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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics\, a SIBS program\, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups\, along with participating in other virtual events.\n\nThe BDSI *application opens on Tuesday\, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.\n\nProgram dates are June 7 - July 30\, 2021.\n\nPlease visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.
UID:79587-20414590@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79587
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applications,Big Data,biostatistics,Public Health,statistics,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210111T165824
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235900
SUMMARY:Film Screening:CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)
DESCRIPTION:Sheri Hagen\, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min.\, 2012).\n\nThrough its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality\, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness\, race and racism\, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness\, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality\, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.\n   \nSheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director\, screenwriter\, actress\, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos\, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress\, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series\, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career\, Hagen has worked on film projects as author\, director\, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).\n\nThose who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29\, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:80118-20564738@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80118
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Diversity,European,Film,International
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201207T084844
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235900
SUMMARY:Other:MLK Day
DESCRIPTION:MLK Day
UID:79742-20483902@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79742
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Holiday
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201203T121256
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235900
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sign Up for the Community Matters Cohort Program
DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan students tell us that making friends and finding community are some of the most rewarding aspects of their time on campus but COVID-19 has made these things more challenging to do. You are invited to join the Community Matters Cohort Program which provides a space for students to meet others and participate in regular social events. Program participants will be matched with a small group of other students who are interested in finding community. Cohort groups will meet weekly for one hour via zoom and will have the opportunity to meet students from other cohorts throughout the Winter semester. \n \nThose interested in participating in the Community Matters Cohort Program should sign up by January 21st\, 2021 at 11:59pm. Cohort assignments will be announced by January 25th\, 2021 and the program will run from February 1st - April 18th\, 2021. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11VWqPiWvoqQHSUXpSA4QxMujmI_KFPPVoZLpM9julYE/edit
UID:79681-20454243@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79681
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:First Year Experience,first year students,Free,Games,Social,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210118T180005
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235959
SUMMARY:Other:University of Toronto Dual Match
DESCRIPTION:Dual match between The University of Michigan and the University of Toronto 
UID:72683-20818969@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/72683
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210107T123322
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T230000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Wendell Pierce Stars in Some Old Black Man
DESCRIPTION:Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020\, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with bold probity rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences. \n\nIn the play\, Calvin Jones (Wendell Pierce)\, a hip\, coolly intellectual African-American college professor moves his 82-year-old ailing\, but doggedly independent\, father\, Donald Jones (Charlie Robinson)\, from Greenwald\, MS into his Harlem penthouse. The play begins with an argument over what to eat for breakfast\, then turns into a generational clash over race\, opportunity\, and a decision that Calvin made years ago. Donald’s grumpiness is peppered with disturbing outbursts\, revealing bits of his past\, informed by growing up Black and poor in the South. \n\nThemes of social justice themes and intergenerational conflict make Some Old Black Man a fitting title for our times\, when the reality of more togetherness unveils some of the tensions underlying even the closest of relationships. \n\nThe play was filmed in Detroit after the creative team quarantined together during rehearsals in Ann Arbor under strict safety protocols.\n\nAfter the digital premiere\, join the creative team for a live talkback. Production will be available on demand through Monday\, January 18.
UID:80493-20730271@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80493
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Detroit,Diversity,Diversity Summit,Free,Michigan Engineering,Theater,UMS,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210112T151409
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235900
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Where Do YOU Go From Here? - Virtual Wall
DESCRIPTION:Share WHERE YOU PLAN TO GO FROM HERE related to MLK's legacy by sharing words\, photos\, resources\, and more to be viewed by the campus community. \n\nPost your reflections with the campus community by posting to our \"Virtual Wall\" on our website\, which will open on January 18 and close on January 24. The most \"liked\" posts will be featured on CCI's social media pages and the posters will receive free tickets to Ann Arbor Folk Fest.
UID:80663-20769646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80663
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,symposium
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20200930T113353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T170000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Applications Open
DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (DCERP) is a UROP summer U-M undergraduate research fellowship.\n\nPriority Deadline: December 4\, 2020\nApplication Deadline: January 18\, 2021\n\nhttp://myumi.ch/erK95\n\nBe part of the DCERP social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the U-M’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Learn while helping community organizations with research projects addressing social and environmental justice\, food insecurity\, human rights\, public health\, youth development\, and more! Our program brings together aspiring change agents who will learn about the city\, non-profits\, community engagement and each other!
UID:77975-19947640@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Dcerp,Detroit,Fellowship,first-generation,Food,Free,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Public Health,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Summer Jobs,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210714T155619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T235900
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open
DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year. \n\nLearn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore\n\nRising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.
UID:80546-20738153@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80546
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Research,Sophomore,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201207T095928
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Become a UROP Peer Facilitator
DESCRIPTION:UROP Peer Facilitators serve as a liaison and program guide for UROP students. In this capacity\, Peer Facilitators support prospective UROP student researchers by helping them find research projects\, sharing information about academic and other campus resources\, serving as a liaison between student researchers and faculty mentors\, and planning programs for and facilitating research seminars for their peer group. \n\nCurrent or former UROP students who will be rising Juniors or Seniors during the 2021-2022 academic year are eligible to apply.\n\nThe application is now open at: http://myumi.ch/DEoRG\nApplication deadline is January 27th
UID:79751-20483982@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Leadership,Recruiting,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201112T155040
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T170000
SUMMARY:Other:UROP Outstanding Research Mentor Nominations
DESCRIPTION:Current UROP students if you would like to nominate your UROP mentor to receive an Outstanding Research Mentor Award during the 2021 Spring Research Symposium this coming April\, we would love hear about your undergraduate experience and how your research mentor has impacted your first research experience.\n\nSubmit your nomination at: http://myumi.ch/pdxpE
UID:79383-20288573@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79383
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210108T143824
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Paid Summer Research Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects\; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher\; think about academic and post graduate careers\; and develop strong mentor relationships.  \n\nSummer Fellowships include:\nBiomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellowship\nEngineering Summer Fellowship\nWomen and Gender Summer Fellowship\n\nApplication is now open - apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp\n\nInfo Sessions are being offered: https://umich.zoom.us/j/3557060097\nTuesday\, January 26\, 2021 (6:00 - 7:00 p.m.)\nWednesday\, January 27\, 2021 (5:00 - 6:00 p.m.)\nThursday\, January 28\, 2021 (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)
UID:79990-20539128@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79990
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Engineering,Fellowship,first-generation,Free,Networking,Research,Summer Jobs,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201207T101624
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Community College Summer Research Paid Fellowship Application
DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan (UM)\, Ann Arbor offers a 10 week paid State-Wide Summer Research Fellowship for currently enrolled Michigan community college students who are interested in transferring to U-M\, Ann Arbor\, or any other institution in the future. The fellowship runs from Tuesday\, June 1\, 2021- Friday\, August 6\, 2021.\n\nThe application is now open: http://myumi.ch/2D9xB\nApplication deadline is February 12th 2021\n\nResearch projects are available in ALL fields including:\n\nSocial Sciences\nHumanities\nEngineering\nHealth Sciences \nPhysical Sciences\nNatural Sciences \nEnvironmental Sciences
UID:79753-20484034@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79753
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Fellowship,first-generation,Free,Networking,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Research,Summer Jobs,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20201229T093253
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T113000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Fake News\, Deep Fakes\, Info-whelmed? An Inside Look at Savvy Reading
DESCRIPTION:If you love reading and are good at it\, this study group will show you why. But even the best readers are a bit infowhelmed now\, given the volume of current material\, and the urgent need to read critically and evaluate thoroughly. \n\nThis study group will explore the psycholinguistic features of savvy reading\, examine research studies on why reading is good for you\, and consider how reading can impact your life. Finally\, we will review literacy autobiographies of others and perhaps draft our own. \n\nStudy group leader Alice Horning is retired from Oakland University where she taught writing and linguistics for 30+ years.  \n\nThis study group will meet Mondays from January 18 through February 8.  Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone.  A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.
UID:79938-20517524@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79938
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Fake News,lifelong learning,Media,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210208T144355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop (Monthly)
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) is now offering a free\, virtual Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop. Participants will receive a link to access the virtual workshop after registration. It is scheduled for 12 p.m. (noon\, EST)\, the third Monday of each month. \n\n*The program is an approved alternative to the SMILE Program by the Washtenaw County Friend of the Court.*\n\nParenting Through Separation and Divorce virtual workshops offer practical\, actionable advice for couples going through a temporary or permanent split. UCCF staff create a caring and collaborative environment for attendees in order to help parents understand their children’s needs during what can be a tumultuous time of change and uncertainty.\n\nThis workshop offers suggestions for creating the most beneficial post-divorce parenting relationships. While it is free\, workshop participants must register via the link. \n\n*Workshop Details*\n**When:** 12 - 1 p.m. (NOON) Monday\, Feb. 15\, March 15\, April 19\, or May 17\, 2021\n**Where:** Online via Zoom (register for the link).\n**Cost:** Free\, but registration is required.\n**How to Register:** Click the \"Ticket\" link to go to the Eventbrite registration. Or see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parenting-through-separation-and-divorce-virtual-workshop-spring-2021-registration-126094689611
UID:78354-20783442@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/78354
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,parenting,psychology,Rackham,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210105T162706
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote
DESCRIPTION:Bodies represent the sites of socially constructed differences and power relations. As such\, the personal is political\, and bodies are subject to political interpretations. Body politics based on racial (and/or ethnic) ascriptions (along with other intersecting elements such as sex\, gender\, sexuality\, age\, social class\, ability\, etc.) have adversely affected the overall health and wellness of bodies of Color in general\, and Black bodies in particular - impacting their abilities\, opportunities\, access (inclusion/exclusion)\, care/treatment\, and the overall nature of their lived experiences. Consequently\, racialed body politics have contributed to an array of health disparities being more pronounced in communities of Color. However\, movement offers a variety of health benefits and is therefore\, a source of empowerment for racially politicized bodies.\n\nThis event will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Monique Butler\, U-M Kinesiology alumna and Chief Medical Officer for HCA Healthcare North Florida Division. She will address the theme \"Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment.\"\n\nThis event is sponsored by the U-M Health Sciences units and hosted by the School of Kinesiology.
UID:79757-20484063@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79757
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,Kinesiology,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Multicultural,Natural Sciences,Nursing,Pharmacy,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Public Health,Science,seminar,Social Justice,symposium,Talk
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210126T115221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T210000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Winter Semester Warm-Up!
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to gear up for the new semester? Are you hoping to meet other students\, learn about campus resources\, and develop skills for you to thrive in college?\n\nJoin First Year Experience (FYE) and for a series of events featuring amazing students and other campus offices! These events are open to ALL students\, and you can register for multiple sessions. Please note that all times listed are in EST. \n\nRegistration is required to attend some events\, and you can see the full list of events and register here: https://myumi.ch/3q2YG\n\nSome events are the following:\n- Group-X Free Week and Panel with Rec Sports\n- Social Connectivity and Community Series with MESA\n- Simple Tips to Upgrade Your Resume with the University Career Center\n- Storytelling\, Social Change\, and You! with the Ginsberg Center\n- Time Management\, Money Management\, and Prioritize Wellness with FYE
UID:80598-20761714@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80598
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academics,Career,career center,Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,dialogue,exercise class,First Year Experience,first year students,first-generation,fitness,Free,Ginsberg Center,Health & Wellness,Professional Development,rec sports,resume,Social,Social Justice,Storytelling,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201210T124115
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T143000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MLK Day at the UMDC
DESCRIPTION:Divine is the Shepherd\n\nIn a world where uncertainty reigns\, it can be a challenge to see a bright future for our young people. Economic turmoil\, climate change\, civil unrest\, and worldwide pandemics all combine to paint a scary future. These challenges are particularly acute in the City of Detroit. It is in these times we need people willing to step up to show young people the path to glory. The people that teach and train young people to move past their current situation and to see a world beyond their circumstance are more in need than ever. It has been said that working with young people can be a calling. Join us as we meet with some that have answered the call to discuss the challenges and triumphs of being a youth leader in Detroit.
UID:79637-20436384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79637
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:detroit center,mlk day,mlk symposium
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210110T164741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MLK Jr. Day Project & Initiatives Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Society of Women Engineers hosts the annual MLK Jr. Day Symposium where Engineering Organizations discuss their ongoing DEI initiatives. Lightning talk presentations will be followed by a discussion period to plan your own DEI efforts.
UID:80575-20753867@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80575
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Inclusion,Multicultural,Social Justice,Student Org
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210107T105819
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T142000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation
DESCRIPTION:Public monuments\, public spaces\, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery\, AL\, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about  the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently\, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in summer of 2020.  In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu\, former Mayor of New Orleans\; Earl Lewis\, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions\; and Kristin Hass\, Associate Professor of American Culture\, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies\, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen\, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.
UID:80435-20721730@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80435
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Democracy And Debate Theme Semester,domestic policy,ford school of public policy,Lecture,mlk symposium,Politics,Public Policy
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210118T181544
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T142000
SUMMARY:Other:Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation
DESCRIPTION:ouTube.\n \nPublic monuments\, public spaces\, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery\, AL\, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently\, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr\, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu\, former Mayor of New Orleans\; Earl Lewis\, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions\; and Kristin Hass\, Associate Professor of American Culture\, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies\, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen\, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.\n \nFrom the speakers' bios:\n \nKristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books\, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall\, a study of militarism\, race\, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial\, an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies of the Vietnam War. She is at work on her next book\, Blunt Instruments: A short field guide to a long history of everyday racist infrastructure in the United States. She lectures\, teaches\, and writes about nationalism\, memory\, publics\, memorialization\, militarization\, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums\, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life\, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.\n \nMitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). When he took office\, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of the BP Oil Spill.  Under Landrieu's leadership\, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.\n \nIn 2015\, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing\, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans\, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his New York Times best-selling book\, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History\, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism\, and tackles the broader history of slavery\, race relations\, and institutional inequalities that still plague America.\n \nHe recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund\, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race\, equity\, economic opportunity and violence. Prior to serving as Mayor\, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.\n \nNoted social historian\, award-winning author\, and educational leader\, Earl Lewis\, is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. Also the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History\, Afroamerican and African Studies\, and public policy\, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18)\, one of the premier philanthropies supporting the arts\, humanities\, and higher education. At Michigan\, Lewis and colleagues in the center are addressing four core areas of social concern: diversity and race\, slavery and its aftermath\, water and security\, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. Prior to returning to Michigan and before leading the Mellon Foundation\, he served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Lewis was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor)\, he served Michigan as Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004).\n \nAs a scholar and leader in higher education and philanthropy\, he has examined and addressed critical questions for our society including the role of race in American history\, diversity\, equity and inclusion\, graduate education\, humanities scholarship\, and universities and their larger communities. A frequent lecturer\, he has authored or edited nine books\, scores of essays\, articles and comments\, and along with Robin D.G. Kelley served as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans. He currently partners with Nancy Cantor in editing the Our Compelling Interests book series. That effort\, published in partnership with Princeton University Press\, investigates how diversity pairs with democracy to enhance the likelihood of shared prosperity. A member of numerous boards of directors or trustees\, he was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity\, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents at Concordia College-Moorhead\, vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service\, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.\n \nChristina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and co-director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations\, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation\, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus\, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs\, including most recently Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\, at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art\, with honors\, from the University of Chicago\, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.  \n\nThis event is a collaboration of UMMA\, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, and the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester.
UID:80466-20724373@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80466
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Books,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Education,Faculty,Graduate,History,Humanities,Inclusion,Museum,Politics,Public Policy,Rackham,Social,Social Justice,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Webinar / Virtual Event 
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DTSTAMP:20201229T095149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Plays of Margaret Cavendish
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Cavendish was a seventeenth-century woman who wrote witty\, original\, and complex plays that were never performed during her lifetime. Together\, we will explore four of her plays\, read the play out loud\, and discuss it in class. Active participation will be encouraged\, but if you are more of a listener\, then you can still join in on the discussion at the end without taking on an “acting” role. The preferred print edition is \"The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays\"\, edited by Anne Shaver. \n\nInstructor Margo Kolenda- Mason is finishing her PhD in English\, studying medieval and early modern literature.\n\nThe study group will meet Mondays from January 18 through February 22.  Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone.  A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.
UID:79950-20517557@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:lifelong learning,literature,plays,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201229T095032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T143000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:What is Politics?
DESCRIPTION:In everyday conversations we frequently hear such comments as “That is just politics\,” and “Two things I do not discuss are religion and politics.” Political scientists\, philosophers and historians have attempted to define politics from many different viewpoints. In addition\, many types of politics\, such as electoral politics\, office politics\, and partisan politics\, are often analyzed. \n\nThe study group will aim to engage participants in defining politics\, discussing public attitudes toward politics\, and assessing why politics is such an important part of the human condition. \n\nStudy group leader Craig Ramsay taught political science at the college level for almost forty years.\n\nThis study group will meet Mondays for six weeks beginning on January 18. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.
UID:79865-20509633@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Politics,Public Policy,Retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20201215T140221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T153000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Linguistics MLK Colloquium: Uneven success: racial bias in automatic speech recognition
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Wassink is Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory and an associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She will give a talk titled \"Uneven success: racial bias in automatic speech recognition.\" \n\nThe event will take place on Zoom and is open to the public. A reception will follow (see separate link).\n\nABSTRACT\nRacial bias in automatic speech recognition is an emerging area of concern in fields associated with human-computer interaction.  Research to date suggests that sociolinguistic variation\, namely systematic sources of sociophonetic variation\, has yet to be extensively exploited in Acoustic Model architectures.  This talk reports a study that evaluates the performance of one ASR system for a multi-ethnic sample of speakers from the American Pacific Northwest (including Native American\, African American\, European American and ChicanX speakers).  Using a sociophonetic approach to characterizing vocalic and consonantal variation\, I ask which dialect features appear to be most challenging for our ASR system.  We also ask which error types are particular to the four ethnic dialects sampled.  Recordings of both conversational and read speech were coded for a common set of 18 sociophonetic variables with distinct phonetic profiles.  Automatic transcription was achieved using CLOx\, a custom-built ASR system created in the University of Washington Sociolinguistics Laboratory.  Normalized error frequency rates (Nf) are compared across ethnic group samples to evaluate CLOx performance.  Nf error rates demonstrate clear differential performance in the ASR system\, pointing to racial bias in system output.  Specific predictions are made regarding approaches that might be taken to leverage sociophonetic knowledge to improve sociolect-recognition accuracy in ASR systems.
UID:80032-20548976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Language,Linguistics
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20211209T160155
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
SUMMARY:Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions\, get help working through a problem\, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!\n\nNot sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.\n\n*Digital Scholarship*\nOur digital scholarship team specializes in humanities\, social sciences\, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:\n* Conceptualizing\, planning\, and finding resources for a digital project\n* How to version\, archive\, and preserve a project\n* Sustainability\, preservation\, accessibility\, privacy\, consent\, or grant requirements\nNew to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project\, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage\, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.\n\n*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*\n\nOur GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs\, including the following:\n* Making maps for use in a class\, grant proposal\, or publication\n* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data\n* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data\n* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map\n* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story\n* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline\n* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform\, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online\, or other geospatial software\n* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application\n\n*High Performance Computing (HPC)*\n\nOur HPC team can help with:\n* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster\n* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster\, freeing up your machines for other tasks\n* Compiling\, installing\, or configuring a wide range of computational software\n* Setting up automated workflows to save time\n* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing\n* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing\, more memory or system resources for your code\nWe regularly support Python\, R\, MATLAB\, C/C++\, Java\, Julia\, Go\, and many other applications.\n\n*Research Support Programming*\n\nOur computer programming team can help with any of the following:\n\n* Debugging\, repair\, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code\n* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project\n* Design and development of custom software to support your research\n* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.\n* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals\nWe're experienced in MATLAB\, Python\, R\, LabVIEW\, JavaScript\, MedPC\, iOS development\, and more.\n\nWho can join the office hours?\nLSA Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming\n\nWhen and where is it?\nOur virtual office hours use Zoom:\nMondays\, 2:00–3:00 P.M.\nTuesdays\, 10:00–11:00 A.M.\nThursdays\, 3:00–4:00 P.M.
UID:77718-20270688@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77718
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities,Digital Projects,Digital Scholarship,Faculty,Gis,Graduate Students,Humanities,Lsa,Office Hours,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Qualitative Social Sciences,research,Science,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20201119T172333
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Race\, Protest\, and Politics: Where Do We Go From Here?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mary Frances Berry believes that each generation has the responsibility to make a dent in the wall of injustice. She speaks boldly for those who can’t speak for themselves and motivates all of us to take action. Her clarion call challenges everyone to stand up\, stand tall and to never give up the fight.\n\nFor more than four decades\, Berry has been one of the most visible and respected activists in the cause of civil rights\, gender equality and social justice. Serving as Chairperson of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission\, she led the charge for equal rights and liberties for all Americans over the course of four Presidential administrations. A trailblazer for women and African Americans alike\, she also became the first woman of any race to head a major research university as Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she teaches the history of American law and the history of law and social policy. Berry made history as one of the founders of the monumental Free South Africa Movement (FSAM).\n\nThis event is part of the U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.
UID:79504-20343474@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79504
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210106T141202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:ISR Presents:\n\nYouth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond\nJanuary 18\, 2021\n2-3pm EST\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/93313003054\n\nAmariyanna \"Mari\" Copeny\, also known as Little Miss Flint\, is a youth activist from Flint\, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about Flint's ongoing water crisis and fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country.  Mari is currently 13 years old.  At the age of 8 she wrote a letter to President Barack Obama challenging him to visit Flint to see the crisis firsthand.  The letter was published in the Los Angeles Times and confronted the entire country with the reality faced by victims of state negligence.  \n\nhttps://www.maricopeny.com/\n\nEvent Contact Info\nAnna Massey\n7347639989\nabeattie@umich.edu\nhttp://isr.umich.edu
UID:79927-20515559@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Community Engagement,Detroit,Discussion,Diversity,Flint,Free,Human Rights,Humanities,Leadership,Livestream,mlk day,mlk symposium,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,symposium
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20201216T125123
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T163000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Birding 101
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Van Dyke\, a birder and OLLI member\, introduces us to her world of birding and the added joy of exercise\, outdoor beauty and identifying birds.  \n\nKelly Vore\, owner of Downtown Home and Garden\, will share her bird experience with feeding and watering tips as well as discuss the challenges of co- existing with squirrels and other critters and managing that never- ending quandary.\n\nRebecca Van Dyke is a retired UM physician who has lived in Ann Arbor for 30 years.  As the eldest child of a college biology professor (who knew his ornithology)\, she knew little aside from some of the common birds.  When she retired six years ago\, she started to travel and realized that it was fun and challenging to look for and identify birds. \n\nShe has traveled in the US and abroad\, often with knowledgeable guides.  This past year she has explored many of the wonderful parks and nature preserves in the area\, combining exercise (walking)\, viewing beautiful nature and finding and identifying birds.  Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone.  A link to access the event will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.  Once you register\, you will receive details about purchasing and pick up before the event.\n\nDowntown Home and Garden has been providing quality birdseed and feeders for Ann Arbor and our surrounding area for decades.  It was the first to bring thistle feed to Michigan and it continues to receive weekly deliveries of seed from L & D Finkbeiner Farm\, from Saline. Its drive-thru barn (originally built for horse and buggy in 1905) easily accommodates today’s vehicles for swift drive thru and load and go. Quick\, convenient and out of the elements!\n\nA link to access the event will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.  Once you register\, you will receive details about purchasing and pick up before the event.
UID:80057-20549002@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80057
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biology,Fitness,lifelong learning,Outdoors,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210118T141047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T160000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:MLK Day Circle of Unity
DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Community Scholars Program will celebrate MLK and his legacy with the community at our 15th Annual Circle of Unity. Join hundreds of University and community participants via Zoom for this virtual event celebrating the life of Dr. King and his legacy of racial justice\, nonviolence\, and unity. All are welcome: students\, staff\, faculty\, families\, and children\, as the audience is encouraged to participate as we honor Martin Luther King Jr. through song\, dance\, and spoken word. We will be joined by local musician favorites\, Joe Reilly and Julie Beutel\, in addition to performances by student musicians and spoken word artists. The event will also be streamed live to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/umichmcsp/
UID:80484-20728302@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80484
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,African American,Diversity,Inclusion,Multicultural,Music,Native American,Poetry,Social Justice,Storytelling
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210202T123041
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T160000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:NTG Virtual Open House - Charleston\, SC
DESCRIPTION:Nolan Transportation Group is so excited to be hosting our Fall Virtual Open House on January 18th\, 2021. Our office may be closed to visitors\; however\, we wanted to give you a glimpse of our culture and what our day to day looks like virtually. If you are interested in attending this event\, please RSVP for our session through the event link and we will be in touch with more details via email.\n\nThank you\, and we can't wait to meet you virtually!\n\n** Currently Hiring - Apply Today! **
UID:80510-20732244@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80510
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
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DTSTAMP:20210111T124945
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of Julius S. Scott's seminal book\, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution. Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History\, the work presents a remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era. The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World.\n\nFeaturing remarks by Julius S. Scott (University of Michigan)\, Laurent Dubois (Duke University)\, Rebecca J. Scott (University of Michigan)\, and Stephen Ward (University of Michigan). Chaired by Matthew J. Countryman (University of Michigan).\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nPresented by the Department of History\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)\, and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.\n\nSpeakers\n\nJulius S. Scott\nLecturer\, Afroamerican and African Studies\, University of Michigan\n\nProfessor Scott is author of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (2018). Based on his influential but previously unpublished 1986 Duke University doctoral dissertation\, The Common Wind has earned numerous accolades\, including the MAAH Stone Book Award and the Special Achievement Award from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery\, Resistance\, and Abolition. \n\nLaurent Dubois\nMarcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History\, Duke University\n\nProfessor Dubois specializes in the history and culture of the Atlantic world\, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. Recent books include Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (2016). In 2009 he edited\, with Julius S. Scott\, Origins of the Black Atlantic. Professor Dubois is faculty director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University.\n\nRebecca J. Scott\nCharles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law\, University of Michigan\n\nProfessor Scott's research centers on the intersection of law and slavery\, both in the United States and the Caribbean. Her books include Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (2008) and Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race\, Labor\, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (with Frederick Cooper and Thomas C. Holt\; 2014). Professor Scott is the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.\n\nStephen Ward\nAssociate Professor\, Afroamerican & African Studies and the Residential College\, University of Michigan\n\nProfessor Ward's teaching and writing focus on African American political thought and social movements\, particularly the Black Power movement\, and the evolution of cities since World War II\, with an emphasis on grassroots activism and community-based approaches to urban redevelopment. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016). Professor Ward is faculty director of the U-M Semester in Detroit Program.\n\nMatthew J. Countryman (chair)\nAssociate Professor of History\, American Culture\, University of Michigan\n\nProfessor Countryman's work centers on twentieth-century African American social movements. He is the author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2007). Professor Countryman is chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:79654-20438372@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79654
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,Central America,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,Latin America,Mlk,Multicultural
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20201123T094855
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T170000
SUMMARY:Performance:KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION TO ACCELERATE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
DESCRIPTION:To combat COVID-19\, clinicians and scientists all need to digest the vast amount of relevant biomedical knowledge in literature to understand the disease mechanism and the related biological functions. The first challenge is quantity. For example\, nearly 2.7K new papers are published at PubMed per day. This knowledge bottleneck causes significant delay in the development of vaccines and drugs for COVID-19.  The second challenge is quality due to the rise and rapid\, extensive publications of preprint manuscripts without pre-publication peer review. Many research results about coronavirus from different research labs and sources are redundant\, complementary or event conflicting with each other.\n\nLet’s consider drug repurposing as a case study. Besides the long process of clinical trial and biomedical experiments\, another major cause for the long process is the complexity of the problem involved and the difficulty in drug discovery in general. The current clinical trials for drug re-purposing mainly rely on symptoms by considering drugs that can treat diseases with similar symptoms. However\, there are too many drug candidates and too much misinformation published from multiple sources. In addition to a ranked list of drugs\, clinicians and scientists also aim to gain new insights into the underlying molecular cellular mechanisms on Covid-19\, and which pre-existing conditions may affect the mortality and severity of this disease.\n\nTo tackle these two challenges\, we have developed a novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework\, COVID-KG\, to accelerate scientific discovery and build a bridge between clinicians and biology scientists. COVID-KG starts by reading existing papers to build multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs)\, in which nodes are entities/concepts and edges represent relations involving these entities\, extracted from both text and images. Given the KGs enriched with path ranking and evidence mining\, COVID-KG answers natural language questions effectively. Using drug repurposing as a case study\, for 11 typical questions that human experts aim to explore\, we integrate our techniques to generate a comprehensive report for each candidate drug. Preliminary assessment by expert clinicians and medical school students show our generated reports are informative and sound. I will also talk about our ongoing work to extend this framework to other domains including molecular synthesis and agriculture.\n\nBio:\n\nHeng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department\, and an affiliated faculty member at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University\, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing\, especially on Multimedia Multilingual Information Extraction\, Knowledge Base Population and Knowledge-driven Generation. She was selected as “Young Scientist” and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include “AI’s 10 to Watch” Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013\, NSF CAREER award in 2009\, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014\, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018\, and ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award. She was invited by the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030. She is the lead of many multi-institution projects and tasks\, including the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction\, DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of many conferences including NAACL-HLT2018. She is elected as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) secretary 2020-2021. Her research has been widely supported by the U.S. government agencies (DARPA\, ARL\, IARPA\, NSF\, AFRL\, DHS) and industry (Amazon\, Google\, Bosch\, IBM\, Disney).
UID:79534-20373071@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79534
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bioinformatics,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Biostatistics,computing,data,Data Curation,Data Science,department of computational medicine,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Health Data,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Medicine,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Prospective Graduate Students,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Wise
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210113T151218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T190000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Free Screening of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
DESCRIPTION:On January 18th at 5:30 EST\, M-Flicks will be hosting an event with Lionsgate to premiere an episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Both Kelli Fannon and Sarah Manha\, music consultants on numerous Lionsgate and Starz shows\, from The Sound Club will be zooming in to participate in a panel after the event. The zoom link will be released shortly\, so make sure to save the date.\n\"After an unusual event\, whip-smart computer coder Zoey Clarke magically begins to hear people's innermost wants and desires through popular songs. Suddenly\, strangers\, friends\, co-workers and family are unknowingly singing their feelings -- just to her. At first\, Zoey questions her own sanity\, but after some guidance from Mo\, her musically attuned neighbor\, and making a breakthrough with her ailing father\, Zoey soon realizes this unwanted curse may just be an amazing and wonderful gift --as she now connects with the world like never before.\"
UID:80725-20777540@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80725
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Music
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20201208T142048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210118T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Community Creative Arts Workshop
DESCRIPTION:December 2020 through May 2021
UID:79782-20493894@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/79782
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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END:VCALENDAR