Other:Games vs. Miami University (OH) 11/2-11/4
2023-11-03 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Oxford, OH
Away Games vs. Miami University (OH)

Other:Stenberg Duals
2023-11-03 05:00 - 18:30 | Muskegon Community College
Come down and wrestle as a part of the team at our first dual meet of the season! Join our strong lineup and come compete against some solid competition.

Other:Blue Ridge Finale
2023-11-03 07:00 - 23:59 | Smith River Sports Complex
Ultimate frisbee tournament in Axton, Virginia

Well-being:LSA@Play: Gratitude Board
2023-11-03 07:00 - 22:00 | LSA Building - Navigation Desk
What are you most grateful for? Share to inspire our community on the Gratitude Board, located near the Navigation Desk on the 1st floor for the month of November.

Available during LSA building hours (holiday hours may vary)
Mon-Fri 7:00a-6:00p, 6:00-10:00p (MCard access)
Sat 12:00-6:00p (MCard access)
Sun 12:00-10:00p (MCard access)

Add to calendar: https://www.addevent.com/event/Jh19057569+google

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LSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer opportunities for students to prioritize self-care, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food and LSA swag!

Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, sign-up to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon!

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at an event, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.

* While supplies last. One swag item per student, must be present with MCard to receive.

Exhibition:Manga no Ryokou: The “Manga Map” and A Journey Through the Art of Depiction in Japanese Cartography
2023-11-03 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
The exhibit examines the intersection between art, narrative, and geography within Japanese cartography. It centers on the titular “manga map”, a rare Japanese travel map of Japan (ca. 1934) that is densely packed with manga illustrations detailing local folklore, history, architecture, flora/fauna, and more. The exhibit also includes works of Japanese art and cartography in order to consider the dichotomy between artistry and geographic depiction, and how that plays with the definition of a “map.”

Alongside the exhibit, the manga map is also part of a new digital humanities preservation project at the library using the online crowd-sourcing platform Zooniverse, where the map will be transcribed/translated and made into a fully interactive digital map. More information is available at the exhibit.

Both the exhibit and the Zooniverse project were created as a summer internship capstone project by Joel Liesenberg, a dual-degree master’s student in International and Regional Studies focusing in Japanese studies and the School of Information focusing in digital curation.

Exhibition:Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics
2023-11-03 08:00 - 23:55 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby (off the Diag)
This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013).

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

Exhibition:The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology
2023-11-03 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
2023-11-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall
*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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.

Careers / Jobs:Forté Women of Color Leadership Symposium
2023-11-03 08:30 - 17:30 | 800 17th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia 20006, United States
Registration now open!

When women of color have their voices heard, everyone wins. Diverse perspectives lead to brilliant solutions - from corporations to consumers to communities. Forté and its alliance of corporate partners will help you shine during your job search and at work while embracing and leveraging your distinct skills and experiences.

This symposium centers the lived experiences of women business leaders whohold aspects of their identities that have historically been underrepresented in business. Specifically, speakers and facilitators who identify asAfrican American / Black, Latina/x, and Native American will be featured in the programming. Undergraduate students from all academic disciplinesare encouraged to engage in leadership development programming and training at this event.

Contact the Forté Undergraduate Team at college@fortefoundation.org with any questions.

Conference / Symposium:U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) Undergraduate Research Symposium
2023-11-03 08:30 - 14:00 | Pierpont Commons - Boulevard Room
The University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering (U-M IOE) Department invites you to attend the inaugural IOE Undergraduate Research Symposium.

The symposium will feature presentations by U-M IOE PhD students, a poster competition with awards for undergraduate students, and research exploration time with U-M IOE faculty and students. Lunch and IOE swag will be provided!

This symposium is geared toward Michigan Engineering undergraduate students who currently conduct research in industrial and operations engineering or are considering it.

Agenda:
8:30 - 9 a.m.: Opening remarks and U-M IOE ambassador presentation
9 - 10 a.m.: PhD student talks
10 - 10:30 a.m.: Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Undergraduate poster session
12 - 1 p.m.: Lunch
1 - 2 p.m.: Research exploration with current faculty and grad students

This event is hosted by the U-M IOE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee.

If you have questions, please email Albert Berahas at aberahas@umich.edu.

Other:2023 First-Generation College Student Celebration Week
2023-11-03 09:00 - 17:00
The University of Michigan and the First-Gen Gateway celebrates first-generation college students October 30th - November 3rd in honor of National First-Generation College Student Day! All week long, we will be putting on events to support and bring visibility to the nearly 4,000 first-generation college students on our campus. Enter "FirstGenWeek23" in the search option on this website for information hosted by various units across campus.

You can explore First-Generation College Student Celebration Week events by entering the tag noted above or by following this link: https://events.umich.edu/list?filter=tags:Firstgenweek2023

Exhibition:BREATHE
2023-11-03 09:00 - 16:00 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
The Residential College Art Gallery will present BREATHE, an exhibition of illuminated ceramics by Ann Arbor artist Kate Tremel, from October 20 through November 21. Tremel, who teaches ceramics at the Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design, describes her work in the following way:

“My pots are made with a wooden paddle and round stone. They are slowly raised by beating, turning, and drying the clay repeatedly until the walls are thinly stretched and the form is filled with life. I pierce the fragile, unfired walls of the vessel with a tapered tool and then painstakingly carve the holes with a thin blade. The piercings give visual access to the interior of the form and create a tension with the fragility of the ceramic material. When the pot is illuminated the light fills the vessel and physically embodies the energy that it contains. The piercings allow this energy to flow beyond the walls of the form and into the surrounding space. The soft patterns of light are an exhalation, filling the dark room with a sense of quiet repose. I invite you to stop and take a breath.”

The public is invited to an opening reception for the artist on October 20, from 4-6 pm, and the public is invited.

Exhibition:Digital Engrams
2023-11-03 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010
The notion that our brains actually create memories first stored and then revisited has been contemplated since the time of Plato and Aristotle. These units of memory, or engrams, are poetic portals through which we time travel, gaining hindsight and foresight, more meaning and greater wisdom, and hopes for a future less encumbered. Beyond reminiscences of technicolor sunsets, perhaps memories are simply the brain's records of endless repetitions and familiar neural pathways.

In an era of iPhones, Macbooks, Instagram, and Facebook, everything that’s happened to us in recent memory is at our immediate disposal and made to look better than the original … every day of every year, every meal of every trip, every postcard destination. With constant 24/7 access to the newsreel of our own lives, are we losing our innate ability to remember what matters in the process?

In Digital Engrams, L.A. artist Gabriela Ruiz combines sound, video, light and sculpture to create unexpected environments that challenge our sensibilities. The installation considers how images function on and off the screen, and how memories real and curated are the crux of personal and cultural identity. Who do we think we are in this life or the eternal life on the internet hereafter?

Ruiz’s spatial inquiries grapple with the potential erasure of the rituals of memorialization and the richness of material culture so important in her own Latinx heritage and to her sense of self.

–Amanda Krugliak, IH Arts Curator

About the artist:
Gabriela Ruiz is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Her sculptures incorporate found objects and industrial materials, such as thrift store furniture and insulation foam. Strongly influenced by growing up in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico, Ruiz’s practice is a reflection of the DIY work ethic she was raised under, the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions, and her exposure to subculture and fantasy at a young age as a means to escape the realities of daily life.

One of L.A.’s rising young talents, she presented her solo show Stream at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2022, part of the museum's Outburst project.

*Gabriela Ruiz is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. This exhibition is part of LSA's fall 2023 Art & Resistance theme semester.*

Exhibition:Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut
2023-11-03 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
Enjoy a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts. Throughout the European Renaissance (1300-1700), many book illustrations were exclusively ornamental, while others focused on enhancing the meaning of the text. However, as the pages on display attest, all these illustrations share a common ground: they reveal the aesthetic and intellectual fashions first proposed by Italian artists of the 1400s, who were strongly committed to the recovery of the past of classical antiquity.

The word “Illumination,” from the Latin illuminare, “to enlighten or to illuminate,” refers to the embellishment of a manuscript or early printed book with luminous colors, notably gold and silver. This illumination was prominent in the frontispiece, or first page of text, which included the decoration of its borders and initial letter, and even miniatures, that is, scenes with an independent narrative. With the introduction of movable-type printing in 1454, these illuminations would be gradually replaced by woodcuts, which were printed from a woodblock that had been cut by knife along the grain of the wood.

Available during Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room hours (https://myumi.ch/2m7d4).

Join us on September 13 for a talk by Pablo Alvarez, curator of the exhibit.

Meeting:LSAT Score Release - Drop-In Advising
2023-11-03 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
You just received your LSAT score. If you would like to process the next steps or understand your score report, attend virtual drop-in advising to talk with a Newnan Pre-Law Advisor.

Exhibition:Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!!
2023-11-03 09:00 - 16:00 | Lane Hall
Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Astronomy 2023-2024 DEI Series Presents:
2023-11-03 09:30 - 10:20 | West Hall - 411
"The Dead Stars Society, or Research Alliances with Under-Resourced Institutions"

I became aware that many highschool students in the Detroit area who were interested in pursuing studies in astronomy were first attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year institution to finish out their degree in the remaining two years. In my own experience as a former community college and subsequent transfer student, I found that it was much more difficult to have access to the same research opportunities and resources as a traditional four year undergraduate student. This is an area where I have always wanted to make a positive change for the community. I finally found the opportunity in 2022, and the Dead Stars Society, an astronomy research group at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, evolved. In the past year, we have had five students join our group, who have collectively analyzed a massive X-ray data-set. We have also received funding to shift gears and focus on analysis of upcoming data from Rubin Observatory/LSST. I would particularly like to discuss what information would be helpful to gain further traction to encourage an expansion of four-year institutions partnering with their local community colleges.

Workshop / Seminar:MORE (FACULTY): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2023-11-03 09:30 - 13:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
This workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, 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 82 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.

Part I: Parallel Sessions, 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Faculty-Only Session
Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Faculty-Only Session (for returning faculty)
Student-Only Session

Part II: Joint Session, 11:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Faculty and Student Joint Session

Part III: Additional One-on-One Mentoring Time, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Faculty and Student Joint Session

If this is your first time attending a MORE workshop please plan to attend Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start during Part I. Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the previous academic year have a few more options to choose from for their Part I attendance:

Mentoring Across Difference 2.0: A newly developed faculty-only session intended to engage faculty in deeper reflection about the issues, concerns, and situations involved when mentoring students from non-traditional backgrounds. Faculty are invited to consider specific actions to take in research and learning spaces that address issues and concerns pertaining to mentoring across differences. The session encourages and supports faculty to explore approaches and solutions that work best for them and their students in particular research laboratories, research teams, and in the research projects students are pursuing under a mentor’s guidance. *Note: We require a minimum of approximately 12 registered faculty members to run this parallel session.
Faculty and Student one-on-one Part II and Part III sessions starting at 11:10 a.m.

Registration is required of both the faculty and the student regardless of the option the faculty chooses. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/AWQdx
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QqAR8.
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.

Workshop / Seminar:MORE (STUDENT): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2023-11-03 09:30 - 13:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
This workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, 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 82 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.
Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the previous academic year should feel free to join the workshop only for the student-faculty work together (the last hour of the workshop). Registration is still required of both the faculty and the student.

Part I, Faculty-Only and Student-Only Sessions: 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Part II, Faculty and Student Joint Session, 11:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Part III, Optional Additional One-on-One Time, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Separate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/73RA2
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Jpyee.

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.

Careers / Jobs:2023 Audax Amplify Forum for Underrepresented Minorities
2023-11-03 10:00 - 15:30
Audax Amplify Forum for Underrepresented Minorities

When: Friday, November 3rd from 10AM-3:30PM EST

Where: Zoom

Audax Amplify Forum is a program offering current second-year students, who identify as first-generation college students, or Black/African American, or Hispanic/Latino and/or Native American a unique opportunity to learn aboutinvesting and the world of private equity. Selected participants will attend Audax's intensive half-day virtual workshop that includes break-out groups with the investment team. The forum will provide an overview of finance and how private equity fits into the alternative asset industry. Attendees will also gain an understanding of the skills necessary for a successful career in private equity. This is an exciting opportunity to learn more about our Portfolio Company Summer Analyst program and network with investment professionals from the firm.

The Audax Amplify Forum is open tocurrent students targeting a December 2025 or May/June 2026 graduation, of all majors, who identify as first-generation college students, or Black/African American, or Hispanic/Latino and/or Native American and who are interested in learning more about Audax Private Equity.

When applying to participate in the forum through our applicant tracking system, please make sure to attach ONE document that includes the following:

Short response detailing why you are interested in this program (250 words orless)
Resume

Applications are due by Wednesday, October 16th at 12:00 PM ET.
Application Link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/audaxgroup/jobs/4313018005

Lecture / Discussion:Can't Go Over It, Can't Go Under It: Writing the Impossible Story
2023-11-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Angell Hall - The Robert Hayden Conference Room, #3222
Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Every worthwhile artistic endeavor contains, at its heart, a cosmic impossibility -- a paradox that affects the conception of the piece itself, a reason the piece cannot actually exist as envisioned. Believe it or not, this is a good thing. We'll talk about how to deal with the impossible, and why.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, *I Have Some Questions for You,* is a *New York Times* Best Seller. Her novel, *The Great Believers*, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the *LA Times* Book Prize; and it was one of the *New York Times'* Ten Best Books of 2018.

Her other books are the novels *The Borrower* and *The Hundred-Year House*, and the collection *Music for Wartime*—four stories from which appeared in *The Best American Short Stories*. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@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 kimjulie@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.

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Workshop - DMA String Seminar
2023-11-03 10:00 - 11:30 | Earl V. Moore Building, 3219, 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
CV and Cover Letters for String DMA Seminar

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Stop by the Collections Case display in the museum’s main atrium, behind the mastodons, to see Nature’s Pharmacy.

August 2023–July 2024

Plants and fungi play a vital role in medicine due to the diversity of chemical defense mechanisms they evolved to safeguard them against pathogens, herbivores, and competitors. From its inception, the U-M Herbarium has cataloged and described plants—both poisonous and beneficial to human health—and still serves that role today. See specimens of these plant and fungal “friends” and “foes” from the U-M Herbarium collection and learn about how the collection is used for drug discovery today.

Exhibition:Featured Exhibits
2023-11-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Natural History
Stop by the Student Showcase display in the museum’s main atrium, behind the mastodons, to see Molecules of Life.

August 2023–July 2024

Molecules of Life (Student Showcase)
Discover the connection between form and function as you explore the molecular building blocks of life. In the realm of biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, form determines function, so visualizing the three-dimensional structures of molecules is key in researching the ‘tiny’ macromolecules that perform vital functions in our cells. In Biophysics 421, under the guidance of Markos Koutmos, Assistant Professor of Biophysics & Chemistry, and Liz Tidwell, PhD candidate in Biophysics, students created models with digital modeling software and brought them to life via 3D printing. This exhibit showcases the 3D printed molecules, scaled up to better reveal the structures that inform, make, break, modify, and move within the body.

Tours:Guided Tour of the Clements Library
2023-11-03 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-11-03 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-11-03 17:30 - 18:30 | William Clements Library
We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements' early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting "Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage's papers, and much more!

You will also have the opportunity to explore the Clements' Centennial exhibit titled "Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library." This extraordinary exhibition aims to address a question frequently posed by our visitors: How does the Clements Library determine which materials to acquire and include in its cherished collections?

Please register at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia
2023-11-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons
* Practice your Spanish speaking skills with fellow students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed environment
* Free coffee, tea, light snacks, and baked goods
* Get advice on courses and Discuss study abroad

All levels and students are welcome!

Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Daniel McCaffrey, Associate Vice President of Psychometric Analysis and Research, Educational Testing Service
2023-11-03 10:00 - 11:00 | West Hall - 340
Abstract: Currently, 49 states in the U.S. measure student achievement growth as part of their statewide elementary and secondary school student-testing programs and for accountability for districts, schools, or educators. These systems use the average of individual students’ growth for all the students in a district, school, or educator’s class. Averaging growth measures for schools, districts or educators with few students can result in substantial year-to-year fluctuations. We proposed smoothing the aggregate growth measures across time using the Empirical Best Linear Prediction (EBLP) to improve the accuracy and, in turn, stability of the aggregate growth measures. I will discuss the implementation of EBLP for aggregate student achievement growth including the statistical models and estimation methods. I will also discuss the results of applying the method to data in two states.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-mccaffrey-1654809/

Workshop / Seminar:Advancing Social Justice: Alum in Residence with Yezenia Sandoval, MA Education Leadership & Policy U-M ‘21
2023-11-03 11:00 - 14:00 | LSA Building - 1249 (in the Opportunity Hub)
Are you hoping to advance social justice, starting with student clubs here at U-M? Want to talk to an alum who knows how to leverage the power of storytelling to drive change? Join us for an Alum in Residence with Yezenia Sandoval to have these and more critical conversations! Yezenia graduated from LSA in 2019 with majors in Political Science and History. She is originally from the Northwest side of Chicago and currently serves as a Teacher Training Institute Manager for a national workforce development organization called Urban Alliance. At Michigan, Yezenia was involved in several organizations aimed at providing academic support and professional development to students from diverse backgrounds, including the Comprehensive Studies Program (CSP) as a Peer Academic Coach and Assisting Latinos to Maximize Achievement (ALMA) as a Coordinator. She also co-founded La Casa with several of her peers. After LSA, Yezenia received her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Policy from U-M as a Rackham Merit Fellow. She has a passion to spark critical conversations at the intersectionality of race and education as well as increase access to higher education for underrepresented communities.

Make an appointment or drop by the Opportunity Hub to meet with Yezenia on Friday, November 3 between 11 and 2pm. You can talk about anything with her, from learning more about her story to getting advice for advancing social justice, where or how to start looking for jobs/internships or even have her look at your cover letter and résumé. Yezenia will bring her signature kindness and curiosity to your conversation–so bring a friend and join us for this Alum in Residence opportunity!

You should attend this session if you are:
- An undergraduate U-M LSA student
- Seeking support and guidance from another social justice advocate
- Thinking about applying to grad school in education to help make the educational system more equitable

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Make a valuable connection with a successful LSA alum ready to talk with you about critical conversations at the intersection of race and education
- Learn ways to leverage your passion for social justice in grad school and your career thereafter
- Gain tips for building communities and networks past your LSA degree

RSVP now to meet with Yezenia!

The Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.

Careers / Jobs:Business Case Interview Overview & Workshop + Recruiter Q&A
2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:30
"During this workshop, we will walk through and practice a business case interview. This session will be led by a Capital One professional trained in our interview process. A recruiter will also be on the callto answer any questions you may have. This workshop is intended to help candidates prepare for the following Student & Grad roles: Business Analyst, CODA, Cyber, Data Analyst, Finance, Human Resources, Management, MBA & Product.

Event Agenda:

11:00 – 12:00 PM EST Business Case Interview Overview & Workshop

11:30 – 12:30 PM EST Q&A breakout room with recruiter available"

Careers / Jobs:CIC Student Working Group Meeting
2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:00
The CIC invites students of all academic backgrounds and varying research experience to join the CIC Student Working Group. Students around the world will join a community of young professionals and researchersinterested in the future of COVID-19 and ongoing pandemic research.
Jointhe CIC Student Working Group this semester to participate in the Fall 2023 COVID-19 Data Visualization Project!

Exhibition:Investigate Labs
2023-11-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Natural History
Step into our two Investigate Labs, where you can use scientific tools and museum specimens to answer questions and solve problems. Our labs offer activities most appropriate for ages 6 and up. Schedule subject to change.

Workshop / Seminar:ITS AI Office Hours
2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Want to learn more about the generative AI services that U-M Information & Technology Services offers? Want to learn how you can leverage it to help with your coursework, emails, presentations, daily life, or hear how others may be using these tools? Come to our open support hours or "office hours" through October! Our service team will walk you through how and when to use U-M GPT and U-M Maizey.

U-M GPT is a tool that provides access to popular hosted AI models such as Azure OpenAI and U-M hosted open-source large language models.
U-M Maizey is a tool that allows U-M faculty, staff, and students to enrich their GenAI experience based on a custom dataset they provide.
Learn more: https://its.umich.edu/computing/ai/support
This event is open to active faculty, students, and staff or sponsored affiliates.

Meeting:Pause-Café
2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (Room 4134)
Enjoy some coffee, tea, and snacks while
improving your French skills!!!

Come for 10 minutes or the whole hour!

Everyone is welcome, regardless of level!

Exhibition:Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2023
2023-11-03 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, Stamps Gallery is partnering with the U‑M Arts Initiative to expand the 4th annual Respond/Resist/Rethink student art exhibition. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint U-M campuses in Fall 2023 are invited to apply to this juried exhibition that explores what can be done to create more just and equitable futures in the 21st Century and beyond.
The 2023 exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U-M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).
The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change by offering alternate models and ways of thinking, making and creating that do not perpetuate dominant regimes. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one's personal politics, an artwork's potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary.
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.
Throughout the spring, summer, and fall of 2023, U-M students submitted artworks through an open call process. A final list of artworks were chosen for the exhibition by a Selection Committee made up of U-M faculty, staff, and students.

The 2023 RRR Selection Committee members are:
Pedram Baldari, Jim Cogswell, Laura Cotton, Nalani Duarte, Adrienne Frank, Benjamin Gaydos, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Quinn Hunter, Ikalanni Jahi, Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Joe Levickas, Srimoyee Mitra, Kathi Reister, Chloe Schans, and Grace Sirman.
The 2023 RRR Curatorial Committee members are:
Laura Cotton, Nalani Duarte, Benjamin Gaydos, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Srimoyee Mitra, and Kathi Reister.
The 2023 RRR Organizing Committee members are: Chris Audain, Adrienne Frank, Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Joe Levickas, Srimoyee Mitra, and Joe Rohrer.

Lecture / Discussion:Sguardo a Oriente:
2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Michigan League - Michigan Room
Born in Florence in 1936, Dacia Maraini has for many years worked as one of Italy’s most committed and widely-acclaimed feminist authors. She has won various awards in recognition of her literary contributions: the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). She co-founded the Teatro del Porcospino in the 1960s and established the feminist experimental theatre La Maddalena in Rome in 1973. Several films have been made from her books, and she herself has written screenplays for directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, Carlo Di Palma, and Margarethe Von Trotta. In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling recounted the story of Maraini's life, focusing in particular on her childhood imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II, and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.

Sguardo a Oriente is a collection of reportages, memories, and stories about various Asian countries, including Afghanistan, China, Korea, Japan, India, Iran, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Tibet, Turkey, Vietnam, and Yemen. In this book, Maraini's language takes on a new voice, exploring the typical pace of travel books. Her writing style reflects that of her grandmother Yoï, her father Fosco, and her mother Topazia, who all loved to travel and tell stories about their experiences and the people they met on their journeys.

This event is part of the XXIII Week of Italian Language in the World and is co-sponsored by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

The conversation will take place primarily in English, Italian and non-Italian speakers are all welcome to join!
For more information please email Giulia Riccò at gricco@umich.edu.

Careers / Jobs:Teach in Alaska! The Adventure of a Lifetime!
2023-11-03 11:00 - 11:30
Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Join me in learning about teaching in rural Alaska with the Lower Kuskokwim School District where you'll be immersed in indigenous Alaska Native culture and experience a part of the country most people don't even know exists! Lower Kuskokwim School District is home to a one-room school house, the host site ofCamaii Yup'ik dance festival, and many other exciting opportunities!

Exhibition:The Blessings of the Mystery
2023-11-03 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The experimental documentary film Teaching of the Hands is the center point of the exhibition - as it combines oral histories, reenactments, and archival footage to narrate a complex history of colonization, migration, and ecological precarity, Told from the perspective of Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, scenes from the present day are woven together with those from 4,000 years in the past to investigate the transformation of Somi Se’k* by way of industry, infrastructure, and private property.
Emerging from the research to create the film, the exhibition includes an immersive installation of surveying flags and tools, series of drawings and collages, and a collection of original watercolors from the 1930s by artists and amateur archaeologists Forrest and Lula Kirkland that depict the ancient rock art of the Lower Pecos,that expand on concepts in The Teachings of the Hands. The watercolors, rarely seen plein air paintings, are on loan from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, and document the original forms and vibrant colors of murals that were still visible in the 1930s before flooding, erosion, and human interaction damaged or destroyed them. This exhibition has been shown in various iterations at Ballroom Marfa, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and University of California, Santa Barbara, and will be shown in Michigan and the midwest for the first time. The Blessings of the Mystery brings together an expansive body of work that sheds light on vital histories, living memories and Indigenous knowledge-systems embedded within the land well before the colonial boundaries between Mexico and the US were established - advocating for environmental justice and recognition of Indigenous rights and cosmologies.

Exhibition:Untold Stories, Part I
2023-11-03 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

Class / Instruction:Chuck Owen and ReSurgence, jazz septet
2023-11-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
ReSurgence will perform music from their new album and Chuck will talk about the compositional process and leadership of a jazz septet. Each musician will be asked to talk a bit about their background and how they balance their careers as leaders with work as sidemen/women. There will be time for Q&A as well. *This master class is generously supported by the Chisholm Jazz Master Class Series Fund.*

ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS

Recognized internationally for his unique compositional voice, 5-time GRAMMY nominee CHUCK OWEN's creative, evocative, and intensely personal compositions are steeped in the jazz tradition but draw liberally and playfully from an array of additional influences - classical, American folk/roots music, Latin, funk, and more!

ReSurgence (as the name implies) is largely culled from Owen's acclaimed 19-piece Jazz Surge family. The incredibly accomplished personnel (all GRAMMY nominees and leaders in their own right) includes:

CHUCK OWEN, piano/composer
KATE MCGARRY, voice
SARA CASWELL, violin
JACK WILKINS, saxophones
COREY CHRISTIANSEN, guitar
MARK NEUENSCHWANDER, bass
ADAM CRUZ, drums

The band recently completed recording of their first album project (release slated for early 2024) and are looking forward to offering a sneak preview of some of this new material along some of the very best of the Jazz Surge . . . . only in small group form!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj3DTSf8RVw

Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurship Hour: Adrian Fortino and Rishi Narayan
2023-11-03 11:30 - 12:20 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Get ready for an electrifying ride into the world of entrepreneurship. We've got not one, but two awesome speakers lined up for you this Friday!

First up, we've got Adrian Fortino, the man who's all about igniting innovation in Ann Arbor. He's a big shot at Mercury, making game-changing investments in tech companies. But wait, there's more – he's also co-founded three remarkable software companies, including Sidecar, the one GM snatched up!

And if that's not cool enough, we've also got Rishi Narayan in the house! He's the mastermind behind Underground Printing, your go-to spot for custom apparel and college gear. Plus, he's a board member and investor in a bunch of other cool ventures.

These guys are living proof that you can turn your passion into a thriving business. Come join the fun and get inspired this Friday at 11:30 AM in Stamps Auditorium. See you there!

Presentation:We Are Stars
2023-11-03 11:30 - 12:30 | Museum of Natural History
What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon, and the molecules for life.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.

Tours:Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library
2023-11-03 12:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library
As we celebrate the library’s centennial, this exhibit is an attempt to answer a question asked often by visitors, how do you decide what to acquire to add to your collections.

It builds on the landmark publication of the library’s 75th anniversary, One Hundred and One Treasures From the Collections of the William L. Clements Library, edited by former library director John Dann. This exhibit—and its expanded online version—pairs items from 101 Treasures with related items that have for the most part been acquired since 1998. Those that were acquired earlier are items about which we’ve learned new things in the intervening 25 years.

Class / Instruction:Carillon Lesson, open to public observation
2023-11-03 12:00 - 12:30 | Burton Memorial Tower
In place of a regular recital, the public is welcome to visit and observe as students take a lesson on the carillon led by Professor Tiffany Ng.

The Charles Baird Carillon is an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell, which strikes the hour, weighs 12 tons, while the smallest bell, 4½ octaves above, weighs just 15 pounds.

The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible.

Workshop / Seminar:Chapter Workshop: "Piece-Rate Poetics and the Techniques of Microwork"
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Angell Hall - 3222
Following Thursday’s lecture "Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service", the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop will host a collaborative workshop on a work-in-progress titled “Piece-rate Poetics and the Techniques of Microwork” on Friday at 12 p.m. The reading will be circulated in advance with the registered attendees. Lunch will be served after the workshop.

Careers / Jobs:Disney Auditions - A World of Opportunity
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30
Join the Disney Talent Casting team for an interactive discussion on the global performance opportunities available with Disney Live Entertainment! We will touch on a range of topics including audition prep, growth opportunities and how to take your next steps towards an on stage role within Disney Live Entertainment.

Workshop / Seminar:Effective & Inclusive Alt Text for Images
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Off Campus Location
Images and graphics can be powerful tools to communicate information and enhance text content. But some individuals—such as those who are Blind, low vision, or use read aloud technologies—may miss out on important details if our visuals are not accessible.

This workshop will teach you how to craft effective "alternative text" (alt text) and how to add alt text to images to make them more accessible. We'll also discuss how to describe image content, including diverse humans, in a way that is inclusive and context appropriate.

Participants will learn:
1. What alt text is, why it is important, and who benefits from it.
2. Image types that are not accessible and workarounds.
3. How to craft effective alt text for images based upon the image type and function.
4. Best practices for describing diverse people and situations depicted in images in an inclusive way.
5. How to add alt text to images in Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.

Audience:
This is a beginner-level workshop open to any LSA employee, including our student employees. External guests are welcome to register and we will allocate spots as space allows.

Social / Informal Gathering:First-Gen Day of Visibility
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Mason Hall - Posting Wall
Join us for the culmination of First-Generation College Student Celebration Week at the Mason Hall Posting Wall by sharing your experience in an interactive photo event with CAPS! We’ll be donning our First-Generation apparel (and you can too!)

Livestream / Virtual:Flash Talk | Kelsey Museum Conservation Laboratory Virtual Tour
2023-11-03 12:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
On November 3, join Kelsey Museum conservators Suzanne Davis and Caroline Roberts in celebrating “Ask a Conservator Day.” This event, held annually in November, commemorates the international response to save cultural heritage after the flooding of Florence, Italy, on November 4, 1966.

In this talk, Suzanne and Carrie will give a virtual tour of the Kelsey’s Conservation Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and provide a brief look at its field laboratories in Abydos, Egypt, and Jebel Barkal, Sudan. Come join us to see current projects, view cool, new laboratory equipment, and learn about the daily work Kelsey conservators undertake in the museum and in the field.

To register for this Flash Talk, fill out the form at https://myumi.ch/x7Njk. Zoom log-in information will be provided upon registration. Please sign up by 9:30 AM the day of the event to ensure you receive a confirmation email containing the access code.

Well-being:Heartfulness Guided Meditation
2023-11-03 12:00 - 12:30 | Off Campus Location
Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being.

All U-M students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required.

*What will you learn?*

The guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation.

Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice.

*Why Meditate?*

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony.

*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708

*Event Details*

Heartfulness Guided Meditation
Fridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)
Join Via Zoom Meeting
Register to receive Passcode (see “Related links”

This wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.

Careers / Jobs:Hilton Revenue Management Consolidated Center (RMCC) Info Session
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00
Join the Hilton Campus Team as they share more about Hilton and why Great Place to Work (GPTW) and Fortune named us #2 Best Company to Work For in the U.S. Our team will discuss early talent opportunities within our Revenue Management Consolidated Center (RMCC) where hospitality meets strategy. Learn about Revenue Specialists roles and how RMCC drives our hotels' performance to be the best of the best. You don't want to miss this!

At Hilton, it's more than just an internship, an early talent program, or a job. It’s an opportunity to be part of an award winning culture, learn about and experience one of the fastest growing industries, strengthen your skillsets, and explore new possibilities and connections! We are looking for hospitality's next generation of leaders. Come for the job, stay for the career journey.

Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> Structure, Function and Engineering of Bacterial Microcompartments: Metabolic Organelles of Bacteria
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1060
Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli

Other:MCSA Fall Championship
2023-11-03 12:00 - 23:59 | Macatawa, MI
MCSA Fall Championship

Careers / Jobs:Northwestern MSEd Info Session for The University of Michigan
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00
Attend a live-streamed information session about the Master ofScience in Education & Social Policy Program at Northwestern University. Presentations will include information about the curriculum, the master'sproject, field experiences for teachers, the application process, and financial aid. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of program administrators.

If you are registering to participate in the live-streamed information session about the program and admissions with our program directors, go to https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98047374075 at the scheduled time. When you log in to the session, you must allow audio in order to hear us. The session is interactive. You will have the opportunity to ask questions, and you will be asked to introduce yourself and specifywhich program you are interested in. You may either unmute yourself or type in the chat.

Reception / Open House:PICS Family Weekend Open House
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Weiser Hall - 3rd Floor Suite
Join us with your families to meet our director, Melanie Tanielian, and discuss the opportunities that PICS offers. We will also be providing some swag and a light lunch!

Please RSVP here: myumi.ch/Jpz7r

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

Workshop / Seminar:Portfolio Prep and Presentation Session
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Art & Architecture Building Room 2030
Bring your web portfolio and be prepared to show your work and get constructive feedback from some wonderful Stamps Alums and other reviewers. Think of it as speed dating for portfolio review.Not feeling quite ready to show your work? No problem! Come and be an observer and learn more about how to put together and present an effective portfolio!

Lecture / Discussion:Poverty Solutions Alumni Panel
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00 | School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840
Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

Careers / Jobs:Pro Football Hall of Fame "Before the Snap" ft. Clifton Brown
2023-11-03 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 thelive viewing audience the opportunity to interact with an industry expert.

Our special guest is Clifton Brown, a staff writer for BaltimoreRavens.com.

We will be streaming the program LIVE on the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s YouTube page and will take questions from 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 3, 2023 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 anyquestions, do not hesitate to reach out! You can contact me at 330-588-3558 or by email at Jacob.Ray@ProFootballHOF.com

Careers / Jobs:ResEd Interview Drop In's
2023-11-03 12:00 - 14:00
This is a drop in session for students applying to ResEd positions to ask questions about interview prep.

Exhibition:Respond/Resist/Rethink
2023-11-03 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery, Room 1019
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance and the U‑M Arts Initiative. The 2023 Respond/Resist/Rethink exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U‑M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).

The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one’s personal politics, an artwork’s potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary. Respond/​Resist/​Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.

Note: The Duderstadt Center will close slightly earlier, on Dec 1.
Duderstadt Center Gallery Hours: Noon-6pm Tues-Fri, Noon-6pm Sunday

Careers / Jobs:Speaker Series: David Breede
2023-11-03 12:00 - 12:45
Join our virtual presentation, scheduled on Friday November 3rd at 12:00pm EST. We'll be speaking with David Breede, David is the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Tactical Information Systems (TIS) at the HQ US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), MacDill AFB, FL. He is responsible for synchronizing the development, testing, acquisition, and fielding of SOF-Peculiar systems for technical collection, intelligence support, tactical communications, and sensitive site exploitation. Mr. Breede directs a cross functional team of professionals to execute a portfolio of military information systems acquisition and rapid capability insertionresearch and development programs.

David has a bachelors in Engineering, Science, and Mechanics as well as a Masters Degree in Engineering Management. He has worked as a Mechanical Engineer, a Systems Engineer, and an Acquisition Program Manager.

Attendees will be entered into a drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card!

Presentation:Sky Tonight
2023-11-03 12:30 - 13:15, 2023-11-03 14:30 - 15:15 | Museum of Natural History
A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions on your own with the North Star, current and upcoming constellations, visible planets, a few deep sky objects depending on the season, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for, this is the show for you.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets $8. Tickets are available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.

Careers / Jobs:26th Annual Mathematics Career Conference
2023-11-03 13:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - Mathematics Atrium
To explore the many career options available to students of mathematics, we encourage you to attend the Math Department's Career Conference.

Students may submit their C.V. in advance: https://myumi.ch/NkEmz.

View the list of participants here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d5DcjmGrSG68-evWKaI3H3jEmGBK89eD/view?usp=drive_link

Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
2023-11-03 13:00 - 14:00
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 search 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 othertools 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.

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.

Workshop / Seminar:IOE Undergraduate Research Symposium
2023-11-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Pierpont, East Room
Join IOE to learn about topics studied in IOE and their real-world applications, learn about research conducted by undergraduate and graduate students, and connect with faculty and graduate students to find out about future research opportunities.

Sponsored by the IOE DEI Committee.

Careers / Jobs:Technical Interview Overview & Case Workshop + Recruiter Q&A
2023-11-03 13:00 - 14:30
"During this workshop we will walk through and practice the Technical Interview and a Case-Tech Interview example. These examples will be guided by Capital One professionals trained in facilitating the interview process. A recruiter will also be on the call to answer any questions you may have. This workshop is intended to help candidates prepare for the following Students & Grads roles: Technology Internship Program and the Technology Development Program.

Event Agenda:
11:00 - 12:00 EST TechnicalInterview (30 min) and the Case-Tech (30 min) workshop

11:30 - 12:30 EST Q&A breakout room with recruiter available"

Performance:Jenna Moon, carillon
2023-11-03 13:20 - 13:50 | Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.

Thirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences
2023-11-03 13:30 - 15:00 | Haven Hall - 5769 Prefunction
The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research projects that use the comparative method to study the causes and effects of social, political and economic processes. We specifically welcome presenters, discussants, and participants from other social science fields to share their work with us. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Center for Emerging Democracies, and others. In other words: All are welcome.

Lecture / Discussion:Lawyer Up: The Role of Legal Executives in the Rise of Corporate Political Activity (co-authored with Tim Werner)
2023-11-03 13:30 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - R0240
Neo-institutional theory depicts the regulative pillar of institutions, the system of formal laws and punishments, as one of society's most formidable tools for aligning corporate behavior with societal interests. Yet, work in non-market strategy suggests that firms have shifted toward an increasingly strategic (rather than compliant) posture vis a vis their regulative environments, demonstrated through an expanding repertoire of strategies meant to influence, co-opt, or subvert legal and regulatory institutions. While the organization-level incentives for such a shift are straightforward, the political process within firms that would lead internal legal counsel to support this shift is unclear, given lawyers' professional obligations to protect the integrity of legal and regulatory structures. In this paper, we shed light on this process by exploring the ascendency of general counsel to firms' top management teams in the post-SOX "era of compliance" and the relationship between the GC's strategic ascendency and corporate political activity.

Presentation:Tales of the Maya Skies
2023-11-03 13:30 - 14:15 | Museum of Natural History
Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science, cosmology and myth. This beautifully illustrated story takes us back in time to the jungles of Mexico to discover how Mayan scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, architecture, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices, solar eclipses, weather patterns and planetary movements.

The state-of-the-art Planetarium & Dome Theater at the U-M Museum of Natural History transports visitors beyond distant stars and back in time from the comfort of reclining seats. Tickets are $8 for adults, seniors, and children ages 3 & up. Babies without tickets may be required to sit on an adult's lap. Tickets are available the day of the show in the Museum Store. Schedule subject to change.

Social / Informal Gathering:LSA Honors Parents & Family Open House
2023-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Mason Hall - G421 - Perlman Honors Commons
Join LSA Honors on Friday, November 3rd from 2-4pm in the Perlman Honors Commons (Mason Hall G421) for some light refreshments and the opportunity to meet and chat with the Honors Team!

All Honors students and their families are welcome! No RSVP necessary!

Workshop / Seminar:Political Theory Workshop
2023-11-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Haven Hall - 5670 (unless otherwise noted)
September 8 Welcome back, Fall 2023: gather with colleagues to catch up and meet our new theory students. Refreshments provided!

September 15 Matt McManus, “The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism: Oxymoron or the Real Deal?”
Comment: Andy Murphy

September 22 Guido Parietti, Michigan State: “Power and Political Realism”
(Walker Room, 5664 Haven Hall)

September 29 Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University: “The Sovereign's Wrath”
Comment: Maria Lovetere

October 6 Book party! Celebrating the publication of David Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought (participants and format TBA)

October 13 No workshop: APT Conference weekend
October 20 No workshop: We encourage everyone to attend the Emerging
Scholars Conference happening that day!

October 27 Maria Lovetere, “Environmentalist Approaches to Geoengineering”

November 3 Charlotte Boucher, “Citizenship is as Citizenship Does”
Comment: Merisa Sahin

November 10 Erin Pineda, Smith College: Title TBA
Comment: Jess Hasper

November 17 NO WORKSHOP

November 24 NO WORKSHOP: THANKSGIVING BREAK

December 1 Amir Fleischmann, “The Sword and the Trowel: Workers Councils and the Rule of the Poor”

Questions? Contact the co-organizers, Annie Heffernan (akheff@umich.edu) or Andy Murphy (murphyan@umich.edu)

Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab
2023-11-03 14:00 - 15:00 | University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you.

Get real-time, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab.

We will discuss and educate you on…
- Design and format
- Writing a great bullet point
- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs

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

Social / Informal Gathering:Study Hall @ The DSI
2023-11-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Mason Hall - G325/G333
Join us for study hall at the Digital Studies office, located in Mason Hall, room G333/G325. No RSVP required. Snacks and drinks are provided!

Questions or accommodations? Email Sarah Torsch at dsi-studentservices@umich.edu.

Workshop / Seminar:Intertemporal Hedging and Trade in Repeated Games with Recursive Utility
2023-11-03 14:30 - 15:50 | Lorch Hall - 301
Two key features distinguish the general class of recursive preferences from the standard model of dynamic choice: (i) agents may care about the intertemporal distribution of risk, and (ii) their rates of time preference, rather than being fixed, may vary with the level of consumption. We investigate what these features imply in the context of a repeated strategic interaction. First, we show that opportunities for intertemporal trade may expand the set of feasible payoffs relative to that in a static interaction. Two distinct sources for such trade are identified: endogenous heterogeneity in the players’ rates of time preference and a hedging motive pertaining to the intertemporal distribution of risk. The set of equilibrium payoffs may on the other hand shrink drastically as many efficient outcomes become unsustainable no matter the level of patience. This “anti-folk” result occurs when the players prefer stage outcomes to be positively correlated rather than independent across time. Intuitively, such preferences make it inefficient to offset short- term losses with future gains, while this is needed to ensure that security levels are met on path. We also establish a folk theorem: if security levels are met on path, such play can be sustained in a subgame perfect equilibrium provided that the players are sufficiently patient.

Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Hydrodynamic Solitons and Breathers - From Theory to Applications
2023-11-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - 1084
The formation of wave localizations in nonlinear dispersive media can be described by weakly nonlinear evolution equations such as the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). Within the class of exact NLSE breather solutions on a finite background, the hierarchy of rational solutions, which are localized in both time and space, are known to describe physical prototypes to model extreme wave dynamics on the water surface, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensates, and electromagnetic Kerr media. The talk will focus on the applicability and limitations of hydrodynamic solitons and breathers in unidirectional and directional wave systems. The time-reversal invariance and the effect of dissipation on the evolution of such wave packets will be also elaborated upon. Moreover, the critical role of breathers in wave engineering applications will be highlighted.

Contact: Peter Miller.

Lecture / Discussion:Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture-U-M Biomedical Engineering
2023-11-03 15:00 - 17:00
Abstract:
Total joint replacements (TJR) restore pain-free mobility and function to damaged or diseased cartilage in the articular joints using engineering materials. These load-bearing implant systems typically comprise metal-on-polymer couplings. There are nearly one million total joint replacement surgeries performed annually in the United States with CoCr alloys articulating against ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) comprising the majority of hip, knee and shoulder replacements (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 2022). These medical devices must offer extraordinary resistance to wear, corrosion and fatigue loading. Approximately 12% of these devices require revision due to loosening, wear-mediated osteolysis (bone loss around the implant), fracture of components or failure of the bearing surfaces within their first decade of use.

Professor Pruitt and her lab have devoted nearly 30 years of research toward the understanding of the complex material behavior in total joint replacement designs. Her work has elucidated many of the primary failure mechanisms found in the bearing systems as well as the inherent trade-offs that exist in the fatigue, fracture, wear and oxidation resistance in orthopedic polymers, and most notably in UHMWPE. These failure schemes are complicated by stress concentrations required for locking mechanisms, joint articulation, fixation to surrounding tissues and features in the implants that facilitate retrieval of the device. Well-functioning implants offer 10-20 years of service but generally require at least one revision in the lifetime of a patient. Hence implants must enable a retrieval scheme that minimizes damage to surrounding tissues upon replacement of an implant - such challenges are ever-increasing as demographics shift to younger and more active patients.

Professor Pruitt’s ongoing research focuses on the characterization of structure-property relationships in orthopedic biomaterials in order to optimize systems for resistance to in-vivo fatigue, wear and oxidation in TJR. Professor Pruitt will also discuss how such research provides a pathway for inclusive excellence in teaching, research and mentoring.

Bio:
Lisa Pruitt, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Pruitt also is the Director of the Medical Polymer Group at the school. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University and joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 1993.

Dr. Pruitt has authored more than 300 publications in her research field of failure analysis, biomaterials and medical devices. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, her research has been recognized with a Congressional citation; a National Science Foundation CAREER award; an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award; and election to the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Professor Pruitt has also been honored for her commitment to excellence in mentoring, teaching and outreach. She has received the American Association of Advancement of Sciences Mentoring Award; the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring; the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award as well as the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal.

Professor Pruitt teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials, Failure Analysis, Polymer Engineering, Medical Device Design and Personal Leadership. Lisa Pruitt is the author of four books including Soul of a Professor: Memoir of an Un-engineered Life (Merry Dissonance Press, 2022); Mechanics of Biomaterials: Fundamentals for Implant Design (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Horse of Fire: The story of an extraordinary and Knowing Horse as told by JJ Luck (Authorhouse, 2008; Amazon, 2019); as well as a children’s book, Savanna and the Magic Boots (Authorhouse, 2011).

Workshop / Seminar:Characteristic p techniques and vanishing theorems
2023-11-03 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 2866
We will use characteristic p techniques, and in particular a theorem of Deligne and Illusie, to deduce two characteristic 0 vanishing theorems: the Kodaira-Akizuki-Nakano Vanishing Theorem and sketch the proof for a generalization of it.

Lecture / Discussion:Exploring Employee Ownership
2023-11-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Ross School of Business - R2210
Join us for an expert panel as we discuss employee ownership and explore questions such as: What is employee ownership? What are the best practices? How can we use these models to make a positive impact in our community? The expert panel features Loren Rodgers from the National Center for Employee Ownership, Karen Tyler-Ruiz of the Center for Community Based Enterprise, Roy J. Messing of the Employee Ownership Expansion Network, and Chris Miller from the National Coalition for Community Capital. This event runs an hour with optional mingling from 4 to 4:30.

Please RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvuxzZITadclvPfJ1yVeMlilibJYnVOeej0Oepq7VwhBtEpw/viewform

Workshop / Seminar:NTRG: Automorphic Representations
2023-11-03 15:00 - 16:00 | East Hall - 3088
We will be discussing Getz-Hahn's "Introduction to Automorphic Representations."

Lecture / Discussion:ForALL Preview Symposium - Lucas Gomes, Sally Keating and Diana Velazquez, University of Michigan
2023-11-03 15:30 - 16:30 | 1100 North University Building - 1528
More info to come!

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race, Ethnicity and Politics
2023-11-03 15:30 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - 5769 Prefunction
Racial and ethnic identities play a key role in shaping behaviors, attitudes, institutions and social structures. As such, scholars across disciplines have been devoted to investigating how race and ethnicity feature in every aspect of social and political life. The purpose of I-REP (Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race, Ethnicity and Politics) is to provide a space for scholars whose research centers race, ethnicity and politics across a number of fields to receive critical feedback on the early stages of their work (especially graduate students), build community with other researchers who share similar interests and offer an opportunity for participants to collaborate on a joint research project within the working group.

Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Functional transcendence
2023-11-03 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4096
TBA

Lecture / Discussion:Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press
2023-11-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Join for a special event featuring CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent, Jake Tapper, as part of the continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press." Tapper will be joined in conversation with Wallace House Director, Lynette Clemetson.

This event is presented by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in partnership with Wallace House Center for Journalists, and U-M Democracy & Debate. Co-sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

Thank you to our media partners at Detroit Public Television (DPTV).

How to attend
This is a non-ticketed event, and is free and open to the public. Registrations are not required but allow us to send you event updates and reminders. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

A livestream option will also be available on this webpage.

About the speaker
CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper joined the network in January 2013. Tapper currently anchors a two-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper, which debuted in March 2013. He has hosted CNN's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, since June 2015. In April 2021, he became the lead anchor for CNN for Washington, D.C. events.

About the series: Democracy in Crisis
In Spring 2022, the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Wallace House Center for Journalists, and Democracy & Debate launched the series “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press,” launched a series featuring award-winning journalists to share their insights into the forces threatening and protecting American democratic structures and systems. The series - which will continue into the 2023-24 academic year - also explores the current state of journalism and the role of the press in upholding democratic institutions.

Lecture / Discussion:GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Dimension drop for large deviations in homogeneous dynamics
2023-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 3866
Let (X,mu,T) be an ergodic probability measure preserving system on a metric space X, and let U be a non-empty open subset of X. Consider the (mu-null) set of points in X whose trajectory completely misses U. Is it true that this exceptional set has Hausdorff dimension less than the dimension of X? And does the same hold for the set of points that visit U less frequently than prescribed by Birkhoff's Ergodic Theorem? The affirmative answer to the first question has been conjectured for actions on homogeneous spaces and proved in several special cases, for example when X is compact or has rank one. I will sketch a proof of a fairly general, although not optimal, answer – for arbitrary textrm{Ad}-diagonalizable flows on irreducible quotients of semisimple Lie groups. Two main ingredients are effective mixing and the method of integral inequalities for height functions on X. Joint work with Shahriar Mirzadeh.

Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium
2023-11-03 16:00 - 17:30 | East Hall - 4448
Jonathan Harrington has been Professor and Director of the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich since 2006. His main research interest is in human speech processing and its relationship to the origin and spread of sound change. He is currently principal investigator of a European Research Council project funded by the European Union on the actuation of sound change.

Join us for an in-person watch party or online via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96112825107

Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: The Impact of the 2023 Nuclear Innovator Cultivation Camp
2023-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Cooley Building - White Auditorium (G906)
In January 2023, The Tokyo Institute of Technology hosted the Nuclear Innovator Cultivation Camp (NICC), a MEXT human resource development program in the nuclear field to improve educational activities in Japanese universities. The purpose of this camp was to cultivate entrepreneurship among US and Japanese university students, which supports creativity and innovation in the nuclear industry. The NICC was modeled after the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp (NIB), another program that seeks to train students and early career professionals in the skills essential to innovation in nuclear energy. This presentation will discuss the NICC program experience and outcomes, as well as the impact of the program on the speaker by relating previous experiences within the Japanese nuclear industry.

Class / Instruction:Myra Huang, voice & collaborative piano
2023-11-03 16:30 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Guest artist Myra Huang presents a master class focused on voice & collaborative piano. This program is free and open to the public and was made possible by the Sally Fleming Master Class Series.

MYRA HUANG, PIANO

Acclaimed by *Opera News* as being "among the top accompanists of her generation," and "...a colouristic tour de force" by *The New York Times*, Grammy® Award-nominated pianist Myra Huang has established herself as one of the leading recitalists and opera educators in the U.S.

Huang is invited regularly to perform around the world, with tours including regular appearances at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the 92nd Street Y. Huang was chosen as the recipient of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award for 2019 by the Classical Recording Foundation for her consummate artistry. Regular collaborations include recitals with Fleur Barron, J’Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, Sasha Cooke, Ying Fang, Joshua Hopkins, Will Liverman, Angela Meade, Latonia Moore, John Matthew Myers, Eric Owens, Nicholas Phan, Susanna Phillips, Roderick Williams, and clarinetist Anthony McGill.

Huang is the Head of Music for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, the Director of Musical Administration and Head Coach at the Aspen Music Festival, and faculty of the Collaborative Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music, where she mentors and trains young opera singers and pianists of the next generation. She regularly adjudicates national and international competitions including the Laﬀont Competition at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as administers masterclasses at institutions across the country.

In addition to mentoring young artists, Huang is an avid recording artist. She is a two-time Grammy nominee for her albums “Gods and Monsters” (2018) and “Clairières” (2020) with tenor Nicholas Phan on the Avie label. Huang is a Steinway Artist.

Meeting:Paint With Us: Let’s Decorate Tote Bags!
2023-11-03 16:30 - 17:30 | Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Office
BIPOC PLSG is a confidential support group for survivors of color who have experienced sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, and/or sexual harassment. This Friday, we will be painting totes based on things that bring us joy!

Reception / Open House:(DE) CONSTRUCTED Exhibition By Nour Ballout
2023-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery
Opening Reception November 3, 5-7 pm
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 18, Ann Arbor 48109
Parking free after 5:00 pm
for further information contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Reception / Open House:Holding Places Exhibition by Satchel Lee
2023-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connections Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am to 5 pm, or by appointment serrag@med.umich.edu

Born and raised in New York City, Satchel Lee is a multi-media artist whose work can best be described as portraiture. Through collaborations with her immediate community, and also using herself as a subject, Lee draws inspiration from the quotidian, creating offbeat images that aim to preserve this moment in time, (re) examine memories (especially those clouded by confusion) all the while asking questions around identity and existence.

Lee holds a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Lee’s photographic exploration, she investigates the profound connection between places and structures and the echoes of trauma that inhabit them. “Holding Places” is an exhibition that immerses viewers into a visual narrative, inviting them to witness the power of space as holders and conduits for personal memory.

By reconstructing these places by hand in model scale and rendering them not as they were, but how she experienced them, she is able to navigate intimate details and hidden narratives that exist within them. The process of crafting these miniatures becomes a meditative contemplation, giving Lee time to sit and reflect on these past events.

Through Lee’s lens, they capture the visual manifestations of the ghosts of the past. The photographs offer glimpses into spaces where anguish, conflict and distress have left their imprints, sometimes visible, sometimes buried beneath layers of time (and self preservation).

Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus
2023-11-03 17:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)
Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind "auf Deutsch". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents, chat informally in German and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM.

Kaffeestunde meets weekly on Fridays from 5-6pm in the Edward Said Lounge (2450 NQ)

Performance:Megan Yip, cello
2023-11-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student Megan Yip performs a recital.

Reception / Open House:Respond/ Resist/ Rethink Celebration at Stamps Gallery
2023-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Join us for a celebration of Respond/Resist/Rethink: An Exhibition of Student Art for Change at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features work by U-M students from across all three campuses. Light refreshments will be served.
In conjunction with the Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, Stamps Gallery is partnering with the U‑M Arts Initiative to expand the 4th annual Respond/​Resist/​Rethink student art exhibition. All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint U‑M campuses in Fall 2023 are invited to apply to this juried exhibition that explores what can be done to create more just and equitable futures in the 21st Century and beyond.
The 2023 exhibition will include art of a variety of mediums and will be displayed in four galleries across all three U‑M campuses, including Stamps Gallery (Central Campus, Ann Arbor), Duderstadt Center Gallery (North Campus, Ann Arbor), Riverbank Arts (Flint), and Stamelos Gallery (Dearborn).
The arts play a central role in shaping cultural and political narratives. Artists, designers and creatives of diverse backgrounds have been at the forefront of social change by offering alternate models and ways of thinking, making and creating that do not perpetuate dominant regimes. Creative processes have been used time and again to reveal under-told stories and to resist simple narratives. Regardless of one’s personal politics, an artwork’s potential to change hearts and minds is urgent and necessary. Respond/​Resist/​Rethink invites students to leverage their creativity to (re)imagine what they can do to create a more just and equitable community in the spaces that they inhabit.

Careers / Jobs:Teaching-Arctic Circle-Learn More!
2023-11-03 18:00 - 19:00
Learn how the uniqueness of Alaska is a great way to start your career! Come for the adventure- stay for the kids! Great salary and benefits!

Sporting Event:Volleyball vs Iowa
2023-11-03 18:30, 2023-11-03 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Volleyball vs Iowa

Sporting Event:Men's Basketball vs Northwood (ex)
2023-11-03 19:00 | Crisler Arena
Men's Basketball vs Northwood (ex)

Performance:DakhaBrakha
2023-11-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Hill Auditorium
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world has become more attuned to the incredible bravery, resilience, and determination of the Ukrainian people. The folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha embraces and reflects the fundamental elements of sound and soul, creating a world of unexpected new music. The group’s name is original, outstanding, and authentic at the same time, meaning “give/take” in the old Ukrainian language and signaling the group’s unique brand of musical “ethno-chaos.”

Created in 2004 by an avant-garde theater director, their shows include scenic effects, traditional instrumentation, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range that creates an exuberant, transnational sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. “Musically, the whole experience is a riotous explosion of color and reinvention. The classic Eastern European folk base is there, with belting, complex, and hypnotic harmonies.” (Hackney Citizen, UK)

Performance:Concert Band Chamber Winds
2023-11-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Conductor Courtney Snyder

Join the Concert Band Chamber Winds as they perform works both old and new, including a memorized and fully staged version of Susato’s Dansyere.

Robert Washburn, Concertino

Matthew Tommasini, *Song Without Words* (World Premiere)

Ching Ting Chan, *Shadow Play*

Georges Bizet/Yosuhide Ito, *The Magical Carmen* (*Carmen Fantasy, better translation)

Tielman Susato/Patrick Dunnigan, Selections from the Dansyere

Performance:Do You Know the Muppet Man? A FREE Improv Comedy Show
2023-11-03 20:00 - 21:00 | Angell Hall - Auditorium B
Join the Impro-Fessionals for an hour of FREE improv comedy fun as we answer the age old question: Am I a man or am I a muppet? (Spoiler: if you're a man that makes you a muppet of a man)

Performance:John Solari, piano
2023-11-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Graduate student John Solari performs a recital.

Performance:Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers)
2023-11-03 20:00 - 23:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
The Department of Voice and the University Symphony Orchestra are back in action with a production that's going to take you on a wild ride!

Now, you've heard the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in various forms, but get ready for something completely different. This time, we've got a cheeky twist for you, courtesy of French composer Jacques Offenbach. Orpheus is not the divine son of Apollo but instead a lackluster music teacher, and his marriage to Eurydice is far from harmonious. Eurydice secretly loves Aristée, who is actually Pluto in disguise. As Aristée serenades with a pastoral ode to sheep, Eurydice suspects foul play, believing Orpheus plans to harm him. In reality, Orpheus and Pluto scheme to eliminate her. Pluto dupes Eurydice into the deadly trap, revealing his true form as she succumbs in. They descend to the Underworld, leaving a note for Orpheus. Just as Orpheus begins to revel in his newfound freedom, Public Opinion storms in, threatening to besmirch his name unless he goes to the Underworld to rescue his wife. Reluctantly, Orpheus embarks on his epic quest to bring Eurydice back from the depths, setting the stage for Offenbach's delightful operatic journey.

Here's the kicker: We're singing this in French, but don't worry, the dialogue is in good ol' English. The production is set in the late 1950s, right in the eve of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign - and trust us, it's going to be a blast. So, mark your calendars, dust off your dancing shoes, and get ready to twist, groove, and laugh your way through *Orpheus in the Underworld*. It's a special spin you won't want to miss!

See you at the show!

Conductor: Brian Garman
Stage Director: Mo Zhou

Scenic Design: Kevin Judge
Costume Design: Sarah Oliver
Lighting Design: Marie Yokoyama

Cast (in the order of vocal appearance)

Public Opinion: Qirong Liang, Daiyao Zhong
EURYDICE: Sohyun Cho, Goitsemang Lehobye
Orpheus: Carson Arcuri, Alexander Nick
Aristée/Pluto: Tyrese Byrd, Spencer VanDellen
Jupiter: Amante Pando Girard, Jack Morin
Junon: Hannah Yan
Diane: Pelagia Pamel
Vénus: Yongxin Zhou
Cupidon: Veronica Koz
Minerve: Maggie Reed
Mars: Thomas Long
Mercury: Ian Pathak
John Styx: Loren Reash-Henz
Bacchus/Elvis Presley: Benjamin Isyk

Chorus: Ian Danaher, Jake Bullard, Amelie Besch, Kyleigh Burtley, Mira Grayton, Jamiyah Hudson, Molly Levin, Allison Lange, Isaiah Liggins, Brendan Lockhart, Mark Pettaway III, Amber Sosa, Brooke Studebaker.

Performance:Tartan Terrors
2023-11-03 20:00 | ARK Reserved
Not a band but a Celtic extravaganza!

Tartan Terrors are not a band but, in the words of the organizers, "North America's premiere Celtic event, featuring the best in music, comedy and dance." Amazed by the blistering chops of a two-time world champion bagpiper, the driving tones of drums from around the world, and a guitar played unlike any you've ever heard, standing-room-only audiences come to understand why Dig This magazine declares Tartan Terrors "one act to keep an eye on!" Combine all the music with championship-caliber Highland Dancers and internationally recognized comedic performers, and this Celtic group goes beyond the ordinary. Members of Tartan Terrors have performed on four different continents; in some of the most prestigious festivals, Highland Games, and theaters in North America, for a U.S. president and Britain's Queen, and on Good Morning America. Experience the phenomenon of Tartan Terrors and see why Celtic Beat hails them as "the heirs apparent to the mayhem"!

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4237/4238 for more detail.

Workshop / Seminar:Center For Campus Involvment: UWinBigMix
2023-11-03 21:00 - 2023-11-04 00:00
Join us for classic board games, playing games inspired by classic game shows, and more. There will be also be late night snacks and prizes for winners!

Social / Informal Gathering:U-Win Big (UMix)
2023-11-03 21:00 - 23:59 | Michigan Union
