonnet to which it responds\, turn the traditional language on its head. Original text interweaves with Shakespearean sonnets\, soliloquies\, and new musical works\, creating a song-cycle that highlights the throughlines of love\, loss\, hate\, time\, age\, and jealousy that tie us together.\n\n*This show was originally announced with the working title Being Alive. UID:63556-15784107@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200214T103151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20200221T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Yerma (Barren) DESCRIPTION:By Frederico García Lorca\nTranslated by Jo Clifford\nDirected by Malcolm Tulip\n\nWritten by Frederico García Lorca\, considered to be Spain’s greatest poet of the twentieth century\, Yerma is the tragic story of a woman living in rural Spain who is immersed in the constant pressure to have children. Her husband of two years\, Juan\, whom she married to please her father and not for love\, has been unable to give her the child she desires. Tormented\, Yerma seeks advice from an older woman in the town who tells her of a pilgrimage many barren young women take to help them get pregnant. A provoking and heart-rending story\, Yerma lays bare society’s expectations through one woman’s struggles between honor and conformity\, passion\, and duty. UID:63555-15784103@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR