Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey VS Concordia University
2021-11-11 21:30 - 2021-11-12 00:30 (America/Detroit) | Yost Ice Arena
University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey VS Concordia University

Livestream / Virtual:PCK Reclaiming the City Film Screening | Cheonggyecheon Medley
2021-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
This event is in coordination with our PCK conference, Reclaiming the City. Full conference details available here: https://myumi.ch/xm1XG

We welcome the public to the opportunity to view Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park's film as featured in the conference's Artist Talk, CHEONGGYECHEON MEDLEY! The film screening will be presented through a virtual format.

2010 | 80 Minutes | Kelvin Kyung Kun Park | Documentary/History. NR.
Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during World War II, his grandfather ended up in Cheonggyecheon of Seoul where rundown small scale metal workshops still exist amidst the gentrifying city. Drawing clues from fragments of dreams and myths relating to the metal, the film reveals the secret alchemy of third world modernity in Cheonggyecheon where these obsolete hand laborers still survive.

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Directions:
Attendees must first register for a free Michigan Theater Customer Account at any time through the Michigan Theater website. During this initial registration, you will not be connected to any particular film. We recommend you register for your account early for your own convenience.

You may register for your free customer account here: https://bit.ly/kcn-acct

During the film’s screening dates November 7-14, attendees should log-in to their free customer account, visit the film's webpage on the Michigan Theater website and click “Rent here” for the film. If you are registered with a customer account and rented the film during its scheduled screening dates, you will receive an email confirmation with a free link to view the film.

Visit the theater's Cheonggyecheon Medley webpage between Nov 7-14 to rent the film: https://michtheater.org/virtual/cheonggyecheon-medley

The video link will only be available for 72 hours from the time you press play. You may watch as much or little as you like during that time. After these 72 hours, even if not yet finished, the link will become inactive. You may re-access your rental link during the rental period by clicking on the “Click here to stream” button in your confirmation e-mail or through your orders in your customer account.

We hope you enjoy the film from home!

The event is made possible through generous funding provided by the Korea Foundation. The event is free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Korea Foundation.

Other:WSN Leader Application
2021-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Wolverine Support Network is currently accepting applications to become a peer support group leader for the Winter 2022 semester! Leading a WSN group is a great way to hone skills in communication, group management, and accountability while creating a space on campus for honest conversations about mental health.

Leaders facilitate a weekly group that is scheduled around their availability, attend weekly leader training meetings from 6:00-7:15 PM ET on Mondays, attend community-building events, and help with marketing efforts on campus. The overall time commitment is ~3 hours/week, and it is super rewarding. All students interested are encouraged to apply regardless of whether or not they have attended a WSN group. Applications are open to both undergraduate students and graduate students who will be enrolled at U-M in the winter.

The application can be found at bit.ly/W22-Leader-Application or on our website at umichwsn.org/leader-application. If you have any questions regarding the application process or the position itself, please contact the Director of Leader Development, Courtney Jones (courtj@umich.edu).

Class / Instruction:Become a UROP Research Mentor
2021-11-12 07:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.

Livestream / Virtual:Michigan Engineering DEI Summit 2021
2021-11-12 08:30 - 17:30 | Off Campus Location
Join us for an engaging two-week virtual series designed for students, faculty and staff.

Sessions include a keynote presentation from Dean Alec D. Gallimore, panels and presentations from Michigan Engineering leaders, a creative arts presentation, professional development workshops and lightning talks.

Through these sessions our community will reflect on our collective DEI journey and celebrate our past accomplishments, while looking ahead to a future focused on equity-centered engineering.

SUMMIT LINEUP AT A GLANCE

Monday 11/8. 8:30-10:00am
KEYNOTE AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Cultivating equity-centered engineering: A culture shift and practical implementation

Tuesday 11/9. 12:00-1:30pm
Understanding how stereotype threat, imposter syndrome and growth mindset affect student learning

Wednesday 11/10. 12:00-1:00pm
DEI lecture series – Whole health and you

Thursday 11/11. 12:00-1:00pm
Intro to deaf culture and American Sign Language (ASL)

Thursday 11/11. 4:30-6pm | Student session
Bystander intervention workshop: CiU!-ABR

Friday 11/12. 1:00-2:00pm
DEI faculty grant lightning talks

Monday 11/15. 1:00-2:00pm
DEI department leads lightning talks

Tuesday 11/16. 11:30am-1pm | Faculty Session
Bystander intervention workshop: CiU!-ABR

Wednesday 11/17. 11:30-12:30pm. Faculty and staff presentation
Watch party and moderated discussion – The Guild

Wednesday 11/17. 4:30-5:30pm. Student presentation
Watch party and moderated discussion – The Guild

Thursday 11/18. 5:00-6:30pm.
EnginTalks: embodying equity-centered engineering

Exhibition:Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
2021-11-12 09:00 - 16:00 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
In this RC Art Gallery exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

Exhibition:Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966
2021-11-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966 brings to light the collection of house catalogs in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library’s Special Collections. Focusing primarily on the kit house industry of Michigan and the Midwest, the catalogs provide a portal to explore multiple themes, such as, the Michigan house catalog industry, changing architectural styles, the business of selling homes, societal and cultural implications, and domestic technologies. We hope the exhibit is not simply a nostalgic view back, but raises awareness of our domestic surroundings today and compels us to ask questions as we look to the future.

The exhibit is available in the Clark Library (second floor Hatcher) during Hatcher Library hours.

Careers / Jobs:Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program Application Open
2021-11-12 09:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Gain exposure to non-profits, research and Detroit in Summer 2022.

Be 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!

https://myumi.ch/erK95

Priority Deadline: December 3rd (5pm)
Final Application Deadline: January 31st 2022 (5pm)

Info Session offered Wednesdays at Noon weekly
From October 27 - December 8, January 5 - January 12
Register for an info session at: https://myumi.ch/kxprd

Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory:
2021-11-12 09:00 - 10:20 | Off Campus Location
Details to come.

* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

Lecture / Discussion:LingAMod Discussion Group
2021-11-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Off Campus Location
The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

Exhibition:When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine
2021-11-12 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

Workshop / Seminar:Applied Microeconomics Industrial Organization and Labor Economics: Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms
2021-11-12 10:00 - 11:20 | Off Campus Location
Abstract:
In many settings, market designers must contend with the presence of firms who participate in the broader game surrounding a market but do not participate in the portion under the designer’s control. In this paper, we study the empirical relevance of the configuration of on- and off-platform options in the context of a centralized college-major choice system. We quantify significant negative externalities generated by off-platform options and measure the aftermarket frictions that contribute to generating them in practice. Our empirical application uses administrative data from the centralized assignment system for higher education in Chile and leverages a recent policy change that increased the number of on-platform slots by approximately 40%. We first present a policy analysis which shows that expanding the centralized platform leads students to start college sooner and raises the share of students who graduate within six years. We develop an empirical model of college applications, aftermarket waitlists, and matriculation choices. We estimate the model using students’ ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. We use the estimated model to quantify welfare impacts, decompose different mechanisms and to conduct counterfactual exercises. We find that when more programs are available on the centralized platform, welfare increases substantially. These externalities are driven by students who receive and decline on-platform offers, and are amplified by substantial frictions in waitlists. Our results indicate that expanding the scope of a higher education platform can have real impacts on welfare and human capital. Importantly, the effects are larger for students from lower SES backgrounds, suggesting the design of platforms can have effects on both efficiency and equity.
* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: Writing Across Worlds
2021-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location - https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters
Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Andrea Lee's work, like her life, has always been shaped by themes of otherness, of foreignness, by the ongoing conflict generated by attempts to define insider and outsider. Her craft lecture will address the question: How, in a period of unprecedented overlap and collision between cultures--and the anxiety sparked by this phenomenon--does a writer find the creative equilibrium to examine this eternal theme with insight and respect?

Andrea Lee is a American writer whose books often deal with themes of expatriate life, clashing cultures, and nuances of identity, particularly among Black Americans. She is most recently the author of *Red Island House*, a novel set in the tropical African island nation of Madagascar. She is also the author of the story collection *Interesting Women*, the novels *Lost Hearts in Italy* and *Sarah Phillips*, and the National Book Award–nominated memoir *Russian Journal*. A former staff writer for *The New Yorker*, she has written for *The New York Times Magazine*, *Vogue*, *W*, and *The New York Times Book Review*. She grew up in Philadelphia, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University, and subsequently moved to Europe, where she presently lives with her family in Turin, Italy.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-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.

Exhibition:Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan
2021-11-12 10:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location - MSU Broad Art Museum
This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Chun Wang, Associate Professor of Measurement and Statistics, College of Education, University of Washington
2021-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
Measurement invariance (MI) is a statistical property of measurement which implies that the same construct is measured across different groups, or over time. In high-stakes assessments that measure students’ understanding and mastery of disciplinary concepts, measurement invariance is also regarded as an important facet of test fairness. Statistical methods for evaluating measurement invariance originate from Mantel-Haenszel chi-square statistics and flourish within the item response theory (IRT) framework. In this talk, I will introduce a latent regression with regularization method as an emerging approach for evaluating MI. This new method is particularly tuned for two scenarios: (1) a test measures multiple correlated domains, and (2) a digital-first adaptive assessment with automatic item generation. It will be shown that the new method can simultaneously detect measurement non-invariance in multiple items caused by multiple factors in both scenarios.

Chun Wang is an Associate Professor of measurement and statistics in the College of Education at the University of Washington (UW). She is also an affiliated faculty of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at UW. Her research focuses on psychometric models and methods around educational and psychological measurement, including multidimensional and multilevel item response theory models and applications, cognitive diagnostic modeling and computerized adaptive testing. She is the Associate Editor of the Applied Psychological Measurement, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.

https://stat.uw.edu/about-us/people/chun-wang

Conference / Symposium:Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community
2021-11-12 10:00 - 17:30 | Michigan League - Michigan Room
Please save the date for a one-day symposium on Friday, November 12, 2021, exploring how various modes of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest.

10:00 am – 5:30 pm (hybrid)
Join us in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Michigan Room of the Michigan League
or virtually through Zoom
For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program (AMAS), the Department of Middle East Studies (MES), and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. Co-organized by Khaled Mattawa and Graham Liddell, the symposium features three panels that reflect on different forms of translation in Arab American communities in the Midwest. The event culminates a reading by Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail.

The symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, with the option to attend by remote access.

This event is free and open to the public. For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

PANEL 1: Translation for Community Needs

This discussion will focus on the translation and interpretation services that are crucial for maintaining wellness and facilitating civic engagement and personal development among Limited English Proficiency (LEP) communities in Michigan, particularly Arab Americans. Moderated by Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (professor at UM-Dearborn), the panel includes Karen Phillippi (director of the Office of Global Michigan), Anisa Sahoubah (director of ACCESS’s Youth and Education department), and Bilal Hammoud (chair of the Language Access Task Force for the State of Michigan).

PANEL 2: Arab American Media

This panel will center on the ways that Midwest Arab-American communities past and present have represented themselves in media. Moderated by Graham Liddell (Ph.D. candidate, U Michigan), the panel includes Ali Harb (reporter for Al Jazeera English), Hany Bawardi (professor at UM-Dearborn), William Youmans (professor at the George Washington University), and Lana Barkawi (Executive and Artistic Director of Mizna).

PANEL 3: Living in Translation

Our final panel will feature a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction), the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet, translator, and professor at U Michigan), Fady Joudah (poet, physician, and translator), and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University).

Reading by Dunya Mikhail
The symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail.

For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

Exhibition:UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility at the University of Michigan
2021-11-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Haven Hall - G648
This exhibit focuses on the concept of Ujima (collective work and responsibility in Swahili) as it pertains to activism on the campus of the University of Michigan over the years. By seeing how collective actions can lead to powerful movements, the exhibit presents a chronological display demonstrating the importance of calling for change.
The majority of photos and articles originate from campus resources, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Michigan Daily's archives and other original materials.
UJIMA is dedicated to the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan who envisioned and exemplified the principle of Ujima to bring about a more equitable and inclusive university through their thoughts and actions.
There is also a virtual audio/visual tour of the exhibit which can be accessed at:myumi.ch/7ZQn0

Livestream / Virtual:MORE: Fall 2021 FACULTY Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2021-11-12 10:30 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. In Part I of the workshop, mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and to consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. In Part II, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.
Part I, Faculty Only and Student Only Sessions: 10:30 to 12:00 p.m.
Part II, Faculty and Student Joint Session, 12:10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Part III, Optional Additional One-on-One Time, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/wlBzk.
Registration is required of both the faculty and student. Separate registration for students is available at https://myumi.ch/jxMnP.
We 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, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Livestream / Virtual:MORE: Fall 2021 STUDENT Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2021-11-12 10:30 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. In Part I of the workshop, mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and to consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. In Part II, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.
Part I, Faculty Only and Student Only Sessions: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Part II, Faculty and Student Joint Session, 12:10 to 1:00 p.m.
Part III, Optional Additional One-on-One Time, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jxMnP.
Registration is required of both the faculty and student. Separate registration for faculty is available at https://myumi.ch/wlBzk.
We 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, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Exhibition:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative
2021-11-12 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

Lecture / Discussion:Lecture & Watch Party: Tereza Ruller, The Rodina
2021-11-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Art and Architecture Building - Commons
You're invited to attend an interactive lecture in the Art & Architecture Building Commons (or tune in virtually) on Friday, November 12, featuring designer, performer, and educator Tereza Ruller from The Rodina. Lunch will be provided for watch party attendees that register - and please plan to bring your laptop.

How to make freedom and playfulness – traditionally granted to artists – accessible to a wider audience? And, how to design situations or objects that stimulate activity and participation, that could lead to a transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designer Tereza Ruller (studio The Rodina) tries to answer these questions. She identifies performative components in graphic design processes and results. With examples of her recent projects, Ruller proposes the term “performative design” for a practice that incorporates graphic design, playfulness, bodies, action, and eventness (understanding this as a unique time and space). Performance becomes an alternative mode of value production and a space for critique and imagination.

The Rodina (Tereza and Vit Ruller) is a post-critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play and subversion. The Rodina invents ways in which experience, knowledge and relations are produced and preserved. In their work, Tereza and Vit often explore the spatial and interactive possibilities of virtual environments as a space for new thoughts and aesthetics that come forward from between culture and technology. The studio works mostly for the cultural clients such as Harvard GSD (USA), Sonic Acts Foundation (NL), and Hyundai Card Library Seoul (KR).

This event is hosted in partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Please register here: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/the_rodina

Meeting:Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Fridays)
2021-11-12 11:00 - 13:00 | East Quadrangle - 1730
Come by the Semester in Detroit office on Fridays to talk to SiD alum Natalie Suh. Natalie participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester in 2019. Stop by the office to talk to Natalie about her experience in SiD, her internship at 482Forward, and any other questions you have!

Livestream / Virtual:Brown Bag: Adapting to Evolving Campus-Community Partnerships
2021-11-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
No class goes exactly as planned, and when we introduce community partners into the mix we multiply the variables outside of our control, plus the ongoing pandemic adds extra layers of uncertainty. How can we balance responding to shifting community partner or university circumstances with offering structure to support student learning? How can we help students view the need to adapt as a positive part of their community-engaged learning?

Come join us for an informal discussion to share your tips and tricks and learn how others respond to shifts in their partnerships!

While this session is designed for community-engaged faculty/staff/GSIs who are supporting community-engaged projects, anyone is welcome!

Presentation:Expedition Reef
2021-11-12 11:30 - 12:15 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium and Dome Theatre
Learn the secrets of the “rainforests of the sea” as you embark on an oceanic safari of the world’s most vibrant—and endangered—marine ecosystems. Expedition Reef immerses you in an undersea adventure. Along the way, discover how corals grow, feed, reproduce, and support over 25% of all marine life on Earth.

Careers / Jobs:Explore Deloitte Michigan | Full-Time Virtual Career Fair
2021-11-12 11:30 - 14:00
Join us at this virtual career fair to chat with professionalsin audit, tax, and advisory to learn more about those practices and thefull-time opportunities that exist within them. You are welcome to join and leave the fair at any time. Each conversation with a Deloitte professional with last 7-10 minutes. Can't wait to see you there!

Be sure to register here: https://app.brazenconnect.com/events/g6O22

Exhibition:Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition
2021-11-12 12:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location - MSU Broad Art Lab
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

Workshop / Seminar:Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
The three-dimensional genome organization plays an essential role in all DNA-templated processes, including gene transcription, gene regulation, DNA replication, etc. Coarse-grained models parameterized to reproduce experimental data via the maximum entropy optimization algorithm serve as effective means to study genome organization at various length scales. They have provided insight into the principles of whole-genome organization and enabled de novo predictions of chromosome structures from epigenetic modifications. In addition, they provided insight into the critical role of the chromatin network in stabilizing multiple liquid droplets. Applications of these models at a near-atomic resolution further revealed physicochemical interactions that drive the phase separation of disordered proteins and dictate chromatin stability in situ.

Workshop / Seminar:LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Ryan Chen, Orlando Magic
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Off Campus Location
Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

This is event series is open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
After four seasons as a data scientist in the Orlando Magic front office, Ryan Chen is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. With the Magic, his main role was to craft novel data sets and predictive models to guide decision-making pertaining to the NBA Draft. Ryan also supported pro personnel management with prediction models for NBA game outcomes to inform team strategic positioning and draft pick valuations and supported the coaching staff with data-driven analyses to inform in-game strategy. At Harvard, Ryan hopes to build a diversified skill set to enable future pursuits, whether within or outside of basketball.

Ryan is a 2014 graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering and Music Performance (Euphonium). He earned a Master's degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University in 2017.

Livestream / Virtual:Miniaturizing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Often assumed to be ritual votives or toys for children, miniature ceramic vessels in the Bronze Age Aegean have been afforded little thorough study. Their presence at peak sanctuaries, sacred caves, and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, diverse in form and context, are so pervasive in archaeological investigations of Minoan settlements that they merit further comprehensive study. Considered alongside the abundance of small-scale Minoan material culture, including figurines, seals, miniature wall paintings, and models, miniature pottery appears to be one facet of a larger semiotic ideology – one well-versed in the language and power of the miniature.

This talk investigates the use, significance, and meaning of miniature ceramic vessels in settlements on Minoan Crete. By analyzing 504 miniature pots from thirteen sites in central and east Crete, it explores the wide range of miniature types used in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods and applies contextual analysis to draw out their meanings and identify two distinct categories within the corpus of miniature pots. By investigating the cognitive effects of miniaturization and applying Peircean understandings of iconicity and indexicality to these objects, the use and significance of Bronze Age miniature vessels are further illuminated, in ritual and beyond.

Careers / Jobs:Pro Football Hall of Fame "Before the Snap" ft. Bianca Graves
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is proud to offer a series for learners in high school, college and beyond! “Before the Snap” gives an insight to professional careers in and around the NFL, while giving a live audience the opportunity to interact with an industry expert. On Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 12:00pm ET special guest Bianca Graves will beon hand to speak on her career, what she does in her current position and much more!!

Bianca Graves graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Political Science. One year after graduating, she decided to further her education and passion for sports by attending Georgetown University where she studied Sports Management. She received her Master of Professional Studies in 2018. Before joining the Rams, she worked at Octagon—a sports and entertainment agency—on the BMW account as an Event Trainee for 6 months. She is currently an Account Manager on the Partnership Marketing team and is in her fourth season with the Rams; she started her journey with the organization working in the Ticketing Department.

We will be streaming the program LIVE on the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Facebook page and will take questions from schools and students across the country throughout the program. To participate, all you will need to do is:
- Visit https://www.youtube.com/user/ProFootballHOF at 12:00pm ET on Friday, November 12, 2021 to view the program.
-To ask a question, comment on the post with the following information:
* Name of School (if applicable)
* Location
* Question for Industry Expert

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out! You can contact me at 330-588-3558 or by email at Jacob.Ray@ProFootballHOF.com

Presentation:Public History Without Borders: A Case Study of Working with Johannesburg's Constitution Hill
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | North Quad - 2435
How do public history, government-funded economic development, and social justice intersect? What opportunities and conflicts present themselves when scholars work with communities and partner institutions distant from their own? And what happens when scholars encounter prejudices within their partner institutions that are antithetical to the work they are doing together?

Presented via Zoom webinar - registration required
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YTXfrv8ZTpS8tbEqcsVeIg

(also in-person at North Quad, room 2435)

Livestream / Virtual:Spotlight! Awards Ceremony & Presentations
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Spotlight! 2021 is a competitive presentation of solutions developed by Tauber student teams during their 14-week operations-based Team Projects.

The Spotlight! 2021 Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, November 12, noon - 1 pm ET with the following acknowledgments and awards presented:

Project sponsor longevity awards
Faculty trailblazer award
Alumni Scholarship awards
Spotlight! team project awards (1st, 2nd, 3rd place)

Registrants will receive a link to the live awards ceremony prior to the event, and also access to recordings of Spotlight! presentations to view during the week of November 8.

Drawing extensive attention from industry, Spotlight! highlights innovative operations solutions that provide significant financial savings, as well as improvements in areas such as CO2 emissions, energy consumption, throughput time, and supply chain risk.

Spotlight! offers an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and gain exposure to new ideas in operations.

Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week: VA Healthcare and Benefits Discussion
2021-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location
Come with questions about VA Healthcare and VA Benefits!
Ann Arbor is lucky to have one of the best VA healthcare systems in the country as our next-door neighbor. In fact, many of the healthcare professionals at the Ann Arbor VA also work for U-M! U-M Ann Arbor is one of the only campuses in the country with VA Healthcare and VA Benefits specialists embedded on our campus through our VITAL and VSOC programs. Jon and Brittany will discuss their roles on campus, their roles and knowledge about the VA and answer your questions about this vital resource to our student, staff, faculty and community members who have served.

Conference / Symposium:2nd Annual Virtual Injury Prevention Center Research Symposium
2021-11-12 12:30 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center has organized a unique event for researchers, post-doctoral fellows, and students to disseminate research, facilitate new collaborations, and explore new ideas for injury prevention research. The theme of this symposium is “Using Technology to Advance Injury Prevention Surveillance, Interventions, and Training.”

Lecture / Discussion:Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and their New Geographies of Mestizaje
2021-11-12 12:30 - 14:30 | Off Campus Location
Undisciplined // Global Theories of Critique 2021-22
All meetings are on Zoom, and open to all publics.

The Global Theories of Critique (GTC) workshop this year revolves around the practice of un-disciplining knowledge. Each speaker will open up the session with the body of theory and/or practice they strive to un-discipline and challenge in their work. Followed by a round-table discussion of the speakers’ work that the participants will read beforehand.

In our November meeting, we will be rethinking the concept of indigeneity in the context of the migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the United States since 1994.

Fri, Nov 12, 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

"Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and their New Geographies of Mestizaje"

Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.

Register in advance for this event here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdeugrjoiGNdLSP8YS8lxfbhI53giJsjn. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Abstract:

Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those from Mexico and Mesoamerica traveling as family units. As a consequence, according to the 2020 US Census, the Native American population in the US increased by 86% since 2010. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken indigenous language in the United States, while Mixtec is taught as part of the bilingual education curriculum in New York City. This is challenging how we define indigeneity in the United States, our official categories of recognition. Latin American indigenous people in US cities and towns not only bring into sharp relief different hemispheric modes of defining indigenous identity, they also challenge the ongoing biopolitical function of mestizaje and indigenismo in Latin America. How does the mass migration that we are witnessing of indigenous peoples require a hemispheric rethinking of indigeneity? Of mestizaje? Of who gets to sing the nation-state now, and in what languages?

For this event, we will read the following 2 pieces. They will be sent to participants prior to the event:

1. Saldaña-Portillo, "Where is the Indian in Aztlán?" (forthcoming/unpublished article)

2. Saldaña-Portillo, "Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón" in Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón (Duke UP)

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture and the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan.

Presentation:Sky Tonight
2021-11-12 12:30 - 13:15, 2021-11-12 13:30 - 14:15 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium and Dome Theatre
A live presentation showing what is visible in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. Viewers will discover how to determine the cardinal directions by finding the North Star, current and upcoming constellations, visible planets, and other interesting astronomical phenomenon.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and deep into the ocean from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.
The planetarium is operating at less than 50% capacity to maximize distancing between viewers. As with all University of Michigan buildings, masks and health screenings are required.

Careers / Jobs:CAA (Creative Artists Agency) Virtual Information Session
2021-11-12 13:00 - 14:00
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment andsports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional clientservice, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations.

Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of theworld’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities.

Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles,and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.

Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work
2021-11-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Lorch Hall - 140
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.

Lecture / Discussion:Fall 2021 MEMS Lecture. Revealed Sciences: Religion, Science, and the Occult in Early Modern Morocco
2021-11-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
In this talk, I will argue for the vibrancy of an early modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco and will discuss the relationship between religious thought and these sciences in early modern Morocco in the light of the narratives of decline of post-formative Islamic thought established by nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars. By using close readings of medical, astronomical, and alchemical works and a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the early modern Maghreb, we can consider non-teleological possibilities for understanding early modern Moroccan scholars' persistent engagement with these sciences.

Justin Stearns is associate professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). His book on the social status of the natural sciences in early modern Morocco, Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Early Modern Morocco (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2021, and the first volume of his edition and translation of al-Yusi’s (d. 1102/1691) Discourses appeared with the Library of Arabic Literature in 2020.

Lecture / Discussion:Lab Chats
2021-11-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Natural History - Biodiversity Genomics Lab
Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome.

Stop by and chat with a researcher in the Biodiversity Genomics Lab to learn how and why scientists process DNA samples from plants and animals around the world.

Performance:A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
2021-11-12 13:30 - 14:30, 2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-12 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-11-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-12 20:30 - 21:30 | Museum of Art - Zoom Event / Virtual Event
Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert.

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up.

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

Class / Instruction:AE200 Seminar Series | Space is Open for Business
2021-11-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 FXB Boeing Lecture Hall
Tess Hatch
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners

Entrepreneurs are flocking to the final frontier, where Moore’s Law has unleashed massive, enduring opportunities. This is how humanity will colonize cis-lunar, the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond — through the emergence of a distributed, commercial ecosystem infinitely more powerful than any single company or government.

Bio:
Tess is partner at Bessemer Venture Partners fostering entrepreneurship of frontier technology, specifically the commercialization of space, drones, autonomous vehicles, and the future of agriculture and food technology. She wants to invest in technology and people who believe as strongly as she does that frontier technology will develop solutions for societal problems.

Tess earned a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford. She went on to work for Boeing and then SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating its payloads with the Falcon9 rocket. Tess was recently named Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital.

Tess is passionate about space exploration and imagines a future where we all travel to space. She hopes to one day take a trip herself.

Lecture / Discussion:Organizational Support for Diversity & Inclusion Management Practices
2021-11-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - R0220
Organizations are continuing to direct efforts to recruit women and underrepresented minority members (URM; Black/African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic/Latinx) to increase workforce diversity. Yet, the underrepresentation of women and URM members persists across many industries and organizations, rendering the need to strengthen the body of research that looks to find ways organizations can increase recruitment and selection of minority employees. My colleagues and I address this need by focusing on diversity recruitment within an academic setting, a context where hiring and promoting women and URM members continues to be a challenge. In the first two studies, we utilized and extend homophily theory to explain how and why the demographic composition of the recruitment team can contribute to attracting more women and URM candidates. In the third study, we examined how and why diversity recruitment strategies can have negative effects for URM applicants

Lecture / Discussion:Organizational Support for Diversity & Inclusion Management Practices
2021-11-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - R0220
Organizations are continuing to direct efforts to recruit women and underrepresented minority members (URM; Black/African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic/Latinx) to increase workforce diversity. Yet, the underrepresentation of women and URM members persists across many industries and organizations, rendering the need to strengthen the body of research that looks to find ways organizations can increase recruitment and selection of minority employees. My colleagues and I address this need by focusing on diversity recruitment within an academic setting, a context where hiring and promoting women and URM members continues to be a challenge. In the first two studies, we utilized and extend homophily theory to explain how and why the demographic composition of the recruitment team can contribute to attracting more women and URM candidates. In the third study, we examined how and why diversity recruitment strategies can have negative effects for URM applicants.

Livestream / Virtual:FLAS Info Session
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
-Tuition support and Stipend for the study of Foreign Languages & Area Studies (FLAS)

-Grads, undergrads, and PhD students eligible

-All colleges, schools, and programs at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship provides tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. The U.S. Department of Education (US/ED) funds these awards under the provisions of Title VI of the Higher Education Act. The amount of funding and number of awards are contingent upon annual US/ED program approval, federal regulations, as well as continued congressional funding, all of which may change from year to year.

Info session dates and Zoom links:

Tuesday, October 19th at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96948409890

Thursday, October 28th at 2:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96222006390

Wednesday, November 3rd at 3:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91653226353

Friday, November 12th at 2:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96892473766

Tuesday, November 16th at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97230068076

Thursday, December 2nd at 4:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99585268164

Monday, December 6th at 1:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95605010844

Wednesday, December 15th at 12:00pm: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99964753441

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | https://umich.zoom.us/j/2745640240
*RSVP for this program. Click "Join Event" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/882094
Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about strategy.

Get real-time, personalized support by checking out the virtual Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who has designed this experience to provide you strategies, tools, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships.

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

**If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/882094

Recent Grads: If you are an alumni, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line “Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or to be set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.

Photo credit: Patrick Perkins

Well-being:Intuitive Eating Over the Holidays
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:30
Eating during the holidays can be a source of stress, anxiety, and shame for many. Practicing intuitive eating can help you navigate your way through the difficult feelings, pressure, and expectations around this time of year. This closed 4-week group will focus on practicing the tools of intuitive eating to help participants find more peace and ease with food during the upcoming season of gatherings and celebration.

For any UM student who wants to improve their relationship with food and their body

Zoom: you will get a link before sessions begin

Dates/time: Weekly sessions from 2-3:30 on Fridays, November 12th and 19th, December 3rd- and 10th. (The closed group runs for 4 weeks. and will not meet the Friday after Thanksgiving.)

Coach: Kellie Carbone (Wolverine Wellness)

How to join: Click the "Register Here" link (on the right) and complete the intake/screenings, then choose "WC Intuitive Eating Group." Please note: the scheduling system can only accept your uniqname@umich.edu address.

Lecture / Discussion:Prosody Discussion Group
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

Workshop / Seminar:Water Diplomacy in the Middle East: Israel, Jordan and Palestine
2021-11-12 14:00 - 17:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Fisher 1210 Weill
Two day workshop on Water Diplomacy in the Middle East: Israel, Jordan and Palestine run by Victoria Pebbles.

Popular news coverage of the Middle East rarely touches on issues of water. Perceptions of ubiquitous chaos prevail, yet people who live there must carry on with their daily lives where water is central to meeting basic needs. Where does the water in Israel, Jordan and Palestine come from and how are water resources in this region managed? This workshop will address these questions and explore the concept of “water diplomacy” and its application in this region of the Middle East. They will gain insights into the laws, institutions and other means of governance that impact water resource management and how they are working. Equipped with this information, students will engage in rotational breakouts where they will represent each of the parties (Israel, Jordan and Palestine) and be tasked with identifying mechanisms that could be implemented to enable more sustainable water management in the region.

*Participants are required to attend both sessions. The sign up will close on November 1 at noon.
**Should sign up exceed the capacity, participants will be selected at random via lottery.
Pre workshop readings: will be provided a week before the workshop.Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Performance:Sea Monsters
2021-11-12 14:30 - 15:15 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium and Dome Theatre
Stunning photo-realistic CGA transports audiences back to the Late Cretaceous, when a great inland sea divided North America in two. The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs, giant turtles, enormous fish, fierce sharks, and one of the most dangerous sea monsters of all, the mosasaur. Finishes with an abbreviated star talk.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and deep into the ocean from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.
The planetarium is operating at less than 50% capacity to maximize distancing between viewers. As with all University of Michigan buildings, masks and health screenings are required.

Workshop / Seminar:German Major/Minor Information Session
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00
As you are looking through the course guide for Winter 2022 classes and considering majors/minors, an information session about the requirements for a German Minor/Major will take place on Friday, November 12, 3 p.m., in the Conference Room of the German Department (MLB 3308; Middle Aisle).

Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Confining or Not?
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
The problem of Color Confinement in Yang-Mills theory is one of the deepest problems in theoretical physics. There is convincing numerical evidence from Lattice Gauge Theory, yet the proof of Confinement in Asymptotically Free theories has not been found. I will briefly introduce the Confinement problem and review some results on large N theories using the gauge/gravity duality. I will then discuss two-dimensional SU(N) theory coupled to an adjoint Majorana fermion. I will show that, when the adjoint mass is sent to zero, the spectrum retains a mass gap but the confinement disappears. Using the Discretized Light-Cone Quantization, I will discuss the spectrum of color singlet states and exhibit certain threshold states. Similar threshold states are also present in a model with a massless adjoint and a massive fundamental fermion. They provide new evidence for the lack of confinement. When the adjoint mass is turned on, the theory becomes confining, and the spectrum of bound states becomes discrete.

Class / Instruction:Mongolia: From the Capital to the Gobi Desert
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
Join photographer, Ann O’Hagan, for a visual journey through the highlights of Mongolia, a developing Asian country sandwiched between Russia and China. Once under the yoke of China then Russia, the republic transitioned to independence and democracy during a bloodless revolution in 1990.

View ancient and modern architecture in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Take in beautiful snowcapped mountain landscapes, Lake Khovsgol on the Siberian border, and the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi Desert.

Learn about the herding life of nomadic people and explore their countryside accommodations called gers, known as yurts in Russia. Experience the cultural reverence for Genghis Kahn and his warrior horsemen who established the largest land empire the world has ever known.

Through the camera lens, you’ll glimpse everything from Buddhist temples and shamanistic rituals to bands of horses and dromedary camels.
Don’t miss this opportunity for a photographic tour from the comfort of your living room.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

Workshop / Seminar:Presenting Your Research & Project Design
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
A Zoom seminar on presenting to academic audiences, including basics of project design. Useful for those considering careers in science and/or preparing for grad school interviews that require a presentation.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95315038837

FIRST linktree: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org

Livestream / Virtual:Religion and Materiality: Re-thinking a Complex Relation from the Angle of Food
2021-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The concern of the material turn in the study of religion is to allow for fresh, detailed and conceptually challenging empirical research that lends itself to comparison. Compared to objects, images or buildings, so far food has received little attention in this research strand. Exploring Feuerbach’s ideas about the stomach as the basis for his materialist philosophy, I argue that food is a material form that allows us to throw new light on the physical and corporeal dimensions of religion. I explore the possibilities for research that arise from a focus on food by turning to a collection of legba-figures that were taken from their site of origin among the Ewe in Ghana and Togo to the Übersee-Museum Bremen, Germany. My main concern is to explore how food – as a material form at the core of how humans relate to and are part of the world – is a key focus for research aiming to fold materiality back into our understanding of religion.

Birgit Meyer (PhD in Anthropology, 1995) is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she studies religion from a material and postcolonial angle, seeking to synthesize grounded fieldwork and theoretical reflection in a multidisciplinary setting. Recent book publications include Figuration and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires (2019, coedited with Terje Stordalen), and Refugees and Religion. Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (2021, coedited with Peter van der Veer). She directs the research program Religious Matters in an Entangled World (www.religiousmatters.nl).

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/j/96568104186

Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: What Controls Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in Marsh-Dominated Estuaries?
2021-11-12 15:30 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a large and complex mixture of compounds with source inputs that differ with location, season, and environmental conditions. We investigated how DOM composition changes both spatially and temporally along a marsh-dominated estuary off the southeastern U.S., and how it influences microbial processing. Surface samples were collected throughout the estuary from September 2015 to January 2018, and bulk, optical, and molecular analyses were conducted on samples before and after dark incubations. Results showed that river discharge was the primary driver changing the DOM composition at the mouth of the Altamaha River. For discharge higher than ~ 150 m3 s-1, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations and the terrigenous character of the DOM increased approximately linearly with river flow. For low discharge conditions, a clear signature of salt marsh-derived compounds was observed in the river. The Georgia coast was hit by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 and Hurricane Irma in September 2017, which resulted in a large input of carbon to the estuary. The DOC concentration was ~ 4 times higher than average values and DOM composition was more aromatic with a stronger terrigenous signature compared to the seasonal maximum. Interesting, microbial degradation of DOC was strongly influenced by DOM composition, with increased degradation rates for DOM with a larger terrigenous character. This suggests that extreme events substantially impact DOM quantity and quality in estuarine regions. Since storm events are becoming more common in the area, the results of this study have implications for composition and processing of DOM prior to export to the Atlantic Ocean.

Reception / Open House:Art Exhibition Reception: Animal/Vegetable/Mineral
2021-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | East Quadrangle
There will be a reception for artist Susan Crowell's Animal/Vegetable/Mineral exhibit on November 12 from 4-6pm. The exhibit will be on display at the RC Art Galley from October 1 through November 12.

In this exhibit, Residential College and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor of Art Susan Crowell presents, among other works, a series of wall plaques depicting endangered species. In Professor Crowell's effort to, "...question our interactions with the animal world and our impact upon it," she has installed images of elephants and donkeys as protagonists and antagonists in political struggle, and polar bears as victims of global warming.

"Animal/ Vegetable/Mineral presents an occasion to speak about my most compelling interests—plants and animals--within the mineral rubrics of clay," she says.

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required for all attendees. Vaccination is not required but highly encouraged. All attendees must complete a short questionnaire at https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in before entering East Quadrangle.

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at the University of Michigan, where she teaches ceramics and holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied architectural ceramics at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome and directed and taught in the University of Michigan’s Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell conducts research and exhibits her work locally, nationally and internationally. She has presented projects and exhibitions in Canada (at Banff), Japan (at Shigaraki and Miyazaki), Italy (Rome, Venice and Florence), Taiwan, Denmark and China, as well as in France and the United States, and she has participated in a variety of international venues and residencies. In 2005 Crowell published I Compianti Sul Christo Morto: Lamentation Groupings in Northern Italy to illuminate the distinguished history of ceramic materials in Quattrocento devotional and didactic sculpture, and to bring an understanding of their use and potential to contemporary ceramics practitioners. In April of 2016 Prof. Crowell exhibited her work in the conservatories of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan, and in May of 2017, at the Alden Dow Gardens in Midland, MI. In 2018 she conducted residencies and research at the Jean Noble Parsons Center for the Study of Art and Science in northern Michigan, and at A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France, where she exhibited her work in La chapelle de la place Lisnard that October.

For ten years, Crowell’s research and artistic practice has focused upon pollen forms and the process of pollination. Deploying her appreciation of the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using cast and hand-built forms. In doing so, Prof. Crowell presents an expanded view of pollen within the problematics of industrialized honey production, global commerce in apicultural products, and genetically modified crops.. More recently, she has created Thinning the Herd, an installation of animal forms that addresses endangered species, and Oppositional, a commentary on contemporary political behavior in the United States.

Workshop / Seminar:NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia
2021-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners
2021-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to enhance communication skills for greater self-assurance in any setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives.
* Both group and individual activities.
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection.
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions.
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist.

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

Livestream / Virtual:CSAS Lecture | The Modern Cosmopolis: Sovereignty, Cosmology and the Extrapolitical
2021-11-12 16:30 - 18:00
Sheldon Pollock’s vision of a “Cosmopolis,” a vision of power (and culture) transcending, and encompassing, particular systems of rule and power, has shaped extensive efforts by historians of South Asia to delineate other cosmopolises, notably the Persian cosmopolis that encompassed the Mughal empire. This presentation uses this concept to rethink the nature of modernity, particularly with respect to sovereignty, politics, and control over nature. The talk will begin with a discussion of the history of large-scale water control in the British colonial period as an entrée into a discussion of the ways that modern sovereignty has developed at the intersection between new forms of state political power and cosmological visions of the “extrapolitical,” that is, power flows conceived as transcending the category of politics itself. Shaped not only by developing scientific explanations of energy flows in the universe, but also by the distinctive understandings of human consciousness underlying this modern cosmological vision, the concept of the “extrapolitical” has been central to modern sovereignty. But such conceptions of sovereignty, as in earlier cosmopolises, have always played out at the intersection between the “extrapolitical” and the realities of worldly politics and power. The talk will include a brief excursion into Big History to discuss how some historians have increasingly attempted, with limited success, to bring the narratives of politics and of the “extrapolitical” together.

David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His research interests focus on the intersections between the history of British imperialism in South Asia and the development of modern politics, environment, and forms of rule. His most recent books are *Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History* (2015), examining the intersection between modern environmental and political history, and *South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power* (2020), co-edited with Pamela Price and Arild Ruud. His current research focuses on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from a colonial past, and on the ways these institutions have changed in relation to evolving visions of the people’s sovereignty. Earlier works include, *Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan* (2014); *Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia*, co-edited with Bruce Lawrence (2000); and *Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan* (1988).

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUod-irqzIvE9V08VP6lbJYnrR0Pf0CtTfw

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Social / Informal Gathering:Virtual Student Venture Showcase
2021-11-12 17:00 - 18:15 | Off Campus Location - RSVP to receive invite
An evening of promising student projects and ventures looking to highlight their ideas and recruit new members.

12 hand-selected projects and ventures will have 3 minutes to present their ideas and answer audience questions. This is a must attend event for those looking to network with other student entrepreneurs or to join a team.

RSVP at bit.ly/ventureshowcase21
Feature Student Ventures:
Agriculture + Fishery
Automotive Future
BECS Corp.
Biscuits n Groovy
BotNot
CasaIB
Diet Stats
DiverseCity
HelixCases Corporation
Kurrant
MedPass NFT
ScentKeeper

Reception / Open House:Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative Opening Reception
2021-11-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for the opening reception of Envision: The
Michigan Artist Initiative at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features new work by the five Envision finalists, artists Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Michael Dixon, Carole
Harris, Kylie Lockwood, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. All the artists will
be in attendance. Enjoy live music by Max Bowen. We look forward to seeing you
there! This is the inaugural year of Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative, a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. The five finalists were selected by jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA ​’73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA ​’04), Director, Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is on view at Stamps Gallery from November 12, 2021 — January 22, 2022.

Social / Informal Gathering:Community Meetups: Puzzles
2021-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 | West Quadrangle - The Connector: Room 1520
Enjoy solving jigsaw puzzles even if you're an amateur? Then this event is for you! Join us to assemble some puzzles and meet new people.

Community Meetups are weekly drop-in spaces for students of all years to gather around common interests. From gatherings for knitters to horror movie lovers, there is a Community Meetup with your name on it! Whether you have tons of experience with the meetup topic, are just getting started, or would like to learn more before deciding to start, FYE's Community Meetups are the space for you! Remember - all experience levels with the Meetup topic are welcome!

Performance:Vijayi: The Rise to Victory
2021-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location
Mask and Proof of Vaccination required for entry into the Michigan Theater.

The Indian American Student Association is proud to announce the return of our annual cultural show! Join us for a celebration of Indian culture, featuring an evening of music and a variety of student-choreographed dance performances that highlight traditional Indian dance styles with some fusion of Western and
Indian styles throughout. This very popular show usually sells out in advance.

Tickets are onsale through IASA and will later be available online.

Performance:Andrew Hosler, saxophones
2021-11-12 19:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM
Suspicious Certainty (World Premiere) - Jason Zhang
Summer-Night Songs - Andrew Earle Simpson
TALK (World Premiere) - Stephen Mitton

Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble
2021-11-12 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
The program opens with a captivating and mysterious new composition by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Entropic Arrows. Bunita Marcus's Adam and Eve is a beautiful piece about love that stimulates the imagination—"just the kind of piece everyone needs to hear now." Finally, we celebrate 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León by performing her elegant and virtuosic chamber work Toque, inspired by the Cuban danzon "Almendra."

PROGRAM
Entropic Arrows - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Adam and Eve - Bunita Marcus
Toque - Tania León

attend in person or watch the livestream https://myumi.ch/HankinsonWatch

Performance:Doug Ferguson, euphonium
2021-11-12 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM
From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific - Herbert L. Clarke
Fantasy for Euphonium and Piano - Hiroshi Hoshina
The Man I Love - George Gershwin
Dizzy Fingers - Zez Confrey
Sonata for Bassoon and Cello, K.292 - W. A. Mozart

Performance:Funny Girl
2021-11-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Campus guests are expected to complete ResponsiBLUE Guest, the daily COVID-19 symptom check tool, prior to accessing campus buildings. U-M policy also requires all individuals — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — to wear a face covering while in a campus building or on campus transit.

This Broadway classic explores the life and career of the indomitable Jewish actress and comedian Fanny Brice, and her relationship with the professional gambler Nick Arnstein. This love letter to performers is a re-evaluation of fame, the desire for love and connection, and what “beauty” really is. FUNNY GIRL, with one of the most iconic scores of all time by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, is an inspiring story of identity, image, ambition, and a funny girl finding her way to the stage to become the greatest star. This fall, MUSKET audiences are the luckiest people in the world.

MUSKET offers FREE TICKETS to the Indigenous tribal communities of the Three Fire Peoples — the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, the traditional Territories of which The University of Michigan resides on. As we continue live theatre on these territories, we acknowledge that The Power Center for the Performing Arts stands on land that has been obtained through the mistreatment and violence against Indigenous peoples. Although our acknowledgements do not change the past or present harms done to these communities, our acknowledgment reaffirms the ancestral ties to the land and the people that make our venues possible. Please email musket.prod@umich.edu to access your complimentary ticket.

Performance:Men On Boats
2021-11-12 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Emily Lyon (BFA ‵13, directing)

In 1869, a team of 10 men led by naturalist John Wesley Powell set out on an expedition to catalogue the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon—the first white settlers to do so. In 2015, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus set out to satirize the expedition and its bold yet arrogant explorers in a comedic tour-de-force that Time Out New York called a “thrilling, gender-flipped slice of manifest destiny.”

With a cast made up entirely of women, Men on Boats pokes fun at what New York Magazine calls the explorers’ “cockiness and cluelessness” in their attempts to exert their control on an unfamiliar (and already populated) environment. “The tone is comic, but never cute or camp,” says the New York Times. “And ultimately, you feel, the play respects its bold if fallible pioneers, in all their natural bravery and fearfulness.”

Performance:Willy Porter Trio
2021-11-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Willy Porter has been touring solo and with ensembles of different sizes and shapes for over 30 years following his own path to explore the sacred language that music truly is. He continues to reach further into his guitar & pen while stretching the form of what his own music can be. His current trio combines Porter’s acoustic and electric fret work with the dynamic drumming of longtime collaborator Dave Schoepke, and recent band addition Eric Madunic on Bass & vocals. Their live sound is a blend of grit, soul & space that moves seamlessly from folk & bluesy Americana to alt and progressive rock in service of Porter’s original tunes.
